Newsletter 427

10 Sep 2011 • 3 min read

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

[5]Tempest In An Inkpot
Links:
5. http://b.rw/qvl3lo

Graham T. Beck | Morning News | 31 August 2011

Reflections on collective grief and outrage around the trumpeted death of
handwriting and cursive. "The very idea that handwriting says something
special about its writer developed in concert with technologies that
threatened it" [6]Comments
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/tempest-inkpot

[7]Your Brain On Politics
Links:
7. http://b.rw/qU1oZW

Andrea Kuszewski | Intersection | 7 September 2011

Excellent analysis of latest neuroscience research into brains of liberals
and conservatives. There are physical differences between the two. Suggests
liberals are more adaptable and conservatives keener on stability
[8]Comments
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/your-brain-politics

[9]Higher Learning
Links:
9. http://b.rw/pKjEYe

Various | Rookie | 5 September 2011

In this information age, it's astounding how few cultural counternarratives
of noncomformity there are available to teenagers. Gathered here is advice
to teens on getting through high school from a roster of favourite grown-ups
[10]Comments
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/higher-learning

[11]The 9/11 Generation
Links:
11. http://b.rw/qvqRZJ

David Rohde | Reuters | 8 September 2011

Five million Americans served in the military over the past decade. They are
a "greatest generation", just like the one that served in WW2. Civilians
served too. Their values prevailed. So why are they so full of self-doubt?
[12]Comments
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/911-generation

[13]When Apricot Met Plum...
Links:
13. http://b.rw/re1Bw1

Melanie Grayce West | WSJ | 7 September 2011

"For 50 years, the Zaiger family has been striving for a perfect piece of
fruit: Juicy like a plum, but not as messy." Enter the pluerry – half plum,
half cherry. Latest hybrid fruit from makers of the aprium [14]Comments
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/articles/when-apricot-met-plum

[15]How Sweet It Is
Links:
15. http://b.rw/obkclA

Arianna Armstrong | Palate Press | 6 September 2011

Lovely tour through history of sweet white wine. Starts with Cypriot Manna
from Hesiod's "Works And Days". If you'd like to know your Tokaji from your
Late-Harvest Riesling, this is your weekend reading [16]Comments
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/articles/how-sweet-it

FiveBooks Interview

[17]Fran Lebowitz on New York Writers
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/fran-lebowitz-on-new-york-writers

9/11 changed New York immensely, but it’s always been a city where people go
to be free and it will be again, says the writer and humorist. Just look at
its rich and varied literary life [18]Read on
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/fran-lebowitz-on-new-york-writers

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