Newsletter 725
[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]War Is Betrayal
Links:
6. http://b.rw/L5zDPl
Chris Hedges | Boston Review | 7 July 2012
In America, it's not the rich kids who go to war. It's the children
from working-class and jobless families. Recruiters lead them on with
tales of sex, danger, heroism. They go out all fired up. They come back
broken [7]Comments
Links:
7. http://thebrowser.com/articles/war-betrayal
[8]Lies, Damn Lies And Libor
Links:
8. http://b.rw/Oto7hW
Anonymous | London Banker | 10 July 2012
"Global banks have built the casinos and tilted the odds in the house's
favour by rigging the data that determines the outcomes of most of the
bets on the table. Every one of us that sits at the table long enough
will be a loser" [9]Comments
Links:
9. http://thebrowser.com/articles/lies-damn-lies-and-libor
[10]Roid Age
Links:
10. http://b.rw/Njsj60
Greg Downey | Neuroanthropology | 9 July 2012
It's ok for a middle-aged man to take steroids because he no longer has
the energy, or erections, of a 20-year-old. But not for an athlete to
enhance their performance. Why do we have this "paradoxical
pharmacological puritanism"? [11]Comments
Links:
11. http://thebrowser.com/articles/roid-age
[12]Gina Rinehart: The World's 'Richest Woman'
Links:
12. http://b.rw/LbjXi3
Nick Bryant | BBC | 9 July 2012
Profile of easy-to-dislike Australian mining heiress, reputed to be
world's richest woman. Famously litigious, aggressive, controlling.
Fell out with her father, his business partner, her husband and now
three of her children too [13]Comments
Links:
13. http://thebrowser.com/articles/gina-rinehart-worlds-richest-woman
[14]Armor On The Field: The NFL's Headlong Race To Build The Unbreakable
Linebacker
Links:
14. http://b.rw/OtlDQN
Sean Conboy | Wired | 9 July 2012
Interesting piece about company making military-grade Kevlar padding
for sports equipment. Not so much about building robo-players as trying
to reduce wave of concussions and other injuries. Can this "bulletproof
silk" help? [15]Comments
Links:
15. http://thebrowser.com/articles/armor-field-nfls-headlong-race-build-unbreakable-linebacker
[16]Lessons From A Demigod
Links:
16. http://b.rw/Nf7SXB
Philip Freeman | National Endowment For The Humanities | 1 July 2012
Why is the ancient Epic of Gilgamesh still so popular today? It's
because the characters in it remain "painfully familiar", and its
universal themes of loneliness, companionship, love, loss, and death
still resonate loudly [17]Comments
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/articles/lessons-demigod
FiveBooks Interview
[18]Nicholas Ostler on the History and Diversity of Language
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/nicholas-ostler-on-history-and-diversity-language
The scholar of language tells us about the progress of the spoken word
from 3000 BC to today, how two languages disappear every month, and the
50,000-word novel written without using the letter “e” [19]Read on
Links:
19. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/nicholas-ostler-on-history-and-diversity-language
Featured Special Report
[20]Paying for the US Election
Links:
20. http://thebrowser.com/reports/paying-election
How much is Romney vs Obama 2012 going to cost? Who's paying? And what
do they expect in return? [21]Read on
Links:
21. http://thebrowser.com/reports/paying-election
Reader Recommendations
@whitebluewhite The What and Why of music, Michael Tilson Thomas: Music
and emotion through time [22]t.co/2s7zoDrT #TED [23]#browsings [24]More
like this
Links:
22. http://t.co/2s7zoDrT
23. https://twitter.com/search?q=#browsings
24. http://thebrowser.com/browsings
Book of the Day
[25]Book of the Day
Links:
25. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/reading-romance-by-janice-radway
[26]Reading the Romance by Janice Radway
Links:
26. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/reading-romance-by-janice-radway
[27]Leah Price says: “Radway’s innovation was that, rather than
analysing the language of romance novels, she looked at the way the
women who read these books talked about them” [28]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
27. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/leah-price-on-history-reading
28. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[29]What Is A Flame?
Links:
29. http://thebrowser.com/videos/what-flame
In case a child ever asks, just show them this. The genius is in the
simplicity, and accuracy, of this explanation
[30]More videos
Links:
30. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[31]Ken Segall, on meetings
Links:
31. http://www.fastcodesign.com/1669936/meetings-are-a-skill-you-can-master-and-steve-jobs-taught-me-how
"Every time the body count goes higher, you’re inviting complexity
to take a seat at the table"
[32]More quotes
Links:
32. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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