Newsletter 363

4 Jul 2011 • 3 min read

[5]Obama's Original Sin
Links:
5. http://b.rw/iv4snk

Frank Rich | New York | 3 July 2011

"What haunts the Obama administration is what still haunts the country: A
stunning lack of accountability for the greed and misdeeds that brought
America to grave financial crisis." There must be a reckoning. For Obama,
for America [6]Comments
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/obamas-original-sin

[7]Once Greece Goes...
Links:
7. http://b.rw/kNZTO1

John Lanchester | LRB | 30 June 2011

Excellent read on the EU, eurozone crisis, and coming default(s). Focuses on
Greece, of course, but also interesting on Germany and reasons for the
divide between politicians and public opinion in both those countries
[8]Comments
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/once-greece-goes

[9]A Woman's Place
Links:
9. http://b.rw/lbL8Me

Ken Auletta | New Yorker | 4 July 2011

Profile of Facebook chief operating officer, Sheryl Sandberg, cum analysis
of women in the Silicon Valley workplace, assessment of Google vs Facebook
battle. Informative, good read if a little long, unfocused [10]Comments
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/womans-place

[11]Augmented reality: The Past, Present And Future
Links:
11. http://b.rw/jQkdX6

Paul Sawers | Next Web | 3 July 2011

Fascinating investigation into history and future of augmented reality
technology. Different from virtual reality. Not an imaginary world but a
digital layer on top of our existing material environment [12]Comments
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/augmented-reality-past-present-and-future

[13]Oligarch, Reinvented
Links:
13. http://b.rw/iRCeqe

Sophie Elmhirst | New Statesman | 1 July 2011

Engaging interview with Evgeny Lebedev, well read, well connected British
newspaper owner. Son of Russian billionaire. Discusses future of newspapers,
Russians in London, the KGB and why he isn't a typical oligarch [14]Comments
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/articles/oligarch-reinvented

[15]Statistics Are Not Silly, But Their Users . . .
Links:
15. http://b.rw/meia5p

Tim Harford | Undercover Economist | 2 July 2011

Explaining to a child that a baby is not "late" in the same way that a bus
is late. “Buses are a little different from babies—you wait ages for a bus
and then several come along at once, and that’s definitely not the aim
here.” [16]Comments
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/articles/statistics-are-not-silly-their-users

FiveBooks Interview

[17]Jack Rakove on the US Constitution
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/jack-rakove-on-us-constitution

The Pulitzer prize-winning history professor tells us how the Constitution
came to be written and ratified and explains why, after more than 200 years,
Americans are still so deeply wedded to it [18]Read on
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/jack-rakove-on-us-constitution

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