Newsletter 393
[5]Interview: Tzipi Livni
Links:
5. http://b.rw/oHsDT6
James Bennet And Jeffrey Goldberg | Atlantic | 5 August 2011
Opposition leader says Netanyahu is "weakening Israel". Trying to turn it
into a "Jewish ghetto". Driving Israel and America apart. Not adapting to
changing fundamentals. "What was morally obvious in 1948 is not so obvious
anymore" [6]Comments
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/interview-tzipi-livni
[7]Don't Give Up
Links:
7. http://b.rw/qyS53P
Nilofer Merchant | HBR | 3 August 2011
Moving, personal piece. "Business is full of stories of perseverance and
pursuit — of the almost-failed hero who didn't quit when times were dark.
Those stories admonish quitters, and honor the survivors. I should know. I
am both" [8]Comments
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/dont-give
[9]Last Of The Aryans
Links:
9. http://b.rw/qWiQrL
Shubhangi Swarup | Open | 5 August 2011
Brokpa tribe of Kashmir are reputedly the world's last "pure-bred Aryans".
May be descendants of Alexander the Great's army. Hate cows and chickens.
Live a long time. Eat vegan. Practice fraternal polyandry. Venerate Juniper
trees [10]Comments
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/last-aryans
[11]Mad Scientist Of Smut
Links:
11. http://b.rw/oFFEEZ
Charles McGrath | NYT | 4 August 2011
Profile of novelist Nicholson Baker. Who has a white beard. Wears round,
owlish glasses. Blushes when he talks of sex. And has written some of the
filthiest literary novels ever published, including his latest, "House of
Holes" [12]Comments
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/mad-scientist-smut
[13]Famine In Somalia: It's The Politics... Stupid
Links:
13. http://b.rw/n4nZNN
Richard Dowden | African Arguments | 28 July 2011
"Drought can cause food shortages, price rises. But it does not
automatically mean famine. Famine is caused by politics – when war or
governments prevent people moving or trading." Here's how present, failed
policy should be changed [14]Comments
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/articles/famine-somalia-its-politics-stupid
[15]Private Robot Armies And The Future Of War
Links:
15. http://b.rw/rlKGo8
Greg Lindsay | Fast Company | 1 August 2011
In a decade or so the world's armies, terrorists and hobbyists will own
thousands if not millions of cheap drones, piloted by algorithms. Scary
enough. But what if a bot-net hijacks them? Traditional and cyber warfare
converge [16]Comments
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/articles/private-robot-armies-and-future-war
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
Featured Topic
[19]China
Links:
19. http://thebrowser.com/topics/china
Everything you need to know about the rising power. Original interviews with
experts such as Richard Baum, Isabel Hilton, and Xinran - and the books and
articles they recommend [20]Read on
Links:
20. http://thebrowser.com/topics/china
Reader Recommendations
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Links:
21. http://t.co/0A0Jhtq
22. https://twitter.com/search?q=#browsings
23. http://thebrowser.com/browsings
Book of the Day
[24]Book of the Day
Links:
24. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/rise-novel-studies-defoe-richardson-and-fielding-by-ian-watt
[25]The Rise of the Novel by Ian Watt
Links:
25. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/rise-novel-studies-defoe-richardson-and-fielding-by-ian-watt
[26]Anthony Julius says: It’s a remarkable work. It’s the first post-war
conceptualisation of the English novel in its 18th-century inaugural moment
[27]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
26. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/anthony-julius-on-censorship
27. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[28]Catholic Church Debate
Links:
28. http://thebrowser.com/videos/catholic-church-debate
Stephen Fry vs Ann Widdecombe
[29]More videos
Links:
29. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[30]Robert Frost, on education
Links:
30. http://www.dawn.com/2011/08/01/the-ideology-of-thought-control.html
"Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or your self-confidence"
[31]More quotes
Links:
31. http://thebrowser.com/quotations