Newsletter 618
[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]Emmett Till In Sanford
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5. http://b.rw/GIW5vj
William Finnegan | New Yorker | 23 March 2012
"Can the American gun-rights movement ever go too far, politically? In
Florida, prosecutors and police opposed the Stand Your Ground law, to
no effect. Since the law was passed, the number of 'justifiable
homicides' has tripled" [6]Comments
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6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/emmett-till-sanford
[7]Sometimes Customers Are Pretty Stupid
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7. http://b.rw/GGCfqw
Justin Wolf | HBR | 21 March 2012
Today's customers are sophisticated and demanding. Give them bad stuff,
they'll walk away. Right? Not quite. Get a credit card number, make it
hard to unsubscribe, and you can milk them for months. That's the eFax
business model [8]Comments
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8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/sometimes-customers-are-pretty-stupid
[9]Why Not Frack?
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9. http://b.rw/GRDIst
Bill McKibben | NYRB | 1 March 2012
The financial crisis could have been an opportunity to green advanced
economies but fossil fuel lobbies are threatening the effort to make
the future cleaner and greener. McKibben asks if fracking makes things
better or worse [10]Comments
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10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/why-not-frack
[11]A Shot Across the Bo
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11. http://b.rw/GJj25g
A McLaren | Foreign Policy | 15 March 2012
Pundits have described the defenestration of the Chongqing Party boss
Bo Xilai, in the context of an ongoing power struggle, as the biggest
political event in China for 20 years. This piece is one of the better
ones on his downfall [12]Comments
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12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/shot-across-bo
[13]How One Response To A Reddit Query Became A Big Budget Flick
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13. http://b.rw/GH0GBr
Jason Fagone | Wired | 20 March 2012
"Erwin started typing. He posted his answer in a series of comments.
Within an hour, he was an online celebrity. Within three hours, a film
producer had reached out to him. Within two weeks, he was offered a
deal to write a movie" [14]Comments
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14. http://thebrowser.com/articles/how-one-response-reddit-query-became-big-budget-flick
[15]On Intellectuals And Democracy
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15. http://b.rw/GRIfvb
Tony Judt | NYRB | 12 March 2012
This Tony Judt piece is a reminder that the democracy debate is never
straightforward. He makes the telling point that the biggest danger
democracies face is to become a decadent version of themselves
[16]Comments
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16. http://thebrowser.com/articles/intellectuals-and-democracy
FiveBooks Interview
[17]Robert Reich on Saving Capitalism and Democracy
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17. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/robert-reich-on-saving-capitalism-and-democracy
Three decades of growing inequality and collapsing public morality have
pitched America into crisis, imperilling its democracy. But there are
precedents for a way out, says Robert Reich [18]Read on
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18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/robert-reich-on-saving-capitalism-and-democracy
Featured Special Report
[19]Extreme Food
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19. http://thebrowser.com/reports/extreme-food
From foraging in the wild to foul restaurant dining, here is our
toothsome selection of writing on the world of extreme food [20]Read on
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20. http://thebrowser.com/reports/extreme-food
Reader Recommendations
@[21]polit2k All the Math Taught at University Can Be Outsourced. What
Now? | Dr. Keith Devlin [22]t.co/aD2I4cy4 via
@[23]HuffingtonPost #[24]browsings
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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/magic-christian-by-terry-southern
[27]The Magic Christian by Terry Southern
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27. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/magic-christian-by-terry-southern
[28]Andy Borowitz says: “Guy Grand is the richest man in the world.
The book is a series of pranks in which he sets out to prove that
people will do anything for money”[29]FiveBooks Archive
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28. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/andy-borowitz-on-comic-writing
29. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[30]Einstein and the Special Theory of Relativity
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30. http://thebrowser.com/videos/einstein-and-special-theory-relativity
In less than two minutes. With cartoons
[31]More videos
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31. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[32]Jack Kerouac, on propriety
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32. http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheAtlantic/~3/iZG5pG0vQGg/story01.htm
"Try never get drunk outside yr own house"
[33]More quotes
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33. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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