Newsletter 693
[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]How Do You Live Knowing You Might Have The Alzheimer's Gene?
Links:
6. http://b.rw/LieiUV
Gina Kolata | NYT | 7 June 2012
Not long ago Alzheimer's was regarded as a degenerative brain disease
with no known cause and no effective treatment. But one family who've
been repeatedly struck by it have been helping the search for
understanding and a cure [7]Comments
Links:
7. http://thebrowser.com/articles/how-do-you-live-knowing-you-might-have-alzheimers-gene
[8]The Netanyahu Paradox
Links:
8. http://b.rw/NNbPm7
David Margolick | Vanity Fair | 7 June 2012
Long profile cum interview with Israeli PM. Focuses on domestic
political scene. "For some Israelis, Israel is confronting two main
problems: One is Iran and the second is Bibi Netanyahu—and not
necessarily in that order" [9]Comments
Links:
9. http://thebrowser.com/articles/netanyahu-paradox
[10]The Lavish And Leveraged Life Of Aubrey McClendon
Links:
10. http://b.rw/KXfxtM
John Shiffman, Anna Driver & Brian Grow | Reuters | 7 June 2012
Life of the 0.0001%. Influential CEO of Chesapeake Energy Corp,
champion of fracking, spender of shareholders' money. Big time. Like
flying his wife's friends to Bermuda in a private jet and billing it to
the company [11]Comments
Links:
11. http://thebrowser.com/articles/lavish-and-leveraged-life-aubrey-mcclendon
[12]Science: A Call For Humility
Links:
12. http://b.rw/NN6DP1
Russell Stannard | Huffington Post | 5 June 2012
Physicist on limits of science. Can't explain why world exists. Can it
even describe world accurately? "What has been written down is not a
description of the world at all, but a description of acts of
observation made on the world" [13]Comments
Links:
13. http://thebrowser.com/articles/science-call-humility
[14]The UN's Fossilized Security Council
Links:
14. http://b.rw/KlmXo4
Lionel Beehner | World Policy Institute | 6 June 2012
UN Security Council needs reform. It has rendered itself powerless to
prevent mass atrocities. Here's a simple suggestion: Add five more
permanent members, give them power of veto. And require two vetoes to
block a resolution [15]Comments
Links:
15. http://thebrowser.com/articles/uns-fossilized-security-council
[16]A Hasty Report From A Tearing Hurry
Links:
16. http://b.rw/NN9mbh
Raymond Tallis | Philosophy Now | 5 June 2012
Notes on time, and the tyranny of the clock. "As we seem to get a grip
on time via numbers, time gets an ever-tighter grip on us. We are like
Gulliver in Lilliput, pinned to the ground by a multitude of
chronological threads" [17]Comments
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/articles/hasty-report-tearing-hurry
FiveBooks Interview
[18]John Dickie on the Italian Mafia
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/john-dickie-on-italian-mafia
The three biggest Italian mafias remain a powerful presence, with
tentacles reaching deep inside Italian business and politics. The
author of Mafia Brotherhoods busts the myth that it’s all in the family
[19]Read on
Links:
19. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/john-dickie-on-italian-mafia
Featured Special Report
[20]Wine
Links:
20. http://thebrowser.com/reports/wine
From filthy plonk to first growth Bordeaux, there's something for every
palate in our cultural and historical survey of wine [21]Read on
Links:
21. http://thebrowser.com/reports/wine
Reader Recommendations
@pritchard33 What Would Augustine Do? The President, Drones, and Just
War Theory: [22]t.co/HbaF50hg #GoodReads [23]#browsings [24]More like
this
Links:
22. http://t.co/HbaF50hg
23. https://twitter.com/search?q=#browsings
24. http://thebrowser.com/browsings
Book of the Day
[25]Book of the Day
Links:
25. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/burqas-foulards-et-minijupes-by-anne-lancelot
[26]Burqas, Foulards et Minijupes by Anne Lancelot
Links:
26. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/burqas-foulards-et-minijupes-by-anne-lancelot
[27]Gayle Lemmon says: “It’s a riveting book, a series of interviews
with women in Afghanistan who lived through the Russian invasion, the
civil war and the Taliban” [28]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
27. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/gayle-lemmon-on-women-and-war
28. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[29]Exorcist Illusion
Links:
29. http://thebrowser.com/videos/exorcist-illusion
Do you see the necks twisting? Well, they're actually solid objects
with no moving parts. Masterful illusion, no CGI
[30]More videos
Links:
30. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[31]Steven Pinker, on category error
Links:
31. http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/letters/2012/06/04/120604mama_mail2
"It is like reading an explanation of global warming and mounting an
indignant defense of greenhouses"
[32]More quotes
Links:
32. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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