Weekly newsletter 53
[1]A selection of our best article links of the week, plus featured
FiveBooks interviews, videos, quotations and more.
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Best of the Week
[5]Another Night To Remember
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5. http://b.rw/JdTtHN
Bryan Burrough | Vanity Fair | 19 April 2012
Reconstruction of the night the Costa Concordia became the largest
passenger ship ever wrecked. It's a "story of heroism and disgrace, and
also, in the mistakes of its captain and certain officers, a tale of
monumental human folly" [6]Comments
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/another-night-remember
[7]Facebook: Like?
Links:
7. http://b.rw/HYRJV5
Robert Lane Greene | Intelligent Life | 16 April 2012
Super essay on how Facebook is affecting everday life. "It's not just a
technological marvel, a youth movement or a business story. After just
eight years of existence, Facebook is the biggest social phenomenon
since the telephone" [8]Comments
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/facebook
[9]Post-Prozac Nation
Links:
9. http://b.rw/IDrOzV
Siddhartha Mukherjee | NYT | 19 April 2012
Was "serotonin hypothesis" of depression discarded too soon? Latest
research suggests serotonin is indeed central to functioning of mood,
but "its mechanism of action is vastly more subtle and more magnificent
than we ever imagined" [10]Comments
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10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/post-prozac-nation
[11]Truth Or Consequences
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11. http://b.rw/J39Tqb
Joe Hagan | Texas Monthly | 16 April 2012
Eight years ago Dan Rather accused President George Bush of using
National Guard service to dodge the Vietnam draft. The story blew up in
Rather's face. His documents were fakes. Now, with Bush retired, the
true story can be told [12]Comments
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12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/truth-or-consequences
[13]The World Our Grandchildren Will Inherit
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13. http://b.rw/HQ9l7X
Daron Acemoglu | MIT Press | 6 April 2012
Essay. Ten trends have defined our economic, social, and political
lives for the past 100 years. The dominant one has been rising demand
for individual rights. Will those trends, or different ones, shape the
coming century? (PDF) [14]Comments
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14. http://thebrowser.com/articles/world-our-grandchildren-will-inherit
[15]An End To The War On Drugs
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15. http://b.rw/IPnWgN
Alma Guillermoprieto | NYRB | 12 April 2012
Central and South American leaders are bracing themselves to break with
the United States and abandon the "war on drugs". They can't win it.
The costs are too great. What follows? Perhaps legalisation for
marijuana, at least [16]Comments
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/articles/end-war-drugs
[17]In Conversation: Barney Frank
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17. http://b.rw/HC6Jpo
Jason Zengerle | New York | 15 April 2012
Candid and caustic Massachusetts congressman discusses 30 years in
Washington. Interesting throughout. On Republicans today: "Half of them
are Michele Bachmann. The other half are afraid of losing a primary to
Michele Bachmann" [18]Comments
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/articles/conversation-barney-frank
[19]My Life As A Failed Country Gentleman
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19. http://b.rw/HWFk38
PJ O'Rourke | WSJ | 13 April 2012
Farming sounds fun until you try it. "Raccoons eat the corn, squash and
tomatoes. Freezing rain take cares of everything else." But all is not
lost. "I've formed an inviolate bond with the land. The bank calls it a
mortgage" [20]Comments
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20. http://thebrowser.com/articles/my-life-failed-country-gentleman
FiveBooks Interview
[21]Ann Blair on The History of Information
Links:
21. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/ann-blair-on-history-information
The history professor and author of Too Much to Know tells us what
researchers have been discovering about how earlier human societies
collected, organised and used information [22]Read on
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22. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/ann-blair-on-history-information
Featured Topic
[23]Population and Resources
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23. http://thebrowser.com/reports/population-and-resources
Will humans run out of natural resources? Is population growth a danger
to society? Or will human innovation conquer? You decide [24]Read on
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24. http://thebrowser.com/reports/population-and-resources
Reader Recommendations
@maisonneuvemag We expose bid-rigging, violence and sabotage at the
heart of Montreal snow removal: [25]t.co/DEeor6g8 #longreads #browsings
#muckreads[26]More like this
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25. http://t.co/DEeor6g8
26. http://thebrowser.com/browsings
Book of the Week
[27]Book of the Day
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27. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/forest-brothers-by-juozas-luksa
[28]Forest Brothers by Juozas Luksa
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28. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/forest-brothers-by-juozas-luksa
[29]Keith Lowe says: “Luksa joined a group of partisans in order to try
to fight against the Soviets. They had huge units of men hiding in the
woods conducting ambushes on Soviet troops” [30]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
29. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/keith-lowe-on-aftermath-world-war-two
30. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks
Video of the Week
[31]Leonardo: Anatomist
Links:
31. http://thebrowser.com/videos/leonardo-anatomist
Wonderful short film looks at the anatomical drawings of Leonardo da
Vinci
[32]More videos
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32. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Week
[33]Bubba Watson, having a Forrest Gump moment
Links:
33. http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1197108/1/index.htm
"That's the best part about history - we don't know what's going to
happen"
[34]More quotes
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34. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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