Newsletter 784
[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]Afghanistan's Base Bonanza
Links:
6. http://b.rw/SmmM44
Nick Turse | History News Network/TomDispatch | 4 September 2012
"Afghanistan may turn out to be one of the great misbegotten 'stimulus
packages' of the modern era, a construction boom in the middle of
nowhere with materials largely shipped in at enormous expense to no
lasting purpose whatsoever" [7]Comments
Links:
7. http://thebrowser.com/articles/afghanistans-base-bonanza
[8]Revisiting Robbers Cave
Links:
8. http://b.rw/RSfz5a
Maria Konnikova | Literally Psyched | 5 September 2012
In the summer of 1954, 22 boys headed off to summer camp to take part
in one of most famous studies in social psychology: The Robbers Cave
experiment. Here's what happened, and what it taught us about
intergroup relations [9]Comments
Links:
9. http://thebrowser.com/articles/revisiting-robbers-cave
[10]Diary: Brighton Beach
Links:
10. http://b.rw/OVjCxv
Peter Pomerantsev | LRB | 5 September 2012
New York's Russian community, full of louche vitality. "The US is the
last place where Soviet bonds endure, strengthened by a shared hatred
of the system they left behind and informed by a black-market Soviet
vision of capitalism" [11]Comments
Links:
11. http://thebrowser.com/articles/diary-brighton-beach
[12]The Making Of A Syrian Rebel
Links:
12. http://b.rw/OWOPCf
Rania Abouzeid & Jabal Al-Zawya | Time | 4 September 2012
"War is dehumanizing, and civil wars in particular can brutalize a
society in ways that fundamentally alter its very nature. Neighbours
become enemies; differences become magnified as a means to confirm the
otherness of the enemy" [13]Comments
Links:
13. http://thebrowser.com/articles/making-syrian-rebel
[14]Fitzgerald's Depression
Links:
14. http://b.rw/OWOakv
Thomas Heise | Berfrois | 4 September 2012
On F Scott Fitzgerald's demise. "At what should have been the height of
his novelistic powers in the mid 1930s, he was listless, reckless in
his personal affairs, sick with tuberculosis and jaw-droppingly drunk"
[15]Comments
Links:
15. http://thebrowser.com/articles/fitzgeralds-depression
[16]Ship Write
Links:
16. http://b.rw/NM1Fqm
Geoff Dyer | Guernica | 4 September 2012
Build a boat-like structure, hang it over the Thames, stick a writer
inside for a day and a night, see what they come up with. This is what
Artangel did, and this is what Geoff Dyer, musing on Heart of Darkness
came up with [17]Comments
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/articles/ship-write
FiveBooks Interview
[18]Carl Zimmer on The Strangeness of Life
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/carl-zimmer-on-strangeness-life
The science writer and award-winning blogger discusses the strangeness
of life, from viruses to manipulative flatworms [19]Read on
Links:
19. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/carl-zimmer-on-strangeness-life
Featured Special Report
[20]The Fall of Lance Armstrong
Links:
20. http://thebrowser.com/reports/fall-lance-armstrong
Once a hero, but now the game is up. Here's how the aggressively
preserved reputation of Lance Armstrong finally crumbled [21]Read on
Links:
21. http://thebrowser.com/reports/fall-lance-armstrong
Reader Recommendations
@maisonneuvemag The strange-but-true history of putting "criminal"
animals on trial: [22]t.co/Qp4kCVLG by @dsnelles #animals
[23]#browsings [24]More like this
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22. http://t.co/Qp4kCVLG
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/einstein-his-life-and-universe-by-walter-isaacson
[26]Einstein by Walter Isaacson
Links:
26. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/einstein-his-life-and-universe-by-walter-isaacson
[27]Ian McEwan says: “This biography shows us the creative exuberance
of a man with an extraordinary visual imagination. During two
particular episodes in his life he fundamentally rewrote our
understanding of the physical world.” [28]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
27. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/ian-mcewan-on-five-books-have-influenced-my-novels
28. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[29]Tokyo Living 2012
Links:
29. http://thebrowser.com/videos/tokyo-living-2012
Yes, it's another time-lapse. But stifle that yawn. This is how it's
done [30]More videos
Links:
30. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[31]Joseph Epstein, on language
Links:
31. http://www.claremont.org/publications/crb/id.1973/article_detail.asp
"Seminal, a word used chiefly by academics to overpraise one
another, tends vastly to underrate the power of semen"
[32]More quotes
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32. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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