Newsletter 752
[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]Big Med
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6. http://b.rw/OTIVlZ
Atul Gawande | New Yorker | 6 August 2012
"Big chains thrive because they provide goods and services of greater
variety, better quality, and lower cost than would otherwise be
available. Size is the key." Why not for healthcare too? Gawande weighs
the case for and against [7]Comments
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7. http://thebrowser.com/articles/big-med
[8]Target Nagasaki
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8. http://b.rw/MrHddt
Craig Collie | Telegraph | 3 August 2012
Gripping account of mission to bomb Nagasaki. Original target was
Kokura, but bad weather forced a last minute change of plan. The
explosion was huge: Paper spontaneously incinerated 3km out; glass was
blown out of windows 8km away [9]Comments
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9. http://thebrowser.com/articles/target-nagasaki
[10]What Money Can Buy
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10. http://b.rw/NwlM4U
Raghuram Rajan | Fault Lines | 4 August 2012
Economist responds to Michael Sandel's book What Money Can't Buy.
Sandel suggests reducing the role of money. For Rajan the issue isn't
money per se, but whether it is perceived to have been honestly and
deservedly gained [11]Comments
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11. http://thebrowser.com/articles/what-money-can-buy
[12]Why Valve?
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12. http://b.rw/RoHUEZ
Yanis Varoufakis | Valve Economics | 3 August 2012
Economics of self-organisation at Valve Software. "Many corporations
let employees allocate 10% of working time to projects of their
choosing. Valve insists that employees allocate 100% of working time to
projects of their choosing" [13]Comments
Links:
13. http://thebrowser.com/articles/why-valve
[14]Snap Goes The Crocodile
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14. http://b.rw/RoGiLw
Marina Akhmedova | OD Russia | 4 August 2012
Long, vivid, harrowing account of drug culture in Yekaterinburg.
Translated from the Russian. Which is just as well, since the Russian
original, in a tribute to its accuracy, has been banned by the
government, and deleted [15]Comments
Links:
15. http://thebrowser.com/articles/snap-goes-crocodile
[16]The Machine And The Ghost
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16. http://b.rw/RoKkn9
Christine Rosen | New Republic | 12 July 2012
On the philosophy of technology. The question used to be: "What are we
going to do with this technology?" Now we need to ask: "What is this
technology going to do with us?" Technology is power-seeking. It has an
agenda [17]Comments
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/articles/machine-and-ghost
FiveBooks Interview
[18]Claire Fox on Freedom of Speech
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/claire-fox-on-freedom-speech
Modern society has interpreted John Stuart Mill's concept of tolerance
to mean that we should avoid giving offence. The director of the
Institute of Ideas tells us about books that show how far we've
departed from what was meant [19]Read on
Links:
19. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/claire-fox-on-freedom-speech
Featured Special Report
[20]Mitt Romney
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20. http://thebrowser.com/reports/mitt-romney
He has clawed his way to the finishing line for the Republican party
nomination. But what makes the man who would be president tick?
[21]Read on
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21. http://thebrowser.com/reports/mitt-romney
Reader Recommendations
@[22]rszbt Tahmina Khostani. MT @[23]SonyKapoor: Afghanistan's only
female runner at these olympica & her story:[24]t.co/0r19zdyx
[25]#browsings [26]More like this
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26. http://thebrowser.com/browsings
Book of the Day
[27]Book of the Day
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27. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/charles-darwin-by-janet-browne
[28]Charles Darwin by Janet Browne
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28. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/charles-darwin-by-janet-browne
[29]Jerry Coyne says: “ This may be the best scientific biography I
have ever read. It’s just absolutely engrossing” [30]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
29. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/jerry-coyne-on-evolution
30. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[31]Seven Minutes Of Terror
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31. http://thebrowser.com/videos/seven-minutes-terror
Going to Mars. 'If any one thing doesn't work just right, it's game
over'
[32]More videos
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32. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[33]Nassim Nicholas Taleb, on narrative fallacy
Links:
33. http://www.farnamstreetblog.com/2012/08/narrative-fallacy
"Explanations bind facts together. They help them make more sense.
Where this propensity can go wrong is when it increases our
impression of understanding"
[34]More quotes
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34. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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