Weekly newsletter 65
[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]Confessions Of An Ex-Mormon
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6. http://b.rw/Sz7Agg
Walter Kirn | New Republic | 13 July 2012
"Sometimes a person doesn’t know what he’s made of until strangers try
to tear it down." Kirn reflects on life in the Mormon church,
"America’s most misunderstood religion" and its "longest experiment
with communitarian idealism" [7]Comments
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7. http://thebrowser.com/articles/confessions-ex-mormon
[8]Krugmenistan vs. Estonia
Links:
8. http://b.rw/Mce7dw
Brendan Greeley | Businessweek | 19 July 2012
Who does economics better—Paul Krugman, or Toomas Ilves, president of
Estonia? Krugman has a Nobel. But Ilves has a country to run, and calls
Krugman a condescending ivory-tower American who doesn't understand
Europe [9]Comments
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9. http://thebrowser.com/articles/krugmenistan-vs-estonia
[10]Global Warming's Terrifying New Math
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10. http://b.rw/OLJRF2
Bill McKibben | Rolling Stone | 19 July 2012
"When we think about global warming at all, the arguments tend to be
ideological, theological and economic. But to grasp the seriousness of
our predicament, you just need to do a little math." Here are the three
numbers that matter [11]Comments
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11. http://thebrowser.com/articles/global-warmings-terrifying-new-math
[12]'Is He Coming? Is He? Oh God, I Think He Is'
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12. http://b.rw/LXeBbV
Sean Flynn | GQ | 18 July 2012
Gripping retelling by survivors of the day a year ago when a heavily
armed man dressed as a police officer came to their youth summer camp
and started shooting. Almost 80 died in what was the deadliest attack
in Norway since WWII [13]Comments
Links:
13. http://thebrowser.com/articles/he-coming-he-oh-god-i-think-he
[14]Obama Winning Ugly
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14. http://b.rw/Nv4Woo
John Dickerson | Slate | 16 July 2012
Romney wants voters to remember Obama 2008 and feel let down. Also to
see him as a better manager of the economy. But "he's never really
offered a story to voters about how his career as a successful
businessman will be good for us" [15]Comments
Links:
15. http://thebrowser.com/articles/obama-winning-ugly
[16]Mind Bending: Why Our Memories Are Not Always Our Own
Links:
16. http://b.rw/SzePor
Charles Fernyhough | Independent | 15 July 2012
Fascinating look at disputed and false memories. How is it that you can
start to believe someone else's memory is your own? And why is it so
straightforward to give people memories of events they never actually
experienced? [17]Comments
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17. http://thebrowser.com/articles/mind-bending-why-our-memories-are-not-always-our-own
[18]Do Business Schools Incubate Criminals?
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18. http://b.rw/NRrKkC
Luigi Zingales | Bloomberg | 16 July 2012
Yes. Students graduate with a sound grasp of economics, a poor grasp of
ethics. "They perceive any failure to commit a high-benefit crime with
a low expected cost as a failure to act rationally, almost a proof of
stupidity" [19]Comments
Links:
19. http://thebrowser.com/articles/do-business-schools-incubate-criminals
[20]The Strongest Man In The World
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20. http://b.rw/MxYono
Burkhard Bilger | New Yorker | 16 July 2012
Brian Shaw was naturally big as a child. Powerful too. He's now 6'8",
430 pounds and can lift a SUV 11 times in 75 seconds. Traditional
strongman tests are like child's play to him. So what makes a man so
awesomely powerful? [21]Comments
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21. http://thebrowser.com/articles/strongest-man-world
FiveBooks Interview
[22]Alan Rusbridger on the Future of News
Links:
22. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/alan-rusbridger-on-future-news
The editor of the Guardian talks to us about brave new frontiers for
journalism, the hunt for a business model to pay for it all, and what
he hopes (and fears) the Leveson inquiry will decide about press
regulation [23]Read on
Links:
23. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/alan-rusbridger-on-future-news
Featured Topic
[24]London and the Olympics
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24. http://thebrowser.com/reports/london-and-olympics
The Games are almost upon us, though in London you'd hardly know it.
Here's a sideways look at the event and its host city [25]Read on
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25. http://thebrowser.com/reports/london-and-olympics
Reader Recommendations
@polit2k 'Blowing Up the King David Hotel' | Niv Elis | Tablet
[26]t.co/RDixLVad via @tabletmag [27]#browsings [28]More like this
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26. http://t.co/RDixLVad
27. https://twitter.com/search?q=#browsings
28. http://thebrowser.com/browsings
Book of the Week
[29]Book of the Day
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29. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/blandings-castle-and-elsewhere-by-pg-wodehouse
[30]Blandings Castle and Elsewhere by PG Wodehouse
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30. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/blandings-castle-and-elsewhere-by-pg-wodehouse
[31]Sophie Ratcliffe says: “This is a short story collection, which
includes what Kipling said was ‘the most perfect short story ever
written’” [32]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
31. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/sophie-ratcliffe-on-pg-wodehouse
32. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks
Video of the Week
[33]Amazon Yesterday Shipping
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33. http://thebrowser.com/videos/amazon-yesterday-shipping
"Click checkout, and you will already have had the product for a day"
[34]More videos
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34. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Week
[35]Russell Banks, on coincidence
Links:
35. http://www.esquire.com/fiction/fiction/lobster-night-0300
"The only people who say lightning never strikes twice have never
been struck once"
[36]More quotes
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36. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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