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Thursday, March 1, 2012

The Browser daily newsletter [1 Mar 2012]

1 March 2012

 Best of the Moment

Global Warming Skeptics Are Wrong

William Nordhaus | NYRB | 27 February 2012

Yale economist rebuts sceptics' arguments, point by point. The earth is getting warmer. Due to carbon dioxide pollution. Humans are responsible. The science is legitimate. It's a bad situation. It's worth taking action Comments

Are Smartphones Changing What It Means To Be Human?

Janelle Nanos | Boston Magazine | 28 February 2012

Wonderful. Writer forms intimate bond with smartphone, then catches herself treating it like a human and trying to hide facts from it. "Where are we headed? I wanted to know before things got any weirder between my phone and me" Comments

My Drone War

Pir Zubair Shah | Foreign Policy | 27 February 2012

What it's like when America's secret war, conducted by remote control, comes to your neighbourhood. "Then I heard the buzzing, far above our heads – like a bee, but heavier and unceasing, drifting in and out" Comments

Luv And War At 30,000 Feet

SC Gwynne | Texas Monthly | 27 February 2012

Since 1989, every major US airline has gone bankrupt—except one. Southwest. Original low-cost airline, with famously upbeat staff and (mostly) satisfied customers. Reporter boards the "Love Bird" to find out how they did it Comments

Colonialism, Africa And HIV

Craig Timberg & Daniel Halperin | Washington Post | 27 February 2012

History and geography of the HIV/Aids epidemic. Virus passed from monkey to human in southeastern Cameroon around 1900, just in time to be brought to Kinshasa, where it could thrive, along new geography of colonial trade routes Comments

A Night in Arzamas

Jordan Smith | American Interest | 23 February 2012

On the genius of Tolstoy's novella The Death of Ivan Ilych. "Rather than rest content with its narrative brilliance, medical journal writers and Pulitzer Prize-winning authors turn to its pages for applied wisdom about dying" Comments

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