Newsletter 735
[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]Global Warming's Terrifying New Math
Links:
6. http://b.rw/OLJRF2
Bill McKibben | Rolling Stone | 19 July 2012
"When we think about global warming at all, the arguments tend to be
ideological, theological and economic. But to grasp the seriousness of
our predicament, you just need to do a little math." Here are the three
numbers that matter [7]Comments
Links:
7. http://thebrowser.com/articles/global-warmings-terrifying-new-math
[8]Krugmenistan vs. Estonia
Links:
8. http://b.rw/Mce7dw
Brendan Greeley | Businessweek | 19 July 2012
Who does economics better—Paul Krugman, or Toomas Ilves, president of
Estonia? Krugman has a Nobel. But Ilves has a country to run, and calls
Krugman a condescending ivory-tower American who doesn't understand
Europe [9]Comments
Links:
9. http://thebrowser.com/articles/krugmenistan-vs-estonia
[10]The Shoebox Swindle
Links:
10. http://b.rw/MMd03m
Frances Coppola | Coppola Comment | 18 July 2012
Fun allegory about banking. "A man goes into his local bank. 'I want to
borrow £1,000,' he says. The bank manager gets out a shoebox. Then he
seals the box and stamps it with an official bank stamp saying '£1,000'
(h/t @polit2k) [11]Comments
Links:
11. http://thebrowser.com/articles/shoebox-swindle
[12]Anthrax Has Hit Glasgow
Links:
12. http://b.rw/Oe0riD
Yudhijit Bhattacharjee | Wired UK | 19 July 2012
Scotland is home to 50,000 heroin addicts, many of whom live on
Glasgow's streets. Back in 2010 authorities uncovered a batch of heroin
that was contaminated with anthrax. Here's a gripping account of the
race to find the source [13]Comments
Links:
13. http://thebrowser.com/articles/anthrax-has-hit-glasgow
[14]Stuck In The Mud
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14. http://b.rw/Q7cwM6
Vanda Felbab-Brown | Foreign Affairs | 18 July 2012
Logistics of getting the West out of Afghanistan by 2014. "For all
military equipment to be removed in time, a container would have to
leave the country every seven minutes, 24 hours a day, seven days a
week, starting now" [15]Comments
Links:
15. http://thebrowser.com/articles/stuck-mud
[16]Greg Ousley Is Sorry For Killing His Parents. Is That Enough?
Links:
16. http://b.rw/OsDZE9
Scott Anderson | NYT | 19 July 2012
He was 14, the focus of his mother's rage, with a father who appeared
not to care. Things came to a head and he shot them dead. Sent into the
adult justice system, he was sentenced to 60 years. What sort of future
should he have? [17]Comments
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/articles/greg-ousley-sorry-killing-his-parents-enough
FiveBooks Interview
[18]Alan Rusbridger on the Future of News
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/alan-rusbridger-on-future-news
The editor of the Guardian talks to us about brave new frontiers for
journalism, the hunt for a business model to pay for it all, and what
he hopes (and fears) the Leveson inquiry will decide about press
regulation [19]Read on
Links:
19. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/alan-rusbridger-on-future-news
Featured Special Report
[20]Human Modification
Links:
20. http://thebrowser.com/reports/human-modification
Scientists are experimenting with different ways to enhance humans.
What's possible? And what may be possible in the future? Does messing
with Mother Nature raise ethical questions? [21]Read on
Links:
21. http://thebrowser.com/reports/human-modification
Reader Recommendations
@polit2k 'Blowing Up the King David Hotel' | Niv Elis | Tablet
[22]t.co/RDixLVad via @tabletmag [23]#browsings [24]More like this
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22. http://t.co/RDixLVad
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/house-fire-by-william-h-foege
[26]House on Fire by William H Foege
Links:
26. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/house-fire-by-william-h-foege
[27]Thomas Frieden says: “A fantastic book about the fight to eradicate
smallpox. Even though we know how it comes out, it’s still a
page-turner” [28]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
27. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/thomas-frieden-on-public-health
28. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[29]The Big Short by Michael Lewis
Links:
29. http://thebrowser.com/videos/big-short-michael-lewis
Does he regret that he made the shorts heroes?
[30]More videos
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30. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[31]Derek Parfit, on the universe
Links:
31. http://www.lrb.co.uk/v20/n02/derek-parfit/why-anything-why-this
"An earthworm’s brain is more complicated than a lifeless galaxy"
[32]More quotes
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32. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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