Newsletter 408
[1]The Browser
Links:
1. http://thebrowser.com
[5]Why Software Is Eating The World
Links:
5. http://b.rw/pjFM6y
Marc Andreessen | WSJ | 20 August 2011
Leading VC says this isn't a bubble. It's more important than that: "We are
in the middle of a dramatic and broad technological and economic shift in
which software companies are poised to take over large swathes of the
economy" [6]Comments
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/why-software-eating-world-0
[7]The Genius Who Lives Downstairs
Links:
7. http://b.rw/onuGd4
Alexander Masters | Guardian | 19 August 2011
Simon Phillips Norton. Maths prodigy. IQ of 178. Eton and Cambridge. But one
day his genius, or his confidence, collapsed. Now 60, he lives in a chaotic
flat in Cambridge, eating tinned mackerel and collecting bus timetables
[8]Comments
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/genius-who-lives-downstairs
[9]The Barra Bravas
Links:
9. http://b.rw/o4upHY
Annie Kelly | Observer | 21 August 2011
Report on the violent gangs who control Argentine football with "a blaze of
fire fights, drive-by shootings and mafia-style executions". Expect money
laundering, narcotics, corrupt police, gun running. On matchdays. In the
grounds [10]Comments
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/barra-bravas
[11]Asia's Lonely Hearts
Links:
11. http://b.rw/p7kCKX
Anonymous | Economist | 20 August 2011
Marrying age has risen sharply in Asia. But a lot of women are not marrying
later. They are not marrying at all. Greater freedom allowing women to make
this choice is good, but there are also serious social implications
[12]Comments
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/asias-lonely-hearts
[13]Advice From A 105-Year-Old Banker
Links:
13. http://b.rw/qZfUcH
David Dudley | Daily Beast | 15 August 2011
In 1928 Irving Kahn started his first job on Wall St. Now, at 105, he's
likely the world's oldest working investment banker. His opinion of current
downturn? “There are a lot of opportunities out there, and one shouldn’t
complain" [14]Comments
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/articles/advice-105-year-old-banker
[15]The Story Of How We Got Our Alphabets
Links:
15. http://b.rw/oDoRlt
James Clackson | BBC | 19 August 2011
Beautifully produced five-minute audio slideshow with commentary by
Cambridge classics lecturer James Clackson. Whistlestop world tour through
Mesopotamia, China, the Mayan civilisation of Mexico, ancient Egypt, Greece
and Rome [16]Comments
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/articles/story-how-we-got-our-alphabets
FiveBooks Interview
[17]Turtle Bunbury on Family History
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/turtle-bunbury-on-family-history
The Irish-based writer says studying families is a fascinating way to learn
about the past, and tells us about the books that have inspired his own
investigations [18]Read on
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/turtle-bunbury-on-family-history
Featured Topic
[19]Republican Contenders
Links:
19. http://thebrowser.com/topics/republican-contenders
Romney, Bachmann or Perry? AN Other? Read our selection of background and
analysis articles on the Republicans hoping to be their party's choice to
challenge President Obama [20]Read on
Links:
20. http://thebrowser.com/topics/republican-contenders
Reader Recommendations
_@polit2k_ RT _@Nouriel_: Jeff Sachs' oped in the FT [21]t.co/uisVbQb
Globaisation hit unskilled hard, bonanza 4 global super-rich _#gfc2_
[22]#browsings [23]More like this
Links:
21. http://t.co/uisVbQb
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/european-literature-and-latin-middle-ages-by-ernst-robert-curtius
[25]European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages by Ernst Robert Curtius
Links:
25. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/european-literature-and-latin-middle-ages-by-ernst-robert-curtius
[26]Harold Bloom says: “This is, I think, the finest work of literary
scholarship in my time. It is an extraordinary study of the continuity of
European literature” [27]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
26. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/harold-bloom-on-literary-criticism
27. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[28]An Hour With Warren Buffett
Links:
28. http://thebrowser.com/videos/hour-warren-buffett
Warren Buffett discusses his NYT op-ed piece "Stop Coddling The Super-Rich"
[29]More videos
Links:
29. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[30]Andrew Brown, on civilisation
Links:
30. http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/andrewbrown/2011/aug/20/why-i-am-not-catholic
"Civilisation is a process of extending tradition by argument"
[31]More quotes
Links:
31. http://thebrowser.com/quotations