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Sunday, June 24, 2012

The Browser daily newsletter [24 June 2012]

24 June 2012
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 Best of the Moment

How I Accidentally Kickstarted the Domestic Drone Boom

Chris Anderson | Wired | 22 June 2012

Editor of Wired is playing with his kids in 2007, decides he can build a better remote-control plane using repurposed Lego parts, starts a social network of like-minded geeks, now they've got more dronepower than the US military Comments

Germans Are Prisoners of Their Past

Joachim Kronsbein and Bernhard Zand | Spiegel | 22 June 2012

Interview with Daniel Barenboim. On Wagner, Germany, Israel, Palestine, Holocaust. "There are probably many people in Israel who believe that Wagner, who died in 1883, lived in Berlin in 1942 and was friends with Hitler" Comments

Waiting Game

Frank Partnoy | FT | 22 June 2012

Wonderful. On the value of procrastination, or what the game of tennis can teach us about decision making. "There is both an art and a science to managing delay." It's something we've become less skilled at in our high tech age Comments

What Darwin's Theory Of Evolution Reveals About Artificial Intelligence

Daniel Dennett | Atlantic | 22 June 2012

Big thinker, big theme, big piece. "What Darwin and Turing had both discovered was the existence of competence without comprehension." Gradualism and process can produce results that nobody expects, or intends, or even understands Comments

The Rise Of The Fork

Sara Goldsmith | Slate | 20 June 2012

Knives and spoons have been around for millennia. Not so the fork. It only reached our tables recently. But even so "our changing fork habits reveal our attitudes about big subjects, including religion, masculinity, and foreignness" Comments

Mystery Genre’s Terrible Secret

Daniel Friedman | Millions | 22 June 2012

"The biggest secret in crime fiction is that there are really only, like, four ways to tie up a mystery, and I’m going to show you all of them in 1,200 words. Get ready to have an entire genre irrevocably spoiled" Comments

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