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Saturday, April 21, 2012

The Browser daily newsletter [21 Apr 2012]

21 April 2012

 Best of the Moment

How Do You Like Your Meat?

William Little | FT | 21 April 2012

Lab-grown meat was predicted by Churchill; tried by Nasa. Now the first in vitro burger is set to come out of a Dutch lab. It will cost 250,000 euros and isn't classified as food, so you can't eat it. But could this be the future? Comments

Beware Of Franklin’s Gambit In Making Decisions

John Kay | John Kay | 18 April 2012

"We claim to believe that there is an objective method by which all right thinking people would, with sufficient diligence and intelligence, arrive at a good answer to any complex problem. But there is no such method" Comments

Trouble In Timbuktu

Graeme Wood | Boston Globe | 15 April 2012

Portrait of African city taken lately by Tuareg rebels. Wreathed in fantasy and romance. Grew rich on the salt trade. "One could think of Timbuktu as the farthest inland port city in the world, and of the Sahara as its ocean" Comments

Propofol And The Death Of Michael Jackson

Aidan O’Donnell | OUP Blog | 19 April 2012

Michael Jackson's doctor gave him Propofol, an anaesthetic drug, as a sedative. Bad move. "Propofol doesn’t cause sleep. If given enough, it will cause oblivion, but the cerebral activity necessary for sleep does not take place" Comments

Closing The Pigeon Gap

Mike Dash | Smithsonian | 17 April 2012

You will be familiar, from Cold War history, with the alleged "missile gap". But are you familiar too with its precursor, the pigeon gap? Oh yes, there was a time when pigeons formed a vital part of a country's military capability Comments

Letter From Tasmania

Robert Moor | n+1 | 19 April 2012

A large island off the Australian coast with colourful locals, easy hitchhiking, dangerous snakes, and a modern art museum built by a video-gaming tycoon. Exhibits include the Epic of Gilgamesh written in binary code Comments

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