Newsletter 710
[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]Spoiled Rotten
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6. http://b.rw/NrWqWo
Elizabeth Kolbert | New Yorker | 25 June 2012
"Contemporary American kids may represent the most indulged young
people in the history of the world. This is a social experiment on a
grand scale, and a growing number of adults fear that it isn’t working
out so well" [7]Comments
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7. http://thebrowser.com/articles/spoiled-rotten
[8]And The Good Ship Greece Sails On: 'Letter' To An Italian Colleague
Links:
8. http://b.rw/MJSxi8
Yanis Varoufakis | Yanis Varoufakis | 24 June 2012
"It is not that the members of our elites cannot see that Europe is
like a train derailing in slow motion." They can see it, but they can't
articulate a sensible policy response. So they hope for the best. And
the lights go out [9]Comments
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9. http://thebrowser.com/articles/and-good-ship-greece-sails-letter-italian-colleague
[10]Our Underground Future
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10. http://b.rw/MJSdjv
Leon Neyfakh | Boston Globe | 24 June 2012
Does the future of our cities lie underground? Many think so: “As
cities are built up, they’re getting congested, and going underground
is the only way to build capacity." Perhaps not for houses, but for
malls, stadia, power plants? [11]Comments
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11. http://thebrowser.com/articles/our-underground-future
[12]Kingpins
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12. http://b.rw/L99YGz
William Finnegan | New Yorker | 25 June 2012
Fascinating account of crime, drugs and politics in Mexico. "The power
of organised crime now holds hostage large areas of the country,
including major cities, and terrorises the rest with performances of
stupefying violence" [13]Comments
Links:
13. http://thebrowser.com/articles/kingpins
[14]The Many Sides Of Jack Dorsey
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14. http://b.rw/LL0yAo
Steven Levy | Wired | 22 June 2012
"Dorsey is trying to create magic in an industry where people have not
previously sought wonder and delight. In short, he hopes to pull an
Apple on the entire financial world." Here's what Twitter's co-founder
is up to with Square [15]Comments
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15. http://thebrowser.com/articles/many-sides-jack-dorsey
[16]The Most Amazing Bowling Story Ever
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16. http://b.rw/L6fU3d
Michael Mooney | D Magazine | 20 June 2012
Let's keep things in proportion. If you don't bowl, this isn't for you.
But if you do bowl, take a seat, pour a drink—you're going to be here
for a while. The story of how Bill Fong came agonisingly close to
bowling perfection [17]Comments
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/articles/most-amazing-bowling-story-ever
FiveBooks Interview
[18]Sarah Churchwell on The Great Gatsby
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/sarah-churchwell-on-great-gatsby
F Scott Fitzgerald’s classic novel, set during a hedonistic zenith
before the Great Depression, has fresh appeal today as we face down our
own crisis, says the professor of American literature [19]Read on
Links:
19. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/sarah-churchwell-on-great-gatsby
Featured Special Report
[20]Great Obituaries
Links:
20. http://thebrowser.com/reports/great-obituaries
Raise a glass to life's characters with our collection of writing about
eventful, unconventional lives. RIP [21]Read on
Links:
21. http://thebrowser.com/reports/great-obituaries
Reader Recommendations
@davehill77 The Battle for the Soul of Occupy Wall Street
[22]t.co/50XcyrAL #longreads #ows @longform [23]#browsings [24]More
like this
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22. http://t.co/50XcyrAL
23. https://twitter.com/search?q=#browsings
24. http://thebrowser.com/browsings
Book of the Day
[25]Book of the Day
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25. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/collected-poems-by-john-betjeman
[26]Collected Poems by John Betjeman
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26. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/collected-poems-by-john-betjeman
[27]Matthew Engel says: “Betjeman conjured up an Englishness that
nobody else has. He combined an evocation of England with a command of
ordinary human emotions” [28]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
27. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/matthew-engel-on-britishness
28. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[29]Growing Reddit
Links:
29. http://thebrowser.com/videos/growing-reddit
Reddit co-founder explains a little about how the site grew. Including
how the founders posted content from dummy accounts to make it look
busy...
[30]More videos
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30. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[31]Jay Rosen, on pragmatism
Links:
31. http://pressthink.org/2012/06/covering-wicked-problems
"Our knowledge advances not when we have the best theory, or the
best data, or the best lab, but when we have really good problems"
[32]More quotes
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32. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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