Newsletter 743
[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]More People Are Putting Off Parenthood. What Will That Mean For Their
Kids?
Links:
6. http://b.rw/NMBI61
Nona Willis Aronowitz | Washington Post | 6 July 2012
Thoughtful piece by a 27-year-old who sympathizes with her older
parents' reasons for having kids late, but laments the reduced time
she's had with them and the economics that drive these decisions
[7]Comments
Links:
7. https://thebrowser.com/articles/more-people-are-putting-parenthood-what-will-mean-their-kids
[8]Finance And The Good Society
Links:
8. http://b.rw/N7CcAM
Romesh Vaitilingam | Vox | 27 July 2012
Interview with economist Robert Shiller on why we should democratise,
not condemn, finance. And how to make markets work for common good.
"Finance is a technology that can, if it’s properly applied, help
reduce inequality" [9]Comments
Links:
9. https://thebrowser.com/articles/finance-and-good-society
[10]The Castaway's Guide To Making A Home
Links:
10. http://b.rw/NMBPPg
Jacob Mikanowski | Awl | 26 July 2012
Delightful, geeky survey of the shelter Robinson Crusoe and other
shipwreck victims, and explorers, have fashioned for themselves on
deserted islands [11]Comments
Links:
11. https://thebrowser.com/articles/castaways-guide-making-home
[12]Sex Class Action
Links:
12. http://b.rw/NMCe4c
Dayna Tortorici | n+1 | 2 July 2012
A compelling and nuanced denunciation of the 2011 Supreme Court ruling
that denied class action status to 1.5 million women suing Wal-Mart for
sex discrimination [13]Comments
Links:
13. https://thebrowser.com/articles/sex-class-action
[14]Diplomat Of Shoah History
Links:
14. http://b.rw/OoLiwX
David Mikics | Tablet | 26 July 2012
"Bloodlands", Timothy Snyder's history of WW2 in eastern Europe, is a
"magisterial" work. But in portraying eastern Europeans as victims of
both Hitler and Stalin, does he neglect local support for the
Holocaust? [15]Comments
Links:
15. https://thebrowser.com/articles/diplomat-shoah-history
[16]Exploring The Mind Of The Mountain Gorilla
Links:
16. http://b.rw/N7FkN4
Kimberly Gerson | Endless Forms Most Beautiful | 26 July 2012
"On July 17, 2012 several young mountain gorillas did an extraordinary
thing: They dismantled a poacher’s snare." How did they learn to do
this? And why did they choose to dismantle the trap, rather than just
avoid it? [17]Comments
Links:
17. https://thebrowser.com/articles/exploring-mind-mountain-gorilla
FiveBooks Interview
[18]David Runciman on London Olympic History
Links:
18. https://thebrowser.com/interviews/david-runciman-on-london-olympic-history
As the Olympics open, David Runciman looks back at the two previous
times that the Games have been staged in London and finds that the
thrift of today looks modest compared with austerities of the past
[19]Read on
Links:
19. https://thebrowser.com/interviews/david-runciman-on-london-olympic-history
Featured Special Report
[20]America On Drugs
Links:
20. https://thebrowser.com/reports/america-drugs
Ritalin, Adderall, LSD, cocaine. Even bath salts. What is drug use
doing to Americans? [21]Read on
Links:
21. https://thebrowser.com/reports/america-drugs
Reader Recommendations
[22]nuzav Terence Blacker: Who needs happiness? Not the Boss -
Commentators - The Independen t[23]t.co/WaWa3Rm4 via
@[24]Independent #[25]Browsings [26]More like this
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26. http://thebrowser.com/browsings
Book of the Day
[27]Book of the Day
Links:
27. https://thebrowser.com/recommended/cyrano-de-bergerac-by-edmund-rostand-anthony-burgess-translator
[28]Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmund Rostand, Anthony Burgess (translator)
Links:
28. https://thebrowser.com/recommended/cyrano-de-bergerac-by-edmund-rostand-anthony-burgess-translator
[29]Ruth Harris says: “All the French love this play. It seems to
display a distinctive French quality – panache – and has a sense of
verve and wit that overcomes adversity” [30]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
29. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/ruth-harris-on-dreyfus-and-belle-epoque
30. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[31]Dunkin Donuts Flavour Radio
Links:
31. https://thebrowser.com/videos/dunkin-donuts-flavour-radio
Wouldn't it be easier just to change the name of the franchise? Or
focus on donuts? [32]More videos
Links:
32. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[33]Kevin Gold, on science
Links:
33. http://www.tor.com/blogs/2011/06/norvig-vs-chomsky-and-the-fight-for-the-future-of-ai
"If the solar system’s structure were open for debate today, AI
algorithms could successfully predict the planets’ motion without
ever discovering Kepler’s laws"
[34]More quotes
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34. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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