Newsletter 392

5 Aug 2011 • 3 min read

[5]Tencent, March of the Penguins
Links:
5. http://b.rw/nlqCel

Bruce Einhorn & Brad Stone | Businessweek | 4 August 2011

$3bn in revenues. 11,400 employees. 647m users. This is the story of China's
home-grown internet giant. “If you are a Silicon Valley guy and you don’t
have Tencent on your radar, you have to be deaf, dumb, and blind”
[6]Comments
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/tencent-march-penguins

[7]Washington And The Art Of The Possible
Links:
7. http://b.rw/qvvNTw

Raghuram Rajan | Project Syndicate | 4 August 2011

Interesting piece with slightly different line on US debt crisis. Focuses
not on castigating politicians, but on the two key divisive factors – income
and age – that have led to the polarisation of the electorate [8]Comments
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/washington-and-art-possible

[9]Who Is The Guilty Party?
Links:
9. http://b.rw/npo5cC

Anonymous | Inside-Out China | 2 August 2011

On the difficulties of trying to be honest in China. Writer buys flat.
Previous owner has rigged electricity meter to show only 10% of consumption.
You'd think the power company would want to put it right, yes? But nothing
is simple [10]Comments
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/who-guilty-party

[11]Algae Could Solve World's Fuel Crisis
Links:
11. http://b.rw/n8VFCT

Von Philip Bethge | Spiegel | 28 July 2011

Will genetically modified algae farms produce our climate-neutral biofuels
of the future? Possibly. Needs only algae, sunlight, seawater, CO2. Lab
tests work. Now tricky process of large-scale algae farming can begin
[12]Comments
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/algae-could-solve-worlds-fuel-crisis

[13]Beyond Angry Birds
Links:
13. http://b.rw/pFeDc1

Tom Bissell | Grantland | 2 August 2011

"Console games do everything in their power to form a relationship with you.
Which can be great. iPad games are like someone you meet in a bar and find
yourself screwing in the bathroom 10 minutes later. This is not a criticism"
[14]Comments
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/articles/beyond-angry-birds

[15]Jerry-atrics!
Links:
15. http://b.rw/oPJHES

Amy Wallace | GQ | 4 August 2011

Interview with Jerry Lewis "original lord of lowbrow, king of the pratfall,
last surviving link to the bedrock of American comedy—vaudeville, burlesque,
slapstick". Got his first onstage laugh aged 5, still pumping out gags at 85
[16]Comments
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/articles/jerry-atrics

FiveBooks Interview

[17]Marc Lynch on Origins of the Arab Uprising
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/marc-lynch-on-origins-arab-uprising

The Middle East scholar tells us what to read if we’re to understand where
upheaval in the Arab world came from, and where it’s going [18]Read on
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/marc-lynch-on-origins-arab-uprising

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