Newsletter 721
[1]All of our Best of the Moment article recommendations, plus
FiveBooks interviews and other selected content from thebrower.com
Links:
1. http://thebrowser.com
[6]Brain Time
Links:
6. http://b.rw/RkFXqP
David Eagleman | David Eagleman | 5 July 2012
Fascinating essay. "The days of thinking of time as a river—evenly
flowing, always advancing—are over. Time perception, just like vision,
is a construction of the brain and is shockingly easy to manipulate
experimentally" [7]Comments
Links:
7. http://thebrowser.com/articles/brain-time
[8]Connecticut's Ribbon Of Hardship
Links:
8. http://b.rw/OdeR1d
Esmé Deprez | Businessweek | 5 July 2012
"If income inequality is a topic of ferocious political disagreement,
the issue of mobility provides one thing that liberals and
conservatives agree on: Inching from one end of the economic spectrum
to the other is too hard" [9]Comments
Links:
9. http://thebrowser.com/articles/connecticuts-ribbon-hardship
[10]High-Minded Bigots
Links:
10. http://b.rw/Od8zPa
Francis Wade | Foreign Policy | 5 July 2012
Sectarian rioting in Burma raises a question: Did we over-romanticise
the pro-democracy opposition, mistaking their battle against the junta
for broader commitment to universal human rights? And how will Aung San
Suu Kyi play this? [11]Comments
Links:
11. http://thebrowser.com/articles/high-minded-bigots
[12]The Stupidity Of Computers
Links:
12. http://b.rw/Odbvvd
David Auerbach | n+1 | 5 July 2012
Accessible essay on history and future of artificial intelligence.
"Rather than underscoring the impoverishment of semantic analysis, the
great success of Google has indicated how much can be done in the
absence of that analysis" [13]Comments
Links:
13. http://thebrowser.com/articles/stupidity-computers
[14]Quite Likely The Worst Job Ever
Links:
14. http://b.rw/M0U7i8
Mike Dash | Smithsonian | 3 July 2012
Dash takes us on an excursion underground, to the sewers of 19th
century London where "toshers" roamed the tunnels, searching for items
of value. Biggest danger was not disease or death by suffocation but
attacks by sewer rats [15]Comments
Links:
15. http://thebrowser.com/articles/quite-likely-worst-job-ever
[16]The 20 Most Beautiful Bookstores In The World
Links:
16. http://b.rw/NCfgt5
Emily Temple | Flavorwire | 4 July 2012
Photo gallery. From converted Dominican churches and movie palaces to
contemporary design and making use of the outdoors: Twenty bookshops
from Buenos Aires to Beijing. A bookworm's delight [17]Comments
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/articles/20-most-beautiful-bookstores-world
FiveBooks Interview
[18]Craig Brown on Diaries and Autobiography
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/craig-brown-on-diaries-and-autobiography
The Private Eye satirist and author recommends five entertaining
published diaries, from Andy Warhol to Harpo Marx – and tells us why
parody is a pickpocket [19]Read on
Links:
19. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/craig-brown-on-diaries-and-autobiography
Featured Special Report
[20]Hunt for the Higgs Boson
Links:
20. http://thebrowser.com/reports/hunt-higgs-boson
As CERN claim discovery of a new particle consistent with the Higgs
boson, we delve behind the news and ask: What is the elusive Higgs
boson? Why does it matter whether it exists? If its discovery is
confirmed, what happens next? [21]Read on
Links:
21. http://thebrowser.com/reports/hunt-higgs-boson
Reader Recommendations
@obitmag "To Paint is Very Difficult…" Happy Birthday to Frida Kahlo
t.co/VBaokiVI #longreads #longformorg #somethingtoread [22]#browsings
[23]More like this
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22. https://twitter.com/search?q=#browsings
23. http://thebrowser.com/browsings
Book of the Day
[24]Book of the Day
Links:
24. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/sun-also-rises-by-ernest-heminway
[25]The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Heminway
Links:
25. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/sun-also-rises-by-ernest-heminway
[26]Wai Chee Dimock says: “When the book came out, all his Paris
acquaintances had great fun speculating about who he had based his
characters on” [27]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
26. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/wai-chee-dimock-on-hemingway-paris
27. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[28]The Book That Can't Wait
Links:
28. http://thebrowser.com/videos/book-cant-wait
How to ensure that people who buy a book read it straightaway? Print it
with disappearing ink. Hmm...
[29]More videos
Links:
29. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[30]Enoch Powell, on politics
Links:
30. http://conservativehome.blogs.com/thetorydiary/2012/06/impressive-performance-by-sir-john-major-at-leveson-inquiry.html
"Politicians who complain about the press are like sailors
complaining about the sea"
[31]More quotes
Links:
31. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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