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