Newsletter 330

[1]World Health Organisation Verdict On Mobile Phones And Cancer
Links:
1. http://b.rw/lPUh7I

Ed Yong | Cancer Research UK | 31 May 2011

Fine analysis of WHO verdict on mobile phones (they "possibly" cause
cancer). In short, studies inconclusive and all suffer from weaknesses in
methodology. Importantly, still no explanation of how phones could actually
cause cancer [2]Comments
Links:
2. http://thebrowser.com/articles/world-health-organisation-verdict-mobile-phones-and-cancer

[3]Israel's Borders And National Security
Links:
3. http://b.rw/lyOzrj

George Friedman | Stratfor | 31 May 2011

Netanyahu says Israel's 1967 borders aren't defensible and it won't return
to them. This analysis argues, convincingly, that those borders are actually
more defensible than post-1967 lines. More territory doesn't equal more
security [4]Comments
Links:
4. http://thebrowser.com/articles/israels-borders-and-national-security

[5]Murder Most Academic
Links:
5. http://b.rw/juYV5P

Theodore Dalrymple | City Journal | 31 May 2011

The idea of a university admitting a violent criminal to its doctoral
programme in homicide studies, and that man becoming a serial killer sounds
like satire in poor taste. But this is what happened in Britain recently
[6]Comments
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/murder-most-academic

[7]Morality Without "Free Will"
Links:
7. http://b.rw/j7AB7p

Sam Harris | Sam Harris Blog | 30 May 2011

Fascinating assessment of ethics and our notion of free will.
Thought-provoking on why we "need not have any illusions about a casual
agent living within the human mind to condemn such a mind as unethical,
negligent, or even evil" [8]Comments
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/morality-without-free-will

[9]Man Who Can Taste Sounds
Links:
9. http://b.rw/iGJ8z5

Chrissie Giles | Wellcome Trust | 26 May 2011

On synesthesia. "I was listening to a track by Green Day the other day and
it was full of the texture, taste and sweetness of pineapple chunks. There
was loads of chocolate, too — the rippled kind you get on top of biscuits"
[10]Comments
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/man-who-can-taste-sounds

[11]Is The Playboy Party Over?
Links:
11. http://b.rw/lppNVl

Kira Cochrane | Guardian | 31 May 2011

Will the Playboy empire, tainted by accusations of sexism and sleaze,
attract a glamorous following to its new club in London? Investor calls it
"sanctuary for masculinity" that will thrill women as much as men. Oh
really? [12]Comments
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/playboy-party-over

FiveBooks Interview

[13]Vishakha Desai on Asian Women
Links:
13. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/vishakha-desai-on-asian-women

The president of the Asia Society discusses the changing role of women in
Asian countries and how women have reached positions of leadership there