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Best of the Week
[5]The ‘Dramatic Picture’ Of Richard Feynman
Links:
5. http://b.rw/nW4lnY
Freeman Dyson | NYRB | 4 July 2011
Profile of Richard Feynman, physics superstar. "He created the language that
a majority of modern physicists speak. Incidentally, he created a language
that ordinary people without mathematical training can understand"
[6]Comments
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/‘dramatic-picture’-richard-feynman
[7]The Menace Within
Links:
7. http://b.rw/oXjHIe
Romesh Ratnesar | Stanford Magazine | 5 July 2011
Forty years after the notorious Stanford prison experiment, how do the
guards, prisoners and researchers feel about it now? "When you have little
or no supervision, things just keep escalating. You think, how can we top
yesterday?" [8]Comments
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/menace-within
[9]Nelson Mandela's Legacy
Links:
9. http://b.rw/qDftpv
John Carlin | Cairo Review of Global Affairs | 10 July 2011
Tremendously well-crafted, well-informed piece of writing, paying tribute to
political skills and intelligence of former South African president. To
focus on his (admirable) spirit of forgiveness is to underestimate the man
hugely [10]Comments
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/nelson-mandelas-legacy
[11]The Unselfish Gene
Links:
11. http://b.rw/o0CUtY
Yochai Benkler | HBR | 4 July 2011
Superb essay challenging notion of innate human selfishness and the rational
actor theory. Biology, sociology, experimental economics, political science.
All contain powerful ideas about natural cooperation [12]Comments
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/unselfish-gene
[13]Murdoch, Like Napoleon, Is A Great Bad Man
Links:
13. http://b.rw/oyIjGo
Conrad Black | FT | 13 July 2011
Murdoch rarely keeps his word. Exploits the miseries of others. Betrays
every political leader who trusts him. Malicious myth-maker. All his
instincts point downmarket. But he's a great businessman. And probably not a
criminal [14]Comments
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/articles/murdoch-napoleon-great-bad-man-0
[15]'Little Gitmo'
Links:
15. http://b.rw/rg7CIm
Christopher Stewart | New York | 10 July 2011
In 2004 Yassin Aref was caught in an FBI sting in upstate New York. He was
about to become the latest inmate in a secretive prison called a
Communication Management Unit, where an estimated 70% of the inmates are
Muslim [16]Comments
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/articles/little-gitmo
[17]MI6 In My Day
Links:
17. http://b.rw/pAUYvo
John Le Carré | Mail On Sunday | 10 July 2011
Reminiscences pegged to the remake of "Tinker, Tailor" with Gary Oldman in
the Alec Guinness role. "You’ve got to have spies, but the important thing
is that you’re not enchanted by them. Use them and don’t let them use you"
[18]Comments
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/articles/mi6-my-day
[19]Murdoch: Network Defeats Hierarchy
Links:
19. http://b.rw/qmLTOE
Paul Mason | BBC | 10 July 2011
Chomsky was right, at least about News Corp: the mass media is a propaganda
machine. News Corp propaganda was all about maintaining Rupert Murdoch's
power. Now the spell is broken. Taboo is gone. We can ask how it ever
happened [20]Comments
Links:
20. http://thebrowser.com/articles/murdoch-network-defeats-hierarchy
FiveBooks Interview
[21]Kenneth Miller on Arguments against Creationism
Links:
21. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/kenneth-miller-on-arguments-against-creationism
The biology professor, and Catholic, tells us what we should read to
understand the battle being fought between scientists and creationists
[22]Read on
Links:
22. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/kenneth-miller-on-arguments-against-creationism
Featured Topic
[23]Moral Philosophy
Links:
23. http://thebrowser.com/topics/moral-philosophy
Do babies have morals? Does surveillance make us better? Is free will an
illusion or not? Is there such a thing as evil? Get to grips with the big
questions of right and wrong [24]Read on
Links:
24. http://thebrowser.com/topics/moral-philosophy
Reader Recommendations
_@polit2k_ BBC News - Practical steps to prevent eurozone meltdown -
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Links:
25. http://goo.gl/uIXip
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/zaat-by-sonallah-ibrahim
[29]Zaat by Sonallah Ibrahim
Links:
29. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/zaat-by-sonallah-ibrahim
[30]Issandr El Amrani says: _"Zaat is a book that captures the suffocating
nature of the Mubarak regime, and not just in the last few years"_
[31]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
30. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/issandr-el-amrani-on-understanding-arab-world
31. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks
Video of the Week
[32]Alain de Botton on Pessimism
Links:
32. http://thebrowser.com/videos/alain-de-botton-pessimism
"I want to talk about impotence first. Who here has been impotent recently?"
[33]More videos
Links:
33. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Week
[34]Paul Graham, on pricing
Links:
34. http://blog.karolzielinski.com/paul-graham-and-his-recipe-for-good-prices
"You’ve found market price when buyers complain but still pay"
[35]More quotes
Links:
35. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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