Newsletter 515
[1]All of our Best of the Moment article recommendations, plus FiveBooks
interviews and other selected content from thebrower.com
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[5]Out Of The Box
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5. http://b.rw/tORof9
Devin Powell | Science News | 2 December 2011
Useful backgrounder on cutting edge 3-D media. Forget wearing glasses,
putting up with the inevitable headaches. Researchers have come up with
plenty of new ways to fool the brain. US army already possesses holographic
video display [6]Comments
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6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/out-box
[7]Guantanamo Diary
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7. http://b.rw/uGtEHc
Mohammed el Gorani and Jérôme Tubiana | LRB | 7 December 2011
Shocking, depressing, compelling in equal measure. Life story of Chadian boy
born in Saudi Arabia, arrested in Pakistan, sold to US as al-Qaida
terrorist, imprisoned in Guantanamo, freed seven horrible years later
[8]Comments
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8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/guantanamo-diary
[9]Three At Last
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9. http://b.rw/ttmKIT
Sean Flynn | GQ | 7 December 2011
Three young children killed in Memphis. Three teenagers convicted of murder,
without evidence, save that they listened to heavy-metal music. Jailed for
18 years. Retried and released this year. Case closed. So who did it?
[10]Comments
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10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/three-last
[11]Evolved Self-Management System
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11. http://b.rw/tIpcjy
Nick Humphries | Edge | 4 December 2011
Reflections on evolution, human character, religion, medicine, and the
placebo effect. "Nature itself may provide placebo information, by seeming
to suggest that we're in the presence of a great designer, a creator, God"
[12]Comments
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12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/evolved-self-management-system
[13]You Say You Want A Devolution?
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13. http://b.rw/s1xoE7
Kurt Andersen | Vanity Fair | 6 December 2011
How much has fashion, art, music changed over past 20 years? Little.
Certainly far less than in the previous 20. Why is this? Does the rapid rate
of political, technological, economic change make us yearn for cultural
stability? [14]Comments
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14. http://thebrowser.com/articles/you-say-you-want-devolution
[15]Aunt Midge Reveals $14B Hospice Market
Links:
15. http://b.rw/uPpN3g
Peter Waldman | Bloomberg | 6 December 2011
How to make money in American health care. Run a hospice for dying people.
Pay nursing homes to refer patients. Who aren't actually dying. They live
for years, during which time the hospice bills Medicare through the nose
[16]Comments
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16. http://thebrowser.com/articles/aunt-midge-reveals-14b-hospice-market
FiveBooks Interview
[17]Adam Roberts on Civil Resistance
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17. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/adam-roberts-on-civil-resistance
From Tunisia to Tahrir, Moscow to Manhattan, civil resistance is back. The
British Academy president, and eminent student of people power, tells us how
modern non-violent action began, and where it's most likely to
succeed[18]Read on
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18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/adam-roberts-on-civil-resistance
Featured Special Report
[19]Natural History
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19. http://thebrowser.com/reports/natural-history
Everything you need to know about natural history. Experts from London's
Natural History Museum discuss their top five books on everything - from
bats to plants, dinosaurs to meteorites and more [20]Read on
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20. http://thebrowser.com/reports/natural-history
Reader Recommendations
[21]@polit2k RT @[22]carney: Most important MF Global article of the
day: [23]t.co/fEfFSQrd #[24]browsings [25]More like this
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Book of the Day
[26]Book of the Day
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26. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/con-man-by-ed-mcbain
[27]The Con Man by Ed McBain
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27. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/con-man-by-ed-mcbain
[28]Peter James says: The best crime writers are the ones that give you a
sense of place, and I could smell and feel that district in New York long
before I ever went there[29]FiveBooks Archive
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28. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/peter-james-on-crime-fiction
29. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[30]Television Ads At Christmas
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30. http://thebrowser.com/videos/television-ads-christmas
"_Hathos_: Feelings of pleasure derived from hating someone or something"
— The Urban Dictionary [31]More videos
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31. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[32]Alex Tabarrok, on motivation
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32. http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2011/12/rewarding-altruism-blood-for-money.html
"An incentive is not an objective fact but a subjective interpretation"
[33]More quotes
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33. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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