Newsletter 401

14 Aug 2011 • 3 min read

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

[5]Can Jeremy Grantham Profit From Ecological Mayhem?
Links:
5. http://b.rw/mWXN2k

Carlo Rotella | NYT | 11 August 2011

Profile of fund manager whose quarterly newsletter (often recommended here)
has cult following. Says Malthus was right in principle, wrong on timing.
Mankind heading for catastrophe. But there's money to be made along the way
[6]Comments
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/can-jeremy-grantham-profit-ecological-mayhem

[7]They Never Told Us These Things
Links:
7. http://b.rw/pRqXK1

Julie Salverson | Maisonneuve | 12 August 2011

Much of the uranium for the Manhattan Project came from a mine in north-west
Canada. The indigenous people who worked there had no idea what use the
material would be put to, or how their own health would suffer [8]Comments
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/they-never-told-us-these-things

[9]The Tea Party’s Modest Proposal
Links:
9. http://b.rw/ndtA7b

Simon Johnson | Project Syndicate | 12 August 2011

Sober, succinct takedown of Tea Party economic policy. They care about small
government more than anything else but their actions are destroying private
wealth, undermining private sector more than they're reining in big
government [10]Comments
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/tea-party’s-modest-proposal

[11]The Killing Fields
Links:
11. http://b.rw/oHzqm4

Eric Hansen | Outside | 8 August 2011

Skyrocketing market value of yarchagumba, a rare fungus prized as an
aphrodisiac, has led to turf wars—and possibly murder. Intrepid writer
travels to remote corner of Nepal in search of answers [12]Comments
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/killing-fields

[13]Secret History Of Guns
Links:
13. http://b.rw/qCIlyh

Adam Winkler | Atlantic | 11 August 2011

On the history of gun control in America. Interesting throughout. The NRA
used to be in favour of regulation, until it changed direction in the 1970s.
The main advocates of decontrol through the 1960s were the Black Panthers
[14]Comments
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/articles/secret-history-guns

[15]Generation F*cked
Links:
15. http://b.rw/oN5l64

Maria Hampton | Adbusters | 11 August 2011

Young Britons are "trailblazers of generational instability and social
deterioration". Drunk and disorderly in their teens, angry and unemployed in
their 20s. No wonder. Basic rights—job, home, education, healthcare—all gone
[16]Comments
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/articles/generation-fcked

FiveBooks Interview

[17]Antonio Villaraigosa on Progressive America
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/antonio-villaraigosa-on-progressive-america

In the last of our series of interviews on American progressivism, the mayor
of Los Angeles chooses five novels and biographies that provide lessons from
the past and show what a democratic society should aspire to be [18]Read on
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/antonio-villaraigosa-on-progressive-america

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