Newsletter 609
[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]Disarming Viktor Bout
Links:
5. http://b.rw/yE1Ot9
Nicholas Schmidle | New Yorker | 12 March 2012
Gregarious, smooth-talking polyglot. Ran legitimate air freight
company, ferrying food and peacekeepers into world's trouble spots.
Expanded into arms. Supplied both sides in Angolan civil war. Not
cruel; just utterly amoral [6]Comments
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/disarming-viktor-bout
[7]Foxwoods Is Fighting For Its Life
Links:
7. http://b.rw/y9uOXj
Michael Sokolove | NYT | 14 March 2012
Foxwoods Casino covers an area of 6.7 million square feet. It has a
staggering 6,300 slot machines, and 10,000 employees. When it launched,
it was a goldmine for the Pequot Tribe. But now it's crumbling under
$2.3bn of debt [8]Comments
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/foxwoods-fighting-its-life
[9]It Is Israel's Fears We Must Tame
Links:
9. http://b.rw/xYWqj7
David Grossman | Guardian | 12 March 2012
There may well be a disaster in the future if Iran gets a nuclear bomb.
But there will certainly be a disaster immediately if Israel attacks
Iran. Israel is more directly endangered by its own fears than by
Iran's ambitions [10]Comments
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/it-israels-fears-we-must-tame
[11]Why Finish Books?
Links:
11. http://b.rw/xuQQ9v
Tim Parks | NYRB | 13 March 2012
Good subject for learned rumination. Obviously you don't finish a bad
book. But what about a good one, when you feel you've just had enough
of it? Does that still count as having read it? Can you decently
recommend it to others? [12]Comments
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/why-finish-books
[13]Taking To The Streets
Links:
13. http://b.rw/xssl1x
John Markakis | London Review Of Books | 14 March 2012
Fabric of Greek democracy is unravelling. Savage cuts imposed by
Europe. Politicians impotent, dismissed, loathed. Bailout or not, the
political system is finished. Country stands on verge of radical social
change [14]Comments
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/articles/taking-streets
[15]Leon Theremin: The Man And The Music Machine
Links:
15. http://b.rw/yDgVJo
Martin Vennard | BBC | 13 March 2012
Ninety years ago a young Russian scientist changed music forever with
one magical invention, The Theremin. A small wooden cabinet with glass
tube oscillators and dual antennae, it was the world's first electric
musical instrument [16]Comments
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/articles/leon-theremin-man-and-music-machine
FiveBooks Interview
[17]George Dyson on the Origins of Computing
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/george-dyson-on-origins-computing
As we approach the centenary of Alan Turing’s birth, science historian
George Dyson looks back at the achievements of wartime code breaking
and the “human computers” who enabled our modern age of iPhones and
laptops [18]Read on
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/george-dyson-on-origins-computing
Featured Special Report
[19]Behavioural Economics
Links:
19. http://thebrowser.com/reports/behavioural-economics
How do cognitive and emotional factors affect our understanding of
economic decisions? The field of behavioural economics attempts to
explain [20]Read on
Links:
20. http://thebrowser.com/reports/behavioural-economics
Reader Recommendations
[21]rszbt MT @[22]moneyscience Conflicts of interest: #[23]mathbabe on
Larry
Summers [24]t.co/TGQw87bs #[25]worldbank#[26]Shleifer #[27]Russia #[28]
Harvard [29]#browsings [30]More like this
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21. http://twitter.com/rszbt
22. http://twitter.com/moneyscience
23. http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=#mathbabe
24. http://mathbabe.org/2012/03/11/why-larry-summers-lost-the-presidency-of-harvard
25. http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=#worldbank
26. http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=#Shleifer
27. http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=#Russia
28. http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=#Harvard
29. https://twitter.com/search?q=#browsings
30. http://thebrowser.com/browsings
Book of the Day
[31]Book of the Day
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31. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/lady-macbeth-mtsensk-by-nikolai-leskov
[32]Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk by Nikolai Leskov
Links:
32. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/lady-macbeth-mtsensk-by-nikolai-leskov
[33]Rosamund Bartlett says: “Leskov uses a local resident to recount
the hair-raising events in this story, and his deadpan, folksy
narration adds to its colour” [34]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
33. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/rosamund-bartlett-on-russian-short-stories
34. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[35]Urban Bike Race
Links:
35. http://thebrowser.com/videos/urban-bike-race
Valparaiso 2012. It's still scary
[36]More videos
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36. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[37]Ezra Klein, on lobbying
Links:
37. http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/03/lobbying-and-the-gift-economy/254352
"The point of lobbyists is not so much to change the votes, as to
change the legislative agenda"
[38]More quotes
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38. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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