Newsletter 601
[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]The Siege Of September 13
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5. http://b.rw/zNZ34s
Matthieu Aikins | GQ | 5 March 2012
Gripping inside account of 20-hour siege on American embassy in Kabul,
days after 10th anniversary of 9/11. "The fiction of common interests
that has underpinned US-Pakistani relations is wearing thin"
[6]Comments
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/siege-september-13
[7]DNA Computing
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7. http://b.rw/zkdB7y
Anonymous | Economist | 3 March 2012
“If you can programme events at a molecular level in cells, you can
cure or kill cells which are sick or in trouble and leave the other
ones intact." Neat, but to do this you need a whole new computer. A
liquid one, built with DNA [8]Comments
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/dna-computing
[9]Santorum's Wins, Self-Inflicted Wounds
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9. http://b.rw/wwKrOL
Kristina Cooke & Edith Honan | Reuters | 6 March 2012
In Pennsylvania, Rick Santorum first won over a Democratic district,
then alienated voters. It's beginning to look a familiar story. With
each advance, his support is being partially undermined by his own
controversial remarks [10]Comments
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/santorums-wins-self-inflicted-wounds
[11]Stayin' Alive
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11. http://b.rw/AkBjr2
Stephen Cave | New Humanist | 5 March 2012
Reflections on the quest for immortality. Interesting on “Terror
Management Theory”, concerning how morbid suggestions affect behaviour.
And how all attempts to cheat death boil down to four basic strategies
[12]Comments
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/stayin-alive
[13]How To Fund An American Police State
Links:
13. http://b.rw/x1WY73
Stephan Salisbury | Nation | 5 March 2012
America has spent $635bn since 9/11 militarising police forces in the
name of the war on terror. "Public service and the public imagination
have been weaponised." Far better to have spent the money on jobs and
infrastructure [14]Comments
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14. http://thebrowser.com/articles/how-fund-american-police-state
[15]Whose Yoga Is It, Anyway?
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15. http://b.rw/ACMDop
Bethany McLean | Vanity Fair | 5 March 2012
What happened when the hedge fund billionaire's wife met the yoga
master. No, not an affair, but an attempt to codify his teachings after
his death and turn them into what looks like a commercial enterprise.
Or worse [16]Comments
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/articles/whose-yoga-it-anyway
FiveBooks Interview
[17]David Kynaston on Social History of Post-War Britain
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/david-kynaston-on-social-history-post-war-britain
Until the 1970s, Britain was predominantly a working class society,
says the historian. He tells us about books that explore how this
changed, giving rise to the turbulent Thatcher years [18]Read on
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/david-kynaston-on-social-history-post-war-britain
Featured Special Report
[19]Israel and Iran
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19. http://thebrowser.com/reports/israel-and-iran
Will Israel bomb Iran? What is it telling the US, and what will
Washington do? And where does Iran stand? [20]Read on
Links:
20. http://thebrowser.com/reports/israel-and-iran
Reader Recommendations
@[21]nuzav Our Corrupt Politics: It’s Not All Money by Ezra Klein | The
New York Review of Books: [22]t.co/Lhsp4JjV via @[23]AddThis
[24]#browsings [25]More like this
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22. http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2012/mar/22/our-corrupt-politics-its-not-all-money
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24. https://twitter.com/search?q=#browsings
25. http://thebrowser.com/browsings
Book of the Day
[26]Book of the Day
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26. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/best-and-brightest-by-david-halberstam
[27]The Best and the Brightest by David Halberstam
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27. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/best-and-brightest-by-david-halberstam
[28]Martin Bell says: “Halberstam was the main New York Times
correspondent in Vietnam. Lyndon Johnson lent very heavily on the
editor to get him withdrawn because Halberstam was very truthful about
what he found” [29]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
28. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/martin-bell-on-reportage-and-war
29. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[30]Keep Calm And Carry On
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30. http://thebrowser.com/videos/keep-calm-and-carry
You've got the tea-mug. Here's the story [31]More videos
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31. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[32]John Hodgman, on parenting
Links:
32. http://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/200701/apologia-my-second-child?page=2
The only child, in a family without want, is the apex of Western
civilization
[33]More quotes
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33. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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