Newsletter 782
[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]Murder Spotlights Pakistan's 'Heroin Kingpin'
Links:
6. http://b.rw/OWPfsv
Matthew Green | Reuters | 5 September 2012
"Few in Pakistan or abroad know the country is home to a suspected
major player in a $68 billion global opiates industry that has claimed
far more lives than attacks by al-Qaeda." Has anybody ever got close to
touching him? No [7]Comments
Links:
7. http://thebrowser.com/articles/murder-spotlights-pakistans-heroin-kingpin
[8]Will I Live Longer Than My Cat?
Links:
8. http://b.rw/OWNQSw
David Spiegelhalter | BBC | 4 September 2012
Statistician considers the probability of long life in charming short
article. "It's odd to think we have been essentially ageing only nine
months for each year that passes." But that is the effect of rising
life expectancy [9]Comments
Links:
9. http://thebrowser.com/articles/will-i-live-longer-my-cat
[10]Convention Speech
Links:
10. http://b.rw/PHGD7S
Michelle Obama | NPR | 4 September 2012
Obviously it loses something on the page, and it takes three or four
paragraphs to pick up speed, but when it does, this is one of the great
convention speeches, maybe one of the great political speeches, of
modern times [11]Comments
Links:
11. http://thebrowser.com/articles/convention-speech
[12]Syrian Children Offer Glimpse Of A Future Of Reprisals
Links:
12. http://b.rw/NaL5yI
David Kirkpatrick | NYT | 3 September 2012
Disturbing report from Syrian refugee camp in Jordan. Where even young
children are focused on sectarian revenge. "I hate the Alawites and the
Shiites. We are going to kill them with our knives, just like they
killed us" [13]Comments
Links:
13. http://thebrowser.com/articles/syrian-children-offer-glimpse-future-reprisals
[14]The Siege Of Academe
Links:
14. http://b.rw/OUZC1s
Kevin Carey | Washington Monthly | 1 September 2012
"Higher education is a publicly subsidized, heavily regulated,
culturally entrenched sector that has stubbornly resisted digital
rationalization." But it can't do so forever. Barbarians are at the
gate. When will they break through? [15]Comments
Links:
15. http://thebrowser.com/articles/siege-academe
[16]Coming Soon: Artificial Limbs Controlled By Thought
Links:
16. http://b.rw/Rh1TQP
Miguel Nicolelis | Scientific American | 29 August 2012
Pistorius running on blades is certainly an impressive sight. But did
you know that the first kick of the next World Cup will be made by a
paralysed teenager, controlling robotic legs by the power of thought?
Welcome to the future [17]Comments
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/articles/coming-soon-artificial-limbs-controlled-thought
FiveBooks Interview
[18]Eric Foner on the Evolution of Liberalism
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/eric-foner-on-evolution-liberalism
The historian chooses five books illustrating how concepts of American
liberalism have changed over the past 50 years, and tells us about the
tension that lies at the heart of liberalism today
[19]Read on
Links:
19. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/eric-foner-on-evolution-liberalism
Featured Special Report
[20]Hackers
Links:
20. http://thebrowser.com/reports/hackers
Cars, nuclear plants, computers, phones, webcams -- they all succumb to
hackers in the end [21]Read on
Links:
21. http://thebrowser.com/reports/hackers
Reader Recommendations
@[22]polit2k A breakthrough in Europe? [23]t.co/S77zYt8a via @[24]Yves
Smith #[25]eurocrisis #[26]gfc2 [27]#browsings [28]More like this
Links:
22. http://twitter.com/polit2k
23. http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2012/09/a-breakthrough-in-europe.html
24. http://twitter.com/Yves
25. http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=#eurocrisis
26. http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=#gfc2
27. https://twitter.com/search?q=#browsings
28. http://thebrowser.com/browsings
Book of the Day
[29]Book of the Day
Links:
29. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/philosophy-andy-warhol-b-and-back-again-by-andy-warhol
[30]The Philosophy of Andy Warhol by Andy Warhol
Links:
30. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/philosophy-andy-warhol-b-and-back-again-by-andy-warhol
[31]Hal Foster says: “In The Philosophy of Andy Warhol he adopts the
persona of idiot savant. He says idiotic things that are weirdly deep”
[32]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
31. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/hal-foster-on-pop-art
32. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[33]Legitimate Rape
Links:
33. http://thebrowser.com/videos/legitimate-rape
"It's like regular birth control. Except it's imagined by crazy people"
[34]More videos
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34. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[35]Geoff Dyer, on Conrad
Links:
35. http://www.guernicamag.com/features/ship-write
"Heart of Darkness is not just a book but a modern myth—everyone has
read it, even if they have not done so personally"
[36]More quotes
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36. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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