Newsletter 530
[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]Best Of 2011: Personal Best
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5. http://b.rw/rdC9XS
Atul Gawande | New Yorker | 26 September 2011
You'd be surprised if a successful singer or sportsman had no coach. Why not
so for other professionals? Surgeon investigates: "I can’t say that every
surgeon needs a coach to do his or her best work, but I’ve discovered that I
do" [6]Comments
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/personal-best
[7]Best Of 2011: Cracking The Scratch Lottery Code
Links:
7. http://b.rw/dIMaiU
Jonah Lehrer | Wired | 31 January 2011
Extraordinary account of how MIT statistician cracked the code behind
lottery scratch tickets. Achieved 90% win rate. "The visible numbers turned
out to reveal essential information about the digits hidden under the latex
coating" [8]Comments
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/cracking-scratch-lottery-code
[9]Best Of 2011: The Arab Counterrevolution
Links:
9. http://b.rw/oQsK0n
Hussein Agha & Robert Malley | NYRB | 7 September 2011
Outstanding analysis of Arab uprisings, looking ahead to what may follow.
"Revolutions devour their children. The spoils go to the resolute, the
patient, who know what they are pursuing and how to achieve it" [10]Comments
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/arab-counterrevolution
[11]Best Of 2011: Obituary, Colonel Albert Bachmann
Links:
11. http://b.rw/mQcqit
Anonymous | Telegraph | 4 May 2011
"Mustachioed, pipe-smoking and blessed with an ability to wreak havoc within
his own organisation, Bachmann’s resemblance to Inspector Clouseau was
striking. He reduced the Swiss intelligence agency to a state bordering on
chaos" [12]Comments
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/obituary-colonel-albert-bachmann
[13]Best Of 2011: Nato Must Help Us!
Links:
13. http://b.rw/qkHFUP
Wolfgang Bauer | Zeit | 31 August 2011
Extraordinary report by German journalist of secret travels in Syria and
meetings with protest leaders. Even hospitals aren't safe for dissidents:
“You come in with a bullet in your leg. And you come out with a bullet in
your head" [14]Comments
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/articles/nato-must-help-us
[15]Best Of 2011: Tour De Gall
Links:
15. http://b.rw/eUD5rf
A.A. Gill | Vanity Fair | 7 March 2011
Gloriously hostile review of Paris restaurant, L'Ami Louis. On veal kidneys:
"The heat had welded them together into a gray, suppurating renal brick. It
could be the result of an accident involving rat babies in a nuclear
reactor" [16]Comments
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/articles/tour-de-gall
FiveBooks Interview
[17]Best of FiveBooks on Children’s books for Christmas
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/children-best-fivebooks
In the first of seven compilation interviews, we feature five children’s
books recommended by a range of experts – including Santa himself [18]Read
on
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/children-best-fivebooks
Featured Special Report
[19]Extreme Food
Links:
19. http://thebrowser.com/reports/extreme-food
From foraging in the wild to foul restaurant dining, here is our toothsome
selection of writing on the world of extreme food [20]Read on
Links:
20. http://thebrowser.com/reports/extreme-food
Reader Recommendations
[21]@polit2k RT @[22]clusterstock: UBS's George Magnus: Europe Has Been
Mis-Diagnosed, And The Crisis Will Come Roaring Back [23]t.co/Wp0PaXPB
#[24]browsings [25]More like this
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22. http://twitter.com/clusterstock
23. http://t.co/Wp0PaXPB
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25. http://thebrowser.com/browsings
Book of the Day
[26]Book of the Day
Links:
26. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/big-con-by-david-w-maurer
[27]The Big Con by David W Maurer
Links:
27. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/big-con-by-david-w-maurer
[28]Mike Dash says: “Maurer found out the story of “the big cons”. This is
when you stay with somebody for weeks or months and take off with their
entire life savings” [29]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
28. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/mike-dash-on-hidden-history
29. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[30]American Story
Links:
30. http://thebrowser.com/videos/american-story
I know, you've had enough Rick Perry for one lifetime. So this is
bait-and-switch [31]More videos
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31. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[32]Andrew Brown, on marriage
Links:
32. http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/andrewbrown/2011/dec/20/lib-dem-rationalists
"Monogamy is probably the earliest and most successful human experiment in
taming the power of markets and harnessing them to social use"
[33]More quotes
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33. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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