Newsletter 411
[1]The Browser
Links:
1. http://thebrowser.com
[5]The Accomplice
Links:
5. http://b.rw/oUHtMS
Philippe Sands | Vanity Fair | 23 August 2011
Terrific feature on Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, assessing his complicity in
father's crimes. International lawyer Sands talks to three who know him well
– his LSE professor, mentor in Libya and the prosecutor who may yet decide
his fate [6]Comments
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/accomplice
[7]Leave The Driving To It
Links:
7. http://b.rw/q4Khuk
Brian Hayes | American Scientist | 22 August 2011
Wonderful, thorough analysis of driverless cars. Investigating how they
could disrupt everyday life, the unique challenges they could pose and what
technologies they need to become a viable, mainstream method of transport
[8]Comments
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/leave-driving-it
[9]Jon Huntsman: The Outsider
Links:
9. http://b.rw/qEHbcP
Jacob Weisberg | Vogue | 18 August 2011
Enjoyable, informative, largely sympathetic profile of Republican
presidential contender – "a thinking person’s candidate whose candour shines
a light on the evasions of his rivals, even if it fails to change the
outcome" [10]Comments
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/jon-huntsman-outsider
[11]From Voodoo Economics To Pooh-Poohing Economics
Links:
11. http://b.rw/oHADmm
Daniel Alpert | Two Cents | 22 August 2011
"Quite a few people believe we are recovering from a cyclical decline. We
are not. We are experiencing fully the dislocations arising from the
integration of 'status quo-challenging' nations." Here's one possible, if
painful, cure [12]Comments
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/voodoo-economics-pooh-poohing-economics
[13]Springtime For Hitler
Links:
13. http://b.rw/oGSgZR
Monica Osborne | TNR | 22 August 2011
What should we make of jokes about Nazis? "Laughing at Hitler might have
been a way back to ethical responsibility, because inherent in the laugh is
an acknowledgment of just how frightening the human capacity for evil can
be" [14]Comments
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/articles/springtime-hitler
[15]To Bricktop, On Her Belated Birthday
Links:
15. http://b.rw/qBjrhP
Patrick Monahan | Paris Review | 15 August 2011
Profile of legendary African-American singing star and nightclub owner, Ada
Smith – known as Bricktop. Taught Duke of Windsor to dance the Charleston.
Became friends with Cole Porter, who wrote "Miss Otis Regrets" in her honour
[16]Comments
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/articles/bricktop-her-belated-birthday
FiveBooks Interview
[17]Andy Lawrence on Astronomy, Physics and People
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/andy-lawrence-on-astronomy-physics-and-people
The astronomy professor says the process of scientific discovery can be slow
and messy – but that reading about some of the extraordinary personalities
involved brings the history alive [18]Read on
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/andy-lawrence-on-astronomy-physics-and-people
Featured Topic
[19]Natural History
Links:
19. http://thebrowser.com/topics/natural-history
Everything you need to know about natural history. Experts from London's
Natural History Museum discuss their top five books on everything - from
bats to plants, dinosaurs to meteorites and more [20]Read on
Links:
20. http://thebrowser.com/topics/natural-history
Reader Recommendations
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21. http://twitter.com/GreeGreece
22. http://twitter.com/polit2k
23. http://twitter.com/Alea_
24. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-14306146
25. http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=#gfc2
26. http://twitter.com/search?q=#browsings
27. http://www.tweetdeck.com/twitter/GreeGreece/~awqTp
28. http://thebrowser.com/browsings
Book of the Day
[29]Book of the Day
Links:
29. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/jihad-trail-political-islam-by-gilles-kepel
[30]Jihad by Gilles Kepel
Links:
30. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/jihad-trail-political-islam-by-gilles-kepel
[31]Jason Burke says: “Kepel’s book is a brilliant overview of the last two
or three decades of Islamic militancy. Its thesis stands the test of time”
[32]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
31. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/jason-burke-on-islamic-militancy
32. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[33]Stella McCartney: Print Collection
Links:
33. http://thebrowser.com/videos/stella-mccartney-print-collection
If a picture is worth a thousand words, here's an encyclopaedia [34]More
videos
Links:
34. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[35]George Soros, on the future
Links:
35. http://www.spiegel.de/international/business/0,1518,781590-2,00.html
"Financial markets have a very safe way of predicting the future. They
cause it"
[36]More quotes
Links:
36. http://thebrowser.com/quotations