Newsletter 760
[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]Keystone
Links:
6. http://b.rw/NxMKgZ
John Richardson | Esquire | 10 August 2012
Report from Fort McMurray, Alberta, "little Canadian town that might
just destroy the world". Huge reserves of tar-sand oil waiting to be
piped to Texas refineries. But should US be feeding or fighting
addiction to foreign oil? [7]Comments
Links:
7. http://thebrowser.com/articles/keystone
[8]What’s Behind North Korea’s Strange Architecture?
Links:
8. http://b.rw/Pa2bwu
Bradley Martin | Boston Globe | 12 August 2012
"The streetscape of Pyongyang tells much of the story of North Korea:
The gulf between the strange ambitions of the buildings and the often
invisible citizens for whom they are notionally built" [9]Comments
Links:
9. http://thebrowser.com/articles/what’s-behind-north-korea’s-strange-architecture
[10]Giant Size
Links:
10. http://b.rw/RNKEvP
Tom Breihan | Classical | 13 August 2012
If you're over seven feet tall, between 20 and 40 years old, and in the
US, you're one of only 70. Breihan investigates what it's like to be a
giant. He should have some idea. He measures up at six foot eleven. And
three quarters [11]Comments
Links:
11. http://thebrowser.com/articles/giant-size
[12]Lamborghini Morsi
Links:
12. http://b.rw/Nvp8tx
Marc Lynch | Foreign Policy | 13 August 2012
After weeks of looking ineffectual, the Egyptian president, Mohamed
Morsi, has exploded into life, removing the military top brass and
cancelling their controversial constitutional amendments. Here's what
it means [13]Comments
Links:
13. http://thebrowser.com/articles/lamborghini-morsi
[14]For Jennifer Sultan, A Dot-Com Bust
Links:
14. http://b.rw/NxYGfh
Russ Buettner | NYT | 11 August 2012
Ten years ago her internet company sold for $70m. Now she sits bankrupt
in a prison cell, unable to raise bail and facing upwards of 15 years
in prison for selling prescription painkillers to a cop. What happened?
[15]Comments
Links:
15. http://thebrowser.com/articles/jennifer-sultan-dot-com-bust
[16]Are Tyrants Good For Art?
Links:
16. http://b.rw/P6LKRx
John Gray | BBC | 10 August 2012
Thriving culture doesn't need modern Western levels of democracy and
personal liberty, but it does need some freedom to breathe. Ancient
China and tsarist Russia produced great art. Maoist China and Soviet
Russia stifled it [17]Comments
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/articles/are-tyrants-good-art
FiveBooks Interview
[18]Robert Shiller on Human Traits Essential to Capitalism
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/robert-shiller-on-human-traits-essential-capitalism
The Yale economist says rising inequality was a major cause of
America's economic problems, and that little is being done to reduce
the disparities. He gives us a reading list to understand how we got to
here [19]Read on
Links:
19. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/robert-shiller-on-human-traits-essential-capitalism
Featured Special Report
[20]Paul Ryan
Links:
20. http://thebrowser.com/reports/paul-ryan
He's the man with the (budget) plan. What will the selection of the
Wisconsin congressman as vice presidential candidate do for the Romney
campaign? [21]Read on
Links:
21. http://thebrowser.com/reports/paul-ryan
Reader Recommendations
@rszbt THIS: MT @NickMalkoutzis: For Wrong-Headed Reasons, EU Leaders
Are Leaning Toward Greek Exit, by @WhelanKarl [22]t.co/eX80RgU6
[23]#browsings [24]More like this
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22. http://t.co/eX80RgU6
23. https://twitter.com/search?q=#browsings
24. http://thebrowser.com/browsings
Book of the Day
[25]Book of the Day
Links:
25. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/catcher-rye-by-j-d-salinger
[26]The Catcher in the Rye by J D Salinger
Links:
26. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/catcher-rye-by-j-d-salinger
[27]Woody Allen says: “ This made me want to live in New York and go to
the bars where Holden went. For all its satire, it’s a very romantic
portrait of the city” [28]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
27. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/woody-allen-on-memory
28. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[29]The Lego Story
Links:
29. http://thebrowser.com/videos/lego-story
17 minutes of animated awesome, to celebrate Lego's 80th birthday
[30]More videos
Links:
30. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[31]Paul Auster, on jokes
Links:
31. http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/121/the-art-of-fiction-no-178-paul-auster#.UAcFBgHgJTo.twitter
"The joke is the purest, most essential form of storytelling. Every
word has to count"
[32]More quotes
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32. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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