Newsletter 629
[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]Just One More Game...
Links:
5. http://b.rw/HJzwc8
Sam Anderson | NYT | 4 April 2012
Which of us hasn't said it at some point. But what is the secret of
stupid games? Why are we so susceptible to them? And how did Drop7 take
over Anderson's brain, such that he was playing it in all sorts of
inappropriate situations? [6]Comments
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/just-one-more-game
[7]Five Years After Crisis, No Normal Recovery
Links:
7. http://b.rw/Hb4woo
Carmen Reinhart & Kenneth Rogoff | Bloomberg | 3 April 2012
"Some researchers are beginning to argue that recoveries from financial
crises might not be as different from the aftermath of conventional
recessions as our analysis suggests. Their case is unconvincing."
Here's why [8]Comments
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/five-years-after-crisis-no-normal-recovery
[9]A Death In Yellowstone
Links:
9. http://b.rw/Hcb8DK
Jessica Grose | Slate | 2 April 2012
John Wallace was sitting quietly on a log in Yellowstone national park
when he was attacked by a bear. His body was later found half-eaten.
This is the story of how blame was assigned, and a killer grizzly
caught [10]Comments
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10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/death-yellowstone
[11]Does The US Really Have More Oil Than Saudi Arabia?
Links:
11. http://b.rw/Hpplqb
Robert Rapier | Oil Drum | 4 April 2012
There are differences between oil resources and oil reserves. And there
are differences between oil shale and shale oil. And those differences
are big. Although to listen to some politicians recently, you might not
think so [12]Comments
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/does-us-really-have-more-oil-saudi-arabia
[13]Gray Area
Links:
13. http://b.rw/HOeozp
Debra Monroe | Guernica | 1 April 2012
"I wanted to raise a child and I thought I’d be a good mother. If a
baby was already born who needed a parent, who was I to say the baby
was the wrong color? I understood race would affect our lives, but I
didn't know precisely how" [14]Comments
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/articles/gray-area
[15]Guide To Bourbon
Links:
15. http://b.rw/HCMuph
Michael Dietsch | Serious Eats | 29 March 2012
Everything you could ever want to know about bourbon. What makes a
whisky a bourbon? What is sour mash? Who was Elijah Craig, and how does
he fit into the drink's history? Why are the best distilleries in
Kentucky? All this and more [16]Comments
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/articles/guide-bourbon
FiveBooks Interview
[17]Daniel Mendelsohn on Updating the Classics
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/daniel-mendelsohn-on-updating-classics
The author and critic tells us how Homer is still relevant, and says
that to engage with the classics on their own terms means to play with
and adapt them [18]Read on
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/daniel-mendelsohn-on-updating-classics
Featured Special Report
[19]Mitt Romney
Links:
19. http://thebrowser.com/reports/mitt-romney
Slowly, he's clawing his way to the Republican nomination. But what
makes the man who would be president tick? [20]Read on
Links:
20. http://thebrowser.com/reports/mitt-romney
Reader Recommendations
@[21]evaholland Yer cheery lunchtime reading: @[22]Gawker spends the
weekend with the Ku Klux Klan. [23]t.co/s5MJ903J
#[24]longreads #[25]browsings
Links:
21. http://twitter.com/evaholland
22. http://twitter.com/Gawker
23. http://t.co/s5MJ903J
24. http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=#longreads
25. http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=#browsings
[26]More like this
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26. http://thebrowser.com/browsings
Book of the Day
[27]One Man’s Window by Denis Barnham
Links:
27. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/one-man’s-window-by-denis-barnham
[28]James Holland says: “I like the immediacy of it – the absolute
insanity of living and fighting on Malta. I have never read a better
account of air fighting than I have in that 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]Egypt: The Other Homeland
Links:
30. http://thebrowser.com/videos/egypt-other-homeland
The story of Egypt's once-thriving Greek community
[31]More videos
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31. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[32]Kurt Vonnegut, on how to write
Links:
32. http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheAtlantic/~3/GAEDgpC5Jcw/story01.htm
"Every character should want something, even if it is only a glass
of water"
[33]More quotes
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33. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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