Newsletter 718
[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]Roberts Switched Views To Uphold Health Care Law
Links:
6. http://b.rw/N3VRVe
Jan Crawford | CBS | 1 July 2012
An impressive scoop. And probably as full an account as we can hope for
in the short term of the manoeuvring behind the health-care verdict.
But it can't be good for America to have the Supreme Court leaking and
spinning like this [7]Comments
Links:
7. http://thebrowser.com/articles/roberts-switched-views-uphold-health-care-law
[8]Where The Money Lives
Links:
8. http://b.rw/MR9mFI
Nicholas Shaxson | Vanity Fair | 3 July 2012
"I pay all the taxes that are legally required, not a dollar more." So
says Mitt Romney. "The assertion that he broke no laws is widely
accepted. But it is worth asking if it is actually true. The answer
isn’t straightforward" [9]Comments
Links:
9. http://thebrowser.com/articles/where-money-lives
[10]Why Are Jim Thorpe’s Olympic Records Still Not Recognized?
Links:
10. http://b.rw/R1O63k
Sally Jenkins | Smithsonian | 28 June 2012
He's the greatest athlete you've never heard of. Won Olympic golds in
both pentathlon and decathlon at 1912 games. His time for 1500m
remained unbeaten until 1972. Breakfasted on squirrel. Chased dogs
through the forests at night [11]Comments
Links:
11. http://thebrowser.com/articles/why-are-jim-thorpe’s-olympic-records-still-not-recognized
[12]Barclays Libor Scandal: How Can We Change Banking Culture?
Links:
12. http://b.rw/LMxYCn
Aditya Chakrabortty | Guardian | 2 July 2012
Terrific piece on scale of UK's latest finance scandal. "'What happened
to the British in the early 21st century?', a future historian will
ask. 'Poor sods,' her colleague might reply. 'I'm afraid they got
totally bankered'" [13]Comments
Links:
13. http://thebrowser.com/articles/barclays-libor-scandal-how-can-we-change-banking-culture
[14]Catholic Church Fears Growing Vatican Bank Scandal
Links:
14. http://b.rw/QVDN0H
Andreas Wassermann & Peter Wensierski | Spiegel | 2 July 2012
Finely judged headline. There is indeed something intrinsically and
permanently scandalous about the IOR, whose core mission seems to be
the laundering of money for God and others. The trick is to keep the
scandal from growing [15]Comments
Links:
15. http://thebrowser.com/articles/catholic-church-fears-growing-vatican-bank-scandal
[16]Extraordinary Microscope Photographs
Links:
16. http://b.rw/N3Xdzi
Various | Big Picture | 28 June 2012
Gallery of 19 beautiful and fascinating photographs from the Olympus
BioScapes Digital Imaging Competition, currently on display at the New
York Hall of Science. Personal favourites: Stinkbug eggs, and a
damselfly eye [17]Comments
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/articles/extraordinary-microscope-photographs
FiveBooks Interview
[18]Philip Mansel on The Levant
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/philip-mansel-on-levant
Before the era of nation states, the great Levantine cities of Beirut,
Alexandria and Smyrna experienced what may seem like a golden age, as
the author of Levant explains [19]Read on
Links:
19. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/philip-mansel-on-levant
Featured Special Report
[20]Hunt for the Higgs Boson
Links:
20. http://thebrowser.com/reports/hunt-higgs-boson
What is the elusive Higgs boson? Why does it matter whether it exists
or not? And if we do find it, what happens then? [21]Read on
Links:
21. http://thebrowser.com/reports/hunt-higgs-boson
Reader Recommendations
@[22]henrylf Some Outrageous Facts about Inequality: Second point is
important to remember [23]t.co/bLhaomQW [24]#browsings [25]More like
this
Links:
22. http://twitter.com/henrylf
23. http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/07/02-0
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/book-salt-by-monique-truong
[27]The Book of Salt by Monique Truong
Links:
27. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/book-salt-by-monique-truong
[28]Wai Chee Dimock says: “She chooses to write about 1930s Paris
through the eyes of Binh, the Vietnamese cook employed by Gertrude
Stein and Alice B Toklas” [29]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
28. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/wai-chee-dimock-on-hemingway-paris
29. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[30]11 Months, 3,000 Pictures and a Lot of Coffee
Links:
30. http://thebrowser.com/videos/11-months-3000-pictures-and-lot-coffee
Did your parents ever tell you not to take things apart in case you
couldn't put them back together again? Here's the solution
[31]More videos
Links:
31. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[32]John Lanchester, on concern
Links:
32. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Capital-John-Lanchester/dp/0571234607
"The person doing the worrying experiences it as a form of love; the
person being worried about experiences it as a form of control"
[33]More quotes
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33. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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