Newsletter 755
[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]Raging Bulls: How Wall Street Got Addicted To Light-Speed Trading
Links:
6. http://b.rw/PGKiki
Jerry Adler | Wired | 3 August 2012
Outstanding article on high-frequency trading. "Stock quotes are always
to the penny, but real prices can go to six decimal places. No sane
person would haggle over a ten-thousandth of a cent. But computers
don’t get bored" [7]Comments
Links:
7. https://thebrowser.com/articles/raging-bulls-how-wall-street-got-addicted-light-speed-trading
[8]Front Row Seat At Russian Dark Comedy
Links:
8. http://b.rw/MAJrra
Julia Ioffe | New Republic | 6 August 2012
Acute, well-reported account of Pussy Riot trial in Moscow. Punk
group's song-and-dance protest in Moscow cathedral offended many. But
grotesque show-trial has made them "a nation-wide hit and a liberal
cause célèbre" [9]Comments
Links:
9. https://thebrowser.com/articles/front-row-seat-russian-dark-comedy
[10]The Non-Trial Of The Century
Links:
10. http://b.rw/NEREV6
Evan Osnos | New Yorker | 7 August 2012
China’s fallen political grand dame, Gu Kailai, faces a show trial
without the show. She'll be convicted of murder. "It is far easier,
after all, to hold high one bad apple than to upturn the entire cart in
search of the worm" [11]Comments
Links:
11. https://thebrowser.com/articles/non-trial-century
[12]'I Don't Want To See Him Go'
Links:
12. http://b.rw/OZaGcR
Joe Posnanski | Sports On Earth | 7 August 2012
So farewell Michael Phelps after 22 Olympic medals, 18 of them gold.
Here, with the help of 1992 double gold medallist Mel Stewart, is a
fascinating insight into what it means to be a swimming perfectionist,
and to lay it aside [13]Comments
Links:
13. https://thebrowser.com/articles/i-dont-want-see-him-go
[14]The Rise And Fall Of The Company That Was Going To Have Us All Using
Biofuels
Links:
14. http://b.rw/OMdyYo
Daniel Grushkin | Fast Co.Exist | 6 August 2012
"In the short lifetime of the biofuels business, Amyris has become
legendary – a stand-in for the sector’s breathtaking promise and now
for its troubling descent." One of the most innovative startups. But
what is it now? [15]Comments
Links:
15. https://thebrowser.com/articles/rise-and-fall-company-was-going-have-us-all-using-biofuels
[16]Cyborg America
Links:
16. http://b.rw/OMcbsF
Ben Popper | Verge | 8 August 2012
Meet the "grinders": Keen to get a head start on the rest of us, these
amateurs are already implanting machines into their bodies. A first
step towards becoming cyborgs. Reporter pays them a visit, leaves with
a magnetic finger [17]Comments
Links:
17. https://thebrowser.com/articles/cyborg-america
FiveBooks Interview
[18]Rana Mitter on 100 Years of Modern China
Links:
18. https://thebrowser.com/interviews/rana-mitter-on-100-years-modern-china
A century after the fall of China’s last imperial dynasty, the legacy
of revolution remains deeply ambiguous in today’s People’s Republic.
The China scholar tells us about the country’s tumultuous changes from
1911 to the present day [19]Read on
Links:
19. https://thebrowser.com/interviews/rana-mitter-on-100-years-modern-china
Featured Special Report
[20]Parenting
Links:
20. https://thebrowser.com/reports/parenting
What's the best way to bring up children? Indeed, is there a right way
at all? [21]Read on
Links:
21. https://thebrowser.com/reports/parenting
Reader Recommendations
@[22]prospect_uk You'll never be Chinese [23]t.co/hYgARXCU
#[24]longreads #[25]browsings
Links:
22. http://twitter.com/prospect_uk
23. http://t.co/hYgARXCU
24. http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=#longreads
25. http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=#browsings
Book of the Day
[26]Book of the Day
Links:
26. https://thebrowser.com/recommended/orlando-by-virginia-woolf
[27]Orlando by Virginia Woolf
Links:
27. https://thebrowser.com/recommended/orlando-by-virginia-woolf
[28]Andrei Codrescu: “This is Woolf's mysterious and magical insight
into the cyclical, sexual nature of time. It's her most beautiful
writing too, in my opinion”
Links:
28. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/andrei-codrescu-on-fantastic-and-magical-tales
Video of the Day
[29]Izhar Cardboard Bike Project
Links:
29. https://thebrowser.com/videos/izhar-cardboard-bike-project
"It's strong, it's durable, it's cheap. But what I like about it the
most is it's made out of cardboard"
[30]More videos
Links:
30. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[31]Henry Miller, on receiving
Links:
31. http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/08/06/henry-miller-on-altruism
"By receiving from others, by letting them help you, you really aid
them to become bigger, more generous, more magnanimous. You do them
a service"
[32]More quotes
Links:
32. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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