Newsletter 762
[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]Extreme Weather
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6. http://b.rw/PqXLz0
Peter Miller | National Geographic | 15 August 2012
Torrential rain, blistering heatwaves, violent tornadoes – our world is
being shaken by the most severe weather in modern history. What's going
on? Have we damaged our climate irreparably? Are natural weather cycles
to blame? Both? [7]Comments
Links:
7. https://thebrowser.com/articles/extreme-weather
[8]Obama vs Poverty
Links:
8. http://b.rw/Ppb7eU
Paul Tough | NYT | 15 August 2012
What are the most effective ways of reducing poverty in America? Paul
Tough goes in search of answers in the decaying Roseland area of
Chicago, where a young Barack Obama worked as a community organiser in
the 1980s [9]Comments
Links:
9. https://thebrowser.com/articles/obama-vs-poverty
[10]YouTube Re-Imagined: 505,347,842 Channels On Every Single Screen
Links:
10. http://b.rw/PpgCua
Mat Honan | Wired | 15 August 2012
"YouTube doesn’t want you to watch videos anymore — not in the singular
sense, at least. It wants you to stick around and see what comes next."
How's it going to do that? By launching channels. Here are the
challenges it faces [11]Comments
Links:
11. https://thebrowser.com/articles/youtube-re-imagined-505347842-channels-every-single-screen
[12]The Astronaut Question
Links:
12. http://b.rw/Pp7RAf
James Chiles | Air & Space | 15 August 2012
For how much longer will humans remain better than robots at
exploration? Many processes are already automated, but “humans are
cheap and fast to program, handling things that suddenly come up, where
there’s no software” [13]Comments
Links:
13. https://thebrowser.com/articles/astronaut-question
[14]Last Morning In Al Hamra
Links:
14. http://b.rw/OYAP9z
Hilary Mantel | Spectator | 14 August 2012
"When you come across an alien culture you must not automatically
respect it. You must sometimes pay it the complement of hating it."
Essay on the home life of women in Saudi Arabia. Written in 1987, now
published online [15]Comments
Links:
15. https://thebrowser.com/articles/last-morning-al-hamra
[16]Ernest Hemingway, Wartime Spy
Links:
16. http://b.rw/QAUeNa
Nicholas Reynolds | Studies In Intelligence | 8 August 2012
Writer was enthusiastic but useless, says CIA historian. He patrolled
the Caribbean tooled up with weapons, looking for German U-boats to
attack. In two years, the only one he spotted ignored him and sailed
away on the surface (PDF) [17]Comments
Links:
17. https://thebrowser.com/articles/ernest-hemingway-wartime-spy
FiveBooks Interview
[18]Charles Glass on Americans Abroad
Links:
18. https://thebrowser.com/interviews/charles-glass-on-americans-abroad
The much-travelled writer and broadcaster tells us about
misunderstandings and misadventures of Americans in foreign lands
[19]Read on
Links:
19. https://thebrowser.com/interviews/charles-glass-on-americans-abroad
Featured Special Report
[20]Paul Ryan
Links:
20. https://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. https://thebrowser.com/reports/paul-ryan
Reader Recommendations
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27. http://thebrowser.com/browsings
Book of the Day
[28]Book of the Day
Links:
28. https://thebrowser.com/recommended/childs-discovery-mind-by-janet-astington
[29]The Child's Discovery of the Mind by Janet Astington
Links:
29. https://thebrowser.com/recommended/childs-discovery-mind-by-janet-astington
[30]Alison Gopnik says: “This book is about one of the most interesting
areas of research in the past thirty years, which is our understanding
of how children themselves come to understand the minds of the people
around them.” [31]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
30. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/alison-gopnik-on-children-and-their-minds
31. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[32]Battle Of Little Desktop
Links:
32. https://thebrowser.com/videos/battle-little-desktop
Well, it is August [33]More videos
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33. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[34]Leon Edel, on biography
Links:
34. http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/2844/the-art-of-biography-no-1-leon-edel#.UBK_p2gKRKc.twitter
"The secret of biography resides in finding the link between talent
and achievement"
[35]More quotes
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35. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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