Newsletter 332
[1]Open Hearted
Links:
1. http://b.rw/mdfcgn
Ronald Aronson | New Humanist | 1 June 2011
Atheist has life-saving operation. Confesses that "my experience of
open-heart surgery generated a powerful sense of dependency on forces beyond
myself and of being part of a meaningful wider universe". But not one with
God in it [2]Comments
Links:
2. http://thebrowser.com/articles/open-hearted
[3]The Making Of Diaspora
Links:
3. http://b.rw/jUCITX
Ariel Bleicher | IEEE Spectrum | 1 June 2011
Four young coders are trying to change social media forever. Their vision?
Users set a preferred networking provider but can still interact with
friends using other services. Could this "federated social web" destroy
Facebook? [4]Comments
Links:
4. http://thebrowser.com/articles/making-diaspora
[5]The Orchestra
Links:
5. http://b.rw/lETVmy
George Prochnik | Cabinet | 1 June 2011
An essay on sirens. From the kind that waylaid Odysseus to the kind put on
police cars. Common thread: They aim to get people's attention. Latest
police siren, "the Rumbler", uses low frequencies to physically shake nearby
cars [6]Comments
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/orchestra
[7]On The Run, Mladic's World Slowly Shrank
Links:
7. http://b.rw/k7XJvh
Adam Tanner | Reuters | 2 June 2011
"He asked us to kill him if someone tried to arrest him. He always had a
loaded pistol on him. He also had a hand grenade at some point, but asked us
to dispose of it as it was highly unsafe to carry a piece of live ordnance
around" [8]Comments
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/run-mladics-world-slowly-shrank
[9]Life, The Universe And Everything
Links:
9. http://b.rw/lxHnN6
Stewart Brand | European | 30 May 2011
Wonderful, wide-ranging interview with Stewart Brand, biologist and
environmental activist. Addresses how and why humans are becoming less
violent, whether there is a future for nuclear power, benefits of technical
innovation [10]Comments
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/life-universe-and-everything
[11]Short History Of The Campsite
Links:
11. http://b.rw/jtNXqq
Martin Hogue | Design Observer | 31 May 2011
"Modern sites embody a peculiar contradiction: They are defined and serviced
by an increasingly sophisticated range of utilities and conveniences, and
yet marketed to perpetuate the cherished American ideal of the backwoods
camp" [12]Comments
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/short-history-campsite
FiveBooks Interview
[13]Joseph Nye on Global Power
Links:
13. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/joseph-nye-on-global-power
The Harvard academic talks about changing power in the 21st century – and
how whose story wins matters as much as whose army wins
Featured Topic
[14]Relationships
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/topics/relationships
Everything you always wanted to know (but were afraid to ask), includes
interviews with psychology and relationship experts from Mira Kirshenbaum to
Kate Figes and articles that cover the myriad of human complexities
Reader Recommendations
_@billallison_ RT _@TheAmScho_: Blue-Collar Brilliance- Questioning
assumptions about intelligence, work and social class.
[15]tinyurl.com/3qqupwx [16]#browsings
Links:
15. http://tinyurl.com/3qqupwx
16. https://twitter.com/search?q=#browsings
Book of the Day
[17]Futebol: The Brazilian Way of Life by Alex Bellos
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/futebol-brazilian-way-life-by-alex-bellos
[18]Steve Bloomfield says: "It’s a magical, magical book. It tells the story
of the whole country by telling the story of its football"
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/steve-bloomfield-on-world-football
Video of the Day
[19]The Museum Of Me
Links:
19. http://thebrowser.com/videos/museum-me
Very pretty. But also a bit creepy. Like watching your own funeral
Quote of the Day
[20]Matt Yglesias, on US healthcare
Links:
20. http://www.interfluidity.com/v2/1272.html
"Any effort to reduce government spending on health care for the elderly
is intolerable socialism, and any effort to increase government spending
on health care for the non-elderly is also intolerable socialism"