Newsletter 684
[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]Secret 'Kill List' Proves A Test Of Obama's Principles And Will
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6. http://b.rw/KY269V
Jo Becker & Scott Shane | NYT | 29 May 2012
"Mr Obama has placed himself at the helm of a top secret 'nominations'
process to designate terrorists for kill or capture, of which the
capture part has become largely theoretical." Current and former
advisers explain how it works [7]Comments
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7. http://thebrowser.com/articles/secret-kill-list-proves-test-obamas-principles-and-will
[8]Issues For His Prose Style
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8. http://b.rw/L21swb
Andrew O'Hagan | London Review Of Books | 29 May 2012
Hemingway: Man, myth, prose style. "The Ryanair generation must already
have worked out the stag night potential provided by Hemingway’s
novels. He will never say someone had a drink when he can say they had
a vermouth" [9]Comments
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9. http://thebrowser.com/articles/issues-his-prose-style
[10]Why Is Memory So Good and So Bad?
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10. http://b.rw/NbsaAT
Julian De Freitas | Scientific American | 29 May 2012
Investigating recent research on visual memory. Why is it that we can
remember some things with such clarity, and others not at all? What
decides whether memories are preserved for the long-term, or simply
erased? [11]Comments
Links:
11. http://thebrowser.com/articles/why-memory-so-good-and-so-bad
[12]Craig Venter’s Bugs Might Save the World
Links:
12. http://b.rw/L223xT
Wil Hylton | NYT | 30 May 2012
"Each of the bugs will have a mission. Some will be designed to devour
things, like pollution. Others will generate food and fuel." But all
will share one extraordinary feature: They will be custom engineered,
from synthetic DNA [13]Comments
Links:
13. http://thebrowser.com/articles/craig-venter’s-bugs-might-save-world
[14]Do You Really Want To Live For Ever?
Links:
14. http://b.rw/LGcFSd
Ronald Bailey | Reason | 29 May 2012
“At its core, a civilisation is a collection of life extension
technologies: Agriculture to ensure food in steady supply, clothing to
stave off cold, architecture to provide shelter and safety, weapons for
hunting and defence" [15]Comments
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15. http://thebrowser.com/articles/do-you-really-want-live-ever
[16]My Dungeon Shook
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16. http://b.rw/L28W2n
James Baldwin | Letters Of Note | 28 May 2012
Powerful letter on racism, sent by Baldwin to his nephew on centenary
of the Emancipation Proclamation. "You know, and I know, that the
country is celebrating one hundred years of freedom one hundred years
too soon" [17]Comments
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/articles/my-dungeon-shook
FiveBooks Interview
[18]Tanni Grey-Thompson on the Spirit of Sport
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/tanni-grey-thompson-on-spirit-sport
The 11 times gold medal-winning Paralympian athlete, now a peer in
Britain’s House of Lords, tells us about the spirit and legacy of the
Olympics – and what parliament and competitive sport have in common
[19]Read on
Links:
19. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/tanni-grey-thompson-on-spirit-sport
Featured Special Report
[20]Hackers
Links:
20. http://thebrowser.com/reports/hackers
Cars, nuclear plants, computers, phones, webcams -- they all succumb to
hackers in the end [21]Read on
Links:
21. http://thebrowser.com/reports/hackers
Reader Recommendations
@[22]tornmap US volunteer + teen Ecuadorian maid = North/South divide
writ small at Vela [23]t.co/BMgHInl7 #[24]browsings #[25]travelreads
#[26]lp #[27]travel [28]More like this
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23. http://t.co/BMgHInl7
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26. http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=#lp
27. http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=#travel
28. http://thebrowser.com/browsings
Book of the Day
[29]Book of the Day
Links:
29. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/house-war-by-james-carroll
[30]House of War by James Carroll
Links:
30. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/house-war-by-james-carroll
[31]Stephen Glain says: “The book is an uninhibited account of what it
was like for him being part of the Pentagon bureaucracy. It’s very
subversive” [32]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
31. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/stephen-glain-on-us-militarism
32. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[33]Measuring The Universe
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33. http://thebrowser.com/videos/measuring-universe
A short geometry lesson
[34]More videos
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34. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[35]Philip Larkin, on modernism
Links:
35. http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2012/jun/07/philip-larkin-desired-reading/?pagination=false
"It will divert us as long as we are prepared to be mystified or
outraged, but maintains its hold only by being more mystifying and
more outrageous: it has no lasting power"
[36]More quotes
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36. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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