Newsletter 700
[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]Neuroscience: The Mind Reader
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6. http://b.rw/MsW1oK
David Cyranoski | Nature | 12 June 2012
Adrian Owen has achieved the unthinkable: He's found a way to
communicate with people who have been left in vegetative states. But
his research raises issues – should he ask patients if they want to
discontinue life support? [7]Comments
Links:
7. http://thebrowser.com/articles/neuroscience-mind-reader
[8]How Greece Squandered Its Freedom
Links:
8. http://b.rw/LLNSwh
Nikos Konstandaras | IHT | 14 June 2012
Powerful piece on catastrophe unfolding in Greece. "At a moment when
the choices should be as clear as possible the issues are hopelessly
confused by false expectations, false choices and the total failure of
a political class" [9]Comments
Links:
9. http://thebrowser.com/articles/how-greece-squandered-its-freedom
[10]Don't Sweat The Bond Markets
Links:
10. http://b.rw/L9WgXJ
Layna Mosley | Foreign Affairs | 13 June 2012
Backgrounder on government borrowing in the eurozone. Bond markets not
so powerful after all. Investors made mistake of focusing too much on
broad outlines of eurozone project, too little on behaviour of member
states [11]Comments
Links:
11. http://thebrowser.com/articles/dont-sweat-bond-markets
[12]The State Of Gaza: Five Years After Hamas Took Power In The City, How Has
Life Changed For Its Citizens?
Links:
12. http://b.rw/Lpxujj
Donald Macintyre | Independent | 10 June 2012
Fascinating window into Gaza that, happily, focuses not on blood and
misery but practicalities of life as entrepreneur, student, worker. And
the hurdles and work-arounds necessary in such a restrictive business
environment [13]Comments
Links:
13. http://thebrowser.com/articles/state-gaza-five-years-after-hamas-took-power-city-how-has-life-changed-its-citizens
[14]Stalin & Hitler: Mass Murder By Starvation
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14. http://b.rw/MtO96p
Timothy Snyder | NYRB | 14 June 2012
Revisiting a perhaps lesser known tragedy of WWII. "In the contest
between Berlin and Moscow for the lands between them, from Leningrad to
Ukraine, more people were killed by starvation than by any other
method" [15]Comments
Links:
15. http://thebrowser.com/articles/stalin-hitler-mass-murder-starvation
[16]A Case So Cold It Was Blue
Links:
16. http://b.rw/L72jev
Mark Bowden | Vanity Fair | 14 June 2012
"The first thing Nels Rasmussen asked Detective Mayer the day after his
daughter was murdered was 'Have you checked out John’s ex-girlfriend,
the lady cop?'" They hadn't. When they finally did, 23 years later, the
mystery unfolded [17]Comments
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/articles/case-so-cold-it-was-blue
FiveBooks Interview
[18]Paul Theroux on Travelling
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/paul-theroux-on-travelling
Travel is a leap in the dark, says Paul Theroux – and one that will
leave you a different person at the other end. He recommends five
travel books that inspired him, from Mark Twain at sea to VS Naipaul in
India [19]Read on
Links:
19. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/paul-theroux-on-travelling
Featured Special Report
[20]Euro On The Brink
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20. http://thebrowser.com/reports/euro-brink
What's going wrong with the euro? Can the problem be contained? If so,
how? And what if it isn't? Read on to find out [21]Read on
Links:
21. http://thebrowser.com/reports/euro-brink
Reader Recommendations
@polit2k The EU Smiled While Spain’s Banks Cooked the Books | Jonathan
Weil [22]t.co/YocB73VS via @BloombergView #gfc2 [23]#browsings [24]More
like this
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22. http://t.co/YocB73VS
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/wings-by-tom-d-crouch
[26]Wings by Tom D Crouch
Links:
26. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/wings-by-tom-d-crouch
[27]Joseph Corn says: “There have been hundreds of aviation history
surveys but this is by far the best one-volume study that we have. It’s
comprehensive and takes a wide view” [28]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
27. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/joseph-corn-on-aviation-history
28. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[29]10 Bets You Will Always Win
Links:
29. http://thebrowser.com/videos/10-bets-you-will-always-win
Paul Newman got his thumbs broken for this sort of thing [30]More
videos
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30. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[31]Warren Buffett, on brevity
Links:
31. http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/2012/06/11/exclusive-warren-buffett-a-few-lessons-for-investors-and-managers
"The truly big investment idea can usually be explained in a short
paragraph"
[32]More quotes
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32. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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