Newsletter 736
[1]All of our Best of the Moment article recommendations, plus
FiveBooks interviews and other selected content from thebrower.com
Links:
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[6]Is Autism An 'Epidemic' Or Are We Just Noticing More People Who Have It?
Links:
6. http://b.rw/Mvya7w
Emily Willingham | The Crux | 11 July 2012
Autism is like a pool muddied by murky streams. Willingham clears these
up. You'll see the whole business — surface, depths, contours — far
better [7]Comments
Links:
7. https://thebrowser.com/articles/autism-epidemic-or-are-we-just-noticing-more-people-who-have-it
[8]Where Obama Shines
Links:
8. http://b.rw/Mvv8jA
David Brooks | NYT | 19 July 2012
In this "age of anxiety", Obama has managed foreign policy very well.
"You don’t need big, bold visionaries. You need leaders who pay minute
attention to the fleeting properties of each region’s specific
circumstances" [9]Comments
Links:
9. https://thebrowser.com/articles/where-obama-shines
[10]The Genetics Of Stupidity
Links:
10. http://b.rw/MvB109
Kevin Mitchell | Wiring The Brain | 5 July 2012
To understand intelligence, maybe we should look not for what creates
it, but for what destroys it. Fresh thinking and a great example of why
scientists should blog [11]Comments
Links:
11. https://thebrowser.com/articles/genetics-stupidity
[12]One More Massacre
Links:
12. http://b.rw/MzBVfK
Adam Gopnik | New Yorker | 20 July 2012
"Every country has, along with its core civilities and traditions, some
kind of inner madness. In America, it is the belief that guns designed
to kill people can be widely available and not end with people being
killed" [13]Comments
Links:
13. https://thebrowser.com/articles/one-more-massacre
[14]Prodigal Frum
Links:
14. http://b.rw/LE4g38
Mark Oppenheimer | Nation | 11 July 2012
Profile of David Frum. Coined the phrase "axis of evil" when writing
speeches for George W Bush. Now he's a leading critic of the Republican
right. Says the party has changed, not him. Truth is more complicated.
And Canadian [15]Comments
Links:
15. https://thebrowser.com/articles/prodigal-frum
[16]How To Win Marathons
Links:
16. http://b.rw/MMyMEe
Jeremy Clarke | Global Mail | 19 July 2012
Last year, 151 athletes in the world ran under two hours, 10 minutes
for the marathon. Of these, 121, including the 20 fastest, were Kenyan.
Clarke visits the village of Iten in the Kenyan highlands to find out
how they did it [17]Comments
Links:
17. https://thebrowser.com/articles/how-win-marathons
FiveBooks Interview
[18]Alan Rusbridger on the Future of News
Links:
18. https://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. https://thebrowser.com/interviews/alan-rusbridger-on-future-news
Featured Special Report
[20]Population and Resources
Links:
20. https://thebrowser.com/reports/population-and-resources
Will humans run out of natural resources? Is population growth a danger
to society? Or will human innovation conquer? You decide [21]Read on
Links:
21. https://thebrowser.com/reports/population-and-resources
Reader Recommendations
[22]polit2k MT @[23]Frances_Coppola: Here's the great London Banker on
same subject. For Want Of A Nail, The Ship Was
Lost [24]t.co/3k1anstU #[25]browsings[26]More like this
Links:
22. http://twitter.com/polit2k
23. http://twitter.com/Frances_Coppola
24. http://t.co/3k1anstU
25. http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=#browsings
26. http://thebrowser.com/browsings
Book of the Day
[27]Book of the Day
Links:
27. https://thebrowser.com/recommended/life-laid-bare-survivors-rwanda-speak-by-jean-hatzfeld
[28]Life Laid Bare by Jean Hatzfeld
Links:
28. https://thebrowser.com/recommended/life-laid-bare-survivors-rwanda-speak-by-jean-hatzfeld
[29]Philip Gourevitch says: Hatzfeld then went back to his village and
watched them come home, and suddenly he had these two groups of people,
whom he’d studied more closely than you can imagine, re-encountering
one another. [30]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
29. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/philip-gourevitch-on-rwanda
30. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[31]Paul Krugman's Advice To Recent Graduates
Links:
31. https://thebrowser.com/videos/paul-krugmans-advice-recent-graduates
"This is the third age of America. The great age of the intelligent
person"
[32]More videos
Links:
32. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[33]Buttonwood, on economics
Links:
33. http://www.economist.com/blogs/buttonwood/2012/07/economic-history?fsrc=scn/tw/te/bl/muddledmodels
"The best we can say about economics is that we know what not to do"
[34]More quotes
Links:
34. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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