Newsletter 605
[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 Personal Analytics Of My Life
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5. http://b.rw/wBdkqM
Stephen Wolfram | Stephen Wolfram | 8 March 2012
Wolfram uses himself as an experimental subject and crunches his
personal data with the automated analysis algorithms he developed
[6]Comments
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/personal-analytics-my-life-0
[7]The View From Tehran
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7. http://b.rw/yKiOy3
Lexington | Economist | 8 March 2012
Fun take on how Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, may
interpret recent pronouncements by US and Israeli leaders. Not
forgetting contributions by Gingrich and Romney. And do read to the
end: There's a kicker [8]Comments
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/view-tehran
[9]A Quest To Understand How Memory Works
Links:
9. http://b.rw/yOri4Q
Claudia Dreifus | NYT | 5 March 2012
Dreyfus interviews Nobel Prize-winning neuroscientist Eric Kandel about
evacuating Nazi Germany, his work on the biology of memory, and his
opinions on the possibility of enhancing or erasing memories
[10]Comments
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/quest-understand-how-memory-works
[11]Better Living Through Electrochemistry
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11. http://b.rw/zPGc7Z
Sally Adee | Last Word On Nothing | 9 February 2012
Transcranial direct current stimulation is an experimental technique
that could be used to enhance brain function in healthy individuals.
Adee volunteered in a military-funded experiment to find out what
"brain boosting" feels like [12]Comments
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/better-living-through-electrochemistry
[13]People Who Eat People
Links:
13. http://b.rw/zwLsdQ
Steven Shapin | LA Review of Books | 7 March 2012
Cannibalism was once central to rites and myths. It's fallen a long way
since. "The modern cannibal is little more than a mental deviant, and
the eater of human flesh is for us just a bit player in a theater of
perversity" [14]Comments
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/articles/people-who-eat-people
[15]Paris Or Bust: The Great New York-To-Paris Auto Race Of 1908
Links:
15. http://b.rw/wTri1u
Karen Abbott | Smithsonian | 7 March 2012
Via Alaska and Russia. Initial camaraderie among teams turned sour in
Midwest, with accusations of cheating. Eventual winner arrived in Paris
almost six months later, only to be arrested for having no headlights.
A rollicking ride [16]Comments
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/articles/paris-or-bust-great-new-york-paris-auto-race-1908
FiveBooks Interview
[17]Alexandra Harris on Modernism
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/alexandra-harris-on-modernism
Modernism is about form more than content, says the scholar of English
literature. She tells us about the history of the movement, and picks
five works that exemplify or explain it [18]Read on
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/alexandra-harris-on-modernism
Featured Special Report
[19]Hackers
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19. http://thebrowser.com/reports/hackers
Cars, nuclear plants, computers, phones, webcams -- they all succumb to
hackers in the end [20]Read on
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20. http://thebrowser.com/reports/hackers
Reader Recommendations
[21]polit2k Frighteningly Ambitious Startup Ideas [22]t.co/MxuytmLA
#[23]browsings @[24]sysparatem [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/goodbye-working-class-by-roy-greenslade
[27]Goodbye to the Working Class by Roy Greenslade
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27. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/goodbye-working-class-by-roy-greenslade
[28]David Kynaston says: This book is set in the seventies. After
writing it, Roy Greenslade went on to become editor of The Daily
Mirror. [29]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
28. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/david-kynaston-on-social-history-post-war-britain
29. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[30]The Wine is Over
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30. http://thebrowser.com/videos/wine-over
New Zealand. 1987. Paradise. With one thing missing. Beer [31]More
videos
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31. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[32]Paul Ford, on ambition
Links:
32. http://www.paulgraham.com/ambitious.html
"It's a bad idea to have really big ambitions initially, because the
bigger your ambition, the longer it's going to take, and the further
you project into the future, the more likely you'll get it wrong"
[33]More quotes
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33. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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