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Saturday, March 10, 2012

The Browser daily newsletter [10 Mar 2012]

10 March 2012

 Best of the Moment

The Personal Analytics Of My Life

Stephen Wolfram | Stephen Wolfram | 8 March 2012

Wolfram uses himself as an experimental subject and crunches his personal data with the automated analysis algorithms he developed Comments

The View From Tehran

Lexington | Economist | 8 March 2012

Fun take on how Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, may interpret recent pronouncements by US and Israeli leaders. Not forgetting contributions by Gingrich and Romney. And do read to the end: There's a kicker Comments

A Quest To Understand How Memory Works

Claudia Dreifus | NYT | 5 March 2012

Dreyfus interviews Nobel Prize-winning neuroscientist Eric Kandel about evacuating Nazi Germany, his work on the biology of memory, and his opinions on the possibility of enhancing or erasing memories Comments

Better Living Through Electrochemistry

Sally Adee | Last Word On Nothing | 9 February 2012

Transcranial direct current stimulation is an experimental technique that could be used to enhance brain function in healthy individuals. Adee volunteered in a military-funded experiment to find out what "brain boosting" feels like Comments

People Who Eat People

Steven Shapin | LA Review of Books | 7 March 2012

Cannibalism was once central to rites and myths. It's fallen a long way since. "The modern cannibal is little more than a mental deviant, and the eater of human flesh is for us just a bit player in a theater of perversity" Comments

Paris Or Bust: The Great New York-To-Paris Auto Race Of 1908

Karen Abbott | Smithsonian | 7 March 2012

Via Alaska and Russia. Initial camaraderie among teams turned sour in Midwest, with accusations of cheating. Eventual winner arrived in Paris almost six months later, only to be arrested for having no headlights. A rollicking ride Comments

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