Newsletter 336
[1]Bob Rodriguez: The Man Who Sees Another Crash
Links:
1. http://b.rw/iRvPlZ
Mina Kimes | Fortune | 6 June 2011
Enjoyable profile of money manager who famously predicted last two financial
crashes. Son of a Mexican immigrant, he started out as a door-to-door
encyclopedia salesman. Now heads $16bn fund. And he sees trouble ahead.
Again [2]Comments
Links:
2. http://thebrowser.com/articles/bob-rodriguez-man-who-sees-another-crash
[3]In Search Of The True Self
Links:
3. http://b.rw/jCXsKI
Joshua Knobe | NYT | 5 June 2011
People can have contradictory beliefs and desires: An evangelical Christian
who condemns homosexuality but is secretly gay; a drug addict who is trying
to go straight, but craves a fix. How do we judge which is the "true self"?
[4]Comments
Links:
4. http://thebrowser.com/articles/search-true-self
[5]The Secret History Of Boeing's Killer Drone
Links:
5. http://b.rw/mDnu9o
David Axe | Wired | 6 June 2011
Story of the Phantom Ray, Boeing's pilotless attack aircraft which took off
for the first time in April 2011. A tale of "secret technology, a brilliant
military scientist, scheming businessmen and the unseen hand of military
chiefs" [6]Comments
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/secret-history-boeings-killer-drone
[7]The Press And The Arab Spring
Links:
7. http://b.rw/mHtQxe
Chris Doyle | Caabu | 6 June 2011
Six reasons why Western reporting of the Arab uprisings has been flawed.
Sometimes even downright poor. "How many of the phalanx of reporters who
covered the last hours of Ben Ali had ever filed a report from Tunis
before?" [8]Comments
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/press-and-arab-spring
[9]The Stark Choice For Europe
Links:
9. http://b.rw/l4PduY
Michael Hudson | Naked Capitalism | 6 June 2011
Complex (and controversial) analysis of Greek economic woes arguing that
financial oligarchy has come to replace democracy. In short, ECB, IMF and
other financial agencies have ensured bankers get paid at expense of
taxpayers [10]Comments
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/stark-choice-europe
[11]Naked In Berlin
Links:
11. http://b.rw/jG1wBQ
Siobhan Dowling | Slow Travel Berlin | 7 June 2011
Irish woman adapts to life among Berliners. "Never mind bratwurst and
biergartens, the sign of true integration is being able to get naked with
the Germans." And don't they love it. At the gym, badminton court, parks.
Even shopping [12]Comments
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/naked-berlin
FiveBooks Interview
[13]Rajiv Shah on Breakthroughs in Development
Links:
13. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/rajiv-shah-on-breakthroughs-development
The head of USAID says ending poverty is within our grasp, and explains why
development and a flair for business can be a happy combination
Featured Topic
[14]Moral Philosophy
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/topics/moral-philosophy
Do babies have morals? Does surveillance make us better? Is free will an
illusion or not? Is there such a thing as evil? Get to grips with the big
questions of right and wrong
Reader Recommendations
_@judyrhee_ RT _@TheAmScho_: From our summer issue - The Forgotten
Churchill: [15]tinyurl.com/3jy9c9p _#browsings _
Links:
15. http://tinyurl.com/3jy9c9p
Book of the Day
[16]Beyond the Last Village by Alan Rabinowitz
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/beyond-last-village-by-alan-rabinowitz
[17]Wendy Law-Yone says: "Alan is a wildlife zoologist and his book takes us
on a harrowing 500-mile trek from Putao, in the Kachin hills of Burma, to a
no-man’s land at the foot of Himalayas"
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/wendy-law-yone-on-her-own-burma
Video of the Day
[18]Tyler Cowen: The Great Stagnation
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/videos/tyler-cowen-great-stagnation
TEDx talk. Americans are not as innovative as they think they are, or as
they need to be
Quote of the Day
[19]Joe Posnanski, on tennis
Links:
19. http://joeposnanski.si.com/2011/06/06/the-unbeatable-rafa
"Federer’s game is scissors. Nadal’s game is stone"