Newsletter 683
[1]All of our Best of the Moment article recommendations, plus
FiveBooks interviews and other selected content from thebrower.com
Links:
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[6]Hope: The Sequel
Links:
6. http://b.rw/K45Wm1
John Heilemann | New York | 27 May 2012
President Obama's 2008 campaign traded on hope and his likeability.
This time around will be different. Circumstances dictate that it will
be a nakedly political campaign, instilling fear about what a Romney
presidency would bring [7]Comments
Links:
7. http://thebrowser.com/articles/hope-sequel
[8]The Great Taliban Jailbreak
Links:
8. http://b.rw/MVnpOf
Luke Mogelson | GQ | 29 May 2012
Gripping account of 2011 mass prison escape. Taliban tunneled into
Kandahar prison from working cement factory they'd set up nearby. Came
up in political block of prison. Spirited away hundreds of Taliban
inmates overnight [9]Comments
Links:
9. http://thebrowser.com/articles/great-taliban-jailbreak
[10]Music: It's In Your Head, Changing Your Brain
Links:
10. http://b.rw/MUZ76R
Elizabeth Landau | CNN | 28 May 2012
On the science of music. Why do songs get stuck in our heads? What's
the connection between memory and music? Can monkeys recognise beats?
Why is it so difficult for musicians to start playing a song from a
random point in the tune? [11]Comments
Links:
11. http://thebrowser.com/articles/music-its-your-head-changing-your-brain
[12]The Fairness Trap
Links:
12. http://b.rw/MYn3nu
James Surowiecki | New Yorker | 28 May 2012
On the euro crisis, behavioural economics, and fairness: "In a
negotiation where neither side can have what it really wants, and where
the least bad solution is as good as it gets, worrying too much about
fairness can be suicidal" [13]Comments
Links:
13. http://thebrowser.com/articles/fairness-trap
[14]Before And After The Grass Arena
Links:
14. http://b.rw/KoltvV
Austin Collings | Quietus | 25 May 2012
Interview with John Healy, "ex-soldier, ex-boxer, ex-wino and
ex-prisoner, turned chess master turned writer". A literary sensation,
until he threatened to decapitate his publisher, who responded by
pulping Healy's book [15]Comments
Links:
15. http://thebrowser.com/articles/and-after-grass-arena
[16]The Most Comma Mistakes
Links:
16. http://b.rw/Kxv9m8
Ben Yagoda | NYT | 21 May 2012
A pedant's delight. On correct use of the comma. Or when to write "My
son John is awesome" rather than "My son, John, is awesome". And why
not to use a comma splice: "He used to be a moderate, now he’s a
card-carrying Tea Partier" [17]Comments
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/articles/most-comma-mistakes
FiveBooks Interview
[18]Sandy Gall on Foreigners in Afghanistan
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/sandy-gall-on-foreigners-afghanistan
The veteran reporter and frequent visitor to Afghanistan tells us about
the country he loves, and the Westerners (and Central Asian conqueror)
who wrote engagingly about it [19]Read on
Links:
19. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/sandy-gall-on-foreigners-afghanistan
Featured Special Report
[20]Healthcare in America
Links:
20. http://thebrowser.com/reports/healthcare-america
The battle over US healthcare reform reaches the Supreme Court. Here's
what's at stake [21]Read on
Links:
21. http://thebrowser.com/reports/healthcare-america
Reader Recommendations
@[22]nuzav Watch: An Animated Short On How We Measure The
Universe [23]t.co/QmLci28T via @[24]FastCoDesign [25]#browsings
[26]More like this
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22. http://twitter.com/nuzav
23. http://www.fastcodesign.com/1669888/watch-an-animated-short-on-how-we-measure-the-universe
24. http://twitter.com/FastCoDesign
25. https://twitter.com/search?q=#browsings
26. http://thebrowser.com/browsings
Book of the Day
[27]Book of the Day
Links:
27. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/perils-dominance-by-gareth-porter
[28]Perils of Dominance by Gareth Porter
Links:
28. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/perils-dominance-by-gareth-porter
[29]Stephen Glain says: “Porter does a great job of showcasing the
extent to which the Soviet threat was hyped in the Cold War. He points
out how utterly weak it was” [30]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
29. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/stephen-glain-on-us-militarism
30. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[31]Remember These Days
Links:
31. http://thebrowser.com/videos/remember-these-days
The seltzer men of New York. "Our business is, at best, an anachronism"
[32]More videos
Links:
32. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[33]Susan Orlean, on marriage
Links:
33. https://twitter.com/#!/susanorlean/status/206747149306826752
"The only marriage that should be banned is between people who don't
really love each other"
[34]More quotes
Links:
34. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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