Newsletter 707
[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]The Scam Wall Street Learned From The Mafia
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6. http://b.rw/MbeGat
Matt Taibbi | Rolling Stone | 21 June 2012
How banks defrauded small towns across US. "No thumbs were broken, and
nobody ended up in a landfill in New Jersey, but money disappeared,
lots and lots of it, and its manner of disappearance had a familiar
name: Organised crime" [7]Comments
Links:
7. http://thebrowser.com/articles/scam-wall-street-learned-mafia
[8]Why We Help: The Evolution Of Cooperation
Links:
8. http://b.rw/LnxnGT
Martin Nowak | Scientific American | 19 June 2012
"Evolutionary simulations indicate that cooperation is intrinsically
unstable; periods of cooperative prosperity inevitably give way to
defective doom. And yet the altruistic spirit always seems to rebuild
itself" [9]Comments
Links:
9. http://thebrowser.com/articles/why-we-help-evolution-cooperation
[10]In The New Myanmar, The Gulag Endures
Links:
10. http://b.rw/KMSJPV
Andrew Marshall | Reuters | 20 June 2012
"The military junta that ruled Burma for nearly 50 years is gone. But
it is survived by a formidable apparatus of oppression. As the economy
opens up, there are signs that repressive system is being retooled" for
a new purpose [11]Comments
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11. http://thebrowser.com/articles/new-myanmar-gulag-endures
[12]Doctor's Orders
Links:
12. http://b.rw/NcRkNu
Dave Gardetta | Los Angeles | 19 June 2012
"Doc Johnson is the Procter & Gamble of sex toys. Each month the
company pours 125 tons of rubber, manufacturing 330,000 dildos,
vibrators, and synthetic buttocks." Gardetta pays a visit to the
father-son team behind the operation [13]Comments
Links:
13. http://thebrowser.com/articles/doctors-orders
[14]Guest Or Enemy? Welcoming The Stranger
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14. http://b.rw/KVMNiX
Richard Kearney | ABC | 21 June 2012
"The great stories of the biblical tradition that characterises the
three Abrahamic religions – Jewish, Christian and Islamic – are
testaments to the paradoxical origins of religion in both violent
conflict and peaceful embrace" [15]Comments
Links:
15. http://thebrowser.com/articles/guest-or-enemy-welcoming-stranger
[16]Will Your Children Inherit Your E-Books?
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16. http://b.rw/Mb0jmB
Amanda Katz | NPR | 21 June 2012
Presumably yes, if you give them the password to your Amazon account.
They'll be able to keep your marginalia too, if you use the highlights
and notes function on your Kindle. But you have to admit, it doesn't
feel very inspiring [17]Comments
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/articles/will-your-children-inherit-your-e-books
FiveBooks Interview
[18]Matthew Engel on Britishness
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/matthew-engel-on-britishness
Britain is a bewilderingly motley nation of phlegmatic grumblers, says
the author and editor – a seaside resort-going, class-conscious people
haunted by loss of empire, and we can’t even agree on what the country
is called [19]Read on
Links:
19. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/matthew-engel-on-britishness
Featured Special Report
[20]Human Modification
Links:
20. http://thebrowser.com/reports/human-modification
Scientists are experimenting with different ways to enhance humans.
What's possible? And what may be possible in the future? Does messing
with Mother Nature raise ethical questions? [21]Read on
Links:
21. http://thebrowser.com/reports/human-modification
Reader Recommendations
@[22]nuzav Getting Away with It by Paul Krugman and Robin Wells | The
New York Review of Books: [23]t.co/AbShMtoC [24]#browsings [25]More
like this
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22. http://twitter.com/nuzav
23. http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2012/jul/12/getting-away-it/?pagination=false
24. https://twitter.com/search?q=#browsings
25. http://thebrowser.com/browsings
Book of the Day
[26]Book of the Day
Links:
26. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/blood-meridian-by-cormac-mccarthy
[27]Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
Links:
27. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/blood-meridian-by-cormac-mccarthy
[28]Robert Macfarlane says: "For me, this is one of the three great
novels of the last century, along with Lolita and Ulysses. It’s wild in
so many senses" [29]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
28. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/robert-macfarlane-on-wild-places
29. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[30]Moonrise Kingdom Book Shorts
Links:
30. http://thebrowser.com/videos/moonrise-kingdom-book-shorts
Real trailers for fake books in a real film. With a fake librarian who
is a real narrator. is that right? [31]More videos
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31. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[32]Howard Jacobson, on failure
Links:
32. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703296604576005581552948462.html?mod=rss_Lifestyle
Novelists are drawn to failure. Those who prosper in the world as it
is have no need to re-imagine it
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33. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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