Newsletter 765
[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]How Not To Reconstruct Iraq, Afghanistan – Or America
Links:
6. http://b.rw/NNkmUO
Peter Van Buren | Nation/TomDispatch | 16 August 2012
Lacerating critique by former US foreign service officer. "Once
corruption and pure greed are strained out and the vanity projects
crossed off, what's left is our desire for them to be like us." It
doesn't work [7]Comments
Links:
7. https://thebrowser.com/articles/how-not-reconstruct-iraq-afghanistan-–-or-america
[8]Understanding Ego Depletion
Links:
8. http://b.rw/PvNvFz
Dan Ariely | Dan Ariely | 15 August 2012
On will power, and the difficulty of maintaining it. "When we become
depleted, we’re not only more apt to make bad and/or dishonest choices,
we’re also more likely to allow ourselves to be tempted to make them in
the first place" [9]Comments
Links:
9. https://thebrowser.com/articles/understanding-ego-depletion
[10]John Williams, The Music Master
Links:
10. http://b.rw/SxVKkA
Clemency Burton-Hill | FT | 17 August 2012
"I always wrote music for my friends, but my focus was on playing the
piano. I didn't think I'd be quite good enough to be a soloist, but I
believed that if I worked hard enough, I could work as a teacher. Maybe
even an accompanist" [11]Comments
Links:
11. https://thebrowser.com/articles/john-williams-music-master
[12]How 'God' Evolved
Links:
12. http://b.rw/S2NMTa
Adam Benton | EvoAnth | 16 August 2012
Anthropologists speculate. "As co-operation became more and more
important to survival, the beliefs which fostered this co-operation
also became more and more important and as a result more and more
common" [13]Comments
Links:
13. https://thebrowser.com/articles/how-god-evolved
[14]Man Who Dug The Hole For Saddam
Links:
14. http://b.rw/R6iB9F
Kevin Sullivan | Washington Post | 15 August 2012
Interview with Iraqi farmer who hid Saddam Hussein in "spider hole"
after US invasion. “He came here and he asked us for help and I said
yes. In our Arab tribal tradition, and by Islamic law, when someone
needs help, we help him” [15]Comments
Links:
15. https://thebrowser.com/articles/man-who-dug-hole-saddam
[16]A Right Fit: Navigating The World of Literary Agents
Links:
16. http://b.rw/PpbdTZ
Michael Bourne | Millions | 14 August 2012
What do literary agents do all day? Say no to writers, mostly. Michelle
Brower sends out 18 rejection letters in 14 minutes. Scott Hoffman
reckons the chance of getting on his list without an introduction at
about 1 in 11,111 [17]Comments
Links:
17. https://thebrowser.com/articles/right-fit-navigating-world-literary-agents
FiveBooks Interview
[18]Heather Brooke on Holding Power to Account
Links:
18. https://thebrowser.com/interviews/heather-brooke-on-holding-power-account
Power corrupts – and even those who start out with good intentions can
be affected. The freedom of information campaigner tells us about books
to help us remember this, from Orwell to a memoir of apartheid [19]Read
on
Links:
19. https://thebrowser.com/interviews/heather-brooke-on-holding-power-account
Featured Special Report
[20]Epic Adventures
Links:
20. https://thebrowser.com/reports/epic-adventures
Extreme tourism, unwise adventure and plain bad luck. Enjoy it all from
the comfort of your armchair [21]Read on
Links:
21. https://thebrowser.com/reports/epic-adventures
Reader Recommendations
[22]rszbt RT @[23]polit2k: RT @[24]EvanHD: Very good Observer piece on
science, paradigms and paradigm shifts. [25]t.co/injg2HKd via
@[26]guardian #[27]browsings [28]More like this
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22. http://twitter.com/rszbt
23. http://twitter.com/polit2k
24. http://twitter.com/EvanHD
25. http://t.co/injg2HKd
26. http://twitter.com/guardian
27. http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=#browsings
28. http://thebrowser.com/browsings
Book of the Day
[29]Book of the Day
Links:
29. https://thebrowser.com/recommended/man-without-face-by-masha-gessen
[30]The Man Without a Face by Masha Gessen
Links:
30. https://thebrowser.com/recommended/man-without-face-by-masha-gessen
[31]Edward Lucas says: “Masha Gessen inverts this common picture of
[Putin] as a glamorous, decisive, tough guy to show that the reality is
sordid, scary and in a way rather pathetic” [32]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
31. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/edward-lucas-on-putin-and-russian-history
32. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[33]Heart of Coppola
Links:
33. https://thebrowser.com/videos/heart-coppola
A homage, of sorts
[34]More videos
Links:
34. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[35]William Gibson, on terrorism
Links:
35. http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2010/09/vulture_transcript_william_gib.html
If the terrorist can get you to think about what he’s doing as
terrorism, you’re already in his win position
[36]More quotes
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36. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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