Newsletter 635
[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 Camorra Never Sleeps
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5. http://b.rw/HGmjhO
William Langewiesche | Vanity Fair | 10 April 2012
"It is an understanding, a way of justice, a means of creating wealth
and spreading it around. It has been a part of life in Naples for
centuries—far longer than the fragile construct called Italy has even
existed" [6]Comments
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/camorra-never-sleeps
[7]Left Behind
Links:
7. http://b.rw/IGU7M2
Peter Van Buren | Huffington Post/TomDispatch | 9 April 2012
Final piece by State Dept whistleblower before he was fired. "We
thought that our employers would be concerned about what we had
stumbled upon and would want to work with us to resolve it. We are
guilty of naiveté, not treason" [8]Comments
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/left-behind
[9]Unsinkable
Links:
9. http://b.rw/HnKzHl
Daniel Mendelsohn | New Yorker | 9 April 2012
Why does the story of the Titanic grip our imagination so? "To get to
the bottom of why we can't forget it, you have to turn away from the
facts and consider the realm to which the Titanic and its story
properly belong: Myth" [10]Comments
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/unsinkable-0
[11]In The Supreme Shrine
Links:
11. http://b.rw/HBFJbG
Christopher de Bellaigue | NYRB | 5 April 2012
"The pilgrimage to Mecca, the Hajj, is the supreme expression of global
Islam. This year more than 2.5 million Muslims will undertake the
journey." By 2030, that number is expected to have grown to 20 million.
Here's what it means [12]Comments
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/supreme-shrine
[13]The Invaders
Links:
13. http://b.rw/Ikptfa
David Hill | Grantland | 8 April 2012
Memoir of growing up in Hot Springs, Arkansas, the "loose buckle on the
Bible Belt". Local industries: Gambling and horse racing. "Wide-open
town" where "a dishonest man could make an honest living" and mobsters
could relax [14]Comments
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/articles/invaders
[15]The Disconnect
Links:
15. http://b.rw/IuEc71
Nathan Heller | New Yorker | 9 April 2012
Half of US residents are now single. "Does aloneness deserve a less
untoward image? Aside from monastic seclusion, which is just another
way of being together, it is hard to come up with a solitary life that
doesn’t invite pity" [16]Comments
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/articles/disconnect
FiveBooks Interview
[17]Dava Sobel on the Early History of Astronomy
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/dava-sobel-on-early-history-astronomy
The biographer of Copernicus and Galileo tells us about the men whose
painstaking work changed our understanding of Earth’s place in the
universe [18]Read on
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/dava-sobel-on-early-history-astronomy
Featured Special Report
[19]North Korea
Links:
19. http://thebrowser.com/reports/north-korea
Following Kim Jong-il's death, we look back at the legacy of his
tyrannical rule over North Korea [20]Read on
Links:
20. http://thebrowser.com/reports/north-korea
Reader Recommendations
@[21]nuzav Economists Have a Lot to Learn From the
Weather [22]t.co/Oq56u5d1 via @[23]BloombergView [24]#browsings
[25]More like this
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21. http://twitter.com/nuzav
22. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-04-08/economists-have-a-lot-to-learn-from-the-weather.html
23. http://twitter.com/BloombergView
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/rameau’s-nephew-by-denis-diderot
[27]Rameau’s Nephew by Denis Diderot
Links:
27. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/rameau’s-nephew-by-denis-diderot
[28]AC Grayling says: “Perhaps the most immediately accessible and
readable of his works… it picks up on these themes which are central to
the Enlightenment” [29]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
28. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/ac-grayling-on-being-good
29. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[30]Bang Goes The Theory
Links:
30. http://thebrowser.com/videos/bank-goes-theory
Johnny Ball estimates the number of taxis in London using
capture/recapture [31]More videos
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31. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[32]E.B. White, on punctuation
Links:
32. http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/04/09/fanfare-for-the-comma-man
“Commas in The New Yorker fall with the precision of knives in a
circus act, outlining the victim”
[33]More quotes
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33. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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