Newsletter 738
[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]We Are Alive
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6. http://b.rw/MiqQLG
David Remnick | New Yorker | 23 July 2012
Huge feature on Bruce Springsteen, still pumping it out at age 62. "His
style in performance is joyously demonic, as close as a white man of
Social Security age can get to James Brown circa 1962 without risking a
shattered pelvis" [7]Comments
Links:
7. http://thebrowser.com/articles/we-are-alive
[8]For Want Of A Nail, The Ship Was Lost
Links:
8. http://b.rw/M42GJq
Anonymous | London Banker | 20 July 2012
Following last week's tale about shoeboxes, here's another fun (well,
fun to read) allegory about banking. This time, imagine a great ship, a
feat of engineering, plying the high seas. And then we come to its crew
(h/t @polit2k) [9]Comments
Links:
9. http://thebrowser.com/articles/want-nail-ship-was-lost
[10]The Science Of The Tight Collar
Links:
10. http://b.rw/QeDeST
David Dobbs | Wired | 22 July 2012
After Adam Scott’s collapse at the Open, Dobbs updates a classic from
2010 about "choking". When you think too hard, your game collapses.
Happens to the best. You need to "leave your thinking brain in the
locker" [11]Comments
Links:
11. http://thebrowser.com/articles/science-tight-collar
[12]Destroying The Commons
Links:
12. http://b.rw/P1lwyQ
Noam Chomsky | TomDispatch | 22 July 2012
Chomsky's latest broadside is a sweeping historical survey criticising
those who'd curtail our rights and liberties. Subtitled "How the Magna
Carta became a Minor Carta". (Starts after three-paragraph
introduction) [13]Comments
Links:
13. http://thebrowser.com/articles/destroying-commons
[14]In Zimbabwe Land Takeover, A Golden Lining
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14. http://b.rw/NGj2F5
Lydia Polgreen | NYT | 21 July 2012
Was Robert Mugabe right? "The takeover of white farms was a disaster
for Zimbabwe on many levels. But tens of thousands of people got small
farm plots, and many of these new farmers overcame early struggles to
fare pretty well" [15]Comments
Links:
15. http://thebrowser.com/articles/zimbabwe-land-takeover-golden-lining
[16]We've Seen This Movie Before
Links:
16. http://b.rw/NWe0GS
Roger Ebert | NYT | 20 July 2012
"We are one of few developed nations that accepts the notion of
firearms in public hands. In theory, the citizenry needs to defend
itself. Not a single person at the Aurora theater shot back, but the
theory will still be defended" [17]Comments
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/articles/weve-seen-movie
FiveBooks Interview
[18]Paula Fredriksen on Sin
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/paula-fredriksen-on-sin
Tortured by the sins of your past? Or contemplating new ones? The
historian of ancient Christianity recommends five books you won't
repent reading, to understand what sin really is [19]Read on
Links:
19. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/paula-fredriksen-on-sin
Featured Special Report
[20]Privacy Online
Links:
20. http://thebrowser.com/reports/privacy-online
Your movements are tracked and the data trail you leave is
commercialised. If privacy is gone, is "publicy" the future? Or is
there more value to privacy than some think? [21]Read on
Links:
21. http://thebrowser.com/reports/privacy-online
Reader Recommendations
@[22]nuzav Seared by a Peeping Tom’s Gaze [23]t.co/PaY9kXHj
[24]#browsings [25]More like this
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22. http://twitter.com/nuzav
23. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/22/opinion/sunday/seared-by-the-gaze-of-a-peeping-tom-william-green.html?_r=1&smid=tw-share
24. https://twitter.com/search?q=#browsings
25. http://thebrowser.com/browsings
Book of the Day
[26]Book of the Day
Links:
26. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/heart-matter-by-graham-greene
[27]The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
Links:
27. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/heart-matter-by-graham-greene
[28]William Boyd says: “He gets the slightly desperate seediness of
life so well. It’s a fantastically atmospheric and powerful read”
[29]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
28. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/william-boyd-on-writers-who-have-inspired-me
29. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[30]What The Phonics
Links:
30. http://thebrowser.com/videos/what-phonics
Danish street signs that speak for themselves [31]More videos
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31. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[32]Vladimir Nabokov, on critics
Links:
32. http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/4310/the-art-of-fiction-no-40-vladimir-nabokov#.T9EHpODaAIo.twitter
"Criticism can be instructive, in that it gives some information
about the critic's intelligence"
[33]More quotes
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33. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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