Newsletter 699
[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]A Drug Family In The Winner's Circle
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6. http://b.rw/MsWIOS
Ginger Thompson | NYT | 12 June 2012
Mexico's most notorious drug cartel, the Zetas, is accused of
laundering drug money through American horse racing. Days after a raid
on the group's ranch and stables in Oklahoma, here is the story of how
it allegedly worked [7]Comments
Links:
7. https://thebrowser.com/articles/drug-family-winners-circle
[8]Welcome Back To 1931
Links:
8. http://b.rw/LJHcjn
Bradford DeLong & Barry Eichengreen | Credit Writedowns | 12 June 2012
Kindleberger’s classic on the Great Depression appeared 40 years ago.
Introducing a new edition, two economists say: "The parallels between
Europe in the 1930s and Europe today are stark, striking, and
increasingly frightening" [9]Comments
Links:
9. https://thebrowser.com/articles/welcome-back-1931
[10]Suddenly That Summer
Links:
10. http://b.rw/L71zG1
Sheila Weller | Vanity Fair | 14 June 2012
"In a 25-square-block area of San Francisco, in the summer of 1967, an
ecstatic, Dionysian mini-world sprang up like a mushroom, dividing
American culture into a Before and After unparalleled since World War
II" [11]Comments
Links:
11. https://thebrowser.com/articles/suddenly-summer
[12]Road To Valor
Links:
12. http://b.rw/LJMV8T
Aili McConnon & Andres McConnon | Sports Illustrated | 12 June 2012
On Gino Bartali, Italian cyclist and hero. Won 1938 Tour de France.
Risked life in wartime to save hundreds of Jews from Nazis. Ferried
materiel around Italy, hidden in his bike, pretending to be training.
Came back, won 1948 Tour [13]Comments
Links:
13. https://thebrowser.com/articles/road-valor
[14]A Few Lessons For Investors and Managers
Links:
14. http://b.rw/L74eAO
Warren Buffett | Four Hour Work Week | 11 June 2012
Extracts from new book collecting the sage's ruminations on business
over the past 30 years. Every one a gem. "In a business selling a
commodity-type product, it’s impossible to be a lot smarter than your
dumbest competitor" [15]Comments
Links:
15. https://thebrowser.com/articles/few-lessons-investors-and-managers
[16]Can Music Save Your Life?
Links:
16. http://b.rw/MGoyb8
Mark Edmundson | Chronicle Review | 3 June 2012
Reflections on music."Schopenhauer says most reading is letting other
people think your thoughts for you. I'd add that most music listening
is about letting other people feel your feelings for you. Feel them for
yourself, I say" [17]Comments
Links:
17. https://thebrowser.com/articles/can-music-save-your-life
FiveBooks Interview
[18]Joseph Corn on Aviation History
Links:
18. https://thebrowser.com/interviews/joseph-corn-on-aviation-history
The historian and author pilots us through a century of aviation, from
the excitement that greeted the first airplanes to the transformative
role of World War II and today’s frequent flyers [19]Read on
Links:
19. https://thebrowser.com/interviews/joseph-corn-on-aviation-history
Featured Special Report
[20]Democracy
Links:
20. https://thebrowser.com/reports/democracy
Are Western states true democracies? Has democracy become a casualty of
the financial crisis? Can you have too much democracy? Read on to find
out [21]Read on
Links:
21. https://thebrowser.com/reports/democracy
Reader Recommendations
@[22]polit2k MT @[23]moorehn: Okay, Britons! Find out what all the
hoopla about Jamie Dimon was about. My column 4 @[24]Guardian:
[25]t.co/3CKfI3Th #[26]browsings
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22. http://twitter.com/polit2k
23. http://twitter.com/moorehn
24. http://twitter.com/Guardian
25. http://t.co/3CKfI3Th
26. http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=#browsings
[27]More like this
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27. http://thebrowser.com/browsings
Book of the Day
[28]Book of the Day
Links:
28. https://thebrowser.com/recommended/dot-and-line-by-norton-juster
[29]The Dot and the Line by Norton Juster
Links:
29. https://thebrowser.com/recommended/dot-and-line-by-norton-juster
[30]Dana Mackenzie says: “It’s a simple story about a romance between a
dot and a line, and a way of teaching mathematical concepts to kids
without them even realising it” [31]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
30. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/dana-mackenzie-on-beauty-and-fun-mathematics
31. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[32]Augmented Reality: Projection Mapping
Links:
32. https://thebrowser.com/videos/augmented-reality-projection-mapping
These are the days of lasers in the jungle [33]More videos
Links:
33. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[34]Jonah Lehrer, on Bob Dylan
Links:
34. http://www.tnr.com/article/books-and-arts/magazine/103912/bob-dylan-jonah-lehrer-creativity
"He could write vivid lines filled with possibility without knowing
exactly what those possibilities were"
[35]More quotes
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35. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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