Newsletter 729
[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]Is Mitt Romney Going To Go The Way Of Thomas Dewey In '48?
Links:
6. http://b.rw/LP0XYr
Robert Brent Toplin | History News Network | 2 July 2012
History News Network suggests that Mitt Romney's evasiveness about how
he plans to tackle America's problems is reminiscent of the failed
strategy of Harry Truman's overconfident opponent in that memorable
race of 1948 [7]Comments
Links:
7. http://thebrowser.com/articles/mitt-romney-going-go-way-thomas-dewey-48
[8]The 50th Anniversary Of Starfish Prime: The Nuke That Shook The World
Links:
8. http://b.rw/LOXCZe
Phil Plait | Bad Astronomy | 9 July 2012
This excellent blogpost is a reminder of dark days when scientists
pushed the button on some terrifying upper-atmosphere nuclear tests
despite having no idea of the likely consequences [9]Comments
Links:
9. http://thebrowser.com/articles/50th-anniversary-starfish-prime-nuke-shook-world
[10]The Education Of Groupon CEO Andrew Mason
Links:
10. http://b.rw/Np4GHs
Lauren Etter & Douglas MacMillan | Businessweek | 12 July 2012
Catching up with tech's most frequently ridiculed CEO, Andrew Mason.
Nowadays you'll find him working evening shifts as maitre d' at a
Japanese restaurant in Chicago. No, he hasn't abandoned Groupon. So
what on earth is he up to? [11]Comments
Links:
11. http://thebrowser.com/articles/education-groupon-ceo-andrew-mason
[12]Five Delusions About Our Broken Politics
Links:
12. http://b.rw/OtpvRN
Thomas Mann & Norman Ornstein | American Interest | 1 July 2012
American politics has become deeply dysfunctional. And there is no
cause for complacency. Here are five common responses that assuredly
won't fix the situation. Starting with the idea that the system will
correct itself [13]Comments
Links:
13. http://thebrowser.com/articles/five-delusions-about-our-broken-politics
[14]The Ballad Of The Piggyback Bandit
Links:
14. http://b.rw/LOWKnx
Bryan Curtis | Grantland | 11 July 2012
I've had an eye for odd crimes ever since covering the Illinois Enema
Bandit for Fortean Times. Sherwin Shayegan, who has an uncontrollable
urge to leap onto people for piggyback rides, is a sadder but equally
compelling case [15]Comments
Links:
15. http://thebrowser.com/articles/ballad-piggyback-bandit
[16]40 Of The Most Powerful Photographs Ever Taken
Links:
16. http://b.rw/LOW7dz
Various | Bookfaked | 31 May 2012
Not all pictures are worth a thousand words. Some are worth more, as
this recently updated post shows. Not all the picks are outright
winners, but the ones that are hit hard [17]Comments
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/articles/40-most-powerful-photographs-ever-taken
FiveBooks Interview
[18]Bernard Bailyn on Atlantic History
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/bernard-bailyn-on-atlantic-history
The Harvard professor and Pulitzer prize-winning historian recommends
reading on three centuries of empire, conflict and slave trading
between the Americas, Europe and Africa [19]Read on
Links:
19. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/bernard-bailyn-on-atlantic-history
Featured Special Report
[20]David Foster Wallace
Links:
20. http://thebrowser.com/reports/david-foster-wallace
In memory of one of America's finest modern fiction writers [21]Read on
Links:
21. http://thebrowser.com/reports/david-foster-wallace
Reader Recommendations
@polit2k London 2012: Welcome to the Censorship Olympics
[22]t.co/YL0ftivW via @MailOnline #london2012 #olympics #censorship
[23]#browsings [24]More like this
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22. http://t.co/YL0ftivW
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/smile-or-die-by-barbara-ehrenreich
[26]Smile or Die by Barbara Ehrenreich
Links:
26. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/smile-or-die-by-barbara-ehrenreich
[27]Oliver Burkeman says: "This is a brilliant political polemic, and a
critique of the problematic effects of positive thinking" [28]FiveBooks
Archive
Links:
27. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/oliver-burkeman-on-happiness-through-negative-thinking
28. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[29]Titan's Metamorphosis
Links:
29. http://thebrowser.com/videos/titans-metamorphosis
Angela Carter is alive and well and making short videos [30]More videos
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30. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[31]Edwin Heathcote, on Dubai
Links:
31. http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/dd9bba18-769c-11e0-bd5d-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1LpkdgTGh
It has spent its history announcing its arrival but hasn’t a clue what
to do when it gets there
[32]More quotes
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32. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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