Newsletter 820
Best of the Moment
Faces, Places, Spaces
Adam Gopnik | New Yorker | 22 October 2012
Historians and military strategists develop new respect for geography after bungled invasions of Iraq, Afghanistan. "Our desires as nations, like our desires as individuals, are rooted in the unchanging features of our terrain" Comments (http://thebrowser.com/articles/faces-places-spaces)
The Girl Who Changed Pakistan: Malala Yousafzai
Shehrbano Taseer | Newsweek | 22 October 2012
"What the attack on Malala makes clear is that this is really a battle over education. A repressive mindset has been allowed to flourish in Pakistan because of the madrassa system set up by power-hungry clerics." It has to end Comments (http://thebrowser.com/articles/girl-who-changed-pakistan-malala-yousafzai)
This Is Not A Revolution
Hussein Agha & Robert Malley | NYRB | 19 October 2012
"Was the last century an aberrant deviation from the Arab world's inherent Islamic trajectory? Is today's Islamist rebirth a fleeting, anomalous throwback to a long-outmoded past? Which is the detour, which is the natural path?" Comments (http://thebrowser.com/articles/not-revolution)
Thomas Quick: The Swedish Serial Killer Who Never Was
Elizabeth Day | Observer | 20 October 2012
In the 1990s, Thomas Quick confessed to more than 30 murders, making him Sweden's most notorious serial killer. In many cases his confession was the only evidence. And now he says those confessions were fake. Here, he explains why Comments (http://thebrowser.com/articles/thomas-quick-swedish-serial-killer-who-never-was)
My 6,128 Favorite Books
Joe Queenan | WSJ | 21 October 2012
On a lifelong love affair with reading. "I once read 'Tortilla Flat' from cover to cover during a nine-hour Jerry Garcia guitar solo at Philadelphia's Spectrum; by the time he'd wrapped things up, I could have read 'As I Lay Dying'" Comments (http://thebrowser.com/articles/my-6128-favorite-books)
Diary: Online Dating
Emily Witt | LRB | 19 October 2012
"I answered the questions indicating an interest in casual sex in the negative, but that’s fairly common for women. The more a dating site leads with signifiers of (male) sexual desire, the less likely women are to sign up for it" Comments (http://thebrowser.com/articles/diary-online-dating)
(http://www.amazon.com/Best-of-FiveBooks-2011-ebook/dp/B007GAM6RC?tag=thebro-21)
FiveBooks Interview
(http://thebrowser.com/interviews/joshua-foer-on-memory)
Joshua Foer on Memory
The best-selling author and 2006 US Memory Champion picks five unforgettable books about the art of remembering Read on (http://thebrowser.com/interviews/joshua-foer-on-memory)
Featured Special Report
(http://thebrowser.com/reports/fall-lance-armstrong)
The Fall of Lance Armstrong
Once a hero, but now the game is up. Here's how the aggressively preserved reputation of Lance Armstrong finally crumbled Read on (http://thebrowser.com/reports/fall-lance-armstrong)
Reader Recommendations
@polit2k (http://twitter.com/polit2k) IMF's epic plan to conjure away debt and dethrone bankers - Telegraph t.co/HajmrgrQ #browsings (https://twitter.com/search?q=#browsings) h/t @rszbt (http://twitter.com/rszbt) #revolution (http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=#revolution) #gfc2 (http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=#gfc2) More like this (http://thebrowser.com/browsings)
Book of the Day
Book of the Day (http://thebrowser.com/recommended/fortress-solitude-by-jonathan-lethem)
The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem
Jay McInerney says (http://thebrowser.com/interviews/jay-mcinerney-on-essential-new-york-novels) : “Lethem was one of the first people to write about the new Brooklyn. This is a beautiful coming-of-age novel” FiveBooks Archive (http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive)
Video of the Day
Stress
(http://thebrowser.com/videos/stress)
Yes. I often have days like this More videos (http://thebrowser.com/videos)
Quote of the Day
Charles Leadbetter, on scaling (http://www.ted.com/talks/charles_leadbeater_on_education.html)
"There are Chinese restaurants everywhere, but there is no Chinese restaurant chain. The McDonald's model scales. The Chinese restaurant model spreads"
More quotes (http://thebrowser.com/quotations)