Newsletter 429

12 Sep 2011 • 3 min read

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

[5]Swarm Troopers
Links:
5. http://b.rw/ncwnQh

Henry Nicholls | New Scientist | 12 September 2011

"In Brazil, an army is being unleashed. It is an army like no other: The
soldiers' mission is to copulate rather than fight." And the troops are
mosquitoes and caterpillars. Genetically modified to destroy their own kind
[6]Comments
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/swarm-troopers

[7]Germany Plans For Possible Greek Default
Links:
7. http://b.rw/o9g07q

Various | Spiegel | 12 September 2011

Greek bankruptcy looming; key economic figures worsening; more companies
filing for bankruptcy; austerity programme far behind schedule. "It's like
dealing with children that constantly have to be told to clean up their
rooms" [8]Comments
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/germany-plans-possible-greek-default

[9]The Journalist And The Spies
Links:
9. http://b.rw/ptQQ3G

Dexter Filkins | New Yorker | 12 September 2011

Investigation into killing of Syed Saleem Shahzad, who'd drawn attention to
links between Pakistani military and Islamist militants. "There has always
been a red line. But, after Shahzad, no one knows where the red line is
anymore" [10]Comments
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/journalist-and-spies

[11]Jimmy Carter
Links:
11. http://b.rw/pFdvHj

Carole Cadwalladr | Observer | 11 September 2011

Interview with former US president. On his time as head of state: "We kept
our country at peace. We never went to war. We never dropped a bomb. We
never fired a bullet. But still we achieved our international goals"
[12]Comments
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/jimmy-carter

[13]The Age Of Sovereign Failure
Links:
13. http://b.rw/pKQx8i

Michael Ignatieff | Globe And Mail | 11 September 2011

"Our idea of the sovereign state included a child's expectation that it
would keep us safe. We have had to grow up." The state failed America on
9/11, and has been blundering since. Citizens who were once sceptical are
now cynical [14]Comments
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/articles/age-sovereign-failure

[15]The Science Of Food
Links:
15. http://b.rw/pjH5f9

Ethan Zuckerman | My Heart's In Accra | 8 September 2011

Account of a Harvard cookery course taught by David Arnold and Harold McGee.
Nice blend of history and geekery, surveying the cook's art from discovery
of fire to modern kitchen "where liquid nitrogen is as common as hot water"
[16]Comments
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/articles/science-food

FiveBooks Interview

[17]Peter Ackroyd on London
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/peter-ackroyd-on-london

The historian and biographer of London picks five books that shine a light
on parts of this vast, complex and confusing city where, he says, pathos and
pantomime meet [18]Read on
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/peter-ackroyd-on-london

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