Weekly newsletter 13
Best of the Week
[5]Looking For Someone
Links:
5. http://b.rw/jreWrG
Nick Paumgarten | New Yorker | 27 June 2011
Everything you wanted to know about Internet dating. Long, fun ride from
1960s NY to today's smart algorithms (much like Netflix, except the movie
doesn't have to like you back). And how we set ourselves up for success or
failure [6]Comments
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/looking-someone
[7]You Are Being Gamed
Links:
7. http://b.rw/k57J76
Dan Ariely | Dropbox | 25 June 2011
How online companies trick you into sharing more, joining more, and spending
more. And how, sometimes, we end up gaming ourselves. Case studies from
Amazon, Netflix, Zynga, Groupon, Apple and Facebook (PDF) [8]Comments
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/you-are-being-gamed
[9]US Inequality Quiz
Links:
9. http://b.rw/j578Rr
Jeffrey Rudolph | Informed Comment | 28 June 2011
Twenty-two questions. Here's one of the shorter ones. "True or False: The US
has higher social mobility than the Scandinavian countries." Answers with a
little help from Paul Krugman, Arianna Huffington, Ha-Joon Chang
[10]Comments
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/us-inequality-quiz
[11]Blindsided: The Jerry Joseph Basketball Scandal
Links:
11. http://b.rw/j0C8dS
Michael Mooney | GQ | 30 June 2011
Jerry Joseph got off a Greyhound bus in Odessa, Texas in February 2009. He
said he was a homeless orphan from Haiti. He was taken in, enrolled in high
school. Soon he was a local sporting hero. But all was not as it appeared
[12]Comments
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/blindsided-jerry-joseph-basketball-scandal
[13]The Philosophy Of Applied Mathematics
Links:
13. http://b.rw/ke0QCf
Phil Wilson | Plus | 24 June 2011
Here's a big question. Why can maths be used to describe the world? Or, to
extend it more provocatively, why is applied maths even possible? An expert
explains the foundations of understanding the world mathematically
[14]Comments
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/articles/philosophy-applied-mathematics
[15]How Violent Sex Helped Ease My PTSD
Links:
15. http://b.rw/lXPUWh
Mac McLelland | Good | 27 June 2011
Beat this for a first sentence: "It was my research editor who told me it
was completely nuts to willingly get fucked at gunpoint." Mother Jones
correspondent on doing journalism in dangerous places, and getting over the
stress [16]Comments
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/articles/how-violent-sex-helped-ease-my-ptsd
[17]Denis Forman's Guide To 'Die Meistersinger'
Links:
17. http://b.rw/mbdGwj
Denis Forman | Guardian | 24 June 2011
Brilliant, funny summary. "It's the acceptable face of Wagner. There are no
hang-ups with sex and sin, no power-mad dwarfs, no sprouting staves. Even
the racial propaganda can be played down except for a disagreeable final
outburst" [18]Comments
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/articles/denis-formans-guide-die-meistersinger
[19]The 14 Most Dominant Performances
Links:
19. http://b.rw/mSK0T0
Joe Posnanski | Sports Illustrated | 24 June 2011
In sport, that is. A great list to chew over. So many good memories. And a
fabulous, in some ways unexpected, choice as number one. "He is moving like
a tremendous machine," said the awestruck commentator [20]Comments
Links:
20. http://thebrowser.com/articles/14-most-dominant-performances
FiveBooks Interview
[21]Stephen Breyer on Intellectual Influences
Links:
21. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/stephen-breyer-on-intellectual-influences
The US Supreme Court Justice discusses five books that have influenced his
thinking, and explains why reading widely, including literature, is
essential for judges and lawyers [22]Read on
Links:
22. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/stephen-breyer-on-intellectual-influences
Featured Topic
[23]China
Links:
23. http://thebrowser.com/topics/china
Everything you need to know about the rising power. Original interviews with
experts such as Richard Baum, Isabel Hilton, and Xinran - and the books and
articles they recommend [24]Read on
Links:
24. http://thebrowser.com/topics/china
Reader Recommendations
_@polit2k_ Christine Lagarde And The Demand For Dollars « The Baseline
Scenario - [25]goo.gl/oxZuS _@nppolicyanalyst @baselinescene
#IMF_[26]#browsings [27]More like this
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25. http://goo.gl/oxZuS
26. https://twitter.com/search?q=#browsings
27. http://thebrowser.com/browsings
Book of the Week
[28]Book of the Day
Links:
28. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/looming-tower-by-lawrence-wright
[29]The Looming Tower by Lawrence Wright
Links:
29. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/looming-tower-by-lawrence-wright
[30]Peter Taylor says: "If anybody wishes to understand what Al-Qaeda is,
where it came from and what it is trying to do, this is the key book to
read" [31]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
30. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/peter-taylor-on-al-qaeda
31. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks
Video of the Week
[32]Splitscreen: A Love Story
Links:
32. http://thebrowser.com/videos/splitscreen-love-story
Winner of Nokia Shorts competition 2011. Amazingly, shot entirely by mobile
phone
[33]More videos
Links:
33. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Week
[34]Jimmy Page, on nutrition
Links:
34. http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/6696852/in-evening
"I'm not into solid foods very much. I prefer to eat liquid food,
something like a banana daiquiri"
[35]More quotes
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35. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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