Newsletter 470

24 Oct 2011 • 3 min read

[1]The Browser
Links:
1. http://thebrowser.com

[5]How Russian Tycoon Yuri Milner Bought His Way Into Silicon Valley
Links:
5. http://b.rw/qwnDtN

Michael Wolff | Wired | 21 October 2011

Profile of world's most successful investor in social media. Started off
backing a macaroni factory in Moscow. Then moved on to Twitter, Facebook and
Spotify. He's "sought after, feared, and derided in more or less equal
measure" [6]Comments
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/how-russian-tycoon-yuri-milner-bought-his-way-silicon-valley

[7]Evil World Of Equatorial Guinea
Links:
7. http://b.rw/nWkc1g

Ian Birrell | Observer | 23 October 2011

Journalist joins PR junket to African sinkhole. Most locals make less than
$1 a day, but agriculture minister shops for £234m yacht. Even so, President
Obiang an improvement on his predecessor (and uncle), who collected skulls
[8]Comments
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/evil-world-equatorial-guinea

[9]Tintin And The War
Links:
9. http://b.rw/q5z58z

Simon Kuper | FT | 21 October 2011

Terrific evaluation of life and works of Hergé. Tries to answer perennial
question of whether he should be considered a Nazi collaborator. Packed with
interesting detail and an intriguing comparison with PG Wodehouse
[10]Comments
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/tintin-and-war

[11]The Goddess Goes Home
Links:
11. http://b.rw/plQCoN

Ralph Frammolino | Smithsonian | 19 October 2011

Investigation of changing attitudes, law and law enforcement in murky world
of antiquities dealing. Told through the story of statue of Aphrodite, once
prized possession of world's richest art institution, now back in Italy
[12]Comments
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/goddess-goes-home

[13]Kidnapped At Birth
Links:
13. http://b.rw/ruAjfa

Robert Kolker | New York | 23 October 2011

Story of Netty, 23-year-old American woman who found out by accident that
she wasn't who she thought she was. In fact, no child in American history
had been missing longer before being reunited with her parents [14]Comments
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/articles/kidnapped-birth

[15]Otherness
Links:
15. http://b.rw/n3gwfz

DLM | McSweeney's | 20 October 2011

Politically correct church hosts "harvest party". There's a black Jesus but
how welcoming and inclusive is it? The congregation is uniformly white and
rich. Until DLM walks in with three young Somali girls [16]Comments
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/articles/otherness

FiveBooks Interview

[17]Juliet Davenport on Renewable Energy
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/juliet-davenport-on-renewable-energy

The chief executive of Good Energy says we need to think big if we want to
cut our use of high-carbon energy. She tells us about the intersection
between business, politics and doing the right thing [18]Read on
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/juliet-davenport-on-renewable-energy

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