Weekly newsletter 64
[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
[6]The Lethal Presidency Of Barack Obama
Links:
6. http://b.rw/Nfb1a4
Tom Junod | Esquire | 9 July 2012
US president decides who should live and who, if they're deemed to be a
threat to the country, should die. There's no public accountability,
even when those targeted are Americans. And even when one of those
Americans was a teenager [7]Comments
Links:
7. http://thebrowser.com/articles/lethal-presidency-barack-obama
[8]Capitalism's Brave New World
Links:
8. http://b.rw/N13iOW
Jonathan Last | Weekly Standard | 10 July 2012
What happens when labour is uncoupled from geography? When work, or
"microtasks", can be outsourced by the second (for microprices) to
anyone anywhere with an internet connection? It's happening now (h/t
Daniel Lippman) [9]Comments
Links:
9. http://thebrowser.com/articles/capitalisms-brave-new-world
[10]Is The Web Driving Us Mad?
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10. http://b.rw/L3kPR6
Tony Dokoupil | Newsweek | 8 July 2012
"No one is arguing for some kind of Amish future. But the research is
now making it clear that the Internet is not 'just' another delivery
system. It is creating a whole new mental environment." Measured piece,
despite the headline [11]Comments
Links:
11. http://thebrowser.com/articles/web-driving-us-mad
[12]The Country That Is The World: Syria's Clashing Communities
Links:
12. http://b.rw/LUh3eq
Charles Glass | World Affairs Journal | 12 July 2012
Charles Glass is usually worth a look on Lebanon/Syria. This short
essay about tolerance, sectarianism and revolt will tell you more about
Syria than the next 20 news reports you'll read about killings and
ceasefires [13]Comments
Links:
13. http://thebrowser.com/articles/country-world-syrias-clashing-communities
[14]Reading Each Other
Links:
14. http://b.rw/LbhJzm
Sarah Skwire | Freeman | 1 July 2012
What's the value of art, philosophy, music, literature? None will solve
the world's problems. "The best the humanities can do is to remind us
that, as Auden put it, 'We must love one another or die', and then show
us how to do it" [15]Comments
Links:
15. http://thebrowser.com/articles/reading-each-other
[16]What Would Disprove Evolution?
Links:
16. http://b.rw/L5L2hY
Jerry Coyne | Why Evolution Is True | 9 July 2012
"If evolution is a scientific theory worth its salt, then there must be
some conceivable observations that could show it to be wrong. [Here
are] seven observations that, if repeated and confirmed, would disprove
parts of the theory" [17]Comments
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/articles/what-would-disprove-evolution
[18]War Is Betrayal
Links:
18. http://b.rw/L5zDPl
Chris Hedges | Boston Review | 7 July 2012
In America, it's not the rich kids who go to war. It's the children
from working-class and jobless families. Recruiters lead them on with
tales of sex, danger, heroism. They go out all fired up. They come back
broken [19]Comments
Links:
19. http://thebrowser.com/articles/war-betrayal
[20]Can Oral Sex Cure Morning Sickness?
Links:
20. http://b.rw/NgLg9Q
Jesse Bering | Slate | 10 July 2012
Why do some pregnant women get morning sickness? One view is that it
helps protect the foetus from damaging foods and the mother from
miscarriage. But there is an alternative theory. Which is where the
headline comes in [21]Comments
Links:
21. http://thebrowser.com/articles/can-oral-sex-cure-morning-sickness
FiveBooks Interview
[22]Bernard Bailyn on Atlantic History
Links:
22. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/bernard-bailyn-on-atlantic-history
The Harvard professor and Pulitzer prize-winning historian recommends
reading on three centuries of empire, conflict and slave trading
between the Americas, Europe and Africa [23]Read on
Links:
23. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/bernard-bailyn-on-atlantic-history
Featured Topic
[24]The Libor Scandal
Links:
24. http://thebrowser.com/reports/libor-scandal
Barclays has been fined and its chief executive forced out. What's it
all about? And who's next? [25]Read on
Links:
25. http://thebrowser.com/reports/libor-scandal
Reader Recommendations
@polit2k: Voices of finance: employee relations manager at a major bank
| Joris Luyendijk [26]t.co/lgRIrGCe via @guardian [27]#browsings
[28]More like this
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26. http://t.co/lgRIrGCe
27. https://twitter.com/search?q=#browsings
28. http://thebrowser.com/browsings
Book of the Week
[29]Taste by Roald Dahl
Links:
29. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/taste-by-roald-dahl
[30]Randall Grahm says: “It is an amazing story. It is very funny and
also captures how wine tasters can use language to assert cultural
superiority” [31]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
30. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/randall-grahm-on-wine
31. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks
Video of the Week
[32]What Is A Flame?
Links:
32. http://thebrowser.com/videos/what-flame
In case a child ever asks, just show them this. The genius is in the
simplicity, and accuracy, of this explanation
[33]More videos
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33. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Week
[34]Wittgenstein, on perception
Links:
34. http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/07/wittgenstein-weighs-in-on-the-higgs-boson/259608
"One thinks that one is tracing the outline of the thing's nature,
and one is merely tracing round the frame through which we look at
it"
[35]More quotes
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35. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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