Weekly newsletter 11
Best of the Week
[1]Black Ops And Blood Money
Links:
1. http://b.rw/ldEtpi
Matthew Teague | Men's Journal | 1 June 2011
Gripping back-story to arrest of American contractor Raymond Davis, held in
Lahore for shooting two men who were about to shoot him, and eventually
freed after huge diplomatic row between US and Pakistan. He was indeed a spy
[2]Comments
Links:
2. http://thebrowser.com/articles/black-ops-and-blood-money
[3]Aging: To Treat, Or Not To Treat?
Links:
3. http://b.rw/kxEQVg
David Gems | American Scientist | 13 June 2011
"It is possible to slow aging in laboratory animals. In fact, it is easy."
So addressing the ethical dilemmas raised by "decelerated aging" is no
longer a distant philosophical problem. It is a pressing scientific issue
[4]Comments
Links:
4. http://thebrowser.com/articles/aging-treat-or-not-treat
[5]A Brief History Of The Corporation: 1600 to 2100
Links:
5. http://b.rw/mB4pNI
Venkat | RibbonFarm | 8 June 2011
Not so brief actually but outstanding on globalisation and the end of the
corporation. We are entering an era of Coesian growth which "is
fundamentally not measured in aggregate terms at all. It is measured in
individual terms" [6]Comments
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/brief-history-corporation-1600-2100
[7]The Indignity Of Industrial Tomatoes
Links:
7. http://b.rw/jpl39P
Barry Estabrook | Gilt Taste | 13 June 2011
Best piece you'll ever read about tomatoes. Unless you're a farmer from
Florida. In which case you might want to go back to gassing those hard,
perfectly round, nutrient-poor, taste-free, green orbs with ethylene to turn
them red [8]Comments
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/indignity-industrial-tomatoes
[9]Pakistan's General Problem
Links:
9. http://b.rw/lFDoUb
Mohammed Hanif | Open | 10 June 2011
Pakistani military outsourced soldiering to freelance militants. Shopped for
insurgents in markets, set up "factories" for them in the mountains. Now
reaping what it has sown. Pakistan is an "international jihadi tourist
resort" [10]Comments
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/pakistans-general-problem
[11]The Epidemic Of Mental Illness
Links:
11. http://b.rw/kk42tK
Marcia Angell | NYRB | 9 June 2011
10% of Americans over the age of six take antidepressants. What's going on
here? The drug companies have captured the system. Through lobbying and
marketing, they decide what constitutes a mental illness, and how to treat
it [12]Comments
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/epidemic-mental-illness
[13]Being Ernest
Links:
13. http://b.rw/kJNsPp
John Walsh | Independent | 11 June 2011
Good read on Hemingway, drawing on "psychological autopsy" by American
psychiatrist. Suffered bipolar mood disorder, depression, chronic
alcoholism, repetitive traumatic brain injuries, psychosis. And a very
troubled childhood [14]Comments
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/articles/being-ernest
[15]The Match That Would Never End
Links:
15. http://b.rw/moC7Ii
Ed Caesar | GQ | 17 June 2011
Wimbledon throws up surprise in first-round draw, pitting John Isner against
Nicolas Mahut again. Last year it took no less than three days and 183 games
to separate them. Lovely article revisits the longest tennis match of all
[16]Comments
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/articles/match-would-never-end
FiveBooks Interview
[17]Giles Coren on Food Writing
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/giles-coren-on-food-writing
_The London Times_ award-winning food columnist takes an irreverent look at
the world of food writing, from restaurant critics to celebrity chefs
Featured Topic
[18]Autism
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/topics/autism
Leading academics, and parents with their own personal experiences of
autism, discuss what best to read on the disorder. Accompanied by a
selection of must-read articles
Reader Recommendations
@[19]polit2k Greece's ace card: help us or we'll take you all down -
Telegraph -[20]goo.gl/sVVcA [21]#browsings
Links:
19. http://twitter.com/polit2k
20. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/jeremy-warner/8581092/Greeces-ace-card-help-us-or-well-take-you-all-down.html
21. https://twitter.com/search?q=#browsings
Book of the Week
[22]Daughter of the Desert by Georgina Howell
Links:
22. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/daughter-desert-remarkable-life-gertrude-bell-by-georgina-howell
[23]Jo Tatchell says: "A biography of a fearless, motivated woman, who
bashed her way through the deserts, sitting with Bedu sheikhs and
tribespeople to become one of the seminal adventurers and shapers of the
region"
Links:
23. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/jo-tatchell-on-desert-nations
Quote of the Week
[24]Oliver Reichenstein, on pricing
Links:
24. http://www.informationarchitects.jp/en/ia-writer-on-prices-and-features
"The right price for a product is the highest price you can ask for, but
with one condition: that your customers remain happy after they buy it"
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