Newsletter 695
[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]What Would Augustine Do?
Links:
6. http://b.rw/KOOpia
David Luban | Boston Review | 6 June 2012
On President Obama, drones and just war theory. We're told he
personally approves targets and is a student of Augustine and Thomas
Aquinas. So do the arguments of these Christian writers support the
morality of Obama's actions? [7]Comments
Links:
7. https://thebrowser.com/articles/what-would-augustine-do
[8]America's Last Prisoner Of War
Links:
8. http://b.rw/MSmn6A
Michael Hastings | Rolling Stone | 7 June 2012
Three years ago, a 23-year-old American soldier walked off his base in
Afghanistan and into the hands of the Taliban. Now he’s a crucial pawn
in negotiations to end the war. But not everyone, Taliban or American,
wants to do a deal [9]Comments
Links:
9. https://thebrowser.com/articles/americas-last-prisoner-war
[10]Of Flying Cars And The Declining Rate Of Profit
Links:
10. http://b.rw/MpwCJQ
David Graeber | Baffler | 4 June 2012
Futurologists thought we would have flying cars, force-fields, tractor
beams, teleportation, antigravity sleds, immortality drugs and space
colonies. But the only technologies to have advanced since the 1970s
are those of simulation [11]Comments
Links:
11. https://thebrowser.com/articles/flying-cars-and-declining-rate-profit
[12]Brother Number One
Links:
12. http://b.rw/MSjGlx
Shadi Hamid | Foreign Policy | 7 June 2012
Who is Mohamed Morsi, the man from the Muslim Brotherhood eyeing
Egypt's presidency? He's a 9/11 conspiracy theorist who views US
society with apparent contempt. He also references "The Deer Hunter"
and has two American children [13]Comments
Links:
13. https://thebrowser.com/articles/brother-number-one
[14]Odyssey And The Lost Spanish Treasure
Links:
14. http://b.rw/MSpNWY
Susan Berfield | Businessweek | 7 June 2012
Odyssey Marine Exploration is an American deep-sea treasure hunting
company. It recently lost a legal battle over a haul of silver coins
recovered from a Spanish wreck. But Odyssey's boss is unworried. More,
much more, is to come [15]Comments
Links:
15. https://thebrowser.com/articles/odyssey-and-lost-spanish-treasure
[16]Russia's Grandest Master
Links:
16. http://b.rw/Klpcb0
Anonymous | World Policy Institute | 5 June 2012
Conversation with Garry Kasparov, on chess, politics, Putin. In chess
there are fixed rules and uncertain outcomes. In Russian politics,
opposite is true: "The outcome is known before, and the rules can
change at any time" [17]Comments
Links:
17. https://thebrowser.com/articles/russias-grandest-master
FiveBooks Interview
[18]Humphrey Davies on Egyptian Writing
Links:
18. https://thebrowser.com/interviews/humphrey-davies-on-egyptian-writing
Leading Arabic-English literary translator, who has lived in Cairo for
the past 35 years, paints a picture of contemporary Egypt through words
and graphic narratives [19]Read on
Links:
19. https://thebrowser.com/interviews/humphrey-davies-on-egyptian-writing
Featured Special Report
[20]Consciousness
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20. https://thebrowser.com/reports/consciousness
What is it? Where did it come from? How can we learn more about it?
Here's a quick look at what we do and don't know about consciousness
[21]Read on
Links:
21. https://thebrowser.com/reports/consciousness
Reader Recommendations
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23. http://twitter.com/tim_weber
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27. http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=#austerity
[28]More like this
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28. http://thebrowser.com/browsings
Book of the Day
[29]Book of the Day
Links:
29. https://thebrowser.com/recommended/i-go-sleep-by-sj-watson
[30]Before I Go To Sleep by SJ Watson
Links:
30. https://thebrowser.com/recommended/i-go-sleep-by-sj-watson
[31]Tess Gerritsen says: “This is a domestic thriller, by a man writing
from a female point of view. He had me convinced from the first
paragraph” [32]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
31. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/tess-gerritsen-on-favourite-thrillers
32. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[33]Your Eyes Are Stupid
Links:
33. https://thebrowser.com/videos/your-eyes-are-stupid
Optical illusions deconstructed by ZeFrank [34]More videos
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34. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[35]Venkatesh Rao, on technology
Links:
35. http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2012/06/05/towards-an-appreciative-view-of-technology
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from
nature"
[36]More quotes
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36. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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