Weekly newsletter 4
Best of the Week
[1]The Chernobyl That Nobody Wants
Links:
1. http://thebrowser.com/articles/chernobyl-nobody-wants
Barys Piatrovich | Eurozine | 22 April 2011
Gripping account of first month after Chernobyl's nuclear disaster. 25 years
ago, uncertainty turned to anxiety and then panic as "virtually the whole of
the radioactive end of Mendeleev's periodic table fell on Belarus"
[2]Comments
Links:
2. http://thebrowser.com/articles/chernobyl-nobody-wants
[3]Message To American Atheists
Links:
3. http://thebrowser.com/articles/message-american-atheists
Christopher Hitchens | Richard Dawkins Foundation | 22 April 2011
Beautifully turned letter of apology for absence. "Nothing would have kept
me from joining you except the loss of my voice (at least my speaking voice)
which in turn is due to a long argument I am having with the specter of
death" [4]Comments
Links:
4. http://thebrowser.com/articles/message-american-atheists
[5]T[6]ime To Wake Up
Links:
5. http://thebrowser.com/articles/time-wake
6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/time-wake
Jeremy Grantham | GMO Quarterly | 25 April 2011
Investment guru says end of world is nigh. "No compound growth is
sustainable. If we maintain our desperate focus on growth, we will run out
of everything and crash. We must substitute qualitative growth for
quantitative growth" [7]Comments
Links:
7. http://thebrowser.com/articles/time-wake
[8]Gandhi's Inner Voice
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/gandhis-inner-voice
Pankaj Mishra | New Yorker | 25 April 2011
Modern father of non-violent protest. Distrusted, disliked in his lifetime.
Faddish, mystical. Hostile to industrialisation. Reacted against Western
culture. Marginalised in recent decades, back in fashion with the Arab
awakening [9]Comments
Links:
9. http://thebrowser.com/articles/gandhis-inner-voice
[10]Inside The GOP's Fact-Free Nation
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/inside-gops-fact-free-nation
Rick Perlstein | Mother Jones | 25 April 2011
How lying became a normal part of American politics. Many presidents told
lies occasionally. Reagan made it a habit. Now it's considered rude to call
out a lie. "Balanced" media reporting treats truth and lies with equal
respect [11]Comments
Links:
11. http://thebrowser.com/articles/inside-gops-fact-free-nation
[12]David Hobby
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/david-hobby
Steven Weiss | Slate | 20 April 2011
Baltimore Sun photographer took buyout, started blog, changed photography
forever. Taught pro techniques to millions of amateurs. Result: "In last few
years, market rate for many types of professional photographs has dropped
99%" [13]Comments
Links:
13. http://thebrowser.com/articles/david-hobby
[14]Why Addictions Are Hard To Forget
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/articles/why-addictions-are-hard-forget
Nina Bai | Scientific American | 27 April 2011
Research on mice backs up "growing consensus in the addiction field that
addiction is a learning and memory disorder". Alcoholics and hard drug users
suffer from subconsious reward-based conditioning - a sort of Pavlovian
response [15]Comments
Links:
15. http://thebrowser.com/articles/why-addictions-are-hard-forget
[16]Uses And Abuses Of Happiness
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/articles/uses-and-abuses-happiness
Will Davies | Open Democracy | 22 April 2011
Ideas of national well-being and happiness have become a central feature of
British public policy. But the debate confuses four schools of thought:
Aristotelian philosophy, social statistics, behavioural psychology, and
self-help [17]Comments
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/articles/uses-and-abuses-happiness
FiveBooks Interview
[18]Carl Zimmer on The Strangeness of Life
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/carl-zimmer-on-strangeness-life
Journalist, author and award-winning blogger discusses the strangeness of
life, from viruses to manipulative flatworms
Featured Topic
[19]Mind And Brain
Links:
19. http://thebrowser.com/topics/mind
Everything you wanted - or didn't want - to know about your mind. From how
many friends your brain can cope with, to experts discussing consciousness
and mental illness
Reader Recommendations
_@prospect_uk _Will Self: Support for the monarchy is the result of
brainwashing on an Orwellian scale [20]bit.ly/fSA7u6 [21]#browsings
Links:
20. http://bit.ly/fSA7u6
21. https://twitter.com/search?q=#browsings
Book of the Week
[22]The Machinery of Life by David S. Goodsell
Links:
22. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/machinery-life-by-david-s-goodsell
[23]Carl Zimmer says: I think that David Goodsell’s illustrations do a
masterful job of giving you that sense of just what a mob scene it is inside
of cells.
Links:
23. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/carl-zimmer-on-strangeness-life
Video of the Week
[24]Keynes vs Hayek Round Two
Links:
24. http://thebrowser.com/videos/keynes-vs-hayek-round-two
Same economists. Same beliefs. Same moustaches. New microphones
Quote of the Week
[25]David Foster Wallace, on self-help
Links:
25. http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/d20a33a2-66e1-11e0-8d88-00144feab49a.html#axzz1JdDA89ZB
"If you are immune to boredom, there is literally nothing you cannot
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