Newsletter 385
[5]Washington Is Drowning America
Links:
5. http://b.rw/q0wycD
Clive Crook | FT | 24 July 2011
"One one side you have the unrivalled energy and ambition of the American
worker. On the other you have the unrivalled complacency, self-righteousness
and bloody-mindedness of Washington. I am starting to wonder which will
prevail" [6]Comments
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/washington-drowning-america
[7]Kipling’s Game Theory For Greece
Links:
7. http://bit.ly/oV4oH7
John Kay | John Kay | 27 July 2011
Imagine an auction in which players bid for a $1 note—but both the winner
and the underbidder have to pay up. Bids will probably spiral far above $1,
as good money chases bad. That's where Europe now finds itself with Greece
[8]Comments
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/kipling’s-game-theory-greece
[9]Famine In East Africa
Links:
9. http://b.rw/o8lgmj
Anonymous | In Focus | 27 July 2011
Powerful photo essay revealing the horrors of the drought affecting Somalia,
Ethiopia, Eritrea and Kenya. UN has declared it a famine. But aid is
restricted by bandits, terrorist groups and unresponsive Western governments
[10]Comments
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/famine-east-africa
[11]Hezbollah: Party Of Fraud
Links:
11. http://b.rw/n2T3mg
Matthew Levitt | Foreign Affairs | 27 July 2011
Iranian funding helped Hezbollah become the dominant political force in
Lebanon. But Iran's economy is not what it was. Which has forced Hezbollah
to turn to international crime on a massive scale. And therein lies its
weakness [12]Comments
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/hezbollah-party-fraud
[13]The Invention Of Our Music
Links:
13. http://b.rw/qqb6HQ
Peter Philips | New Republic | 28 July 2011
Great watershed in history of music was Guido of Arezzo's invention of
notation, early in 11C. Used to this day. Transformed religious life. Monks
no longer had to memorise whole vast corpus of sacred music needed for
church year [14]Comments
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/articles/invention-our-music
[15]Resource Limitations
Links:
15. http://b.rw/qcSrlG
Jeremy Grantham | GMO | 22 July 2011
Investment note (PDF) identifies challenges of providing for a growing
population. "We will need to protect and nurture our resources –
particularly our farms – if we do not intend to follow them into sand and
rocks" [16]Comments
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/articles/resource-limitations
FiveBooks Interview
[17]Maria Sveland on Feminism
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/maria-sveland-on-feminism
The feminist author chooses liberating literature for women, from Virginia
Woolf to Erica Jong. She says that men still don’t share equal
responsibility in the home, and that life after divorce is easier [18]Read
on
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/maria-sveland-on-feminism
Featured Topic
[19]Climate Change
Links:
19. http://thebrowser.com/topics/climate-change-0
Want to know how our planet is faring? Access the definitive reading list on
climate change, as recommended by Jonathan Porritt and others, and read
articles that will get you past the smoke and mirrors of Climategate
[20]Read on
Links:
20. http://thebrowser.com/topics/climate-change-0
Reader Recommendations
@[21]alecash Interesting on pricing model of news, what it can learn from
Netflix.[22]goo.gl/9VCzR [23]#browsings [24]More like this
Links:
21. http://twitter.com/alecash
22. http://www.niemanlab.org/2011/07/the-newsonomics-of-netflix-and-the-digital-shift
23. https://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/through-our-enemies’-eyes-by-michael-scheuer
[26]Through our Enemies’ Eyes by Michael Scheuer
Links:
26. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/through-our-enemies’-eyes-by-michael-scheuer
[27]Peter Taylor says: I always thought that one day I would wake up and
hear on the news that they had got Bin Laden, if he hadn’t died of natural
causes.
Links:
27. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/peter-taylor-on-al-qaeda
[28]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
28. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[29]Apple Store Challenge
Links:
29. http://thebrowser.com/videos/apple-store-challenge
You can get a pizza delivered there. You can have a romantic date. But they
draw the line at dimming the lights [30]More videos
Links:
30. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[31]Horace Dediu, on trial and error
Links:
31. http://www.asymco.com/2011/07/20/how-did-i-get-the-iphone-number-so-wrong
"If you stick with the theory and ask where it went wrong, you will build
a better theory"
[32]More quotes
Links:
32. http://thebrowser.com/quotations