Newsletter 751
[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]How Jamaica Conquered The World
Links:
6. http://b.rw/OCvt6E
Tom Horan | Observer | 5 August 2012
"On the surface it is baffling: The tiny island with the mighty reach."
No bigger than Qatar, Gambia, or Lebanon. No more populous than Armenia
or Kuwait. But this is a country that specialises in superstars. What's
its secret? [7]Comments
Links:
7. https://thebrowser.com/articles/how-jamaica-conquered-world
[8]When The Lights Went Out In India
Links:
8. http://b.rw/PPXe7X
Jonathan Shainin | New Yorker | 3 August 2012
India suffers world's biggest blackout as national grid goes down.
Twenty years ago most Indian households didn't even have mains power.
India's modernisation is real enough, but the political management of
it is a shambles [9]Comments
Links:
9. https://thebrowser.com/articles/when-lights-went-out-india
[10]The Loved One
Links:
10. http://b.rw/Re65Sh
Chris Vogel | Boston Magazine | 1 August 2012
Disturbing story of a teacher attracted to young boys, his adopted son,
and a murder. "I thought about the Persians and Greeks who believed sex
with boys was not only acceptable but a necessary part of their
development" [11]Comments
Links:
11. https://thebrowser.com/articles/loved-one
[12]Decoding The Science Of Sleep
Links:
12. http://b.rw/NTwrfP
David Randall | WSJ | 3 August 2012
Thomas Edison may have been a brilliant man but he has a lot to answer
for. Artificial light has changed the way we live, and work. We don't
want to go back to the way things were before but we are tired. And it
is not good for us [13]Comments
Links:
13. https://thebrowser.com/articles/decoding-science-sleep
[14]The Spy Who Loved
Links:
14. http://b.rw/RvHatz
Sam Leith | Guardian | 3 August 2012
On the amazing life of Christine Granville, "dissolute Polish
aristocrat and a Jewish banking heiress" who spied for Britain in WW2.
Infiltrated Poland on skis. Parachuted into France. Stabbed by seaman
in South Kensington [15]Comments
Links:
15. https://thebrowser.com/articles/spy-who-loved
[16]Hog Wild
Links:
16. http://b.rw/MCHqGi
Griffin Gotta | Classical | 1 August 2012
Account of a visit to an American hog wrestling contest in northern
Wisconsin. The aim of the game is simple: Pick up the pig and place it
on a podium. As fast as possible. Just don't touch its ears, or its
tail [17]Comments
Links:
17. https://thebrowser.com/articles/hog-wild
FiveBooks Interview
[18]Jason Zweig on Personal Finance
Links:
18. https://thebrowser.com/interviews/jason-zweig-on-personal-finance
The Wall Street Journal personal finance columnist explains why there's
truth in the old adage that investors get the returns they deserve, and
suggests how savers can avoid being taken for a ride [19]Read on
Links:
19. https://thebrowser.com/interviews/jason-zweig-on-personal-finance
Featured Special Report
[20]Behavioural Economics
Links:
20. https://thebrowser.com/reports/behavioural-economics
How do cognitive and emotional factors affect our understanding of
economic decisions? The field of behavioural economics attempts to
explain [21]Read on
Links:
21. https://thebrowser.com/reports/behavioural-economics
Reader Recommendations
@[22]polit2k RT @[23]guardian: Sonia Rykiel: 'I could no longer keep my
illness secret' [24]t.co/HBbJssm3 (via @[25]ObsMagazine)
#[26]browsings #[27]pdeP
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22. http://twitter.com/polit2k
23. http://twitter.com/guardian
24. http://t.co/HBbJssm3
25. http://twitter.com/ObsMagazine
26. http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=#browsings
27. http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=#pdeP
Book of the Day
[28]Book of the Day
Links:
28. https://thebrowser.com/recommended/children-sun-by-martin-green
[29]Children of the Sun by Martin Green
Links:
29. https://thebrowser.com/recommended/children-sun-by-martin-green
[30]Selina Hastings says: “This is a very interesting study. He
describes brilliantly how they constructed this eccentric, upper class
Dandy world of aesthetes” [31]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
30. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/selina-hastings-on-evelyn-waugh-and-bright-young-things
31. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[32]Olive: The Movie
Links:
32. https://thebrowser.com/videos/olive-movie
Question: What's special about this trailer? Answer: It's for the first
full-length feature film shot on a cellphone [33]More videos
Links:
33. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[34]Allen Tate, on ethics
Links:
34. http://www.tnr.com/article/books-and-arts/magazine/104874/rosen-verbeek-technology-morality-intelligence
"We no longer ask: Is it right? We ask: Does it work?"
[35]More quotes
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35. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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