Newsletter 643
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[5]The Population Boon
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5. http://b.rw/Il7BzM
Philip Auerswald | American Interest | 16 April 2012
"For most of the past two centuries Malthusian fears of demographic
doom have obscured the increasingly evident fact of a global
demographic dividend." Fine essay explains why a growing population
will change the world for better [6]Comments
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/population-boon
[7]Truth Or Consequences
Links:
7. http://b.rw/J39Tqb
Joe Hagan | Texas Monthly | 16 April 2012
Eight years ago Dan Rather accused President George Bush of using
National Guard service to dodge the Vietnam draft. The story blew up in
Rather's face. His documents were fakes. Now, with Bush retired, the
true story can be told [8]Comments
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/truth-or-consequences
[9]The Stain On Spain
Links:
9. http://b.rw/I5FmG7
Eric Ellis | Global Mail | 16 April 2012
In three decades the Almeria region of south-east Spain has been
transformed from one of the country's poorest regions to one of the
richest. Wealth has been driven by the horticulture industry. And very
cheap illegal African labour [10]Comments
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/stain-spain
[11]Why Washington’s Iran Policy Could Lead To Global Disaster
Links:
11. http://b.rw/J2640s
Juan Cole | TomDispatch | 12 April 2012
"Economic war will not take down the Iranian government or bring it to
the bargaining table on its knees ready to surrender its nuclear
programme. It might, however, lead to actual armed conflict." (Starts
after six-paragraph intro) [12]Comments
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/why-washington’s-iran-policy-could-lead-global-disaster
[13]Juicers, Trippers, And Crocodiles
Links:
13. http://b.rw/IW7yMr
Adam Piore | Discover | 16 April 2012
"Never before has it been so easy to obtain the instructions, precursor
molecules, and manufacturing capabilities to produce exotic,
unregulated compounds on a mass scale." Welcome to the dangerous world
of underground chemistry [14]Comments
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/articles/juicers-trippers-and-crocodiles
[15]Six Degrees Of Aggregation
Links:
15. http://b.rw/J4d3Kd
Michael Shapiro | Columbia Journalism Review | 16 April 2012
Monumental essay on origins, development of The Huffington Post.
Excellent analysis throughout. "It iterated. It did not try to
eliminate the possibility of failure. It did something different. It
embraced it" [16]Comments
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/articles/six-degrees-aggregation
FiveBooks Interview
[17]Ann Blair on The History of Information
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/ann-blair-on-history-information
The history professor and author of Too Much to Know tells us what
researchers have been discovering about how earlier human societies
collected, organised and used information [18]Read on
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/ann-blair-on-history-information
Featured Special Report
[19]The Killing of Trayvon Martin
Links:
19. http://thebrowser.com/reports/killing-trayvon-martin
On the case that has pitched America into soul-searching and division
[20]Read on
Links:
20. http://thebrowser.com/reports/killing-trayvon-martin
Reader Recommendations
@[21]TheBlackNile Let's Buy Afghanistan's Opium -- All of It. A modest
proposal. #[22]browsings [23]t.co/DuAMU8zi [24]More like this
Links:
21. http://twitter.com/TheBlackNile
22. https://twitter.com/search?q=#browsings
23. http://latitude.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/04/18/buy-afghanistans-opium-to-undermine-the-taliban-and-curb-the-heroin-trade
24. http://thebrowser.com/browsings
Book of the Day
[25]Book of the Day
Links:
25. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/internal-colonization-by-alexander-etkind
[26]Internal Colonization by Alexander Etkind
Links:
26. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/internal-colonization-by-alexander-etkind
[27]Edward Lucas says: “Etkind’s thesis is that Russia has had a unique
model of development, which is that it colonised itself and encouraged
exploitative behaviour” [28]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
27. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/edward-lucas-on-putin-and-russian-history
28. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[29]Tupac Hologram Performance at Coachella
Links:
29. http://thebrowser.com/videos/tupac-hologram-performance-coachella
Is this the future of entertainment? (Caution: Lots of swearing)
[30]More videos
Links:
30. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[31]Bubba Watson, having a Forrest Gump moment
Links:
31. http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1197108/1/index.htm
"That's the best part about history—we don't know what's going to
happen"
[32]More quotes
Links:
32. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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