Newsletter 396

9 Aug 2011 • 3 min read

[1]The Browser
Links:
1. http://thebrowser.com

[5]Riots: The Underclass Lashes Out
Links:
5. http://b.rw/njw7kN

Mary Riddell | Telegraph | 8 August 2011

Inequality of income, opportunity and education is laid bare. Riots reveal
"a section of young Britain – the stabbers, shooters, looters, chancers and
their frightened acolytes – has fallen off the cliff-edge of a crumbling
nation" [6]Comments
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/riots-underclass-lashes-out

[7]Cincinnati
Links:
7. http://b.rw/nv98sI

James Pogue | n+1 | 8 August 2011

Bravo. Lovely long essay capturing the great and small events of American
life as played out in a medium-sized midwestern city. Nothing seems to
happen here, and yet everything is of interest. Especially the serial killer
[8]Comments
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/cincinnati

[9]Caring Costs – But So Do Riots
Links:
9. http://b.rw/p8UzQx

Camila Batmanghelidjh | Independent | 9 August 2011

"Large groups of young adults have been creating their own parallel
antisocial communities with different rules. The individual is responsible
for their own survival because the established community is perceived to
provide nothing" [10]Comments
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/caring-costs-–-so-do-riots

[11]Holocaust Survivor Raised Fist To Death
Links:
11. http://b.rw/pLuRPr

Kurt Streeter | LA Times | 5 August 2011

Leon Weinstein, 101, fought in Warsaw ghetto uprising. Hid in sewers. Left
baby daughter on stranger's doorstep. "Tears ran down his cheeks. She had
blond locks and blue eyes. They will think you are a Gentile, not one of us"
[12]Comments
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/holocaust-survivor-raised-fist-death

[13]In Broadway Market
Links:
13. http://b.rw/po5jzM

James Meek | LRB | 9 August 2011

"London is not a melting pot. It is a set of groups self-separated by race,
language, religion, class, money, education and age group. It’s the
ingredients for something, laid out side by side and not being mixed, not
touching" [14]Comments
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/articles/broadway-market

[15]Peter The Wild Boy
Links:
15. http://b.rw/okIIPX

Roger Moorhouse | History Today | 10 April 2010

Remarkable story, now ungated, of the "feral child" who became a celebrity
of Georgian era. Walked on all fours, fed on grass and leaves. Kept as a pet
by Caroline, Princess of Wales. Lived to the age of 72. Never learned to
speak [16]Comments
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/articles/peter-wild-boy

FiveBooks Interview

[17]Richard Wiseman on Debunking the Paranormal
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/richard-wiseman-on-debunking-paranormal

The psychology professor explains why mediums, spoon bending and near-death
and out-of-body experiences are all baloney. And how he’s tested people who
claim they’re psychic to prove they aren’t [18]Read on
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/richard-wiseman-on-debunking-paranormal

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