Newsletter 785
[1]All of our Best of the Moment article recommendations, plus
FiveBooks interviews and other selected content from thebrower.com
Links:
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[6]'When Spain Hands Us Over To Morocco, This Is What They Do To Us'
Links:
6. http://b.rw/NQNdgC
Monica Ceberio Belaza | El País | 5 September 2012
A trip inside "Oujda University" – a Moroccan ghetto for sub-Saharan
migrants moving north to Europe. "Do you really find it so strange for
us to leave countries where there is nothing?" asks a Gambian
mechanical engineer [7]Comments
Links:
7. http://thebrowser.com/articles/when-spain-hands-us-over-morocco-what-they-do-us
[8]Alex Rovt, The Fertilizer Baron Of Manhattan
Links:
8. http://b.rw/NQPcSb
Andrew Rice | Businessweek | 6 September 2012
Don't call him a Russian or a Ukrainian. He prefers Carpathian. And
after building up and selling a vast fertiliser empire in eastern
Europe and the former Soviet Union, he's acquiring New York real
estate. A lot of it [9]Comments
Links:
9. http://thebrowser.com/articles/alex-rovt-fertilizer-baron-manhattan
[10]Elephants Dying In Epic Frenzy As Ivory Fuels Wars and Profits
Links:
10. http://b.rw/Q70Kgc
Jeffrey Gettleman | NYT | 3 September 2012
"Africa is in the midst of an elephant slaughter. Poachers are wiping
out tens of thousands of elephants a year, more than at any time in the
previous two decades, with the underground ivory trade becoming
increasingly militarised" [11]Comments
Links:
11. http://thebrowser.com/articles/elephants-dying-epic-frenzy-ivory-fuels-wars-and-profits
[12]The Great Transformation In The Global Labour Market
Links:
12. http://b.rw/QhrGOn
Phillip Brown & Hugh Lauder | Eurozine/Soundings | 5 September 2012
"The stark reality is that while the global labour market may
contribute to the narrowing of some aspects of global inequality, it
has contributed to widening inequalities within Britain and most other
western economies" [13]Comments
Links:
13. http://thebrowser.com/articles/great-transformation-global-labour-market
[14]Can Facebook-Style Elections Produce Candidates We Actually 'Like'?
Links:
14. http://b.rw/RShmr7
David Freedman | Discover | 4 September 2012
"My parents voted by picking one of the two parties and then agreeing
with whatever it decided." But it doesn't need to be like that any
longer. Here's how technology could be used to re-imagine political
elections [15]Comments
Links:
15. http://thebrowser.com/articles/can-facebook-style-elections-produce-candidates-we-actually
[16]How Google Builds Its Maps – And What It Means For The Future Of
Everything
Links:
16. http://b.rw/NQJfok
Alexis Madrigal | Atlantic | 6 September 2012
Don't think of Google Maps as like a paper map. "I honestly think we're
seeing a more profound change, for map-making, than the switch from
manuscript to print in the Renaissance," says one cartographic
historian (h/t @polit2k) [17]Comments
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/articles/how-google-builds-its-maps-–-and-what-it-means-future-everything
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
@polit2k Five myths about the euro crisis | C. Fred Bergsten | The
Washington Post [22]t.co/UaDHMCDp #eurocrisis #gfc2 h/t @evaeuropa
[23]#browsings [24]More like this
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22. http://t.co/UaDHMCDp
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/leave-any-information-signal-by-ed-ruscha
[26]Leave Any Information at the Signal by Ed Ruscha
Links:
26. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/leave-any-information-signal-by-ed-ruscha
[27]Hal Foster says: “His landscape is the landscape of Los Angeles, so
he sees it through the windshield of a car and it is mediated by
billboards and movies” [28]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
27. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/hal-foster-on-pop-art
28. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[29]David Fincher: A Retrospective
Links:
29. http://thebrowser.com/videos/david-fincher-retrospective
Of his title sequences, that is. Designed so you stay for the rest of
the film [30]More videos
Links:
30. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[31]Bob Strauss, on politics
Links:
31. http://www.capradio.org/news/npr/story?storyid=160643183
"Every politician wants you to believe he was born in a log cabin he
built himself"
[32]More quotes
Links:
32. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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