Newsletter 454
[1]The Browser
Links:
1. http://thebrowser.com
[5]Steve Jobs
Links:
5. http://b.rw/pIdQ8W
Stephen Fry | Stephen Fry | 6 October 2011
"The charisma, passion, delight in detail, excitement and belief in the
creation of a new future—the sheer magnetic force of the man—made his many
faults a forgivable and almost loveable part of his mystique and greatness"
[6]Comments
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/steve-jobs
[7]Dark Energy FAQ
Links:
7. http://b.rw/nkamMj
Sean Carroll | Cosmic Variance | 4 October 2011
Everything you need to know about dark energy. How do we know it exists?
What might it actually be? What is the "coincidence problem"? All this and
more explained in clear, easy to grasp fashion. Even for the non-scientist
[8]Comments
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/dark-energy-faq
[9]The 4 Trillion Euro Fantasy
Links:
9. http://b.rw/opSdt9
Peter Boone & Simon Johnson | Baseline Scenario | 6 October 2011
Would a fund of such magnitude stabilise the eurozone crisis? Would the
markets be "awed into submission"? This analysis argues not. More is
required. Trouble is European leadership doesn't recognise reality of what's
needed [10]Comments
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/4-trillion-euro-fantasy
[11]The Strange Power Of Qatar
Links:
11. http://b.rw/qfGOpn
Hugh Eakin | NYRB | 5 October 2011
Hereditary monarchy. Yet liberal gadfly of Arab world. Ruling Sheikh Hamad
funds Al-Jazeera. Backs Libyan rebels. Hosts US army HQ. Wants to Westernise
the education system. Diplomats wonder: "Where does he get these ideas?"
[12]Comments
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/strange-power-qatar
[13]An Essay On The State of Economics
Links:
13. http://b.rw/qHMemS
John Kay | John Kay | 4 October 2011
Economic models can be useful tools. But they are abstractions, like
computer games, not reliable accounts of real life. Economists "were playing
Grand Theft Auto while the world around them was falling apart" [14]Comments
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/articles/essay-state-economics
[15]Superheroes Grow Up As Art
Links:
15. http://b.rw/oT0Yzb
Viginia Postrel | Bloomberg | 6 October 2011
Adults have joined kids in enjoying "the artifice and fantasy of the
superhero world and its imaginative pleasures". Now Alex Ross, comic-book
artist, is pushing the genre into the realms of high art, with a show in
Pittsburgh [16]Comments
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/articles/superheroes-grow-art
FiveBooks Interview
[17]Steven Pinker on the Decline of Violence
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/steven-pinker-on-decline-violence
Our TV screens may be full of news about war and crime, but this masks a
fall in historical terms in the number of violent deaths that’s nothing
short of astonishing, says the psychologist. He tells us how and why this
happened [18]Read on
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/steven-pinker-on-decline-violence
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]nuzav Thinking the unthinkable about Steve
Jobs [22]t.co/atpprM87 #[23]Browsings
[24]More like this
Links:
21. http://twitter.com/nuzav
22. http://t.co/atpprM87
23. http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=#Browsings
24. http://thebrowser.com/browsings
Book of the Day
[25]Book of the Day
Links:
25. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/confessions-max-tivoli-by-andrew-sean-greer
[26]The Confessions of Max Tivoli by Andrew Sean Greer
Links:
26. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/confessions-max-tivoli-by-andrew-sean-greer
[27]Armistead Maupin says: “It is a stunningly spare and lyrical novel, that
confronts issues like longing, loss and failure to connect with the people
we pass in life” [28]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
27. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/armistead-maupin-on-san-francisco-novels
28. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[29]Dan Ariely On Empathy And Emotion
Links:
29. http://thebrowser.com/videos/dan-ariely-empathy-and-emotion
Are we less inclined to act in the face of large-scale tragedy than
small-scale suffering?
[30]More videos
Links:
30. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[31]Caleb Crain, on writing
Links:
31. http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2011/10/06/on-not-letting-go
"Writing tries to fix the past—to hold it in place and sometimes in
imagination to improve it"
[32]More quotes
Links:
32. http://thebrowser.com/quotations