Newsletter 639
[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]Evolution Has Given Humans A Huge Advantage: Middle Age
Links:
5. http://b.rw/ItsDym
David Bainbridge | Washington Post | 26 March 2012
What are middle-aged people for? David Bainbridge offers a fascinating
and oddly cheering answer: They’re an “elite caste” of experts, kept
around by evolution to advise the young [6]Comments
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/evolution-has-given-humans-huge-advantage-over-most-other-animals-middle-age
[7]Vladimir's Tale
Links:
7. http://b.rw/HNS9g7
Anne Applebaum | NYRB | 11 April 2012
Another good piece on Putinism, and Masha Gessen's new book, The Man
Without a Face. Read it as a review, or just a fascinating window into
the secret police mentality and milieu the Russian leader inhabits
[8]Comments
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/vladimirs-tale
[9]A Slow-Books Manifesto
Links:
9. http://b.rw/ItrI0W
Maura Kelly | Atlantic | 26 March 2012
Slow food, slow parenting—why not a “slow books” movement? As words
flash past our eyes at ever-increasing speeds, Maura Kelly reminds us
to savor what we read [10]Comments
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/slow-books-manifesto
[11]Beck And The Beast
Links:
11. http://b.rw/HD896O
Todd Purdum | Vanity Fair | 12 April 2012
"Just because he may have fallen off your radar since he left Fox News
doesn’t mean that millions of faithful listeners don’t still harken to
his every dog-whistle warning. They do, and their views—and their
votes—carry weight" [12]Comments
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/beck-and-beast
[13]Want To Work At Google?
Links:
13. http://b.rw/HFR9gU
Madhumita Venkataramanan | Wired UK | 11 April 2012
If so, you'll need to show you can solve problems like these. Enjoyable
selection, with answers provided. Here's one to get you started: "Using
only a four-minute hourglass and seven-minute hourglass, measure
exactly nine minutes" [14]Comments
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/articles/want-work-google
[15]Death To Word
Links:
15. http://b.rw/IkEUlr
Tom Scocca | Slate | 11 April 2012
Enough of the animated paper clip. And the autocorrect. And the HTML
crust. And the forcible indenting of anything resembling a list. Word
is the fax machine of our time. You really get to hate the people who
still use it [16]Comments
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/articles/death-word
FiveBooks Interview
[17]Niall Ferguson on Intellectual Influences
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/niall-ferguson-on-intellectual-influences
The historian tells us about the diverse influences on his work, from
Keynes and Tolstoy to an Austrian satirist, and explains why he sees
the world as a complex place on the edge of chaos [18]Read on
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/niall-ferguson-on-intellectual-influences
Featured Special Report
[19]Population and Resources
Links:
19. http://thebrowser.com/reports/population-and-resources
Will humans run out of natural resources? Is population growth a danger
to society? Or will human innovation conquer? You decide [20]Read on
Links:
20. http://thebrowser.com/reports/population-and-resources
Reader Recommendations
@[21]polit2k Food's Biggest Scam: The Great Kobe Beef Lie -
Forbes [22]t.co/Vp5GIGqg via @[23]rszbt @[24]tim_weber#[25]browsings
Links:
21. http://twitter.com/polit2k
22. http://t.co/Vp5GIGqg
23. http://twitter.com/rszbt
24. http://twitter.com/tim_weber
25. http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=#browsings
[26]More like this
Links:
26. http://thebrowser.com/browsings
Book of the Day
[27]Book of the Day
Links:
27. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/copernican-question-by-robert-s-westman
[28]The Copernican Question by Robert S Westman
Links:
28. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/copernican-question-by-robert-s-westman
[29]Dava Sobel says: “Westman was interested in the idea that
Copernicus was an astrologer as well as an astronomer. I thought he
made a convincing argument” [30]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
29. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/dava-sobel-on-early-history-astronomy
30. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[31]Jeffrey Sachs Interview
Links:
31. http://thebrowser.com/videos/jeffrey-sachs-interview
Enjoyable 50-minute discussion with the economist
[32]More videos
Links:
32. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[33]Marc Pincus, on failure
Links:
33. http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-04-12/how-to-fail-mark-pincus
"Success is dangerous because often you don’t understand why you
succeeded. You almost always know why you’ve failed"
[34]More quotes
Links:
34. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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