Newsletter 627
[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 God Of Gamblers
Links:
5. http://b.rw/H6WuMV
Evan Osnos | New Yorker | 2 April 2012
"By 2006 Macau's casino revenues had surpassed those of Las Vegas,
until then the world's largest gambling town. Today, the quantity of
money passing through Macau exceeds that of Las Vegas five times over."
Here's how it happened [6]Comments
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/god-gamblers
[7]Revenge Of Wen Jiabao
Links:
7. http://b.rw/HsAKen
John Garnaut | Foreign Policy | 29 March 2012
Another big take on the ructions at the top of China's Politburo.
Portrays clash between Wen and Bo Xilai as culmination of intra-Party
struggle between reformists and leftists going back 30 years, to Deng
Xiaoping's time [8]Comments
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/revenga-wen-jaibao
[9]Deflecting Asteroids
Links:
9. http://b.rw/HB4rZo
Gregory Matlof | IEEE Spectrum | 29 March 2012
Significant asteroid collisions may be extremely rare but could be
devestating to life. So best have a plan to protect the planet. Enter
physics professor Gregory Matlof, whose research focuses on celestial
engineering [10]Comments
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/deflecting-asteroids
[11]Who Killed Alexander The Great?
Links:
11. http://b.rw/HvYRK4
James Romm | History Today | 27 March 2012
"Like the death of Stalin, to which it is sometimes compared, the death
of Alexander poses a mystery that is perhaps insoluble but nonetheless
irresistible." Murdered by his generals? Died of natural causes? Or
poisoned by his wife? [12]Comments
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/who-killed-alexander-great
[13]Letter From Guatemala
Links:
13. http://b.rw/H2g2SG
Aaron Shulman | LA Review Of Books | 29 March 2012
5,000 women murdered since 2000. Only 2% of cases get to court. Abuse
of women probably worst in Central America, which is saying something.
A 36-year civil war ended in 1996, culture of violence still part of
everyday life. [14]Comments
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/articles/letter-guatelama
[15]Bodybuilding And Nation-Building
Links:
15. http://b.rw/HFP0iT
Adam Curtis | BBC | 27 March 2012
A typically weird and wonderful Curtis blogpost, lavishly illustrated
with video and all but uncategorisable. Here is your chance to discover
the links between yoga, Barbara Cartland, and the modern history of
Iraq [16]Comments
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/articles/bodybuilding-and-nation-building
FiveBooks Interview
[17]James Holland on Perspectives of World War II
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/james-holland-on-perspectives-world-war-ii
The author of a new book on the Dam Buster squadron tells us about
works of fiction or memoir that show the horror of the Second World War
in a human light and with fresh immediacy [18]Read on
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/james-holland-on-perspectives-world-war-ii
Featured Special Report
[19]Israel and Iran
Links:
19. http://thebrowser.com/reports/israel-and-iran
Will Israel bomb Iran? What is it telling the US, and what will
Washington do? And where does Iran stand? [20]Read on
Links:
20. http://thebrowser.com/reports/israel-and-iran
Reader Recommendations
@[21]nuzav China’s Death-Row Reality Show by Jonathan Mirsky | NYRblog
| The New York Review of Books:[22]t.co/wnCu2x8O via @[23]AddThis
[24]#browsings [25]More like this
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24. https://twitter.com/search?q=#browsings
25. http://thebrowser.com/browsings
Book of the Day
[26]Book of the Day
Links:
26. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/hello-america-by-jg-ballard
[27]Hello America by JG Ballard
Links:
27. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/hello-america-by-jg-ballard
[28]John Gray says: “This is a vision of a century or so from now. The
novel is a tremendous gallery of images, beginning with a ship pulling
into an empty New York” [29]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
28. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/john-gray-on-critiques-utopia-and-apocalypse
29. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[30]Marco Tempest
Links:
30. http://thebrowser.com/videos/marco-tempest
TED talk: Magic as augmented reality, and vice-versa
[31]More videos
Links:
31. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[32]Jean Renoir, on film-making
Links:
32. http://kaleidoscope-press.com/web-specials/the-difficulty-of-having-once-loved-woody-allen-words-by-christopher-silva
"A director only makes one movie in his life. Then he breaks into
pieces and makes it again"
[33]More quotes
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33. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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