Newsletter 436

19 Sep 2011 • 3 min read

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

[5]The Unsung Sense
Links:
5. http://b.rw/mOStLV

Catherine de Lange | New Scientist | 19 September 2011

Investigating how "our noses are exquisitely sensitive instruments that
guide our everyday life to a surprising extent. Subtle smells can change
your mood, behaviour and the choices you make, often without you even
realising it" [6]Comments
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/unsung-sense

[7]Autistic And Joining The Adult World
Links:
7. http://b.rw/qWxyzh

Amy Harmon | NYT | 17 September 2011

After steep rise in autism diagnoses among American children, here comes the
next challenge: Integrating those children into the working world. Some
200,000 autistic teenagers come of age in next five years. Here's one man's
story [8]Comments
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/autistic-and-joining-adult-world

[9]The Tsuris
Links:
9. http://b.rw/pSsHuC

John Heilemann | New York | 18 September 2011

Pro-Obama account of presidential headaches caused by B Netanyahu Esq. And
the importance, heightened by New York special election, US president's team
attaches to not losing Jewish funding, or votes, for 2012 campaign
[10]Comments
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/tsuris

[11]What Next For Greece And For Europe?
Links:
11. http://b.rw/q17uED

Peter Boone & Simon Johnson | Baseline Scenario | 17 September 2011

"A good start would involve being honest on four points. There is nothing
pleasant about the truth, but continued denial increasingly becomes
dangerous to all involved. The first brutal truth is that this is a default
by Greece" [12]Comments
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/what-next-greece-and-europe

[13]Next Step Infinity
Links:
13. http://b.rw/prNE4M

Anthony Aguirre | Edge | 9 August 2011

How did we miss this last month? Outstanding enquiry into nature of
infinity. All the old favourites feature: Relativity, the Big Bang, multiple
universes. Along with some of the most perplexing philosophical questions
imaginable [14]Comments
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/articles/next-step-infinity

[15]A Holly Golightly For The Stripper-Embezzlement Age
Links:
15. http://b.rw/rbXiJo

Jessica Pressler | New York | 18 September 2011

Ken Starr was convicted of running a huge Ponzi scheme. His fourth wife,
Diane Passage, is an ex-stripper "who's one of those people that it feels
like New York invented, though they thrive wherever male egos and dumb money
coexist" [16]Comments
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/articles/holly-golightly-stripper-embezzlement-age

FiveBooks Interview

[17]Brian Leiter on Nietzsche
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/brian-leiter-on-nietzsche

Relativist, atheist, existentialist, Nazi. All have been said of Nietzsche,
some with more reason than others. We asked a Nietzsche expert to explain
the appeal of the controversial philosopher [18]Read on
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/brian-leiter-on-nietzsche

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