Newsletter 422

5 Sep 2011 • 3 min read

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

[5]Ten Years On
Links:
5. http://b.rw/qtiXgP

Anonymous | Economist | 3 September 2011

Solid, sober, sensible analysis of decade since 9/11. Relentless fightback
by America, mistakes, terrible sacrifices, new dangers created, freedoms
lost, a sense of moving on. There can be no return to innocence nor end to
vigilance [6]Comments
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/ten-years

[7]Where Is Our Oil Price Collapse?
Links:
7. http://b.rw/qwv8QZ

Tyler Durden | Zero Hedge | 4 September 2011

Blunt, opinionated analysis. With the economy in the doldrums, American
consumers should at least be getting the benefit of lower oil prices. But
prices haven't fallen. Here's why not. And where it leaves the oil-dependent
US [8]Comments
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/where-our-oil-price-collapse

[9]Quantum Minds: Why We Think Like Quarks
Links:
9. http://b.rw/nVl9wv

Mark Buchanan | New Scientist | 5 September 2011

"Human thinking, as many of us know, often fails to respect the principles
of classical logic." Nonetheless, it's quite a surprise to find that a
system of logic based on quantum mechanics can describe our thought
processes better [10]Comments
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/quantum-minds-why-we-think-quarks

[11]Chronicle Of A Catastrophe Foretold
Links:
11. http://b.rw/oKP0Xm

John Carlin | Independent | 5 September 2011

Gripping 9/11 retrospective focusing on failure of CIA to pass critical
information to FBI. "The judgement I made, and which I shall always regret,
is that it was not quite important enough for me to risk going to jail"
[12]Comments
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/chronicle-catastrophe-foretold

[13]Just Like A Woman
Links:
13. http://b.rw/oRnHwJ

Audrey Bilger | LA Review of Books | 5 September 2011

In praise of Jane Austen. Disparaged by VS Naipaul recently ("'Who’s VS
Naipaul? Nobody ever says, 'Who’s Jane Austen?'"), encumbered by "woman
writer" label, rescued by two new books that claim her as a great and wise
author [14]Comments
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/articles/just-woman

[15]Live Television Is A High-Wire Act
Links:
15. http://b.rw/p0txwo

Jon Henley | Guardian | 3 September 2011

Sacked British sports presenter Ortis Deley calls amputee runner "the
fastest man on no legs". Fine tradition of gaffes dating back to David
Coleman. Among them: "Moses Kiptanui, the 19-year-old Kenyan who turned 20 a
few weeks ago" [16]Comments
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/articles/live-television-high-wire-act

FiveBooks Interview

[17]Stephen Glain on US Militarism
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/stephen-glain-on-us-militarism

American presidents may not want to send troops into battle or militarise
foreign policy but, in the end, most of them do. The author and journalist
explains how this happens, and why it’s not even the military that's to
blame [18]Read on
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/stephen-glain-on-us-militarism

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