Newsletter 619
[1]All of our Best of the Moment article recommendations, plus
FiveBooks interviews and other selected content from thebrower.com
Links:
1. http://thebrowser.com
[5]How I Survived A Plane Crash
Links:
5. http://b.rw/GNHmEW
Juliane Koepcke | BBC | 24 March 2012
Juliane Koepcke was flying over Peru when lightning struck her plane.
It broke apart in mid-air and she was catapulted into the outside,
plummeting two miles down, still strapped into her seat. She awoke in
the rainforest below [6]Comments
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/how-i-survived-plane-crash
[7]A True Bionic Limb Remains Far Out Of Reach
Links:
7. http://b.rw/GBJAFs
Michael Chorost | Wired | 20 March 2012
Inside the race to create the perfect prosthetic limb. “It’s not that
we’re not going to be able to do it, but it’s higher-hanging fruit than
people think." Our current understanding of biology simply isn't
comprehensive enough [8]Comments
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/true-bionic-limb-remains-far-out-reach
[9]Native Tongues
Links:
9. http://b.rw/GFPuGy
Simon Winchester | Lapham's Quarterly | 22 March 2012
Fascinating story of the Dictionary of American Regional English. In
1965 volunteers were sent out to thousands of towns, villages and
hamlets across the US to record local dialects. Almost 50 years later
the book is complete [10]Comments
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/native-tongues
[11]The Song Machine
Links:
11. http://b.rw/GUse7n
John Seabrook | New Yorker | 22 March 2012
How a pop song gets written. Production team comes up with chord
changes, instrumentation, beat. "Top line" composer brought in to add a
vocal track with melody, catchy hooks. Then a demo goes out to the
intended artist [12]Comments
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/song-machine
[13]Can Hydras Eat Unknown-Unknowns for Lunch?
Links:
13. http://b.rw/GUTrqG
Venkatesh Rao | Ribbonfarm | 22 March 2012
Rumination on how to deal in principle with black swans, unknown
unknowns. You can deny they exist. Or you can despair. Or you can
design systems that thrive on threats—like hydras, which grow two heads
when one is cut off [14]Comments
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/articles/can-hydras-eat-unknown-unknowns-lunch
[15]Why Women Still Can't Enjoy Sex
Links:
15. http://b.rw/GGhqdL
Clementine Ford | Daily Life | 22 March 2012
"Discomfort around women and sex permeates our culture, and the act
itself has become a darkly comic battleground." Reflecting on
Limbaugh's attack on Sandra Fluke prompts wider discussion of society's
attitude to female sexuality [16]Comments
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/articles/why-women-still-cant-enjoy-sex
FiveBooks Interview
[17]Robert Reich on Saving Capitalism and Democracy
Links:
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
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/robert-reich-on-saving-capitalism-and-democracy
Featured Special Report
[19]Epic Adventures
Links:
19. http://thebrowser.com/reports/epic-adventures
Extreme tourism, unwise adventure and plain bad luck. Enjoy it all from
the comfort of your armchair [20]Read on
Links:
20. http://thebrowser.com/reports/epic-adventures
Reader Recommendations
@nuzav The Bank Run, Updated: [21]t.co/Jq2nUuzO [22]#browsings [23]More
like this
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21. http://t.co/Jq2nUuzO
22. https://twitter.com/search?q=#browsings
23. http://thebrowser.com/browsings
Book of the Day
[24]Book of the Day
Links:
24. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/washing-spears-by-donald-r-morris
[25]The Washing of the Spears by Donald R Morris
Links:
25. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/washing-spears-by-donald-r-morris
[26]John Carlin says: “It’s about the rise and fall of the Zulu nation
and has something of the rattling good yarn about it, while being
extremely meticulously researched” [27]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
26. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/john-carlin-on-understanding-mandela-and-south-africa
27. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[28]Drawing Apparatus
Links:
28. http://thebrowser.com/videos/drawing-apparatus
As Jason Kottke says: It's a good thing this video isn't longer, or
we'd be watching it all day [29]More videos
Links:
29. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[30]Gail Collins, on women voters
Links:
30. http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/22/the-etch-a-sketch-doctrine
"My biggest rule on women voters is that most of them won’t, under
any circumstances, support a male candidate who yells a lot"
[31]More quotes
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31. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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