Newsletter 341
[1]The Epidemic Of Mental Illness
Links:
1. http://b.rw/kk42tK
Marcia Angell | NYRB | 9 June 2011
10% of Americans over the age of six take antidepressants. What's going on
here? The drug companies have captured the system. Through lobbying and
marketing, they decide what constitutes a mental illness, and how to treat
it [2]Comments
Links:
2. http://thebrowser.com/articles/epidemic-mental-illness
[3]Public Diplomacy Fail
Links:
3. http://b.rw/iWstpa
Paul Karl Lukacs | Nomad Lawyer | 10 June 2011
US citizen is unimpressed with his country's embassy in China. "One point of
diplomacy should also be to make the locals like you, and that could start
by designing an embassy that doesn’t look like a blast shelter from Mordor"
[4]Comments
Links:
4. http://thebrowser.com/articles/public-diplomacy-fail
[5]Fixing America's Economy
Links:
5. http://b.rw/lfYdUI
Peter Coy | Businessweek | 8 June 2011
Near-zero interest rates and giant fiscal stimulus haven't delivered growth.
Is it time for US to look further afield for new policies? Well, it can't
hurt to investigate. Here are nine ideas from other countries worth
considering [6]Comments
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/fixing-americas-economy
[7]Pakistan's General Problem
Links:
7. http://b.rw/lFDoUb
Mohammed Hanif | Open | 10 June 2011
Pakistani military outsourced soldiering to freelance militants. Shopped for
insurgents in markets, set up "factories" for them in the mountains. Now
reaping what it has sown. Pakistan is an "international jihadi tourist
resort" [8]Comments
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/pakistans-general-problem
[9]Being Ernest
Links:
9. http://b.rw/kJNsPp
John Walsh | Independent | 11 June 2011
Good read on Hemingway, drawing on "psychological autopsy" by American
psychiatrist. Suffered bipolar mood disorder, depression, chronic
alcoholism, repetitive traumatic brain injuries, psychosis. And a very
troubled childhood [10]Comments
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/being-ernest
[11]The Man With The Ocado Van
Links:
11. http://b.rw/mxFhdw
Lucy Kellaway | FT | 10 June 2011
Awe-inspiring slow-motion train-wreck of an interview. Jason Gissing,
co-founder of Ocado, is just a little bit weird. Lucy Kellaway proceeds with
her usual amused contempt. And the result is: Well, you decide. Prepare to
squirm [12]Comments
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/man-ocado-van
FiveBooks Interview
[13]Keith Ellison on Progressivism
Links:
13. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/keith-ellison-on-progressivism
Today we start a weekly series of interviews on American Progressivism. Our
first interviewee is the co-chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus,
who tells us what progressives stand for and how they differ from liberals
Featured Topic
[14]Sex
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/topics/sex
Call girls, bondage, pornography, naked yoga, adultery and the science of
sperm; it's all here but maybe NSFW
Reader Recommendations
_@polit2k_ Can it be that Rupert Murdoch really is above the law now? |
Henry Porter | Comment is free | The Observer - [15]goo.gl/OV43N
[16]#browsings
Links:
15. http://goo.gl/OV43N
16. https://twitter.com/search?q=#browsings
Book of the Day
[17]Where Are the Customers’ Yachts? by Fred Schwed
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/where-are-customers’-yachts-by-fred-schwed
[18]Jason Zweig says: "Even now, some 70 years later, this is still the
funniest book ever written about Wall Street"
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/jason-zweig-on-personal-finance
Video of the Day
[19]The Trip: Official Trailer
Links:
19. http://thebrowser.com/videos/trip-official-trailer
A British "Sideways". By Michael Winterbottom. Starring Steve Coogan as
Steve Coogan. Pretty good, already
Quote of the Day
[20]Robin Williams, on philandering
Links:
20. http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/jun/10/suspension-of-disbelief-anthony-weiner
"God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood
supply to run both at the same time"