Newsletter 770
[1]All of our Best of the Moment article recommendations, plus
FiveBooks interviews and other selected content from thebrower.com
Links:
1. http://thebrowser.com
[6]Fear Of A Black President
Links:
6. http://b.rw/NNgUdK
Ta-Nehisi Coates | Atlantic | 23 August 2012
Obama offers himself to white Americans not as a black politician, but
as a politician who happens to be black. His genius lies in doing this
without denying or diluting the blackness that he signals to black
Americans [7]Comments
Links:
7. http://thebrowser.com/articles/fear-black-president
[8]Welcome To Hell
Links:
8. http://b.rw/NKpeiL
Steve Volk | Philadelphia | 24 August 2012
"No one knows why some people can recover from a traumatic event while
others require treatment for PTSD. But we do know the urban poor may be
even worse off than our country’s soldiers." Life in inner-city
Philadelphia shows why [9]Comments
Links:
9. http://thebrowser.com/articles/welcome-hell
[10]Why Is The Night Sky Turning Red?
Links:
10. http://b.rw/Od4H50
Amy Shira Teitel | Crux | 23 August 2012
Already know why the sky's blue during the day? Well done. But did you
know it's starting to turn red at night now. Here's why it's happening,
why it's important and what we can expect from the night sky in the
future [11]Comments
Links:
11. http://thebrowser.com/articles/why-night-sky-turning-red
[12]How Young German Men Are Lured Into Jihad
Links:
12. http://b.rw/Sr5qQQ
Özlem Gezer | Spiegel | 23 August 2012
"He worked at his uncle's falafel stand and read Immanuel Kant, and
later Plato and Nietzsche. In the end, he became a radical Islamist,
recruiting new talent for a Muslim holy war in the middle of Hamburg.
Djamal was the hunter" [13]Comments
Links:
13. http://thebrowser.com/articles/how-young-german-men-are-lured-jihad
[14]The Hugging Saint
Links:
14. http://b.rw/PzhLlj
David Amsden | Rolling Stone | 16 August 2012
Indian spiritual guru Mata Amritanandamayi specialises in hugs. So far
30 million have felt her rapturous embrace. Followers believe she's a
divine soul in a human body. But she's commercial too and, allegedly,
violent and abusive [15]Comments
Links:
15. http://thebrowser.com/articles/hugging-saint
[16]Prime Time For Paul Ryan's Guru
Links:
16. http://b.rw/O73gVA
Adam Davidson | NYT | 21 August 2012
No, not Ayn Rand but the Austrian economist Friedrich Von Hayek. Much
maligned, widely misunderstood; here's what he believed. And take note,
he wasn't a conservative; he didn't want to conserve anything
[17]Comments
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/articles/prime-time-paul-ryans-guru
FiveBooks Interview
[18]Robert Lane Greene on Language and the Mind
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/robert-lane-greene-on-language-and-mind
The Economist correspondent and author discusses "grammar grouches",
linguistic evolution, and why the world looks different in other
languages [19]Read on
Links:
19. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/robert-lane-greene-on-language-and-mind
Featured Special Report
[20]Consciousness
Links:
20. http://thebrowser.com/reports/consciousness
What is it? Where did it come from? How can we learn more about it?
Here's a quick look at what we do and don't know about consciousness
[21]Read on
Links:
21. http://thebrowser.com/reports/consciousness
Reader Recommendations
@ChrisFaile Powerhouse piece of original reporting by The Economist
this week, on the Catholic church's finances: [22]t.co/EYxdL7gh
[23]#browsings [24]More like this
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22. http://t.co/EYxdL7gh
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/last-king-poland-by-adam-zamoyski
[26]The Last King of Poland by Adam Zamoyski
Links:
26. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/last-king-poland-by-adam-zamoyski
[27]Norman Davies says: “The book is extremely well done, very well
written. It shows the terrible dilemma king Stanislaw-August
Poniatowski faced” [28]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
27. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/norman-davies-on-europe’s-vanished-states
28. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[29]Man In Shades Fools New York
Links:
29. http://thebrowser.com/videos/man-shades-fools-new-york
Pretends to be a celebrity. Video goes viral. Now he is one [30]More
videos
Links:
30. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[31]Venkatesh Rao, on dichotomies
Links:
31. http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2012/08/23/waste-creativity-and-godwins-corollary-for-technology
"All dichotomies are false, but some are more of a bitch to
transcend than others"
[32]More quotes
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32. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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