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The Browser daily newsletter [8 June 2012]

8 June 2012
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 Best of the Moment

How Do You Live Knowing You Might Have The Alzheimer's Gene?

Gina Kolata | NYT | 7 June 2012

Not long ago Alzheimer's was regarded as a degenerative brain disease with no known cause and no effective treatment. But one family who've been repeatedly struck by it have been helping the search for understanding and a cure Comments

The Netanyahu Paradox

David Margolick | Vanity Fair | 7 June 2012

Long profile cum interview with Israeli PM. Focuses on domestic political scene. "For some Israelis, Israel is confronting two main problems: One is Iran and the second is Bibi Netanyahu—and not necessarily in that order" Comments

The Lavish And Leveraged Life Of Aubrey McClendon

John Shiffman, Anna Driver & Brian Grow | Reuters | 7 June 2012

Life of the 0.0001%. Influential CEO of Chesapeake Energy Corp, champion of fracking, spender of shareholders' money. Big time. Like flying his wife's friends to Bermuda in a private jet and billing it to the company Comments

Science: A Call For Humility

Russell Stannard | Huffington Post | 5 June 2012

Physicist on limits of science. Can't explain why world exists. Can it even describe world accurately? "What has been written down is not a description of the world at all, but a description of acts of observation made on the world" Comments

The UN's Fossilized Security Council

Lionel Beehner | World Policy Institute | 6 June 2012

UN Security Council needs reform. It has rendered itself powerless to prevent mass atrocities. Here's a simple suggestion: Add five more permanent members, give them power of veto. And require two vetoes to block a resolution Comments

A Hasty Report From A Tearing Hurry

Raymond Tallis | Philosophy Now | 5 June 2012

Notes on time, and the tyranny of the clock. "As we seem to get a grip on time via numbers, time gets an ever-tighter grip on us. We are like Gulliver in Lilliput, pinned to the ground by a multitude of chronological threads" Comments

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