Newsletter 726
[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]True Crime
Links:
6. http://b.rw/L5MhxB
Caspar Melville | New Humanist | 9 July 2012
Conversation with death row lawyer Clive Stafford Smith. Precise
evisceration of forensic science, and American justice system.
Unequivocal on death penalty: “Capital punishment means those without
the capital get the punishment” [7]Comments
Links:
7. https://thebrowser.com/articles/true-crime
[8]How To Abolish The Electoral College (Really!)
Links:
8. http://b.rw/L5MXDc
Jeff Strabone | 3 Quarks Daily | 9 July 2012
Small US states have blocked efforts to abolish the electoral college
because they think the present system amplifies their voting power and
a nationwide popular vote would dilute it. But are they right?
Arithmetic suggests not [9]Comments
Links:
9. https://thebrowser.com/articles/how-abolish-electoral-college-really
[10]Reading Each Other
Links:
10. http://b.rw/LbhJzm
Sarah Skwire | Freeman | 1 July 2012
What's the value of art, philosophy, music, literature? None will solve
the world's problems. "The best the humanities can do is to remind us
that, as Auden put it, 'We must love one another or die', and then show
us how to do it" [11]Comments
Links:
11. https://thebrowser.com/articles/reading-each-other
[12]The Anti-Balfour Declaration
Links:
12. http://b.rw/NHFcp8
Hussein Ibish | Daily Beast | 10 July 2012
Benjamin Netanyahu has a problem. A committee he appointed has exceeded
its mandate, with the result that he may be forced to clarify whether
or not Israel sees itself as occupying the West Bank. Here's why he
would rather not say [13]Comments
Links:
13. https://thebrowser.com/articles/anti-balfour-declaration
[14]The Gym Teachers Of Academia
Links:
14. http://b.rw/NfindB
Michael Ruse | Philosopher's Magazine | 9 July 2012
"I am proud to be a philosopher, and I defend to the death the
intrinsic worth of what I am doing. If looking critically at one of the
most important forces in our society – science – is not of worth, then
I do not know what is" [15]Comments
Links:
15. https://thebrowser.com/articles/gym-teachers-academia
[16]Can Oral Sex Cure Morning Sickness?
Links:
16. http://b.rw/NgLg9Q
Jesse Bering | Slate | 10 July 2012
Why do some pregnant women get morning sickness? One view is that it
helps protect the foetus from damaging foods and the mother from
miscarriage. But there is an alternative theory. Which is where the
headline comes in [17]Comments
Links:
17. https://thebrowser.com/articles/can-oral-sex-cure-morning-sickness
FiveBooks Interview
[18]Will Brooker on Comics
Links:
18. https://thebrowser.com/interviews/will-brooker-on-comics
Fed up of superhero films? Hiding your copy of Watchmen behind The
Economist on the train? Comics are a serious literary form as well as
being fun, says the author of a new book on Batman [19]Read on
Links:
19. https://thebrowser.com/interviews/will-brooker-on-comics
Featured Special Report
[20]London and the Olympics
Links:
20. https://thebrowser.com/reports/london-and-olympics
The Games creep ever closer, though in London you'd hardly know it.
Here's a sideways look at the event and its host city [21]Read on
Links:
21. https://thebrowser.com/reports/london-and-olympics
Reader Recommendations
@[22]jessradio 'The Bold Comedians of Syria Strike Back' - my latest
for @[23]TheGlobalMail: [24]t.co/21WRKS2c
#[25]longread #[26]browsings
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22. http://twitter.com/jessradio
23. http://twitter.com/TheGlobalMail
24. http://t.co/21WRKS2c
25. http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=#longread
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
Links:
28. https://thebrowser.com/recommended/dying-words-by-nicholas-evans
[29]Dying Words by Nicholas Evans
Links:
29. https://thebrowser.com/recommended/dying-words-by-nicholas-evans
[30]Nicholas Ostler says: “It’s language history from the point of view
of the “little guy”. Evans gives you an idea of how the world seems
when you speak a very small language”[31]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
30. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/nicholas-ostler-on-history-and-diversity-language
31. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[32]Women Who Refuse To Die
Links:
32. https://thebrowser.com/videos/women-who-refuse-die
Survivors of Srebrenica. A documentary
[33]More videos
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33. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[34]Wittgenstein, on perception
Links:
34. http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/07/wittgenstein-weighs-in-on-the-higgs-boson/259608
"One thinks that one is tracing the outline of the thing's nature,
and one is merely tracing round the frame through which we look at
it"
[35]More quotes
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35. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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