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Philippe Sands | Vanity Fair | 23 August 2011
Terrific feature on Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, assessing his complicity in
father's crimes. International lawyer Sands talks to three who know him well
– his LSE professor, mentor in Libya and the prosecutor who may yet decide
his fate [6]Comments
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6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/accomplice
[7]Out Of Control
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7. http://b.rw/qfcYSk
Anonymous | Spiegel | 22 August 2011
Excellent, detailed report on destructive power of financial institutions.
Markets are in turmoil. Banks are taking incalculable risks again. Failure
to implement effective regulation leaves just one possibility. Yet another
crash [8]Comments
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8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/out-control
[9]Gold Coins: The Mystery of the Double Eagle
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9. http://b.rw/row4T7
Susan Berfield | Businessweek | 25 August 2011
Intriguing tale of rare Double Eagle gold coin. “It’s a freak. The coins
shouldn’t have been minted, but they were." Most were melted into bullion in
1937. But some escaped. So the Secret Service has been chasing them for 70
years [10]Comments
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10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/gold-coins-mystery-double-eagle
[11]Jon Huntsman: The Outsider
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11. http://b.rw/qEHbcP
Jacob Weisberg | Vogue | 18 August 2011
Enjoyable, informative, largely sympathetic profile of Republican
presidential contender – "a thinking person’s candidate whose candour shines
a light on the evasions of his rivals, even if it fails to change the
outcome" [12]Comments
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12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/jon-huntsman-outsider
[13]Why Software Is Eating The World
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13. http://b.rw/pjFM6y
Marc Andreessen | WSJ | 20 August 2011
Leading VC says this isn't a bubble. It's more important than that: "We are
in the middle of a dramatic and broad technological and economic shift in
which software companies are poised to take over large swathes of the
economy" [14]Comments
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14. http://thebrowser.com/articles/why-software-eating-world-0
[15]Partners
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15. http://b.rw/pwwrsF
Jeffrey Toobin | New Yorker | 22 August 2011
Is it really 20 years since Clarence Thomas won his tumultuous battle to
become a US Supreme Court justice? This long, informative assessment calls
him probably the most conservative justice to serve on the court since the
1930s [16]Comments
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16. http://thebrowser.com/articles/partners
[17]Leave The Driving To It
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17. http://b.rw/q4Khuk
Brian Hayes | American Scientist | 22 August 2011
Wonderful, thorough analysis of driverless cars. Investigating how they
could disrupt everyday life, the unique challenges they could pose and what
technologies they need to become a viable, mainstream method of transport
[18]Comments
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18. http://thebrowser.com/articles/leave-driving-it
[19]What's It Like When Your Film Flops?
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19. http://b.rw/ncBV2x
Sean Hood | Quora | 24 August 2011
Writer of "Conan the Barbarian" explains. "As the release date approaches
and tracking numbers start to fall, you start adjusting expectations, always
with a desperate optimism. You hope that advertising will improve the
numbers" [20]Comments
Links:
20. http://thebrowser.com/articles/whats-it-when-your-film-flops
FiveBooks Interview
[21]Misha Glenny on Cyber Security
Links:
21. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/misha-glenny-on-cyber-security
There's an unseen, and mostly unacknowledged, cyber war going on. The author
of _Dark Market_ tells us who's involved, how far it spreads and what could
happen if we let it continue unchecked [22]Read on
Links:
22. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/misha-glenny-on-cyber-security
Featured Topic
[23]Steve Jobs's Legacy
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23. http://thebrowser.com/topics/steve-jobss-legacy
The great man has retired. Here's what we should remember him for and what
his departure means for Apple [24]Read on
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24. http://thebrowser.com/topics/steve-jobss-legacy
Reader Recommendations
_@polit2k_ Arvind Subramanian | The Inevitable Superpower | Why China’s
Dominance Is a Sure Thing [25]t.co/jfXmq4J (pdf) [26]#browsings [27]More
like this
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25. http://t.co/jfXmq4J
26. https://twitter.com/search?q=#browsings
27. http://thebrowser.com/browsings
Book of the Week
[28]Book of the Day
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28. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/living-denial-by-kari-marie-norgaard
[29]Living in Denial by Kari Marie Norgaard
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29. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/living-denial-by-kari-marie-norgaard
[30]Carol Gilligan says: _“This asks why people with knowledge about climate
change often fail to translate that knowledge into action. It describes many
kinds of denial” _[31]FiveBooks Archive
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30. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/carol-gilligan-on-gender-and-human-nature
31. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks
Video of the Week
[32]Bahrain: Shouting In The Dark
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32. http://thebrowser.com/videos/bahrain-shouting-dark
Al-Jazeera documentary that Saudi and Bahraini authorities tried to bury.
Melodramatic, but interesting [33]More videos
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33. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Week
[34]Warren Buffett, on confirmation bias
Links:
34. http://www.farnamstreetblog.com/mental-model-confirmation-bias
"What the human being is best at doing is interpreting all new information
so that their prior conclusions remain intact"
[35]More quotes
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35. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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