Newsletter 687
[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]Obama Order Sped Up Wave Of Cyberattacks Against Iran
Links:
6. http://b.rw/KiEIsH
David Sanger | NYT | 1 June 2012
Extraordinary piece. Suggests Obama authorised wave after wave of cyber
strikes against Iranian nuclear sites. Under an operation codenamed
Olympic Games that was developed in tandem with Israel. Stuxnet was
part of it [7]Comments
Links:
7. https://thebrowser.com/articles/obama-order-sped-wave-cyberattacks-against-iran
[8]The Amazon Effect
Links:
8. http://b.rw/NnmcNb
Steve Wasserman | Nation | 29 May 2012
"The bookstore wars are over. Independents are battered, Borders is
dead, Barnes & Noble weakened but still standing and Amazon triumphant.
Yet still there is no peace; a new war rages for the future of
publishing" [9]Comments
Links:
9. https://thebrowser.com/articles/amazon-effect
[10]Do Dogs Feel Guilty?
Links:
10. http://b.rw/LloomC
Jason Goldman | Thoughtful Animal | 31 May 2012
Three quarters of dog owners believe they do. But guilt is a "secondary
emotion", one that requires cognitive sophistication. Dogs may look
guilty. But is this a "learned response" or true emotion? Here's the
latest research [11]Comments
Links:
11. https://thebrowser.com/articles/do-dogs-feel-guilty
[12]So, What Did The Muslims Do For The Jews?
Links:
12. http://b.rw/NnptvT
David Wasserstein | Jewish Chronicle | 24 May 2012
"Islam saved Jewry. This is an unpopular, discomforting claim in the
modern world. But it is a historical truth." Without rise of Islam,
Jewry would have disappeared in the West and become "just another
oriental cult" in the East [13]Comments
Links:
13. https://thebrowser.com/articles/so-what-did-muslims-do-jews
[14]What You Hate Most About Waiting In Line
Links:
14. http://b.rw/L8z37I
Seth Stevenson | Slate | 1 June 2012
It's not the length of the wait – it's whether it's longer than
expected and whether someone who arrives after you gets served before
you. So what happens when queue theorists try to check out of their
hotel at the same time? [15]Comments
Links:
15. https://thebrowser.com/articles/what-you-hate-most-about-waiting-line
[16]Robin Van Persie
Links:
16. http://b.rw/M8mjg2
Henk Spaan | FT | 2 June 2012
Profile of the Dutch soccer star. "He has grown from a capricious,
somewhat moody adolescent into a verbally gifted, grown-up family man,
one of the few footballers I know who is capable of self-reflection and
self-criticism" [17]Comments
Links:
17. https://thebrowser.com/articles/robin-van-persie
FiveBooks Interview
[18]Bruce Dowbiggin on Ice Hockey
Links:
18. https://thebrowser.com/interviews/bruce-dowbiggin-on-ice-hockey
Fast, violent and with a passionately political history, hockey is the
sport that defines Canada. The sports columnist tells us how this came
to be, and why hockey, still a thrilling spectacle, has also become
more dangerous to play [19]Read on
Links:
19. https://thebrowser.com/interviews/bruce-dowbiggin-on-ice-hockey
Featured Special Report
[20]Population and Resources
Links:
20. https://thebrowser.com/reports/population-and-resources
Will humans run out of natural resources? Is population growth a danger
to society? Or will human innovation conquer? You decide [21]Read on
Links:
21. https://thebrowser.com/reports/population-and-resources
Reader Recommendations
[22]rszbt Car ownership. RT @[23]MarkThoma: A new measure of the global
middle class - Vox EU [24]t.co/KKkuYehH" #[25]browsings [26]More like
this
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22. http://twitter.com/rszbt
23. http://twitter.com/MarkThoma
24. http://t.co/KKkuYehH
25. http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=#browsings
26. http://thebrowser.com/browsings
Book of the Day
[27]Book of the Day
Links:
27. https://thebrowser.com/recommended/america-book-by-jon-stewart-and-writers-daily-show
[28]America (The Book) by Jon Stewart and the writers of the Daily Show
Links:
28. https://thebrowser.com/recommended/america-book-by-jon-stewart-and-writers-daily-show
[29]Lee Camp says: “There’s not much of a political agenda in this book
but it’s just fall-off-your-chair funny. There are 20 good jokes per
page and it’s 400 pages long”[30]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
29. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/lee-camp-on-political-satire
30. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[31]Speed Of Light
Links:
31. https://thebrowser.com/videos/speed-light
World's smallest live-action police chase. No CGI trickery [32]More
videos
Links:
32. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[33]Carlo Rovelli on science
Links:
33. http://edge.org/conversation/a-philosophy-of-physics
"Science is not about certainty. Science is about finding the most
reliable way of thinking, at the present level of knowledge"
[34]More quotes
Links:
34. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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