Newsletter 613
[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]Afghanistan: A Gathering Menace
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5. http://b.rw/FQq9Kc
Neil Shea | American Scholar | 12 March 2012
With US forces. "Many times I have watched soldiers or Marines, driven
by boredom or fear, behave selfishly and meanly, even illegally, in
minor ways. [Now] I felt I was watching some of the men unravel toward
serious crimes" [6]Comments
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/afghanistan-gathering-menace
[7]The Paul Clement Court
Links:
7. http://b.rw/FRlGUp
Jason Zengerle | New York | 18 March 2012
Legal case seeking overturn of Obamacare comes before Supreme Court
next week. It's a defining moment. The man leading the case for the
plaintiffs is Paul Clement, former solicitor general in Bush
administration, and a coming man [8]Comments
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/paul-clement-court
[9]Your Brain On Fiction
Links:
9. http://b.rw/yCWpmL
Annie Murphy Paul | NYT | 17 March 2012
Investigating what neuroscience has to say about people who read
novels. "Reading great literature, it has long been averred, enlarges
and improves us as human beings. Brain science shows this claim is
truer than we imagined" [10]Comments
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/your-brain-fiction
[11]Logically Speaking
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11. http://b.rw/FPKNWS
Richard Marshall | 3:AM Magazine | 17 March 2012
Philosopher Graham Priest discusses paraconsistent logic, paradoxes,
dialetheism. "Contrary to orthodoxy in Western philosophy, some claims
are true and false, that is, they have a true negation. Nor is this
irrational." Here's why [12]Comments
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/logically-speaking
[13]Broken English
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13. http://b.rw/yCPYAs
Leo Benedictus | Prospect | 22 February 2012
"Dog In The Night-Time"; "Never Let Me Go"; "Black Swan Green". What do
they, and other recent novels, have in common? A narrator who leaves us
guessing as to the full story. Is this "hindered narrator" the voice of
our times? [14]Comments
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14. http://thebrowser.com/articles/broken-english
[15]Listening To Xanax
Links:
15. http://b.rw/xALs8m
Lisa Miller | New York | 18 March 2012
"God's gift", chill pills, benzos. Fast-acting anti-anxiety drugs for
stressed workers. This is the era of Xanax, Ativan and Klonopin. A lot
of Americans are taking them, casually. And with little thought of the
consequences [16]Comments
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/articles/listening-xanax
FiveBooks Interview
[17]Tim Weiner on the US Intelligence Services
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/tim-weiner-on-us-intelligence-services
The job of the intelligence services is to understand others and help
leaders act more wisely, says the author of a new history of the FBI.
There’s also, he says, a balance to be struck between liberty and
security [18]Read on
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/tim-weiner-on-us-intelligence-services
Featured Special Report
[19]Human Modification
Links:
19. http://thebrowser.com/reports/human-modification
Scientists are experimenting with different ways to enhance humans.
What's possible? And what may be possible in the future? Does messing
with Mother Nature raise ethical questions? [20]Read on
Links:
20. http://thebrowser.com/reports/human-modification
Reader Recommendations
@[21]polit2k Drug-resistant "white plague" lurks among rich and poor |
Kate Kelland | Reuters [22]t.co/CWiq1scJ [23]#browsings [24]More like
this
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21. http://twitter.com/polit2k
22. http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/03/19/us-tuberculosis-idUSBRE82I0D820120319
23. https://twitter.com/search?q=#browsings
24. http://thebrowser.com/browsings
Book of the Day
[25]Book of the Day
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25. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/core-memory-by-john-alderman-author-and-mark-richards-photographer
[26]Core Memory by John Alderman (author) and Mark Richards (photographer)
Links:
26. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/core-memory-by-john-alderman-author-and-mark-richards-photographer
[27]George Dyson says: “An art book of absolutely stunning, high
resolution photographs of computers in the Computer History Museum. The
photos are utterly gorgeous” [28]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
27. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/george-dyson-on-origins-computing
28. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[29]Rod Liddle On CCTV
Links:
29. http://thebrowser.com/videos/rod-liddle-cctv
Britain. Where they can film you. But you can't film them. Sorry about
that [30]More videos
Links:
30. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[31]Tony Blair, on governing
Links:
31. http://twitter.com/clarkaw/status/181674833908736002
"You begin at your most popular and least capable, and end at your
least popular and most capable"
[32]More quotes
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32. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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