Newsletter 701
[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]How Mapping Neurons Could Reveal How Experiences Affect Mental Wiring
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6. http://b.rw/K7JX8U
Sebastian Seung | Wired UK | 14 June 2012
About the least sexy title imaginable, but a wonderful piece of science
writing. On the connectome, the map of connections between neurons.
What it might have to tell us about human behaviour, and why one mind
differs from another [7]Comments
Links:
7. https://thebrowser.com/articles/how-mapping-neurons-could-reveal-how-experiences-affect-mental-wiring
[8]Cocaine, Inc
Links:
8. http://b.rw/KzCB4i
Patrick Radden Keefe | NYT | 15 June 2012
If you find Mexican drug lords fascinating, this is the piece for you.
Full story of Joaquín Guzmán, and the Sinaloa cartel: "In its
longevity, profitability and scope, it might be the most successful
criminal enterprise in history" [9]Comments
Links:
9. https://thebrowser.com/articles/cocaine-inc
[10]Can Germany Come To The Euro Zone's Rescue?
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10. http://b.rw/KzI231
Robert Samuelson | Washington Post | 11 June 2012
On the limits to what Germany can do in Europe – and why we may be
expecting too much of Angela Merkel [11]Comments
Links:
11. https://thebrowser.com/articles/can-germany-come-euro-zones-rescue
[12]Assad’s Response To Syria Unrest Leaves His Own Sect Divided
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12. http://b.rw/KzHEla
Neil Macfarquhar | NYT | 9 June 2012
It’s a mistake to think that the Alawites in Syria are all unified
behind Assad: As the violence worsens, more will become disillusioned
[13]Comments
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13. https://thebrowser.com/articles/assad’s-response-syria-unrest-leaves-his-own-sect-divided
[14]The Vanishing
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14. http://b.rw/MsWcjS
Bob Friel | Outside | 13 June 2012
They call it the Highway of Tears. It's a 450-mile stretch of road in
northern British Columbia, running through stunning, rugged wilderness.
Alberta to the Pacific. Where at least 18 women, some say many more,
have disappeared [15]Comments
Links:
15. https://thebrowser.com/articles/vanishing
[16]The Mother Of All Girls' Books
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16. http://b.rw/KIMhTj
Deborah Weisgall | American Prospect | 12 June 2012
"Little Women is brutal, a ferocious wolf dressed up in the curly white
sermons and sentimental homilies of children’s stories. Despite
references to a kind and loving father, its fundamental faith lies not
in God but in books" [17]Comments
Links:
17. https://thebrowser.com/articles/mother-all-girls-books
FiveBooks Interview
[18]Paul Theroux on Travelling
Links:
18. https://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. https://thebrowser.com/interviews/paul-theroux-on-travelling
Featured Special Report
[20]Hackers
Links:
20. https://thebrowser.com/reports/hackers
Cars, nuclear plants, computers, phones, webcams -- they all succumb to
hackers in the end [21]Read on
Links:
21. https://thebrowser.com/reports/hackers
Reader Recommendations
@[22]rszbt RT @[23]polit2k: Language, politics and debt | Fraser Nelson
| The Spectator [24]t.co/ZJCPSUhp #[25]browsings #[26]debt v
#[27]deficit #[28]smokeandmirrors @[29]frasernelson
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22. http://twitter.com/rszbt
23. http://twitter.com/polit2k
24. http://t.co/ZJCPSUhp
25. http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=#browsings
26. http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=#debt
27. http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=#deficit
28. http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=#smokeandmirrors
29. http://twitter.com/frasernelson
[30]More like this
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30. http://thebrowser.com/browsings
Book of the Day
[31]Book of the Day
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31. https://thebrowser.com/recommended/penrose-tiles-trapdoor-ciphers-by-martin-gardner
[32]Penrose Tiles to Trapdoor Ciphers by Martin Gardner
Links:
32. https://thebrowser.com/recommended/penrose-tiles-trapdoor-ciphers-by-martin-gardner
[33]Dana Mackenzie says: “This book contains the columns that
introduced the world to two of the most fascinating mathematical
discoveries of the 1970s”[34]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
33. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/dana-mackenzie-on-beauty-and-fun-mathematics
34. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[35]Why Taxes Have To Be Raised On The Rich
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35. https://thebrowser.com/videos/why-taxes-have-be-raised-rich
"Trickle-down economics is bunk"
[36]More videos
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36. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[37]Milton Friedman, on capitalism
Links:
37. http://conversableeconomist.blogspot.com/2012/06/eight-bon-mots-from-milton-friedman.html
"The problem of social organization is how to set up an arrangement
under which greed will do the least harm; capitalism is that kind of
a system"
[38]More quotes
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38. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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