Weekly newsletter 68
[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]How Apple And Amazon Security Flaws Led To My Epic Hacking
Links:
6. http://b.rw/Nlg7j8
Mat Honan | Wired | 6 August 2012
"In the space of one hour, my entire digital life was destroyed."
Honan's Google account was compromised and deleted; his Twitter account
spued out racist tweets; and all data was erased from his iPad, iPhone
and MacBook. Here's how [7]Comments
Links:
7. http://thebrowser.com/articles/how-apple-and-amazon-security-flaws-led-my-epic-hacking
[8]Big Med
Links:
8. http://b.rw/MAMGZI
Atul Gawande | New Yorker | 6 August 2012
"Big chains thrive because they provide goods and services of greater
variety, better quality, and lower cost than would otherwise be
available. Size is the key." Why not for healthcare too? Gawande weighs
the case for and against [9]Comments
Links:
9. http://thebrowser.com/articles/big-med
[10]What Happened To Europe?
Links:
10. http://b.rw/OZhs46
Amartya Sen | New Republic | 2 August 2012
Masterful essay assesses history of European integration, and the
political and economic challenges facing single currency. "It is
difficult to see austerity as a soundly reasoned economic solution to
the European malaise" [11]Comments
Links:
11. http://thebrowser.com/articles/what-happened-europe
[12]At The Olympics: Hype vs Reality
Links:
12. http://b.rw/RiS34B
Mike Marqusee | Mike Marqusee | 4 August 2012
"The boosterism is relentless. Commentators rush to squeeze the events
and results into preferred narratives and to draw an apposite moral
lesson. These lessons are invariably platitudes." So here's a different
interpretation [13]Comments
Links:
13. http://thebrowser.com/articles/olympics-hype-vs-reality
[14]Downfall Of A Tuscan Paradise
Links:
14. http://b.rw/QJWnfH
Alexander Smoltczyk | Spiegel | 7 August 2012
Siena used to be model city. Beautiful, prosperous. Now it's probably
bust. Familiar Italian story—but with a twist. City controls Banca
Monte dei Paschi di Siena, and used it as giant slush fund. Whoops.
Billions down drain [15]Comments
Links:
15. http://thebrowser.com/articles/downfall-tuscan-paradise
[16]Raging Bulls: How Wall Street Got Addicted To Light-Speed Trading
Links:
16. http://b.rw/PGKiki
Jerry Adler | Wired | 3 August 2012
Outstanding article on high-frequency trading. "Stock quotes are always
to the penny, but real prices can go to six decimal places. No sane
person would haggle over a ten-thousandth of a cent. But computers
don’t get bored" [17]Comments
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/articles/raging-bulls-how-wall-street-got-addicted-light-speed-trading
[18]Meet Olafur: The Coolest Guy At The Olympics
Links:
18. http://b.rw/QcU7qI
Joe Posnanski | Sports On Earth | 7 August 2012
Handball. It's a bit of a mystery to many of us. Joe Posnanski goes to
a game expecting to write about the valiant-but-sure-to-lose Great
Britain team. He stumbles, enjoyably, across something else entirely
[19]Comments
Links:
19. http://thebrowser.com/articles/meet-olafur-coolest-guy-olympics
[20]I Was One Of America's Top Psychics
Links:
20. http://b.rw/RiFp5M
Mark Edward | Alternet | 3 August 2012
"Yes, I can see the future, given the right perspective and
information, and of course I can read the paw of your pet poodle. I may
have a great gift, but it's the gift of gab mixed with a healthy dose
of imagination and nerve" [21]Comments
Links:
21. http://thebrowser.com/articles/i-was-one-americas-top-psychics
FiveBooks Interview
[22]Andrei Codrescu on Fantastical Tales
Links:
22. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/andrei-codrescu-on-fantastic-and-magical-tales
The Romanian-born poet tells us about his love for fantastic and
magical tales – particularly bloody ones with cannibalism, necrophilia
and alienated heroes [23]Read on
Links:
23. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/andrei-codrescu-on-fantastic-and-magical-tales
Featured Topic
[24]Time
Links:
24. http://thebrowser.com/reports/time
What is it? Why isn't it the same everywhere? Can we travel through
time? Will there be an end to time? Read on to find out [25]Read on
Links:
25. http://thebrowser.com/reports/time
Reader Recommendations
@polit2k Why Israel Should Withdraw From the West Bank—Now - Jonathan
Tepperman - The Atlantic [26]t.co/8EPqshSZ h/t @blakehounshell
[27]#browsings [28]More like this
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26. http://t.co/8EPqshSZ
27. https://twitter.com/search?q=#browsings
28. http://thebrowser.com/browsings
Book of the Week
[29]Book of the Day
Links:
29. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/whistling-vivaldi-by-claude-steele
[30]Whistling Vivaldi by Claude Steele
Links:
30. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/whistling-vivaldi-by-claude-steele
[31]Athene Donald says: “The author demonstrated that a lot of people
underperform because they expect to underperform – because of
'stereotype threat'” [32]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
31. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/athene-donald-on-women-science
32. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks
Video of the Week
[33]Izhar Cardboard Bike Project
Links:
33. http://thebrowser.com/videos/izhar-cardboard-bike-project
"It's strong, it's durable, it's cheap. But what I like about it the
most is it's made out of cardboard"
[34]More videos
Links:
34. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Week
[35]Robert Samuelson, on happiness
Links:
35. http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-global-happiness-derby/2012/07/22/gIQAJWi8JT_story.html
"Only in the mid-1700s — the Enlightenment — did happiness become
socially acceptable. Before that, religious dogma encouraged austere
rectitude"
[36]More quotes
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36. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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