Newsletter 348
[1]AOL Content Slave Speaks Out
Links:
1. http://b.rw/l0qBp7
Oliver Miller | Faster Times | 16 June 2011
Easy target, but still a fun piece. "My turn-around time for a column
started at 35 minutes, then was gradually reduced to half an hour, then 25
minutes. Twenty-five minutes to research and write about a TV show I had
never seen" [2]Comments
Links:
2. http://thebrowser.com/articles/aol-content-slave-speaks-out
[3]The Pain Principle
Links:
3. http://b.rw/m9Po6p
Richard Poplak | Walrus | 15 June 2011
On pro cycling, through the eyes of a rising star. "No other sport demands
the same time, pain, and work ethic. You cannot race a Grand Tour without
being in supreme physical shape, so fit that you are actually eating
yourself" [4]Comments
Links:
4. http://thebrowser.com/articles/pain-principle
[5]How Hitler Could Have Won
Links:
5. http://b.rw/iWboPz
Timothy Snyder | NYT | 17 June 2011
Wehrmacht was Europe's finest fighting machine, but lost WW2 thanks to bad
political leadership. Snyder praises Andrew Roberts's "brilliantly clear"
counterfactual of how Hitler might have won, mainly by not trying to rush
things [6]Comments
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/how-hitler-could-have-won
[7]The Shot That Nearly Killed Me
Links:
7. http://b.rw/lUi2LO
Adam Ferguson et al | Guardian | 18 June 2011
War photographers describe lives spent in the chaos of combat. "There are
very few pictures where you get a feel for how awful it is, how desperate
and urgent. I thought, if I'm going to die right now, I might as well be
working" [8]Comments
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/shot-nearly-killed-me
[9]How to Deal With Crappy People
Links:
9. http://b.rw/lfewaq
James Altucher | Altucher Confidential | 15 June 2011
Altucher's advice for those suffering from Asperger's Syndrome. Forget using
Myers Briggs Type Indicator to work out appropriate behaviour. There are
only four types of people in this world. Here's how to deal with them
[10]Comments
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/how-deal-crappy-people
[11]Icebergs
Links:
11. http://b.rw/kgbZUX
Camille Seaman | Outside Online | 16 June 2011
Camille Seaman went to Alaska and headed out to walk across the ice towards
Russia. The experience generated a passion for Arctic landscapes and she
became a specialist iceberg photographer. Here are 10 of her finest images
[12]Comments
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/icebergs
FiveBooks Interview
[13]Paul Krugman on Inspiration for a Liberal Economist
Links:
13. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/paul-krugman-on-inspiration-liberal-economist
Continuing our weekly series on American progressivism, we talk to the Nobel
prize-winning economist, Paul Krugman, on why he counts himself a liberal
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
_@polit2k_ FT.com / Comment / Op-Ed Columnists - Alan Beattie | Economists,
it’s time for the lawyers - [15]goo.gl/Edb8t _#browsings @EconOfContempt_
Links:
15. http://goo.gl/Edb8t
Book of the Day
[16]Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John le Carré
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/tinker-tailor-soldier-spy-by-john-le-carré
[17]Andy Beckett says: "I find the darkness in le Carré interesting because
it’s melancholic. The book evokes a sadness about Britain and people in the
establishment. There’s a sense of the world closing in"
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/andy-beckett-on-1970s
Video of the Day
[18]Curriculum Vitae
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/videos/curriculum-vitae
Hard to say which is the more amazing: the animation, or the fact that the
client for this commercial is Skoda
Quote of the Day
[19]Will Davies, on neo-liberalism
Links:
19. http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2010/11/17/happiness-indicators-and-cooperatives
Neo-liberalism is a system for converting private sector financial crises
into public sector ones