Newsletter 364
[5]Bradley Manning’s Army Of One
Links:
5. http://b.rw/kI6yEB
Steve Fishman | New York | 3 July 2011
Gripping read on the American traitor and WikiLeaks hero. Now facing long
prison sentence. “Bradley felt he was female. He was very solid on that. He
really wanted to do surgery.” One of America's most unusual revolutionaries
[6]Comments
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/bradley-manning’s-army-one
[7]When Rape Victims Lie
Links:
7. http://b.rw/kwVtmr
Sasha | Sasha Said | 2 July 2011
"Good" rape victims dress modestly, are sober, upright citizens attacked by
someone they don't know, try to fight off assault, report it immediately.
Depart from this script, prepare to be disbelieved. But "bad" people get
raped too [8]Comments
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/when-rape-victims-lie
[9]The Anatomy Of Intentional Action
Links:
9. http://b.rw/lj7Hq3
Dan Jones | Philosopher In The Mirror | 24 June 2011
To make a moral judgement about an act, you need to know whether it was
intentional or accidental. Right? Maybe. But what should we make of research
suggesting we're more likely to view an act as intentional if we disapprove
of it? [10]Comments
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/anatomy-intentional-action
[11]The Arabs' Fourth Of July
Links:
11. http://b.rw/k6U9by
Juan Cole | Informed Comment | 4 July 2011
Grievances of Arab people against their rulers are strikingly similar to
complaints American revolutionaries lodged against British monarchy all
those years ago. Arabs deserve their fourth of July, Americans should
support them [12]Comments
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/arabs-fourth-july
[13]Google’s Six-Front War
Links:
13. http://b.rw/k6Ax8G
Semil Shah | TechCrunch | 3 July 2011
Timely reminder of breadth of Google's commercial battleground. From social
to mobile, enterprise to local, browser to search tech, it's on the warpath.
Remarkable that it can fight effectively on so many fronts [14]Comments
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/articles/google’s-six-front-war
[15]'Let No Man Despise Thy Youth'
Links:
15. http://b.rw/kBNspL
Molly Young | New York | 3 July 2011
Profile of Teresa Scanlan, 17, Miss America and presidential hopeful. "Her
ruthless comportment feels immediately familiar in 2011, when political
candidates are held to a standard of faultlessness that only a doll might
meet" [16]Comments
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/articles/“let-no-man-despise-thy-youth”
FiveBooks Interview
[17]Fuchsia Dunlop on Chinese Food
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/fuschia-dunlop-on-chinese-food
The English chef who studied cooking in Sichuan tells us that there is no
one Chinese cuisine, how Western perceptions of Chinese food are changing,
and why carrots are called "barbarian radishes" in Mandarin [18]Read on
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/fuschia-dunlop-on-chinese-food
Featured Topic
[19]Moral Philosophy
Links:
19. 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 [20]Read on
Links:
20. http://thebrowser.com/topics/moral-philosophy
Reader Recommendations
@[21]polit2k BBC News - Experts warn of hidden danger of complex investments
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Links:
21. http://twitter.com/polit2k
22. http://goo.gl/Y5bTb
23. http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=#browsings
24. http://thebrowser.com/browsings
Book of the Day
[25]Book of the Day
Links:
25. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/paradox-american-democracy-by-john-judis
[26]The Paradox of American Democracy by John Judis
Links:
26. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/paradox-american-democracy-by-john-judis
[27]Franklin Foer says: "Judis makes the case that elites lost the ethos of
disinterestedness, one of the great ideals of the progressive
era"[28]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
27. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/franklin-foer-on-roots-liberalism
28. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[29]Dental Training Robot
Links:
29. http://thebrowser.com/videos/dental-training-robot
Deep in the uncanny valley, another robot is stirring. This one for trainee
dentists. It flinches when they drill [30]More videos
Links:
30. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[31]John Holbo, on language
Links:
31. http://crookedtimber.org/2011/07/04/performance-and-recording-everyone-sing-the-chorus—including-intellectuals
"Primary oral cultures pretty much never have a word for 'word'"
[32]More quotes
Links:
32. http://thebrowser.com/quotations