RefBan

Referral Banners

Tuesday, April 3, 2012

The Browser daily newsletter [3 Apr 2012]

3 April 2012

 Best of the Moment

A Shot In Florida

Dan Barry et al | NYT | 1 April 2012

Reconstruction of the night 17-year-old Trayvon Martin died at the hands of neighbourhood watch coordinator, George Zimmerman. A case that has polarised America and brought Florida's "stand your ground" law into sharp focus Comments

How Millions Have Been Dying In The Congo

Neal Ascherson | NYRB | 31 March 2012

If you know terrible things have been happening in Central Africa for the past couple of decades, not to say the past couple of centuries, but you can't get the whole story straight in your head, this piece does it for you Comments

Harms Of Post-9/11 Airline Security

Bruce Schneier | Schneier On Security | 29 March 2012

Rhetorical assault on Kip Hawley, America's airline safety boss. "He wants us to trust that a 400-ml bottle of liquid is dangerous, but transferring it to four 100-ml bottles magically makes it safe" Comments

Israel Should Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb

Dmitry Adamsky | Foreign Affairs | 31 March 2012

Even if Iran gets the bomb, Israel has one already. What Israel needs is a nuclear strategy based not on overwhelming military superiority, but on mutually assured destruction, and which views Iran as a rational actor Comments

Christianity In Crisis

Andrew Sullivan | Newsweek | 1 April 2012

Sullivan laments state of Christianity in America. Where secular, for many, has come to mean atheist and "the ability to be faithful in a religious space and reasonable in a political one has atrophied before our eyes" Comments

Quantum Theory Of Mitt Romney

David Javerbaum | NYT | 31 March 2012

"Frustrating as it may be, the rules of quantum campaigning dictate that no human being can ever simultaneously know both what Mitt Romney’s current position is and where that position will be at some future date" Comments

No comments: