Newsletter 741
[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]The Parable Of The Ox
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6. http://b.rw/NTXSVp
John Kay | John Kay/FT | 25 July 2012
There has been a spate of good allegories recently about the world of
finance, and here is another. The story starts at a country fair. You,
and everyone else present, are invited to guess the weight of an ox
[7]Comments
Links:
7. http://thebrowser.com/articles/parable-ox
[8]Syrian Bloodbath Revisited: Searching For The Truth Behind The Houla
Massacre
Links:
8. http://b.rw/OkAQEN
Christoph Reuter & Abd al-Kadher Adhun | Spiegel | 23 July 2012
Initially, the UN was convinced that the Syrian government was behind
the Houla massacre. But then, some began to have doubts. Spiegel has
interviewed survivors and witnesses, and reconstructed the horrifying
events of May [9]Comments
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9. http://thebrowser.com/articles/syrian-bloodbath-revisited-searching-truth-behind-houla-massacre
[10]You Will Be Embarrassed About This In 20 Years
Links:
10. http://b.rw/QkBSG8
Michael Kinsley | Bloomberg | 25 July 2012
Gay marriage debate is over. It's the new normal. Here's some more big
social changes that need to come: End mass imprisonment, factory
farming and high school football. Take enviromentalism seriously. Treat
the elderly better [11]Comments
Links:
11. http://thebrowser.com/articles/you-will-be-embarrassed-about-20-years
[12]Britain Is Not Bust
Links:
12. http://b.rw/QkF0lw
Jonathan Portes | New Statesman | 25 July 2012
"Despite the present gloom, we are not doomed to slow growth or
indefinite fiscal austerity. There are three overlapping varieties of
economic pessimism but there is little evidence to support any of them"
[13]Comments
Links:
13. http://thebrowser.com/articles/britain-not-bust
[14]Shark Attack! Don’t Wear Yum-Yum Yellow
Links:
14. http://b.rw/OoPjj0
Theo Tait | London Review Of Books | 25 July 2012
Enjoyable review of Demon Fish, a new book on sharks. From their brutal
sex habits, to practice of oophagy (uterine cannibalism), and capacity
for parthenogenesis (asexual reproduction). And the truth about attacks
on humans [15]Comments
Links:
15. http://thebrowser.com/articles/shark-attack-don’t-wear-yum-yum-yellow
[16]These Knock-Down, Shrinkable Games
Links:
16. http://b.rw/OmuLaS
Hugh Pearman | WSJ | 24 July 2012
Architecture critic runs eye over London Olympics infrastructure, says
it's been quite thriftily done, actually. High design standards. Venues
with no long-term future can be dismantled afterwards for re-use
elsewhere [17]Comments
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/articles/these-knock-down-shrinkable-games
FiveBooks Interview
[18]Ruth Harris on Dreyfus and the Belle Epoque
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/ruth-harris-on-dreyfus-and-belle-epoque
The Belle Epoque combined a preoccupation with the noblesse of the old
regime with the seeds for modernism, says the Oxford professor of
history – who also explains the impact of the controversial Dreyfus
affair [19]Read on
Links:
19. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/ruth-harris-on-dreyfus-and-belle-epoque
Featured Special Report
[20]After Aurora
Links:
20. http://thebrowser.com/reports/after-aurora
How does one make sense of such killings? And can we, will we, do
anything to stop it happening again? [21]Read on
Links:
21. http://thebrowser.com/reports/after-aurora
Reader Recommendations
@[22]iainmanley Incredibly vivid photographs of life in Victorian
London - [23]t.co/CSDeMjrt, [24]#browsings [25]More like this
Links:
22. http://twitter.com/iainmanley
23. http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/07/25/once_upon_a_time_in_old_london_town#15
24. https://twitter.com/search?q=#browsings
25. http://thebrowser.com/browsings
Book of the Day
[26]Book of the Day
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26. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/history-bombing-by-sven-lindqvist
[27]A History of Bombing by Sven Lindqvist
Links:
27. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/history-bombing-by-sven-lindqvist
[28]Geoff Dyer says: “I remember, when it came out, thinking this is
way more original than any of the novels on this year’s Booker Prize
list” [29]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
28. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/geoff-dyer-on-unusual-histories
29. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[30]The Imam and the Colonel
Links:
30. http://thebrowser.com/videos/imam-and-colonel
The imam who disappeared. Documentary unravelling a mystery from 1978
[31]More videos
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31. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[32]Zadie Smith, on writing
Links:
32. http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2012/07/this-week-in-fiction-zadie-smith.html#ixzz21iNuCVpl
"Whatever style you have is dictated by what you learn to leave out"
[33]More quotes
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33. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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