Newsletter 469
[1]The Browser
Links:
1. http://thebrowser.com
[5]Colonel Gaddafi: The Last Of The Buffoon Dictators?
Links:
5. http://b.rw/n9kx0n
Kevin Connolly | BBC | 22 October 2011
"He was an old-fashioned, theatrical sort of tyrant, whose lineage you can
trace from the bombastic ravings of Mussolini, through the kilted debauchery
of Idi Amin, to the platform-heeled kleptocracy of Omar Bongo of Gabon"
[6]Comments
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/colonel-gaddafi-last-buffoon-dictators
[7]Shanghai Gets Supersized
Links:
7. http://b.rw/orZZwY
David Devoss | Smithsonian | 20 October 2011
Brief history of Chinese boom city. Opium trade key to 19th century growth.
Now home to 23 million people and more than 200 skyscrapers. "We’re from
Shanghai. We care only about money. You want to talk politics, go to
Beijing" [8]Comments
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/shanghai-gets-supersized
[9]Our 'Broken System' Of Criminal Justice
Links:
9. http://b.rw/qsbwGW
John Paul Stevens | NYRB | 21 October 2011
You cannot accuse the former Supreme Court judge of being an easy read, but
plenty to ponder in this review-essay focusing on the history of
discrimination against African-Americans. They are under-policed, and
over-punished [10]Comments
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/our-broken-system-criminal-justice
[11]Africa's Albertine Rift
Links:
11. http://b.rw/qArZhv
Robert Draper | National Geographic | 19 October 2011
Despatch from Rift Valley where a desperate, violent battle for land and
resources is playing out. "Overcrowding has spawned an anxiety so primal and
omnipresent that one hears the same plea over and over again: We want land!"
[12]Comments
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/africas-albertine-rift
[13]Post-Imperial Blues: A Letter From Vienna
Links:
13. http://b.rw/nNQsJt
Franz Cede | American Interest | 21 October 2011
Former Austrian ambassador to Moscow compares post-Habsburg Austria with
post-Soviet Russia. Very different countries, many points of comparison.
"The sudden loss of empire has a way of taking the wind out of politics in
general" [14]Comments
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/articles/post-imperial-blues-letter-vienna
[15]How The Nomad Found Home
Links:
15. http://b.rw/q3cKrd
Michael McRae | Outside | 21 October 2011
More than a decade ago, biologist Mike Fay walked across Africa, spurring
the creation of national parks and making him a conservation star. So why,
after fighting to protect wild places, is he now questioning the basis of
his work? [16]Comments
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/articles/how-nomad-found-home
FiveBooks Interview
[17]Ruth Gomberg-Muñoz on America’s Undocumented Workers
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/ruth-gomberg-muñoz-on-america’s-undocumented-workers
The anthropologist tells us about books that give voice to low-wage migrant
labourers and explains the mutual dependence of slums and “urban glamour
zones” [18]Read on
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/ruth-gomberg-muñoz-on-america’s-undocumented-workers
Featured Topic
[19]Revolution In Libya
Links:
19. http://thebrowser.com/reports/revolution-libya
With the death of Colonel Gaddafi, the Libyan uprising is almost complete
and the nation-building can begin. 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
_@polit2k_ RT _@creditplumber_: "Do not pronounce a bank profitable until it
is dead." Powerful FT piece by Martin Sandbu
[21]t.co/iT4aFqbR [22]#browsings [23]More like this
Links:
21. http://t.co/iT4aFqbR
22. https://twitter.com/search?q=#browsings
23. http://thebrowser.com/browsings
Book of the Day
[24]Book of the Day
Links:
24. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/first-human-by-ann-gibbons
[25]The First Human by Ann Gibbons
Links:
25. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/first-human-by-ann-gibbons
[26]Tim White says: “This gives the reader the most up-to-date knowledge of
how modern paleoanthropology is done. And a sense of the personalities
involved” [27]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
26. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/tim-white-on-prehistoric-man
27. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[28]Go Beyond The Cover
Links:
28. http://thebrowser.com/videos/go-beyond-cover
The timeline is a bit confusing, and the pace a bit slow, but here's the
basic story: We hide tattoos [29]More videos
Links:
29. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[30]Henry Adams, on politics
Links:
30. http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/reason/Articles/~3/5QFWpls7HQw/the-politics-of-personal-destr
"Politics is the systematic organisation of hatreds"
[31]More quotes
Links:
31. http://thebrowser.com/quotations