Newsletter 592
[1]All of our Best of the Moment article recommendations, plus
FiveBooks interviews and other selected content from thebrower.com
Links:
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[5]Why The Super-Rich Love The UK
Links:
5. http://b.rw/yfF5u0
John Lanchester | Guardian | 24 February 2012
"The UK has a gigantic sign hanging over it saying, 'Rich People! Come
and Live Here! You Won't Have to Pay Any Tax!' It is an extraordinary
policy for any developed nation" [6]Comments
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/why-super-rich-love-uk
[7]Are They Really Religious?
Links:
7. http://b.rw/A7Bm0o
Alaa Al Aswany | Huffington Post | 22 February 2012
Excellent piece in which Egyptian author denounces aggressive,
superficial Islamic piety. Policemen insist on sacred right to grow
beards, yet torture and abuse detainees. Hospital staff abandon
patients in intensive care to pray [8]Comments
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/are-they-really-religious
[9]Was Elvis Presley's Manager A Killer On The Lam?
Links:
9. http://b.rw/zlVqiM
Mike Dash | Smithsonian | 24 February 2012
Colonel Tom Parker wasn't a real colonel. He wasn't called Tom Parker.
And he wasn't American. Small wonder he never left the country. He was
born Andreas van Kuijk, in Holland—where he may have killed the
greengrocer's wife [10]Comments
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/colonel-parker-managed-elvis’-career-was-he-killer-lam
[11]Star-Spangled Canberra
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11. http://b.rw/yKik9e
Nick Bryant | Global Mail | 22 February 2012
Excellent essay on Americanisation of Australian politics. Change has
accelerated recently "especially in regard to the quality and rancour
of public debate". Now ultra-partisan with high, and rising, levels of
public disaffection [12]Comments
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/star-spangled-canberra
[13]Groupthink
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13. http://b.rw/zHNS59
Jonah Lehrer | New Yorker | 30 January 2012
"Decades of research have consistently shown that brainstorming groups
think of far fewer ideas than the same number of people who work alone
and later pool their ideas." Lehrer investigates why, and asks what can
drive creativity [14]Comments
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/articles/groupthink
[15]Inside The Mind Of Anthony Shadid
Links:
15. http://b.rw/w9UWVW
Dave Kindred | GQ | 23 February 2012
Vignettes from reporting life of former NYT Middle East correspondent.
Including the day he was shot by an Israeli sniper. And the most
chilling interview he conducted, with an Iraqi who'd had to kill his
own son [16]Comments
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/articles/inside-mind-anthony-shadid
FiveBooks Interview
[17]Woody Allen on Inspiration
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/woody-allen-on-memory
The film legend discusses books that have resonated with him, from JD
Salinger to Elia Kazan and beyond [18]Read on
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/woody-allen-on-memory
Featured Special Report
[19]Film
Links:
19. http://thebrowser.com/reports/film
What do film directors read? Is screenwriting literature? What are the
best Indian films? Is there fame in film subtitling? All this and more,
answered [20]Read on
Links:
20. http://thebrowser.com/reports/film
Reader Recommendations
@[21]polit2k Michael Hudson | “The EU is proving that it works for
private banks, but not for its citizens” [22]t.co/f7v3YFMn
@[23]trumanfactor #[24]browsings
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21. http://twitter.com/polit2k
22. http://t.co/f7v3YFMn
23. http://twitter.com/trumanfactor
24. http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=#browsings
[25]More like this
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25. http://thebrowser.com/browsings
Book of the Day
[26]Book of the Day
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26. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/andromeda-strain-by-michael-crichton
[27]The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton
Links:
27. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/andromeda-strain-by-michael-crichton
[28]Tess Gerritsen says: “This was the first science thriller I ever
read. I remember thinking it was the first book to make real science so
exciting” [29]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
28. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/tess-gerritsen-on-favourite-thrillers
29. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[30]I Love Michigan
Links:
30. http://thebrowser.com/videos/i-love-michigan
Where the trees are the right height. Nice catch. Romney as pitchman
[31]More videos
Links:
31. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[32]Martin Peretz, on belief
Links:
32. http://www.tnr.com/article/politics/100909/mormons-jews-mormonism-judaism-israel-posthumous-baptism
"Given the strangeness of what one has to believe to be faithful
even to the most mainstream creeds, it’s odd that so many people
think Mormonism especially peculiar"
[33]More quotes
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33. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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