Newsletter 636
[1]All of our Best of the Moment article recommendations, plus
FiveBooks interviews and other selected content from thebrower.com
Links:
1. http://thebrowser.com
[5]Exponential Economist Meets Finite Physicist
Links:
5. http://b.rw/I0WjR0
Tom Murphy | Do The Math | 10 April 2012
Can economic growth continue indefinitely? No, said the physicist to
the economist. And here, in a delightful re-creation of a recent dinner
conversation between the two, is why not [6]Comments
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/exponential-economist-meets-finite-physicist
[7]Man The Religious Animal
Links:
7. http://b.rw/I24qwM
Christian Smith | First Things | 1 April 2012
Is religion an "innate, instinctive, inevitable aspect of human life"?
Or a "historically contingent, nonessential aspect of basic human
being?" This essay suggests we are indeed religious by nature. A
challenge for secularism [8]Comments
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/man-religious-animal
[9]The Age Of Insight
Links:
9. http://b.rw/HuLhRT
Jonah Lehrer | Frontal Cortex | 7 April 2012
Interview with Eric Kandel, giant of modern neuroscience. Discussion
centres on the science of aesthetics (how the brain responds to art),
and the rise of Modernists in 19th century Vienna [10]Comments
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/age-insight
[11]Mississippi Sends Its First Hate Criminal To Prison
Links:
11. http://b.rw/HX3xp1
Tony Dokoupil | Newsweek | 8 April 2012
Reporter investigates hate crime of convicted murderer Deryl Dedmon.
"What I discovered was deeper, scarier, and more complex than a single
country boy gone bad or even simple, pre-civil-rights-era racism"
[12]Comments
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/mississippi-sends-its-first-hate-criminal-prison
[13]Club Med
Links:
13. http://b.rw/Hw2dZI
James Surowiecki | New Yorker | 9 April 2012
US has been ruthless about breaking down barriers to free trade. Except
in healthcare. It's one of the reasons why American healthcare costs
have risen so fast. And it makes the logic of medical tourism harder
and harder to resist [14]Comments
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/articles/club-med
[15]Obituary: Bingu wa Mutharika
Links:
15. http://b.rw/IDVfUc
Anonymous | Telegraph | 10 April 2012
"Eccentric and wayward president of Malawi who threw away a reputation
for being modestly successful and led his bewildered country to ruin."
Born Brighton Webster Ryson Thom. Worked for World Bank. Haunted by
invisible rats [16]Comments
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/articles/obituary-bingu-wa-mutharika
FiveBooks Interview
[17]Edward Lucas on Putin and Russian History
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/edward-lucas-on-putin-and-russian-history
The international editor of The Economist and author of a new book
about Russia gives an excoriating critique of Putinism and explains how
Russia's amoral present is rooted in a failure to come to terms with
its past [18]Read on
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/edward-lucas-on-putin-and-russian-history
Featured Special Report
[19]Parenting
Links:
19. http://thebrowser.com/reports/parenting
What's the best way to bring up children? Indeed, is there a right way
at all? [20]Read on
Links:
20. http://thebrowser.com/reports/parenting
Reader Recommendations
@[21]joespring: Great story @[22]SundeenMark It's deservedly taken over
the @[23]outsidemagazineweb site today. [24]t.co/z7js2FV7
[25]#browsings [26]More like this
Links:
21. http://twitter.com/joespring
22. http://twitter.com/SundeenMark
23. http://twitter.com/outsidemagazine
24. http://www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adventure/Why-Noah-Went-to-the-Woods.html
25. https://twitter.com/search?q=#browsings
26. http://thebrowser.com/browsings
Book of the Day
[27]Book of the Day
Links:
27. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/iliad-by-homer-translated-stephen-mitchell
[28]The Iliad by Homer (translated by Stephen Mitchell)
Links:
28. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/iliad-by-homer-translated-stephen-mitchell
[29]Daniel Mendelsohn says: “This translation of The Iliad has a very
specific approach, both in terms of its philosophy of translation and
its approach to the text” [30]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
29. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/daniel-mendelsohn-on-updating-classics
30. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[31]Paradise Lost: Pakistan's Swat Valley
Links:
31. http://thebrowser.com/videos/paradise-lost-pakistans-swat-valley
Renowned for its natural beauty. But few go there today
[32]More videos
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32. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[33]Nora Ephron, on marriage
Links:
33. http://www.newsweek.com/2010/11/08/nora-ephron-on-aging-twitter-and-newsweek.html
Never marry a man you wouldn’t want to be divorced from
[34]More quotes
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34. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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