Newsletter 632
[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 Neuroscience Of Bob Dylan's Genius
Links:
5. http://b.rw/HokYjS
Jonah Lehrer | Guardian | 6 April 2012
"'It's just this sense that you got something to say.' What he felt was
the itch of an imminent insight, the tickle of lyrics that needed to be
written down. 'I found myself writing this song, this story, this long
piece of vomit'" [6]Comments
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/neuroscience-bob-dylans-genius
[7]A Plea For Beauty: A Manifesto For A New Urbanism
Links:
7. http://b.rw/HK9uWp
Roger Scruton | American Enterprise Institute | 29 March 2012
Absorbing essay on decline of American cities, how to create thriving
urban areas. "To plan or not to plan is a false choice. Instead, civic
leaders should think in terms of fostering beauty through the use of
aesthetic constraints" [8]Comments
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/plea-beauty-manifesto-new-urbanism
[9]Iran's Spymaster
Links:
9. http://b.rw/HPpZjT
Jay Soloman & Siobhan Gorman | WSJ | 4 April 2012
Profile of General Qasem Soleimani, boss of Iran's Qods Force—spies and
special forces used for murder and skulduggery abroad. In charge of
policy towards Syria, Iraq, Lebanon. "Evil genius." Shades of Le
Carré's Karla [10]Comments
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/irans-spymaster
[11]The Errors Of Their Ways
Links:
11. http://b.rw/H9z5dW
Rachel Giese | Walrus | 1 April 2012
Fine essay on medical error. "As the tools for healing proliferate, so
do the difficulties in determining and executing correct diagnoses and
treatments; each discovery creates new opportunities for mistakes, side
effects, dangers" [12]Comments
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/errors-their-ways
[13]Bosnia: Twenty Years On
Links:
13. http://b.rw/HkTB6x
Allan Little | BBC | 6 April 2012
A mere slip of a piece, and yet its commentary on war, and war
reporting, is worth more than many longer ones. "May I ask you, I said,
are you a Muslim or a Croat? And the answer he gave me still shames me
as it echoes in my head" [14]Comments
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/articles/bosnia-twenty-years
[15]Lunch With The FT: Larry David
Links:
15. http://b.rw/Ig8BTz
Matthew Garrahan | FT | 6 April 2012
For once it lives up to its name. The only thing Larry David wants to
talk about is lunch itself. Nuts are good in salad. Fruit too. But not
cheese. “I’m anti-cheese in a salad. I don’t think the tastes are
complementary" [16]Comments
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/articles/lunch-ft-larry-david
FiveBooks Interview
[17]AC Grayling on Being Good
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/ac-grayling-on-being-good
What does a moral life entail? How does one achieve it? AC Grayling
looks at the classics of philosophy for the answers, and says that it
is the striving for goodness and self-improvement itself that is the
key to living well [18]Read on
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/ac-grayling-on-being-good
Featured Special Report
[19]Wine
Links:
19. http://thebrowser.com/reports/wine
From filthy plonk to first growth Bordeaux, there's something for every
palate in our cultural and historical survey of wine [20]Read on
Links:
20. http://thebrowser.com/reports/wine
Reader Recommendations
@[21]rszbt An ethnography of arbitrage MT @[22]zerohedge Want to know
why traders stack their monitors 1x4 instead of
2x2? [23]t.co/w2ADzVz8 #[24]browsings
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21. http://twitter.com/rszbt
22. http://twitter.com/zerohedge
23. http://t.co/w2ADzVz8
24. http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=#browsings
[25]More like this
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25. http://thebrowser.com/browsings
Book of the Day
[26]Book of the Day
Links:
26. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/clarissa-by-samuel-richardson
[27]Clarissa by Samuel Richardson
Links:
27. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/clarissa-by-samuel-richardson
[28]Faramerz Dabhoiwala says: “It’s probably the most influential novel
of the 18th century, and possibly the most influential novel ever
written in English” [29]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
28. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/faramerz-dabhoiwala-on-18th-century-sexual-revolution
29. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[30]Admented Reality
Links:
30. http://thebrowser.com/videos/admented-reality
More on those Google glasses. What if the experience is more like this?
[31]More videos
Links:
31. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[32]Clay Shirky, on boredom
Links:
32. http://www.roughtype.com/archives/2012/04/the_web_expands.php
"Being bored is a kind of diagnostic for the gap between what you
might be interested in and your current environment"
[33]More quotes
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33. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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