Newsletter 646
[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]How Do You Like Your Meat?
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5. http://b.rw/Juvnul
William Little | FT | 21 April 2012
Lab-grown meat was predicted by Churchill; tried by Nasa. Now the first
in vitro burger is set to come out of a Dutch lab. It will cost 250,000
euros and isn't classified as food, so you can't eat it. But could this
be the future? [6]Comments
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6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/how-do-you-your-meat
[7]Beware Of Franklin’s Gambit In Making Decisions
Links:
7. http://b.rw/IofpRi
John Kay | John Kay | 18 April 2012
"We claim to believe that there is an objective method by which all
right thinking people would, with sufficient diligence and
intelligence, arrive at a good answer to any complex problem. But there
is no such method" [8]Comments
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/beware-franklin’s-gambit-making-decisions
[9]Trouble In Timbuktu
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9. http://b.rw/IGz2Dc
Graeme Wood | Boston Globe | 15 April 2012
Portrait of African city taken lately by Tuareg rebels. Wreathed in
fantasy and romance. Grew rich on the salt trade. "One could think of
Timbuktu as the farthest inland port city in the world, and of the
Sahara as its ocean" [10]Comments
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/trouble-timbuktu
[11]Propofol And The Death Of Michael Jackson
Links:
11. http://b.rw/JqMpJN
Aidan O’Donnell | OUP Blog | 19 April 2012
Michael Jackson's doctor gave him Propofol, an anaesthetic drug, as a
sedative. Bad move. "Propofol doesn’t cause sleep. If given enough, it
will cause oblivion, but the cerebral activity necessary for sleep does
not take place" [12]Comments
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/propofol-and-death-michael-jackson
[13]Closing The Pigeon Gap
Links:
13. http://b.rw/HXtbsh
Mike Dash | Smithsonian | 17 April 2012
You will be familiar, from Cold War history, with the alleged "missile
gap". But are you familiar too with its precursor, the pigeon gap? Oh
yes, there was a time when pigeons formed a vital part of a country's
military capability [14]Comments
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/articles/closing-pigeon-gap
[15]Letter From Tasmania
Links:
15. http://b.rw/HZqaNo
Robert Moor | n+1 | 19 April 2012
A large island off the Australian coast with colourful locals, easy
hitchhiking, dangerous snakes, and a modern art museum built by a
video-gaming tycoon. Exhibits include the Epic of Gilgamesh written in
binary code [16]Comments
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/articles/letter-tasmania
FiveBooks Interview
[17]Michael Lind on American Economic History
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/michael-lind-on-american-economic-history
The American economy has been driven by waves of technological change
and the successful adoption of ideas from elsewhere. The author of Land
of Promise tells us how it happened, and what history teaches us about
the way ahead [18]Read on
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/michael-lind-on-american-economic-history
Featured Special Report
[19]France Votes
Links:
19. http://thebrowser.com/reports/france-votes
French people go to the polls this weekend to elect a new president.
How do they feel about the choice in front of them? [20]Read on
Links:
20. http://thebrowser.com/reports/france-votes
Reader Recommendations
@[21]Milkweed_Books If you read anything this weekend, make it David
Gessner's update on the BP oil spill:
[22]t.co/WKXQXRv4 #[23]longreads #[24]browsings
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21. http://twitter.com/Milkweed_Books
22. http://t.co/WKXQXRv4
23. http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=#longreads
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/escape-evil-by-ernest-becker
[27]Escape From Evil by Ernest Becker
Links:
27. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/escape-evil-by-ernest-becker
[28]Stephen Cave says: “He thought the point of the human sciences was
to stop us from being evil, and that evil resulted from our terror of
death”[29]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
28. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/stephen-cave-on-immortality
29. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[30]Leonardo: Anatomist
Links:
30. http://thebrowser.com/videos/leonardo-anatomist
Wonderful short film looks at the anatomical drawings of Leonardo da
Vinci
[31]More videos
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31. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[32]Scott Adams, on Steve Jobs
Links:
32. http://dilbert.com/blog/entry/reality_distortion_field
"Apparently Jobs had a lifelong battle with reality and won"
[33]More quotes
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33. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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