Newsletter 628
[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]A Shot In Florida
Links:
5. http://b.rw/HcAjCE
Dan Barry et al | NYT | 1 April 2012
Reconstruction of the night 17-year-old Trayvon Martin died at the
hands of neighbourhood watch coordinator, George Zimmerman. A case that
has polarised America and brought Florida's "stand your ground" law
into sharp focus [6]Comments
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/shot-florida
[7]How Millions Have Been Dying In The Congo
Links:
7. http://b.rw/Hv7JNZ
Neal Ascherson | NYRB | 31 March 2012
If you know terrible things have been happening in Central Africa for
the past couple of decades, not to say the past couple of centuries,
but you can't get the whole story straight in your head, this piece
does it for you [8]Comments
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/how-millions-have-been-dying-congo
[9]Harms Of Post-9/11 Airline Security
Links:
9. http://b.rw/HeaaEc
Bruce Schneier | Schneier On Security | 29 March 2012
Rhetorical assault on Kip Hawley, America's airline safety boss. "He
wants us to trust that a 400-ml bottle of liquid is dangerous, but
transferring it to four 100-ml bottles magically makes it safe"
[10]Comments
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/harms-post-911-airline-security
[11]Israel Should Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb
Links:
11. http://b.rw/HPs1j5
Dmitry Adamsky | Foreign Affairs | 31 March 2012
Even if Iran gets the bomb, Israel has one already. What Israel needs
is a nuclear strategy based not on overwhelming military superiority,
but on mutually assured destruction, and which views Iran as a rational
actor [12]Comments
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/israel-should-stop-worrying-and-love-bomb
[13]Christianity In Crisis
Links:
13. http://b.rw/HHRfU6
Andrew Sullivan | Newsweek | 1 April 2012
Sullivan laments state of Christianity in America. Where secular, for
many, has come to mean atheist and "the ability to be faithful in a
religious space and reasonable in a political one has atrophied before
our eyes" [14]Comments
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/articles/christianity-crisis
[15]Quantum Theory Of Mitt Romney
Links:
15. http://b.rw/HcXtG7
David Javerbaum | NYT | 31 March 2012
"Frustrating as it may be, the rules of quantum campaigning dictate
that no human being can ever simultaneously know both what Mitt
Romney’s current position is and where that position will be at some
future date" [16]Comments
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/articles/quantum-theory-mitt-romney
FiveBooks Interview
[17]Faramerz Dabhoiwala on the 18th Century Sexual Revolution
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/faramerz-dabhoiwala-on-18th-century-sexual-revolution
The roots of our (generally) open attitude to sex lie not in the
sixties but the 1760s, says the historian and author of The Origins of
Sex, who explores this earlier sexual revolution through its literature
[18]Read on
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/faramerz-dabhoiwala-on-18th-century-sexual-revolution
Featured Special Report
[19]Air Travel
Links:
19. http://thebrowser.com/reports/air-travel
Airlines opened to us a world of thrilling possibility. But, for many,
flying is still a terrifying prospect. Crashes, though rare, do happen.
And then there are the security procedures bequeathed to us by 9/11
[20]Read on
Links:
20. http://thebrowser.com/reports/air-travel
Reader Recommendations
@[21]polit2k RT @[22]guardianscience: Why do bankers get to decide who
pays for the mess Europe is in? | Aditya Chakrabortty [23]t.co/VAMy4Dfv
[24]#browsings [25]More like this
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21. http://twitter.com/polit2k
22. http://twitter.com/guardianscience
23. http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/apr/02/bankers-decide-pay-mess-europe?CMP=twt_fd
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/near-east-by-cecil-beaton
[27]Near East by Cecil Beaton
Links:
27. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/near-east-by-cecil-beaton
[28]James Holland says: “There is just so much colour. The characters
really come to life. You can smell the wind and the sand. It is a
really wonderful book” [29]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
28. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/james-holland-on-perspectives-world-war-ii
29. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[30]The Vortex Cannon
Links:
30. http://thebrowser.com/videos/vortex-cannon
Two science students show off the power of smoke and a cardboard box
[31]More videos
Links:
31. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[32]Paul Rudnick, on Jewishness
Links:
32. http://www.newyorker.com/humor/2012/04/09/120409sh_shouts_rudnick
"When Elena Kagan was sworn in as a Supreme Court Justice, did her
mother murmur, 'Maybe she’ll meet someone'?"
[33]More quotes
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33. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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