Newsletter 438
[1]The Browser
Links:
1. http://thebrowser.com
[5]A Knack For Bashing Orthodoxy
Links:
5. http://b.rw/rqPDyJ
Michael Powell | NYT | 19 September 2011
Interview with evolutionary biologist, British atheist-in-chief, Richard
Dawkins. Now 70. Still prefers lecturing to excitable Bible Belt audiences
than godless New Yorkers. Says religion's crime is to make children
incurious [6]Comments
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/knack-bashing-orthodoxy
[7]The Art Of Winning An (Even More) Unfair Game
Links:
7. http://b.rw/r1Q8OX
Tom Verducci | Sports Illustrated | 20 September 2011
Moneyball, now a film starring Brad Pitt, took statistical analysis in
baseball into the mainstream. But the biggest benefits flowed not to Billy
Beane's Oakland Athletics, but to richer teams like the Boston Red Sox
[8]Comments
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/art-winning-even-more-unfair-game
[9]Israel And America On The Wrong Side Of History
Links:
9. http://b.rw/nHWXrY
Gareth Evans | Project Syndicate | 20 September 2011
Concise piece explains why Palestinian leadership is pursuing its statehood
initiative at the UN and what it hopes to gain. Better for all if Israel, US
respond constructively. For different reasons, they won't [10]Comments
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/israel-and-america-wrong-side-history
[11]How Should We Make Hard Decisions?
Links:
11. http://b.rw/qPPm8d
Jonah Lehrer | Frontal Cortex | 20 September 2011
Most presume that tricky decisions are best made by following pure reason.
Not by succumbing to gut instincts. But some surprising early-stage research
suggests a different strategy: "When the going gets tough, go with your gut"
[12]Comments
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/how-should-we-make-hard-decisions
[13]If You Accept Death, Fear Disappears
Links:
13. http://b.rw/qH9nph
Simon Hattenstone | Guardian | 20 September 2011
Philip Gould, once spin-doctor to Tony Blair's Labour party, now dying of
cancer, talks about life, politics, marriage to publisher Gail Rebuck—and
death. "It doesn't worry me at all. It feels fine. On to the next thing"
[14]Comments
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/articles/if-you-accept-death-fear-disappears
[15]The Hunt For Hemingway
Links:
15. http://b.rw/q4v7fh
A Scott Berg | Vanity Fair | 21 September 2011
Trip to Hemingway's Cuban estate reveals surprising find. "In an instant, I
felt as though I had entered King Tut’s tomb; literary riches abounded."
Including unseen letters and original epilogue to For Whom The Bell Tolls
[16]Comments
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/articles/hunt-hemingway
FiveBooks Interview
[17]Alexandra Horowitz on the Art of Observation
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/alexandra-horowitz-on-art-observation
How much do we take in of the world around us? You can tell a lot more about
your surroundings than you realise, if you only know how and where to look,
as the psychologist explains [18]Read on
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/alexandra-horowitz-on-art-observation
Featured Topic
[19]Communism
Links:
19. http://thebrowser.com/topics/communism
Our series on Communism, for the inquisitive Comrade. Interviews range from
Robert Service on Totalitarian Russia to Richard McGregor on the Chinese
Communist Party. Each expert picks their favourite books and articles
[20]Read on
Links:
20. http://thebrowser.com/topics/communism
Reader Recommendations
_@_[21]polit2k How to go from the IT dept to being a rogue trader - "A
career guide"[22]t.co/UQuwx7fI _[23]#browsings_ h/t
@[24]pgribbon @[25]Sysparatem [26]More like this
Links:
21. http://twitter.com/polit2k
22. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/09/20/rogue_trader_howto
23. http://twitter.com/search?q=#browsings
24. http://twitter.com/pgribbon
25. http://twitter.com/Sysparatem
26. http://thebrowser.com/browsings
Book of the Day
[27]Book of the Day
Links:
27. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/fortress-solitude-by-jonathan-lethem
[28]The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem
Links:
28. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/fortress-solitude-by-jonathan-lethem
[29]Jay McInerney says: “Lethem was one of the first people to write about
the new Brooklyn. This is a beautiful coming-of-age novel”[30]FiveBooks
Archive
Links:
29. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/jay-mcinerney-on-essential-new-york-novels
30. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[31]Downfall Of A Cult Californian Winery
Links:
31. http://thebrowser.com/videos/downfall-cult-californian-winery
Fooling around with "Downfall" is a well-trodden path now, but this is still
fun
[32]More videos
Links:
32. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[33]William Arthur Ward, on realism
Links:
33. http://walt.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2011/09/18/well_duh
"The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to
change; the realist adjusts the sails"
[34]More quotes
Links:
34. http://thebrowser.com/quotations