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Wednesday, May 30, 2012

The Browser daily newsletter [30 May 2012]

30 May 2012
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 Best of the Moment

Secret 'Kill List' Proves A Test Of Obama's Principles And Will

Jo Becker & Scott Shane | NYT | 29 May 2012

"Mr Obama has placed himself at the helm of a top secret 'nominations' process to designate terrorists for kill or capture, of which the capture part has become largely theoretical." Current and former advisers explain how it works Comments

Issues For His Prose Style

Andrew O'Hagan | London Review Of Books | 29 May 2012

Hemingway: Man, myth, prose style. "The Ryanair generation must already have worked out the stag night potential provided by Hemingway’s novels. He will never say someone had a drink when he can say they had a vermouth" Comments

Why Is Memory So Good and So Bad?

Julian De Freitas | Scientific American | 29 May 2012

Investigating recent research on visual memory. Why is it that we can remember some things with such clarity, and others not at all? What decides whether memories are preserved for the long-term, or simply erased? Comments

Craig Venter’s Bugs Might Save the World

Wil Hylton | NYT | 30 May 2012

"Each of the bugs will have a mission. Some will be designed to devour things, like pollution. Others will generate food and fuel." But all will share one extraordinary feature: They will be custom engineered, from synthetic DNA Comments

Do You Really Want To Live For Ever?

Ronald Bailey | Reason | 29 May 2012

“At its core, a civilisation is a collection of life extension technologies: Agriculture to ensure food in steady supply, clothing to stave off cold, architecture to provide shelter and safety, weapons for hunting and defence" Comments

My Dungeon Shook

James Baldwin | Letters Of Note | 28 May 2012

Powerful letter on racism, sent by Baldwin to his nephew on centenary of the Emancipation Proclamation. "You know, and I know, that the country is celebrating one hundred years of freedom one hundred years too soon" Comments

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