Weekly newsletter 18
Best of the Week
[5]Murdoch Hacked Us Too
Links:
5. http://b.rw/nEZV2i
Frank Rich | New York | 31 July 2011
Superb, excoriating attack on News Corp. Not just a UK issue. Says America
is in denial about extent of Murdoch empire's negative influence. And
there's a lot more to it than mere tabloid vulgarity and right-wing
attack-dog politics [6]Comments
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/murdoch-hacked-us-too
[7]Getting Bin Laden
Links:
7. http://b.rw/pP1JdT
Nicholas Schmidle | New Yorker | 1 August 2011
The most detailed account to date of what happened that night in Abbottabad.
Tense, powerful piece of writing describing the planning, build-up and
execution of America's special forces raid on the world's most wanted man
[8]Comments
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/getting-bin-laden
[9]Enter The Cyber-Dragon
Links:
9. http://b.rw/piDo4Z
Michael Joseph Gross | Vanity Fair | 3 August 2011
Huge feature investigating a decade of cyber attacks against Lockheed
Martin, Google, RSA and others. China top suspect. “There are only two types
of companies—those that know they’ve been compromised, and those that don’t
know" [10]Comments
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/enter-cyber-dragon
[11]As Atheists Know, You Can Be Good Without God
Links:
11. http://b.rw/oUtbKB
Jerry Coyne | USA Today | 31 July 2011
In praise of secular morality. Biologist knocks down arguments for God-given
morality, explains how human morality came about through evolution, secular
reasoning. Lucid, concise. Highly recommended [12]Comments
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/atheists-know-you-can-be-good-without-god
[13]Ultimate Logic: To Infinity And Beyond
Links:
13. http://b.rw/pvkmM6
Richard Elwes | New Scientist | 1 August 2011
One mathematician believes he has cracked "the continuum hypothesis", a
century-old problem to do with nature of infinity. How? "Not by using
mathematics as we know it, but by building a new, radically stronger logical
structure" [14]Comments
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/articles/ultimate-logic-infinity-and-beyond
[15]Unraveling Mexico's Sinaloa Drug Cartel
Links:
15. http://b.rw/oJQYcT
Richard Marosi | LAT | 24 July 2011
There's probably a limit to the amount you want to read about Mexican
organised drug crime. But I haven't nearly hit mine yet. And here's a
fantastic piece which is just the first of a four-part series. "The Wire"
meets "Scarface" [16]Comments
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/articles/unraveling-mexicos-sinaloa-drug-cartel
[17]The 30-Foot Jump
Links:
17. http://b.rw/ooATPK
Joe Posnanski | Sports Illustrated | 2 August 2011
Mike Powell's long jump world record has stood for very nearly 20 years. And
no one around today has got remotely close to it. "But what if I tell you
that the longest jump in the history of the world was NOT Mike Powell’s"
[18]Comments
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/articles/30-foot-jump
[19]Occasional Dispatches From The Republic Of Anhedonia
Links:
19. http://b.rw/pE1sde
Colson Whitehead | Grantland | 27 July 2011
Ignore the off-putting title. Thoroughly entertaining story of journalist
entering World Series of Poker. Sports writing at its best. Starts off with
the immortal line: "I have a good poker face because I am half-dead inside"
[20]Comments
Links:
20. http://thebrowser.com/articles/occasional-dispatches-republic-anhedonia-1
FiveBooks Interview
[21]Dominic Lawson on Chess
Links:
21. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/dominic-lawson-on-chess
You don’t have to be a genius to play chess, but it helps. The journalist
tells us about the logical beauty of the game, its history and political
context, and the lives and minds of its greatest masters [22]Read on
Links:
22. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/dominic-lawson-on-chess
Featured Topic
[23]Natural History
Links:
23. http://thebrowser.com/topics/natural-history
Everything you need to know about natural history. Experts from London's
Natural History Museum discuss their top five books on everything - from
bats to plants, dinosaurs to meteorites and more [24]Read on
Links:
24. http://thebrowser.com/topics/natural-history
Reader Recommendations
_@zachprague_ great _#browsings_ RT _@edwardlucas_ RT _@newsbrooke_ RT
_@scatatkins_ v good piece on what it's like to interview a celebrity
[25]bit.ly/oZ8kNa [26]#browsings [27]More like this
Links:
25. http://bit.ly/oZ8kNa
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/black-mass-by-john-gray
[29]Black Mass by John Gray
Links:
29. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/black-mass-by-john-gray
[30]Robert Baer says: _"This book accounts for a lot of things for me. One
is how the intelligence was manipulated when we went into Iraq”_
[31]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
30. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/robert-baer-on-being-spy
31. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks
Video of the Week
[32]Lucian Freud's Standing by the Rags
Links:
32. http://thebrowser.com/videos/lucian-freuds-standing-rags
Adrian Searle assesses the great painter's legacy
[33]More videos
Links:
33. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Week
[34]Michael Foot, on politicians
Links:
34. http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2011/aug/03/ed-miliband-ditch-political-tomes
"Men of power have not time to read; yet men who do not read are unfit for
power"
[35]More quotes
Links:
35. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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