Newsletter 748
[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]Oakland, The Last Refuge Of Radical America
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6. http://b.rw/Nbd4dp
Jonathan Mahler | NYT | 1 August 2012
"Last spring, as the Occupy movement struggled, vainly, to recapture
its lost energy in New York and elsewhere, in Oakland it remained
vital. Occupy Oakland was the show that wouldn’t close." Mahler visits
the city to find out why [7]Comments
Links:
7. https://thebrowser.com/articles/oakland-last-refuge-radical-america
[8]Professor Billionaire
Links:
8. http://b.rw/QylkYJ
Ryan Mac | Forbes | 1 August 2012
Stanford professor David Cheriton once wrote a cheque for $100,000 to
two budding entrepreneurs. Their names? Sergey Brin and Larry Page. His
investment turned out to be worth $1bn, but Cheriton still cuts his own
hair [9]Comments
Links:
9. https://thebrowser.com/articles/professor-billionaire
[10]Trade-Offs Between Inequality, Productivity, And Employment
Links:
10. http://b.rw/Nafdpv
Steve Randy Waldman | Interfluidity | 31 July 2012
"Wealth is about insurance much more than it is about consumption. As
consumers, our requirements are limited. But the curve balls the
universe might throw at us are infinite." As is shown by the example of
a libertarian Titanic [11]Comments
Links:
11. https://thebrowser.com/articles/trade-offs-between-inequality-productivity-and-employment
[12]Discovering Science
Links:
12. http://b.rw/NadEIa
Mike Loukides | O'Reilly Radar | 31 July 2012
"Science is not about agreement on settled fact; it’s about pushing
into the unknown and about the intellectual ferment and discussion that
take place when you're exploring new territory." Fine reflections on
scientific method [13]Comments
Links:
13. https://thebrowser.com/articles/discovering-science
[14]The First 1 Percent
Links:
14. http://b.rw/M3OxdO
Mary Mycio | Slate | 30 July 2012
"The first people known to celebrate hierarchies of power, whose
inequalities of wealth were integral to their society and culture — the
people you could call the first 1 percent — were the first people to
ride horses" [15]Comments
Links:
15. https://thebrowser.com/articles/first-1-percent
[16]How It Felt To Be There
Links:
16. http://b.rw/MYPfbP
Neal Ascherson | London Review Of Books | 1 August 2012
Super piece about knowing, and reading, Ryszard Kapuściński. An
elusive, complex man and fine writer, if occasional purveyor of "gonzo
Orientalism". Ascherson unpicks the question marks over veracity and
politics very well [17]Comments
Links:
17. https://thebrowser.com/articles/how-it-felt-be-there
FiveBooks Interview
[18]David Spiegelhalter on Statistics and Risk
Links:
18. https://thebrowser.com/interviews/david-spiegelhalter-on-statistics-and-risk
Every statistic is the result of someone’s work, and we’d do well to
ask ourselves why it was created. That way, says the statistician, we
have a better chance of working out when dangers are being overstated
and data misused [19]Read on
Links:
19. https://thebrowser.com/interviews/david-spiegelhalter-on-statistics-and-risk
Featured Special Report
[20]Drone Warfare
Links:
20. https://thebrowser.com/reports/drone-warfare
Should we worry about war conducted by remote control? Are there
ethical considerations? Will we become accustomed to unmanned warfare
in the future? What if a hacker took control of an army? It's all here
[21]Read on
Links:
21. https://thebrowser.com/reports/drone-warfare
Reader Recommendations
[22]rszbt A little less hubris ...: MT @[23]ProSyn: In "The Battle for
Churchill's Bust" by Ian Buruma [24]t.co/FadxEaG1" #[25]browsings
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26. http://thebrowser.com/browsings
Book of the Day
[27]Book of the Day
Links:
27. https://thebrowser.com/recommended/london-street-games-by-norman-douglas
[28]London Street Games by Norman Douglas
Links:
28. https://thebrowser.com/recommended/london-street-games-by-norman-douglas
[29]Will Self says: “In this strange book, he went out on the streets
in the early 1900s, watched cockney kids playing and wrote it all down”
[30]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
29. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/will-self-on-influences
30. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[31]The Key To Malcolm Gladwell's Success
Links:
31. https://thebrowser.com/videos/key-malcolm-gladwells-success
Great title, huh? Don't get your hopes too high, though. The answer is:
Differentiation [32]More videos
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32. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[33]Peggy Noonan, on anger
Links:
33. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703766704576009943102291486.html
In politics, the angry person is generally understood to be the
loser
[34]More quotes
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34. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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