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Sunday, February 26, 2012

The Browser daily newsletter [26 Feb 2012]

26 February 2012

 Best of the Moment

Why The Super-Rich Love The UK

John Lanchester | Guardian | 24 February 2012

"The UK has a gigantic sign hanging over it saying, 'Rich People! Come and Live Here! You Won't Have to Pay Any Tax!' It is an extraordinary policy for any developed nation" Comments

Are They Really Religious?

Alaa Al Aswany | Huffington Post | 22 February 2012

Excellent piece in which Egyptian author denounces aggressive, superficial Islamic piety. Policemen insist on sacred right to grow beards, yet torture and abuse detainees. Hospital staff abandon patients in intensive care to pray Comments

Was Elvis Presley's Manager A Killer On The Lam?

Mike Dash | Smithsonian | 24 February 2012

Colonel Tom Parker wasn't a real colonel. He wasn't called Tom Parker. And he wasn't American. Small wonder he never left the country. He was born Andreas van Kuijk, in Holland—where he may have killed the greengrocer's wife Comments

Star-Spangled Canberra

Nick Bryant | Global Mail | 22 February 2012

Excellent essay on Americanisation of Australian politics. Change has accelerated recently "especially in regard to the quality and rancour of public debate". Now ultra-partisan with high, and rising, levels of public disaffection Comments

Groupthink

Jonah Lehrer | New Yorker | 30 January 2012

"Decades of research have consistently shown that brainstorming groups think of far fewer ideas than the same number of people who work alone and later pool their ideas." Lehrer investigates why, and asks what can drive creativity Comments

Inside The Mind Of Anthony Shadid

Dave Kindred | GQ | 23 February 2012

Vignettes from reporting life of former NYT Middle East correspondent. Including the day he was shot by an Israeli sniper. And the most chilling interview he conducted, with an Iraqi who'd had to kill his own son Comments

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