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Best of the Week
No Strings Attached
David Roberts | Outside | 12 April 2011
Outstanding profile of Alex Honnold, exponent of the most dangerous form of
rock-climbing -- free-soloing. No ropes, no other aids, no partner. Its only
rule: if you slip, you die. Reading to make you shiver then sweat
[1]Comments
Links:
1. http://thebrowser.com/articles/no-strings-attached
The Bugger, Bugged
Hugh Grant | New Statesman | 12 April 2011
A real gem. Hugh Grant turns investigative journalist to unravel the
mysteries of the News International mobile hacking saga. Unexpectedly
fascinating read from start to finish. Thanks to @polit2k for this great
spot [2]Comments
Links:
2. http://thebrowser.com/articles/bugger-bugged
Grounds For U.S. Military Intervention
Henry A. Kissinger & James A. Baker | Washington Post | 8 April 2011
Former Secretaries of State argue that "choice between 'idealism' and
'realism' is a false one". Suggest “pragmatic idealism” as best future
foreign policy strategy - protect national interests whilst promoting
democracy and freedom [3]Comments
Links:
3. http://thebrowser.com/articles/grounds-us-military-intervention
When Did Girls Start Wearing Pink?
Jeanne Maglaty | Smithsonian | 8 April 2011
Quite recently, in fact. Pink was boys' colour in 1920s, shifted to girls by
1940s. Gender-neutral phase in 1970s. Pink-blue divide back in 1980s,
spurred by prenatal testing: expectant parents wanted gender-specific
layette [4]Comments
Links:
4. http://thebrowser.com/articles/when-did-girls-start-wearing-pink
In Praise Of Marx
Terry Eagleton | Chronicle Review | 10 April 2011
"Marx was no more responsible for the monstrous oppression of the communist
world than Jesus was responsible for the Inquisition". He respected the
creative energy of capitalism. But he also saw its costs, and its weaknesses
[5]Comments
Links:
5. http://thebrowser.com/articles/praise-marx
Where We All Will Be Received
Nell Boeschenstein | This Recording | 8 April 2011
Super essay on Paul Simon's Graceland, one of the great albums of modern
times, in celebration of its 25th anniversary. Despite courting political
controversy, the album was seen "as breaking the dam for the world music
trend" [6]Comments
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/where-we-all-will-be-received
Real Housewives Of Wall Street
Matt Taibbi | Rolling Stone | 13 April 2011
"Huge roaring river of cash" has flowed out of Fed since 2008 crash, to prop
up US financial system. Now Fed has been forced to open its books. Money has
ended up in some odd hands. Those of Morgan Stanley's boss's wife, for
example [7]Comments
Links:
7. http://thebrowser.com/articles/real-housewives-wall-street
Twitter's Forgotten Cofounder - Noah Glass
Nicholas Carlson | Business Insider | 13 April 2011
Unmissable interview with the Twitter founder you never heard of - a man
abandoned by his friends and forgotten by history. "Some people have gotten
credit, some people haven't. The reality is it was a group effort"
[8]Comments
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/twitters-forgotten-cofounder-noah-glass
FiveBooks Interview
[9]Patrick French on India
Links:
9. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/patrick-french-on-india
Author of acclaimed new work _India: A Portrait_ takes us around the
world’s largest democracy, from the dance bars of Bombay to Kerala crab
curry on the Southwest coast
Featured Topic
[10]Poetry
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/topics/poetry
From poets on poetry and lives of the great poets, to fact-checking verse
and Google Voice as poetry ... something for the bard in us all
Reader Recommendations
@BostonReview: "Miéville seems to suggest the real world is composed of
consensual fantasies of varying degrees of
power." http://bit.ly/gB5pAF [12]#browsings
Links:
12. https://twitter.com/search?q=#browsings
Book of the Week
[13]The Empty Space by Peter Brook
Links:
13. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/empty-space-by-peter-brook
[14]Michael Billington says: One reason why this book resonates is that
things we take for granted now – that theatre should be a shared experience,
that it should be communal – were things that Brook was writing about with
great clarity in 1968.
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/empty-space-by-peter-brook#book-recommender-0
Video of the Week
[15]A Perfect Match. BMW Classic
Links:
15. http://thebrowser.com/videos/perfect-match-bmw-classic
Short film to persuade you that BMWs just go on getting better as they get
older
Quote of the Week
[16]Scott Adams, on timing
Links:
16. http://dilbert.com/blog/entry/best_work
"Your best work involves timing. If someone wrote the best hip hop song of
all time in the Middle Ages, he had bad timing"
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