Newsletter 445

28 Sep 2011 • 3 min read

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

[5]A History Of Violence
Links:
5. http://b.rw/n1jpEH

Steven Pinker | Edge | 27 September 2011

Unmissable conversation with Steven Pinker in which he outlines causes and
antecedents of the six major declines in violence through history. His
thesis "calls for a rehabilitation of a concept of modernity and progress"
[6]Comments
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/history-violence

[7]Fear And Loathing In The Eurozone
Links:
7. http://b.rw/nR5tTC

Martin Wolf | FT | 27 September 2011

There are no good options left. Every proposed action carries big risks. But
an ECB-led rescue looks best chance. "The alternative of financial collapses
and sovereign debt crises that ricochet across the globe is vastly worse"
[8]Comments
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/fear-and-loathing-eurozone

[9]The Hero No One Knew
Links:
9. http://b.rw/ouiLSu

Jeff Pearlman | Sports Illustrated | 27 September 2011

Walter Payton retired in 1988 as the greatest running back in American
football history. What happened next was by turns inspiring, chaotic and
regrettable. And after all the laughing gas, guns and burgers, it was
finally tragic [10]Comments
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/hero-no-one-knew

[11]When Kerouac Met Kesey
Links:
11. http://b.rw/ogrI7u

Sterling Lord | American Scholar | 7 September 2011

Lovely piece by literary agent who represented both men. Iconoclastic
thinkers who overlapped as writers. But they had very different ways of
opting out of society. As was clear when they met. (And Kesey never saw film
of OFOTCN) [12]Comments
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/when-kerouac-met-kesey

[13]My Destruction By Murdoch
Links:
13. http://b.rw/p1fEhZ

Conrad Black | Huffington Post | 27 September 2011

Extract from memoir. When American prosecutors charged Black with fraud,
Rupert Murdoch's newspapers joined "joyously" in the struggle to have him
demonised, ruined, jailed. They threw dirt "like children wallowing in a
mudbath" [14]Comments
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/articles/my-destruction-murdoch

[15]How To Hatch A Dinosaur
Links:
15. http://b.rw/nzlSwt

Thomas Hayden | Wired | 26 September 2011

"Jack Horner wants to make a dinosaur. Not from scratch – don’t be
ridiculous. He says he’s going to do it by reverse-evolving a chicken."
Perhaps not how most imagine hatching a T-Rex. Nonetheless this could,
theoretically, work [16]Comments
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/articles/how-hatch-dinosaur

FiveBooks Interview

[17]Austin Frakt on US Healthcare Reform
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/austin-frakt-on-us-healthcare-reform

If you were starting from scratch, no one would design a healthcare system
like America’s. The health economist tells us how it evolved, why it’s
preposterous and what needs to change [18]Read on
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/austin-frakt-on-us-healthcare-reform

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