Newsletter 766
[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]Schmooze Or Lose
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6. http://b.rw/SHqIa0
Jane Mayer | New Yorker | 20 August 2012
Bill Clinton was a past master at cosying up to billionaire donors. But
President Obama doesn't like it. Good for him. He believes he has more
important things to do and wants to reform campaign finance. But what
will it cost him? [7]Comments
Links:
7. http://thebrowser.com/articles/schmooze-or-lose
[8]The Panic Over Fukushima
Links:
8. http://b.rw/OC28Ft
Richard Muller | WSJ | 18 August 2012
Physics professor argues that Japan's nuclear accident was a great
human tragedy but that its long-term health effects have been
exaggerated. The "hot spots" in Japan showed radiation at a lower level
than Denver [9]Comments
Links:
9. http://thebrowser.com/articles/panic-over-fukushima
[10]The Paradox Of Blackmail (Part One)
Links:
10. http://b.rw/QS8Dor
John Danaher | Philosophical Disquisitions | 20 August 2012
"This is the essence of the so-called paradox of blackmail. Two acts
are innocent in and of themselves, but when they are combined in the
form of a conditional demand they become criminal. Why is this?"
[11]Comments
Links:
11. http://thebrowser.com/articles/paradox-blackmail-part-one
[12]Siberia’s Crying Cannibal
Links:
12. http://b.rw/Sza7Fr
Aleksei Tarasov | OD Russia | 17 August 2012
Even in the Russia of the 1990s, Vladimir Tatarenkov's team of
assassins stood out. They worked for free. Mowing people down with
machine guns in broad daylight made a change from the boredom of
everyday life in Krasnoyarsk [13]Comments
Links:
13. http://thebrowser.com/articles/siberia’s-crying-cannibal
[14]Why Waiting Is Torture
Links:
14. http://b.rw/NcMikm
Alex Stone | NYT | 18 August 2012
On the psychology of queuing. We prize fairness above all. "People will
wait twice as long for fast food, provided the establishment uses a
first-come-first-served, single-queue ordering system as opposed to a
multi-queue setup" [15]Comments
Links:
15. http://thebrowser.com/articles/why-waiting-torture
[16]Obituary: Tony Scott
Links:
16. http://b.rw/QSfspS
Anonymous | Telegraph | 20 August 2012
Former ad director who followed his brother Ridley to Hollywood. Made
name with Top Gun. Had no interest in ideas or morality. Instinctively
understood power of images. One critic called his films "visual
amphetamines" [17]Comments
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/articles/obituary-tony-scott
FiveBooks Interview
[18]Darren Aronofsky on Making Movies
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/darren-aronofsky-on-making-movies
The Oscar-nominated director of Black Swan recommends five books on
film—and discusses the moviemakers who inspire him [19]Read on
Links:
19. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/darren-aronofsky-on-making-movies
Featured Special Report
[20]America On Drugs
Links:
20. http://thebrowser.com/reports/america-drugs
Ritalin, Adderall, LSD, cocaine. Even bath salts. What is drug use
doing to Americans? [21]Read on
Links:
21. http://thebrowser.com/reports/america-drugs
Reader Recommendations
@[22]polit2k The Blog That Peter Wrote: Assange's Balcony Speech
[23]t.co/6TU8nhnb #[24]assange #[25]browsings h/t @[26]Frances_Coppola
[27]More like this
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22. http://twitter.com/polit2k
23. http://pme200.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/assanges-balcony-speech.html
24. http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=#assange
25. https://twitter.com/search?q=#browsings
26. http://twitter.com/Frances_Coppola
27. http://thebrowser.com/browsings
Book of the Day
[28]Book of the Day
Links:
28. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/white-hotel-by-dm-thomas
[29]The White Hotel by DM Thomas
Links:
29. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/white-hotel-by-dm-thomas
[30]Heather Brooke says: “It is a novel, and one of my favourite books.
It shows a way to use writing to hold the powerful to account”
[31]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
30. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/heather-brooke-on-holding-power-account
31. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[32]A Reflection
Links:
32. http://thebrowser.com/videos/reflection
Less than three minutes. I wanted more
[33]More videos
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33. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[34]Richard Hofstadter, on play
Links:
34. http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131884
''In the United States the play of the mind is the only form of play
that is not looked upon with the most tender indulgence"
[35]More quotes
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35. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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