Newsletter 667
[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]Can You Call A 9-Year-Old A Psychopath?
Links:
5. http://b.rw/JjEnp1
Jennifer Kahn | NYT | 11 May 2012
Nine year old Michael is unlike others. His parents took him to see
psychologist Dan Waschbusch. Who diagnosed him as a psychopath. "Even
if accurate, it’s a ruinous diagnosis. No one is sympathetic to the
mother of a psychopath" [6]Comments
Links:
6. https://thebrowser.com/articles/can-you-call-9-year-old-psychopath
[7]Medvedev The Phony
Links:
7. http://b.rw/J5gMCn
Lilia Shevtsova & David Kramer | Foreign Policy | 7 May 2012
Outgoing Russian president was never the liberal reformer many hoped he
was or would be. His presidency was a farce and will be a mere footnote
in history. He leaves Russians demoralised, frustrated. And growing in
anger [8]Comments
Links:
8. https://thebrowser.com/articles/medvedev-phony
[9]Do The Eyes Have It?
Links:
9. http://b.rw/J5r7OG
Pat Shipman | American Scientist | 1 May 2012
Plenty of dogs save their owners—waking them during fires, fetching
help after an accident. But that's not all. "They may have saved not
only individuals but also our whole species, by 'domesticating' us
while we domesticated them" [10]Comments
Links:
10. https://thebrowser.com/articles/do-eyes-have-it
[11]Christianity And The Rise Of Western Science
Links:
11. http://b.rw/JiaHUa
Peter Harrison | ABC | 8 May 2012
Many presume that Christianity and science have always been at war.
Little could be further from the truth. "The myth of a perennial
conflict between science and religion is one to which no historian of
science would subscribe" [12]Comments
Links:
12. https://thebrowser.com/articles/christianity-and-rise-western-science
[13]Investigation, Lawsuit Expose Barbaric Conditions At For-Profit Youth
Prison
Links:
13. http://b.rw/KMBUE0
Booth Gunter | Southern Poverty Law Center | 3 May 2012
Anyone still think for-profit prisons are a good idea? Well, this
should change your mind. Horrifying account of a children's prison out
of control. Drugs, weapons, beatings, rapes commonplace. Often with
prison staff complicit [14]Comments
Links:
14. https://thebrowser.com/articles/investigation-lawsuit-expose-barbaric-conditions-profit-youth-prison
[15]Operation Self-Deceit
Links:
15. http://b.rw/K1xUNy
Sven Böll et al | Spiegel | 8 May 2012
New documents confirm early history of euro project. Numerous
shortcomings were apparent right from start. Politicians realised Italy
was an economic basket case. But chose to ignore the facts. After all
this was a political project [16]Comments
Links:
16. https://thebrowser.com/articles/operation-self-deceit
FiveBooks Interview
[17]Simon Johnson on Why Economic History Matters
Links:
17. https://thebrowser.com/interviews/simon-johnson-on-why-economic-history-matters
History contains useful warnings and lessons. And, says the former IMF
chief economist, today's economic policymakers would do well to heed
them [18]Read on
Links:
18. https://thebrowser.com/interviews/simon-johnson-on-why-economic-history-matters
Featured Special Report
[19]London and the Olympics
Links:
19. https://thebrowser.com/reports/london-and-olympics
The Games creep ever closer, though in London you'd hardly know it.
Here's a sideways look at the event and its host city [20]Read on
Links:
20. https://thebrowser.com/reports/london-and-olympics
Reader Recommendations
@[21]TorontoStar: #[22]Hemingway: The Toronto mayor loves all
sport [23]t.co/dEv2ftDg #[24]browsings[25] t.co/XdH2Ustx [26]More like
this
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25. http://t.co/XdH2Ustx
26. http://thebrowser.com/browsings
Book of the Day
[27]The English Common Reader by Richard Altick
Links:
27. https://thebrowser.com/recommended/english-common-reader-by-richard-altick
[28]William St Clair says: It’s an astonishing book, published in 1957.
Altick is so different from what came before because he wants to find
out what was actually available to be read in the 19th century.
[29]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
28. https://thebrowser.com/interviews/william-st-clair-on-reading-romantics
29. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[30]Joshua Foer: Feats of Memory Anyone Can Do
Links:
30. https://thebrowser.com/videos/joshua-foer-feats-memory-anyone-can-do
"Visualise a pack of overweight nudists on bicycles..."
[31]More videos
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31. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[32]Harry Truman, on negotiating
Links:
32. http://walt.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2012/05/09/hail_mary_time_a_far_fetched_plan_to_solve_the_syrian_mess
"It's amazing what you can achieve if you don't care who gets the
credit"
[33]More quotes
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33. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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