Newsletter 357
[5]Shyness: Evolutionary Tactic?
Links:
5. http://b.rw/jFPfgA
Susan Cain | NYT | 25 June 2011
Our world seems to prize extroverts, regard shy people as ill. But shyness,
introversion have evolutionary merits. Impulsive behaviour is high risk,
high reward. Shyness means caution, learning by observation. Both types are
needed [6]Comments
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/shyness-evolutionary-tactic
[7]US Inequality Quiz
Links:
7. http://b.rw/j578Rr
Jeffrey Rudolph | Informed Comment | 28 June 2011
Twenty-two questions. Here's one of the shorter ones. "True or False: The US
has higher social mobility than the Scandinavian countries." Answers with a
little help from Paul Krugman, Arianna Huffington, Ha-Joon Chang [8]Comments
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/us-inequality-quiz
[9]How Violent Sex Helped Ease My PTSD
Links:
9. http://b.rw/lXPUWh
Mac McLelland | Good | 27 June 2011
Beat this for a first sentence: "It was my research editor who told me it
was completely nuts to willingly get fucked at gunpoint." Mother Jones
correspondent on doing journalism in dangerous places, and getting over the
stress [10]Comments
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/how-violent-sex-helped-ease-my-ptsd
[11]How China Sees The World
Links:
11. http://b.rw/l8lFDf
Thanassis Cambanis | Boston Globe | 26 June 2011
Not through one pair of eyes. China has many different state actors now, all
with their own interests. Foreign policy emerges through complex competition
between them. At least seven discernible schools of thought [12]Comments
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/how-china-sees-world
[13]An Unholy Marriage Of Snobbery And Snideyness
Links:
13. http://b.rw/lm0bDA
Frank Furedi | Spiked | 27 June 2011
Campaign for gay marriage isn't just about rights, but about the elite
asserting its moral superiority. This crusade, intolerant of disagreement,
coincides with cultural devaluation of heterosexual marriage. What's going
on? [14]Comments
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/articles/unholy-marriage-snobbery-and-snideyness
[15]The Strange Life In Dublin's PoW Camp
Links:
15. http://b.rw/jy1r4X
Dan Snow | BBC | 28 June 2011
Extraordinary story of American pilot who flew Spitfires for Britain in WW2
before US entered war. Crash-landed in neutral Ireland and interned. Allowed
out for fox-hunting, golf, pub. First time he escaped, British sent him back
[16]Comments
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/articles/strange-life-dublins-pow-camps
FiveBooks Interview
[17]Stephen Breyer on Intellectual Influences
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/stephen-breyer-on-intellectual-influences
The US Supreme Court Justice discusses five books that have influenced his
thinking, and explains why reading widely, including literature, is
essential for judges and lawyers [18]Read on
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/stephen-breyer-on-intellectual-influences
Featured Topic
[19]Poetry
Links:
19. http://thebrowser.com/topics/poetry
From poets on poetry and lives of the great poets, to fact-checking verse
and Google Voice as poetry ... something for the bard in us all [20]Read on
Links:
20. http://thebrowser.com/topics/poetry
Reader Recommendations
@[21]polit2k Europe’s Naked Banks - Simon Johnson - Project Syndicate
-[22]goo.gl/NMCTn @[23]creditplumber @[24]nickphilosoph @[25]sysparatem
#[26]browsings [27]More like this
Links:
21. http://twitter.com/polit2k
22. http://goo.gl/NMCTn
23. http://twitter.com/creditplumber
24. http://twitter.com/nickphilosoph
25. http://twitter.com/sysparatem
26. http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=#browsings
27. http://thebrowser.com/browsings
Book of the Day
[28]Book of the Day
Links:
28. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/what-makes-sammy-run-by-budd-schulberg
[29]What Makes Sammy Run? by Budd Schulberg
Links:
29. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/what-makes-sammy-run-by-budd-schulberg
[30]Marina Hyde says: "It’s a novel about a copyboy who’s worked his way up
from absolutely nothing to become an incredibly grasping self-motivated
amoral movie producer" [31]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
30. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/marina-hyde-on-hollywood
31. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[32]Palindrome
Links:
32. http://thebrowser.com/videos/palindrome
Neat. Make sure you watch the second half though. (And thanks to Nick Culver
for the tip-off)
[33]More videos
Links:
33. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[34]Nietzsche, on critics
Links:
34. http://www.lettersofnote.com/2011/06/critics-are-venomous-serpents-that.html
"Insects sting, not in malice, but because they want to live. It is the
same with critics: They desire our blood, not our pain"
[35]More quotes
Links:
35. http://thebrowser.com/quotations