Newsletter 776
[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]Revolt Of The Rich
Links:
6. http://b.rw/NwxGTd
Mike Lofgren | American Conservative | 27 August 2012
"The super-rich have seceded from America even as their grip on its
control mechanisms has tightened. But how did this evolve historically,
what does it mean for the rest of us, and where is it likely to be
going?" [7]Comments
Links:
7. https://thebrowser.com/articles/revolt-rich
[8]A Tragic Tale At A South African Mine
Links:
8. http://b.rw/Oxsvk0
Imraan Coovadia | NYT | 28 August 2012
Commentary on Marikana confrontation that led to S African police
killing 34 striking miners. Could it be "that workers’ violence
endangers the country less than the unreal ways in which the superrich
take pleasure and show power"? [9]Comments
Links:
9. https://thebrowser.com/articles/tragic-tale-south-african-mine
[10]As Told By The Egg
Links:
10. http://b.rw/Ph3ntX
Susan Gaidos | ScienceNews | 27 August 2012
"Biologists have long been puzzled by the molecular events that take
place during that momentous embrace between sperm and egg." But now at
last researchers are starting to understand the remarkable behaviour of
the egg [11]Comments
Links:
11. https://thebrowser.com/articles/told-egg
[12]Gimme The Loot
Links:
12. http://b.rw/QRVpYd
Gavin Mueller | Jacobin | 29 August 2012
Provocative essay compares software pirates to seafaring pirates. "The
decaying corpses of executed pirates were chained to trading posts from
Ghana to Virginia as warnings to others. Brutal examples were set. And
so it goes today" [13]Comments
Links:
13. https://thebrowser.com/articles/gimme-loot
[14]The Skype Killers Of Belarus
Links:
14. http://b.rw/Ph1ddG
Brett Forrest | Businessweek | 23 August 2012
Viber is an app that lets you talk and text for free from your mobile
phone. Developed in Minsk, it currently has 100 million registered
users. And 10 million more are joining each month. A most unlikely
success, this is its story [15]Comments
Links:
15. https://thebrowser.com/articles/skype-killers-belarus
[16]Clive James: De Profundis
Links:
16. http://b.rw/Pmo7Ga
Brian Appleyard | Brian Appleyard | 19 August 2012
"Not long ago he was a great striding Aussie bull, confidently
chuckling his way through life, art and literary society." But now the
poet and critic, 72, is a shuffling old man laid low by leukemia,
depression, broken marriage [17]Comments
Links:
17. https://thebrowser.com/articles/clive-james-de-profundis
FiveBooks Interview
[18]Lev Grossman on Fantasy
Links:
18. https://thebrowser.com/interviews/lev-grossman-on-fantasy
We're living through a golden age for fantasy fiction, says the author
of The Magicians. He tells us what makes for a good fantasy novel, and
who's staking out the future not just of fantasy but of fiction itself
[19]Read on
Links:
19. https://thebrowser.com/interviews/lev-grossman-on-fantasy
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
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