Newsletter 345
[1]The Indignity Of Industrial Tomatoes
Links:
1. http://b.rw/jpl39P
Barry Estabrook | Gilt Taste | 13 June 2011
Best piece you'll ever read about tomatoes. Unless you're a farmer from
Florida. In which case you might want to go back to gassing those hard,
perfectly round, nutrient-poor, taste-free, green orbs with ethylene to turn
them red [2]Comments
Links:
2. http://thebrowser.com/articles/indignity-industrial-tomatoes
[3]Heart With No Beat Offers Hope
Links:
3. http://b.rw/juSVVT
Carrie Feibel | NPR | 13 June 2011
Doctors transplant DIY centrifugal pump into calf. Result? No pulse, no
heartbeat. "By every metric we have to analyse patients, she's not living.
But here you can see she's a vigorous, happy, playful calf." Also works for
humans [4]Comments
Links:
4. http://thebrowser.com/articles/heart-no-beat-offers-hope
[5]Black Ops And Blood Money
Links:
5. http://b.rw/ldEtpi
Matthew Teague | Men's Journal | 1 June 2011
Gripping back-story to arrest of American contractor Raymond Davis, held in
Lahore for shooting two men who were about to shoot him, and eventually
freed after huge diplomatic row between US and Pakistan. He was indeed a spy
[6]Comments
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/black-ops-and-blood-money
[7]The Humpty-Dumpty Problem
Links:
7. http://b.rw/muBlT2
Robert L Dorit | American Scientist | 13 June 2011
Since Descartes suggested we could understand complex machines by taking
them to pieces, reductionism has dominated science. But the difficulty of
reconstructing living things from component parts suggests limits to this
approach [8]Comments
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/humpty-dumpty-problem
[9]#amwriting
Links:
9. http://b.rw/iGcvNm
Dani Shapiro | n+1 | 15 June 2011
On the distractions of the writing life. "You may have to pull a Franzen,
and have a dedicated computer, stripped down of all bells and whistles until
it resembles a Smith Corona in the limited nature of its possible functions"
[10]Comments
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/amwriting
[11]So, Cricket? Maybe?
Links:
11. http://b.rw/jdZIRp
Michael Schur & Nate DiMeo | Grantland | 13 June 2011
Two Americans who don't know anything about cricket watch an entire
India-Pakistan match. They know what they're watching is important. They
document the entire spectacle. All nine hours of it. End up longing for NFL
football [12]Comments
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/so-cricket-maybe
FiveBooks Interview
[13]Gideon Rose on US Foreign Policy
Links:
13. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/gideon-rose-on-us-foreign-policy
Should America have intervened in Libya? Done more? Done less? Done it
differently? The editor of _Foreign Affairs_ explains the tension that lies
at the heart of every foreign policy decision
Featured Topic
[14]China
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/topics/china
Everything you need to know about the rising power. Original interviews with
experts such as Richard Baum, Isabel Hilton, and Xinran - and the books and
articles they recommend
Reader Recommendations
@[15]MchlRbnsnBlogs Ass and You Shall Receive | NY pop up lap dancing club
exposed funny but sad [16]#browsings [17]bit.ly/mREALv
Links:
15. http://twitter.com/MchlRbnsnBlogs
16. https://twitter.com/search?q=#browsings
17. http://www.observer.com/2011/06/ass-and-you-shall-receive-the-observer-exposes-a-clandestine-pop-up-lap-dance-club
Book of the Day
[18]Taliban by Ahmed Rashid
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/taliban-militant-islam-oil-and-fundamentalism-central-asia-by-ahmed-rashid
[19]Jonathan Powell says: "This book argues that successful negotiation can
only happen if you try to understand the other side’s point of view"
Links:
19. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/jonathan-powell-on-negotiation
Video of the Day
[20]Anatomy Of A Computer Virus
Links:
20. http://thebrowser.com/videos/anatomy-computer-virus
Infographic explaining Stuxnet. Produced for Australian TV program,
"HungryBeast"
Quote of the Day
[21]Oliver Reichenstein, on pricing
Links:
21. http://www.informationarchitects.jp/en/ia-writer-on-prices-and-features
"The right price for a product is the highest price you can ask for, but
with one condition: that your customers remain happy after they buy it"