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