Newsletter 443
[1]The Browser
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1. http://thebrowser.com
[5]Personal Best
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5. http://b.rw/rdC9XS
Atul Gawande | New Yorker | 26 September 2011
You'd be surprised if a successful singer or sportsman had no coach. Why not
so for other professionals? Surgeon investigates: "I can’t say that every
surgeon needs a coach to do his or her best work, but I’ve discovered that I
do" [6]Comments
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/personal-best
[7]Violence Vanquished
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7. http://b.rw/n6xFXM
Steven Pinker | WSJ | 24 September 2011
Violence may loom large in our news media, and our minds, but it was much
worse in the past. Pinker describes its decline through six key phases,
concluding we are living in "the most peaceable era in the existence of our
species" [8]Comments
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/violence-vanquished
[9]Cash On Delivery
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9. http://b.rw/pf3IMO
Scott Carney | Open | 24 September 2011
Behind the scenes at Akanksha Clinic in Gujarat, which sells contract babies
from surrogate mothers to childless couples, mostly foreigners. Charges
couples $15,000, pays surrogates $5,000. Big business: 350 similar clinics
in India [10]Comments
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10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/cash-delivery
[11]The (Dis)passion Of John Henry
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11. http://b.rw/mR1TTX
Steve Wulf | ESPN | 23 September 2011
Profile of Boston Red Sox, Liverpool FC owner. Farmer's son who got into
finance betting on soybean prices. Applied maths to markets (and baseball).
Named his yacht after client who withdrew money and went bust. Banned from
Vegas [12]Comments
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/dispassion-john-henry
[13]How The Refrigerator Got Its Hum
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13. http://b.rw/pc6lrq
Alice Bell | Through The Looking Glass | 19 September 2011
Wonderful post reveals why "history of technology is a history of failed
machines; of routes we didn’t take, not the ones we did. There have never
been a shortage of new inventions, what ‘shapes us’ is what we choose to
pick up on" [14]Comments
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/articles/how-refrigerator-got-its-hum
[15]Scott Of The Antarctic: The Lies That Doomed His Race To The Pole
Links:
15. http://b.rw/p4VDht
Robin McKie | Observer | 24 September 2011
Standout feature revisiting history of Scott's epic expedition to South
Pole. Wrong to think of him as heroic British amateur. Rather he was victim
of grave ill-fortune and deception, not helped by his relentless pursuit of
science [16]Comments
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/articles/scott-antarctic-lies-doomed-his-race-pole
FiveBooks Interview
[17]David Spiegelhalter on Statistics and Risk
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/david-spiegelhalter-on-statistics-and-risk
Every statistic is the result of someone’s work, and we’d do well to ask
ourselves why it was created. That way, says the statistician, we have a
better chance of working out when dangers are being overstated and data
misused [18]Read on
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/david-spiegelhalter-on-statistics-and-risk
Featured Topic
[19]Palestine And The UN
Links:
19. http://thebrowser.com/topics/palestine-and-un
The Palestinians are seeking enhanced status at the UN in a move aimed at
advancing their statehood ambitions. How will the process play out and what
are the implications for Palestinians, and for Israel? Read on to find out
[20]Read on
Links:
20. http://thebrowser.com/topics/palestine-and-un
Reader Recommendations
_@polit2k_ "It drives almost everything that goes on on Wall Street" Quant
trading: How mathematicians rule the markets [21]t.co/MEdYzpFO
[22]#browsings [23]More like this
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21. http://t.co/MEdYzpFO
22. https://twitter.com/search?q=#browsings
23. http://thebrowser.com/browsings
Book of the Day
[24]Book of the Day
Links:
24. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/myth-sisyphus-by-albert-camus
[25]The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus
Links:
25. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/myth-sisyphus-by-albert-camus
[26]Kenan Malik says: “Here Camus confronts both the tragedy of recent
history [World War II] and what he sees as the absurdity of the human
condition” [27]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
26. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/kenan-malik-on-morality-without-god
27. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[28]Penn Jillette With Nick Gillespie
Links:
28. http://thebrowser.com/videos/penn-jillette-nick-gillespie
On libertarianism: "I don't go with pragmatic arguments. It's simply that I
don't know what's best for everybody" [29]More videos
Links:
29. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[30]Peter Oborne, on the FT
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30. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/8780075/The-great-euro-swindle.html
"It has been wrong on every single major economic judgment over the past
quarter century"
[31]More quotes
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31. http://thebrowser.com/quotations