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[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]Guns 'R Us
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6. http://b.rw/SgH0JF
Jeanne Marie Laskas | GQ | 21 August 2012
Buying guns in America. In Yuma, Arizona, there are family nights at
the shooting range, ladies' nights, birthday parties. It's the liberals
who are stupid and scary. And assault rifles make great gifts for
six-year-olds [7]Comments
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7. http://thebrowser.com/articles/guns-r-us
[8]Interview: Richard Dawkins
Links:
8. http://b.rw/SqaCEu
Anonymous | Playboy | 20 August 2012
And this month's centrefold is... Britain's atheist-in-chief. If only.
"I think a particular god like Zeus or Jehovah is as unlikely as the
tooth fairy, but the idea of some kind of creative intelligence is not
quite so ridiculous" [9]Comments
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9. http://thebrowser.com/articles/interview-richard-dawkins-0
[10]Dear Mr. Akin, I Want You To Imagine...
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10. http://b.rw/RBZCXa
Eve Ensler | Huffington Post | 20 August 2012
And still he won't stand down. In the meantime, here's a powerful piece
of writing in which the author of The Vagina Monologues takes aim at
the Missouri congressman for his recent comments about rape (h/t Daniel
Lippman) [11]Comments
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11. http://thebrowser.com/articles/dear-mr-akin-i-want-you-imagine
[12]Life With Syria’s Rebels In A Cold And Cunning War
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12. http://b.rw/RBKLvF
CJ Chivers | NYT | 21 August 2012
Reporter embeds with the "Lions of Tawhid", rebel group fighting near
Aleppo. Mix of civilians who took up arms and army defectors who joined
them. One of many such bands that are gradually getting organised and
battle-hardened [13]Comments
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13. http://thebrowser.com/articles/life-syria’s-rebels-cold-and-cunning-war
[14]Schmooze Or Lose
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14. http://b.rw/SHqIa0
Jane Mayer | New Yorker | 20 August 2012
Bill Clinton was a past master at cosying up to billionaire donors. But
President Obama doesn't like it. Good for him. He believes he has more
important things to do and wants to reform campaign finance. But what
will it cost him? [15]Comments
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15. http://thebrowser.com/articles/schmooze-or-lose
[16]Why Is The Night Sky Turning Red?
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16. http://b.rw/Od4H50
Amy Shira Teitel | Crux | 23 August 2012
Already know why the sky's blue during the day? Well done. But did you
know it's starting to turn red at night now. Here's why it's happening,
why it's important and what we can expect from the night sky in the
future [17]Comments
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17. http://thebrowser.com/articles/why-night-sky-turning-red
[18]Follow The Money
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18. http://b.rw/PzmjZ6
David Conn | London Review Of Books | 22 August 2012
How English football became a business. Superb overview from 1980s to
present day. Key moment was creation of the Premier League in 1992, a
money grab by the big clubs that cut funding from the rest of football
[19]Comments
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19. http://thebrowser.com/articles/follow-money-0
[20]Life On Board A British Nuclear Submarine
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20. http://b.rw/RC1Aqh
Stephen Moss | Guardian | 21 August 2012
"Climbing the ladders between decks exhausts me; I am forever hitting
my head on protruding bits of metal; and once in the control room,
while leaning against the periscope, I stumble backwards and
accidentally press a button" [21]Comments
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21. http://thebrowser.com/articles/life-board-british-nuclear-submarine
FiveBooks Interview
[22]Norman Davies on Europe’s Vanished States
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22. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/norman-davies-on-europe’s-vanished-states
The rise of China means the study of its history is suddenly in vogue.
But, says the historian, there’s as much to learn, if not more, from
looking at states that have disappeared [23]Read on
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23. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/norman-davies-on-europe’s-vanished-states
Featured Topic
[24]Free Will
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24. http://thebrowser.com/reports/free-will
Does it exist? Or is it an illusion? Why not read on and decide for
yourself. As if you had any choice... [25]Read on
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25. http://thebrowser.com/reports/free-will
Reader Recommendations
@polit2k QE — the ultimate subsidy for the rich | Fraser Nelson |
Spectator Blogs [26]t.co/jiKEjFej #browsings #gfc2 @asentance :-)
[27]#browsings [28]More like this
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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/land-invented-languages-by-arika-okrent
[30]In the Land of Invented Languages by Arika Okrent
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30. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/land-invented-languages-by-arika-okrent
[31]Robert Lane Greene says: “People have been inventing languages for
hundreds of years. The underlying story – which is a funny, sweet, and
sad one – is that many people have felt that existing languages were
bad for one reason or another.” [32]FiveBooks Archive
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31. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/robert-lane-greene-on-language-and-mind
32. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks
Video of the Week
[33]How Big Is Infinity?
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33. http://thebrowser.com/videos/how-big-infinity
Animated talk. Maths PhD comes in useful around 2'56" [34]More videos
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34. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Week
[35]Venkatesh Rao, on dichotomies
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35. http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2012/08/23/waste-creativity-and-godwins-corollary-for-technology
"All dichotomies are false, but some are more of a bitch to
transcend than others"
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36. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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