Newsletter 466
[1]The Browser
Links:
1. http://thebrowser.com
[5]Circle Of Fire
Links:
5. http://b.rw/nC31va
Andrew Solomon | New Yorker | 8 May 2006
Go back five years to this New Yorker portrait of a country in Gaddafi's
awful grip. “He has to go. This colonel has eaten the best years of my life,
poisoned my soul and my existence, murdered the people I loved. I hate him"
[6]Comments
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/circle-fire
[7]The Architect Has No Clothes
Links:
7. http://b.rw/r9FBJD
Michael Mehaffy & Nikos Salingaros | Guernica | 19 October 2011
Why do architects so often build monstrous things and destroy beautiful
ones? They view the world differently. They're trained to prefer industrial
forms and surfaces over natural ones. They see buildings, not landscapes
[8]Comments
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/architect-has-no-clothes
[9]'Information Is Cheap, Meaning Is Expensive'
Links:
9. http://b.rw/pdAlXm
George Dyson | European | 17 October 2011
Historian of science tackles big questions about ethics, us, and the advance
of computing power. "On a fundamental level, we have to ask ourselves: Do we
need human intelligence? And what happens if we fail to exercise it?"
[10]Comments
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/information-cheap-meaning-expensive
[11]Leadership Secrets Of Bismarck
Links:
11. http://b.rw/oHU4r4
Michael Bernhard | Foreign Affairs | 16 October 2011
On Bismarck as pioneer of "managed democracy", or "competitive
authoritarianism". Practised now in Russia, Venezuela, China. Some
competition allowed between social groups. But a deep state holds real power
[12]Comments
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/leadership-secrets-bismarck
[13]How Friends Ruin Memory: The Social Conformity Effect
Links:
13. http://b.rw/p8ce9k
Jonah Lehrer | Frontal Cortex | 18 October 2011
We all know stories get embellished. Now we know a bit more about how and
why it happens. New research shows that the opinion of other people can
alter our personal memories, even over a relatively short period of time
[14]Comments
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/articles/how-friends-ruin-memory-social-conformity-effect
[15]Who Killed Che?
Links:
15. http://b.rw/nFxdGY
Michael Ratner & Michael Steven Smith | Guernica | 17 October 2011
New book sheds light on complex CIA plot. Presidential adviser Walt Rostow
wrote: It marks the passing of another of the aggressive, romantic
revolutionaries and shows the soundness of our "preventive medicine"
assistance to Bolivia [16]Comments
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/articles/who-killed-che
FiveBooks Interview
[17]Norman Stone on Turkish History
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/norman-stone-on-turkish-history
Turkey is rediscovering its Ottoman past, says the British professor living
in Ankara. He tells us where to find compelling insights into Turkish
history, and says he’d rather have medical treatment in Turkey than England
[18]Read on
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/norman-stone-on-turkish-history
Featured Topic
[19]Revolution In Libya
Links:
19. http://thebrowser.com/reports/revolution-libya
With Libya's transitional authorities saying Colonel Gaddafi has been
captured, the uprising may be almost complete. Read our selection of
articles about the ousted Libyan leader's brutal 42-year rule and the revolt
that's raised hopes of a better future [20]Read on
Links:
20. http://thebrowser.com/reports/revolution-libya
Reader Recommendations
@[21]ahmadsaffee RT @[22]CFR_org: This #[23]CFR Backgrounder profiles
#[24]AlQaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (#[25]AQAP) and the U.S policy
response [26]t.co/QbGL8rRU #[27]browsings #[28]Yemen [29]More like this
Links:
21. http://twitter.com/ahmadsaffee
22. http://twitter.com/CFR_org
23. http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=#CFR
24. http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=#AlQaeda
25. http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=#AQAP
26. http://t.co/QbGL8rRU
27. http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=#browsings
28. http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=#Yemen
29. http://thebrowser.com/browsings
Book of the Day
[30]Book of the Day
Links:
30. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/wuthering-heights-by-emily-brontë
[31]Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
Links:
31. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/wuthering-heights-by-emily-brontë
[32]John Sutherland says: “Brontë had this idea of a Samson figure who has
to be mutilated. What is interesting about Heathcliff, in Wuthering Heights,
is that he remains this superman”[33]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
32. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/john-sutherland-on-victorian-fiction
33. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[34]"Lord Monckton"
Links:
34. http://thebrowser.com/videos/lord-monckton
Climate-change skeptic unmasked as a deep-cover comic alter-ego of Sasha
Baron-Cohen [35]More videos
Links:
35. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[36]Edward Docx, on writing
Links:
36. http://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/2011/10/among-the-russians
“Writers are people who find writing more difficult than other people"
[37]More quotes
Links:
37. http://thebrowser.com/quotations