Newsletter 720
[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]Local Wars Blur Al Qaeda's Threat To West
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6. http://b.rw/MAblm6
William Maclean | Reuters | 5 July 2012
"Al Qaeda has become a useful label for any group that pursues local
aims but wishes to exaggerate its reach and sophistication." There's no
longer a centrally-directed network; Bin Laden's ideas are being
politely ignored [7]Comments
Links:
7. https://thebrowser.com/articles/local-wars-blur-al-qaedas-threat-west
[8]Crisis Forces 'Dismal Science' To Get Real
Links:
8. http://b.rw/LNa0Xr
Sara Ledwith & Antonella Ciancio | Reuters | 3 July 2012
Orthodox economics is in crisis. Many tenets look flawed; its models
divorced from reality. Can it adapt? It needs to: "If students of
medicine would learn such rubbish, you would be afraid to go to your
doctor, no?" [9]Comments
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9. https://thebrowser.com/articles/crisis-forces-dismal-science-get-real
[10]The Age Of Illusion
Links:
10. http://b.rw/NC8GCB
Jake Blumgart | Jacobin | 17 June 2012
Thought-provoking interview with political commentator Chris Hayes.
"Meritocracy contains the seeds of its own destruction. It concedes
inequality. As an ethos it doesn’t trouble itself with what the results
are going to be" [11]Comments
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11. https://thebrowser.com/articles/age-illusion
[12]What If He'd Made It Earlier?
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12. http://b.rw/M7eyEQ
David Runciman | London Review Of Books | 4 July 2012
Volume four of Robert Caro's monumental LBJ biography has already been
widely reviewed, but this late addition to the ranks is a hugely
satisfying, informative and enjoyable read. The story begins with the
presidential race of 1960 [13]Comments
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13. https://thebrowser.com/articles/what-if-hed-made-it-earlier
[14]California's Bioterror Mystery
Links:
14. http://b.rw/RdhjIp
Zoe Corbyn | Failure | 1 July 2012
Not everyone likes California's eucalyptus trees. Not the insect pests
that are attacking them – and maybe not just the insects. One scientist
is convinced the pests were introduced deliberately. Is it a case of
bioterrorism? [15]Comments
Links:
15. https://thebrowser.com/articles/californias-bioterror-mystery
[16]You’re Addicted To What?
Links:
16. http://b.rw/N8VsAW
Marty Klein | Humanist | 1 July 2012
"In thirty-one years as a sex therapist, marriage counselor, and
psychotherapist, I’ve never seen sex addiction. I’ve heard about
virtually every sexual variation, obsession, fantasy, trauma, but I’ve
never seen sex addiction" [17]Comments
Links:
17. https://thebrowser.com/articles/you’re-addicted-what
FiveBooks Interview
[18]Carol Dweck on Success
Links:
18. https://thebrowser.com/interviews/carol-dweck-on-success
Challenge-seeking, resilience and the right attitude towards failure
are key factors in success, says the researcher and author of Mindset,
who tells us about growth versus fixed mindsets, and how to change your
brain [19]Read on
Links:
19. https://thebrowser.com/interviews/carol-dweck-on-success
Featured Special Report
[20]The Libor Scandal
Links:
20. https://thebrowser.com/reports/libor-scandal
Barclays has been fined and its chief executive forced out. What's it
all about? And who's next? [21]Read on
Links:
21. https://thebrowser.com/reports/libor-scandal
Reader Recommendations
@[22]obitmag King Zahir Shah, and the Exiled Monarch: On the Lost
Archetype of Deposed Royalty [23]t.co/XHSAayLo #[24]longreads
#[25]longformorg #[26]browsings
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22. http://twitter.com/obitmag
23. http://t.co/XHSAayLo
24. http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=#longreads
25. http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=#longformorg
26. http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=#browsings
[27]More like this
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27. http://thebrowser.com/browsings
Book of the Day
[28]Book of the Day
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28. https://thebrowser.com/recommended/too-much-know-by-ann-m-blair
[29]Too Much To Know by Ann Blair
Links:
29. https://thebrowser.com/recommended/too-much-know-by-ann-m-blair
[30]Leah Price says: “It forces us to question the self-pitying sense
in which we think we are more deluged by information than anyone was
ever before”[31]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
30. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/leah-price-on-history-reading
31. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[32]David Mitchell's Soapbox: The Atkins Diet
Links:
32. https://thebrowser.com/videos/david-mitchells-soapbox-atkins-diet
Who'd want a bacon sandwich without the sandwich?
[33]More videos
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33. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[34]Christopher Hitchens, on Bashar al-Assad
Links:
34. http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/post/syrias-torture-archipelago-and-romneys-listless-foreign-policy/2012/07/03/gJQA1MgHLW_blog.html
"Bony-thin and with a scrubby moustache, he looks for all the world
like a cretin impersonating a toothbrush"
[35]More quotes
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35. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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