Newsletter 453
[1]The Browser
Links:
1. http://thebrowser.com
[5]The Steve Jobs I Knew
Links:
5. http://b.rw/pTh1TL
Walter Mossberg | WSJ | 6 October 2011
Tribute to Apple co-founder by tech journalist who knew him well. A business
and industry great to rank alongside Edison and Ford. Inspired staff with
vision, managed well, took big risks where necessary, showman and salesman
[6]Comments
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/steve-jobs-i-knew
[7]Debt And Dumb
Links:
7. http://b.rw/mRq5aN
Simon Johnson & James Kwak | Vanity Fair | 6 October 2011
Fine essay on history of US fiscal policy. First treasury secretary,
Alexander Hamilton, understood that "good credit", based on power to tax,
was the key to a nation's security. Does the Tea Party risk destroying his
legacy? [8]Comments
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/debt-and-dumb
[9]What's The Most Important Lesson You Learned From A Teacher?
Links:
9. http://b.rw/pNPmVC
Steve Silberman | NeuroTribes | 5 October 2011
Today's antidote to gloom. Lovely tribute to teachers by Silberman
introduces series of short reminiscences by science writers. Contributions
by Rebecca Skloot, Deborah Blum, David Dobbs and more [10]Comments
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/whats-most-important-lesson-you-learned-teacher
[11]Working In The Dark
Links:
11. http://b.rw/qj7Nni
Robert Solow | New Republic | 28 September 2011
Magnificent. Nobel laureate reviews Grand Pursuit, a history of major
figures in economics. Soon turns into wonderful explanation of true
importance, and continuing relevance, of Marshall, Schumpeter, Keynes,
Fisher and Hayek [12]Comments
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/working-dark
[13]The End Of The Future
Links:
13. http://b.rw/qAUBJB
Peter Thiel | National Review | 3 October 2011
Superb essay arguing that progress in science and technology is stalling.
"The technology slowdown threatens not just our financial markets, but the
entire modern political order, which is predicated on easy and relentless
growth" [14]Comments
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/articles/end-future
[15]Australia's Slot Canyons
Links:
15. http://b.rw/oThmAk
Mark Jenkins | National Geographic | 17 September 2011
"The Swiss have mountains, so they climb. Canadians have lakes, so they
canoe. The Australians have canyons, so they go canyoneering, a hybrid form
of madness halfway between mountaineering and caving." Reporter tries it out
[16]Comments
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/articles/australias-slot-canyons
FiveBooks Interview
[17]Armistead Maupin on San Francisco Novels
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/armistead-maupin-on-san-francisco-novels
The author of the wonderful _Tales of the City_ series tells us about San
Francisco’s spirit of place, and the books which best capture the city’s
sense of possibility and noirish feel [18]Read on
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/armistead-maupin-on-san-francisco-novels
Featured Topic
[19]Steve Jobs's Legacy
Links:
19. http://thebrowser.com/reports/steve-jobss-legacy
The great man has gone. Here's what we should remember him for and what his
absence will mean for Apple [20]Read on
Links:
20. http://thebrowser.com/reports/steve-jobss-legacy
Reader Recommendations
@[21]prospect_uk John Gray on Steven Pinker: we're not getting less
violent—we've just exported our conflicts
[22]t.co/TJ69IuOU #[23]browsings #[24]longreads
[25]More like this
Links:
21. http://twitter.com/prospect_uk
22. http://t.co/TJ69IuOU
23. http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=#browsings
24. http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=#longreads
25. http://thebrowser.com/browsings
Book of the Day
[26]Book of the Day
Links:
26. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/auschwitz-album-by-peter-hellman
[27]The Auschwitz Album by Peter Hellman
Links:
27. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/auschwitz-album-by-peter-hellman
[28]Errol Morris says: “ I feel the pull of The Auschwitz Album very
powerfully. We're looking at something that is indecent, it's cruel beyond
imagination and yet it's real” [29]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
28. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/errol-morris-on-photography-and-reality
29. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[30]The Innovator's Cookbook
Links:
30. http://thebrowser.com/videos/innovators-cookbook
Promotional short for Steven Johnson's new book [31]More videos
Links:
31. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[32]Steve Jobs, on death
Links:
32. http://news.stanford.edu/news/2005/june15/jobs-061505.html
"Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's
change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new"
[33]More quotes
Links:
33. http://thebrowser.com/quotations