Newsletter 675
[1]All of our Best of the Moment article recommendations, plus
FiveBooks interviews and other selected content from thebrower.com
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[6]The Yankee Comandante
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6. http://b.rw/LaoSL7
David Grann | New Yorker | 21 May 2012
Long, gripping story of William Alexander Morgan, US citizen and one of
only two foreign nationals (the other was Che Guevara) to hold rank of
comandante in Cuban revolutionary army. But who was he really?
[7]Comments
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7. http://thebrowser.com/articles/yankee-comandante
[8]A Life Worth Ending
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8. http://b.rw/JfWqYO
Michael Wolff | New York | 20 May 2012
Son's plea to let his mother go. "By promoting longevity and
technologically inhibiting death, we have created a new biological
status held by an ever-growing part of the nation, a no-exit state
nearly as remote from life as death" [9]Comments
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9. http://thebrowser.com/articles/life-worth-ending
[10]Welcome To The Multiverse
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10. http://b.rw/JJJEoi
Brian Greene | Newsweek | 21 May 2012
Notion that there are more universes separate from ours is one of the
most polarising concepts to have emerged from physics in decades. Is it
the next phase in our understanding of reality, or nonsense? And why
should we care? [11]Comments
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11. http://thebrowser.com/articles/welcome-multiverse
[12]Brothel, Washington DC
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12. http://b.rw/Mzvdow
Michael Merriam | n+1 | 17 May 2012
In which the author manages a brothel in the nation's capital for a few
weeks until fired for alcoholism. The money isn't much good. But the
work is varied, the people interesting and the fund of filthy stories
incomparable [13]Comments
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13. http://thebrowser.com/articles/brothel-washington-dc
[14]The Trouble With Scientism
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14. http://b.rw/JqlEZg
Philip Kitcher | New Republic | 4 May 2012
Superb short essay in defence of the humanities as a form of knowledge,
and as a valuable partner for science. "Culture appears to be at some
level autonomous and in some sense irreducible, and this is what
scientism cannot grasp" [15]Comments
Links:
15. http://thebrowser.com/articles/trouble-scientism
[16]The Ultimate Counterfeiter Isn't A Crook - He's An Artist
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16. http://b.rw/KTpVlV
David Wolman | Wired | 18 May 2012
Story of Hans-Jürgen Kuhl. Made fortune in leather hot pants. Bankrupt,
turned to "art". His quest? A perfect $100 bill. "Warhol copied
currency, and his prints are now priceless. Kuhl copied currency, got
busted, and is now broke" [17]Comments
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/articles/ultimate-counterfeiter-isnt-crook-hes-artist
FiveBooks Interview
[18]John Quiggin on Utopia
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/john-quiggin-on-utopia
The Australian economist and author of Zombie Economics says we need to
inspire people with a view of a better society that we can achieve
within our available resources [19]Read on
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19. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/john-quiggin-on-utopia
Featured Special Report
[20]Israel and Iran
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20. http://thebrowser.com/reports/israel-and-iran
Will Israel bomb Iran? What is it telling the US, and what will
Washington do? And where does Iran stand? [21]Read on
Links:
21. http://thebrowser.com/reports/israel-and-iran
Reader Recommendations
@JeffreyNewman RT @polit2k: Heist of the century: Wall Street's role in
the financial crisis [22]t.co/Ql4l2Khh via @guardian #gfc2
[23]#browsings [24]More like this
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24. http://thebrowser.com/browsings
Book of the Day
[25]Book of the Day
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25. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/age-wonder-by-richard-holmes
[26]The Age of Wonder by Richard Holmes
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26. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/age-wonder-by-richard-holmes
[27]Philip Ball says: “The wonder that Richard Holmes is thinking about
in this book was an emergent appreciation of the awesomeness of nature”
[28]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
27. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/philip-ball-on-origins-curiosity
28. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[29]Bridge To Russky Island
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29. http://thebrowser.com/videos/bridge-russy-island
Off Vladivostok. Longest cable-stayed bridge in the world. Yes, it is
high. They lived [30]More videos
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30. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[31]Susan Sontag, on aphorisms
Links:
31. http://www.tnr.com/article/books-and-arts/magazine/103068/susan-sontag-journals-notebooks-consciousness-harnessed-flesh?page=0,1
“Aphorisms are rogue ideas”
[32]More quotes
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32. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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