Newsletter 596
[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]Global Warming Skeptics Are Wrong
Links:
5. http://b.rw/xcgupT
William Nordhaus | NYRB | 27 February 2012
Yale economist rebuts sceptics' arguments, point by point. The earth is
getting warmer. Due to carbon dioxide pollution. Humans are
responsible. The science is legitimate. It's a bad situation. It's
worth taking action [6]Comments
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/global-warming-skeptics-are-wrong
[7]Are Smartphones Changing What It Means To Be Human?
Links:
7. http://b.rw/xCMzEv
Janelle Nanos | Boston Magazine | 28 February 2012
Wonderful. Writer forms intimate bond with smartphone, then catches
herself treating it like a human and trying to hide facts from it.
"Where are we headed? I wanted to know before things got any weirder
between my phone and me" [8]Comments
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/are-smartphones-changing-what-it-means-be-human
[9]My Drone War
Links:
9. http://b.rw/xRjvSX
Pir Zubair Shah | Foreign Policy | 27 February 2012
What it's like when America's secret war, conducted by remote control,
comes to your neighbourhood. "Then I heard the buzzing, far above our
heads – like a bee, but heavier and unceasing, drifting in and out"
[10]Comments
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/my-drone-war
[11]Luv And War At 30,000 Feet
Links:
11. http://b.rw/xLOzHw
SC Gwynne | Texas Monthly | 27 February 2012
Since 1989, every major US airline has gone bankrupt—except one.
Southwest. Original low-cost airline, with famously upbeat staff and
(mostly) satisfied customers. Reporter boards the "Love Bird" to find
out how they did it [12]Comments
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/luv-and-war-30000-feet
[13]Colonialism, Africa And HIV
Links:
13. http://b.rw/wU3ybM
Craig Timberg & Daniel Halperin | Washington Post | 27 February 2012
History and geography of the HIV/Aids epidemic. Virus passed from
monkey to human in southeastern Cameroon around 1900, just in time to
be brought to Kinshasa, where it could thrive, along new geography of
colonial trade routes [14]Comments
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/articles/colonialism-africa-and-hiv
[15]A Night in Arzamas
Links:
15. http://b.rw/zALPKI
Jordan Smith | American Interest | 23 February 2012
On the genius of Tolstoy's novella The Death of Ivan Ilych. "Rather
than rest content with its narrative brilliance, medical journal
writers and Pulitzer Prize-winning authors turn to its pages for
applied wisdom about dying" [16]Comments
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/articles/night-arzamas
FiveBooks Interview
[17]Nicholas Carr on Impact of the Information Age
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/nicholas-carr-on-impact-information-age
Is the Internet dividing our attention? Are we so buried in technology
that we ignore one another? The technology writer discusses the history
and implications of the information age, from the mechanical clock to
the iPhone [18]Read on
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/nicholas-carr-on-impact-information-age
Featured Special Report
[19]Epic Adventures
Links:
19. http://thebrowser.com/reports/epic-adventures
Extreme tourism, unwise adventure and plain bad luck. Enjoy it all from
the comfort of your armchair [20]Read on
Links:
20. http://thebrowser.com/reports/epic-adventures
Reader Recommendations
@[21]nuzav The Arab world's first ladies of
oppression [22]t.co/dplN63Kr via @[23]guardian #[24]Browsings
Links:
21. http://twitter.com/nuzav
22. http://t.co/dplN63Kr
23. http://twitter.com/guardian
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
Links:
26. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/moral-man-and-immoral-society-by-reinhold-niebuhr
[27]Moral Man and Immoral Society by Reinhold Niebuhr
Links:
27. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/moral-man-and-immoral-society-by-reinhold-niebuhr
[28]Richard Harries says: “He is one of the few theologians who has
really grappled with the issue of power. A lot of his book is about how
you control power in a brutal world” [29]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
28. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/richard-harries-on-christianity
29. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[30]A Drive Across Mongolia
Links:
30. http://thebrowser.com/videos/drive-across-mongolia
Eleven days of travel in four minutes of film. Yaks included [31]More
videos
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31. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[32]Rosemary Hill, on London's Shard skyscraper
Links:
32. http://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2011/06/01/rosemary-hill/great-glass-millefeuille
It will apparently be ‘dynamic’ and ‘vibrant’, neither of which is a
desirable quality in a tall building
[33]More quotes
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33. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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