Newsletter 340
[1]6 Intimate Details You Can Tell Just By Looking At Someone
Links:
1. http://b.rw/k5Hu5M
Kathy Benjamin & Simon Bower | Cracked | 16 May 2011
Ever since I was a kid I wanted ESP. Now scientists have come up with
techniques for determining a person’s most intimate details (“can a woman
have a vaginal orgasm”, “what are a person’s political views”) by simply
looking at them [2]Comments
Links:
2. http://thebrowser.com/articles/6-intimate-details-you-can-tell-just-looking-someone
[3]The Mafia Management Guru
Links:
3. http://b.rw/jSLfHr
Joel Stein | Businessweek | 10 June 2011
Profile of Louis Ferrante, former mobster with the Gambino family in New
York. Went to jail, converted to Judaism, wrote management guide. 88
chapters including "Don't end up in the trunk of a car: Avoiding office
politics" [4]Comments
Links:
4. http://thebrowser.com/articles/mafia-management-guru
[5]Hitchens On The Art Of The Feud
Links:
5. http://b.rw/lKMUro
Jennifer Schuessler | NYT | 10 June 2011
"A really first-rate bust-up must transcend the limits of an entertaining
side show and involve playing for high moral and intellectual stakes." And
if the embers begin to cool? "Blow on them." Thanks @dwightgarnder for
alerting us [6]Comments
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/hitchens-art-feud
[7]Regrets Of The Dying
Links:
7. http://b.rw/jqfhIg
Bronnie Ware | Inspiration And Chai | 1 September 2010
Bronnie Ware worked in palliative care, the care of patients in last 2-3
months of life. She found their capacity for emotional growth during this
period astonishing. In this post she shares the top 5 regrets of people
about to die [8]Comments
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/regrets-dying
[9]Obituary: Sir Patrick Leigh Fermor
Links:
9. http://b.rw/mERZKj
James Campbell | Guardian | 10 June 2011
Picked out by perceptive teacher as a "dangerous mixture of sophistication
and recklessness", Paddy Leigh Fermor led extraordinary life as traveller,
soldier, scholar, writer. Used to sing It's a Long Way to Tipperary in
Hindustani [10]Comments
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/obituary-sir-patrick-leigh-fermor
[11]10 Things Every Man Should Know About A Woman's Brain
Links:
11. http://b.rw/mkbrBR
Anonymous | LiveScience | 3 June 2011
Women and men aren’t equal. Here are 10 ways a woman’s brain is different
from a man’s. For instance, how does a woman’s “intuition” have a biological
basis [12]Comments
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/10-things-every-man-should-know-about-womans-brain
FiveBooks Interview
[13]TC Boyle on Man and Nature
Links:
13. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/tc-boyle-on-man-and-nature
The novelist and nature lover tells us about delicious dodos, angry tigers,
snakes on planes and why Viagra saves rhinos
Book of the Day
[14]Crime by Irvine Welsh
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/crime-by-irvine-welsh
[15]Jason Zweig says: "This is a terrific introduction to critical thinking
about statistics, for people who haven’t taken a class in statistics"
Links:
15. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/jason-zweig-on-personal-finance
Video of the Day
[16]Mind Your Step
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/videos/mind-your-step
Art can be created anywhere, including this street illusion in Stockholm.
Chosen by guest editor James Altucher
Quote of the Day
[17]Christopher Hitchens, on politics
Links:
17. http://www.steynonline.com/content/view/4128
"Politics is show business for ugly people"