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The Browser daily newsletter [20 July 2012]

20 July 2012
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 Best of the Moment

Global Warming's Terrifying New Math

Bill McKibben | Rolling Stone | 19 July 2012

"When we think about global warming at all, the arguments tend to be ideological, theological and economic. But to grasp the seriousness of our predicament, you just need to do a little math." Here are the three numbers that matter Comments

Krugmenistan vs. Estonia

Brendan Greeley | Businessweek | 19 July 2012

Who does economics better—Paul Krugman, or Toomas Ilves, president of Estonia? Krugman has a Nobel. But Ilves has a country to run, and calls Krugman a condescending ivory-tower American who doesn't understand Europe Comments

The Shoebox Swindle

Frances Coppola | Coppola Comment | 18 July 2012

Fun allegory about banking. "A man goes into his local bank. 'I want to borrow £1,000,' he says. The bank manager gets out a shoebox. Then he seals the box and stamps it with an official bank stamp saying '£1,000' (h/t @polit2k) Comments

Anthrax Has Hit Glasgow

Yudhijit Bhattacharjee | Wired UK | 19 July 2012

Scotland is home to 50,000 heroin addicts, many of whom live on Glasgow's streets. Back in 2010 authorities uncovered a batch of heroin that was contaminated with anthrax. Here's a gripping account of the race to find the source Comments

Stuck In The Mud

Vanda Felbab-Brown | Foreign Affairs | 18 July 2012

Logistics of getting the West out of Afghanistan by 2014. "For all military equipment to be removed in time, a container would have to leave the country every seven minutes, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, starting now" Comments

Greg Ousley Is Sorry For Killing His Parents. Is That Enough?

Scott Anderson | NYT | 19 July 2012

He was 14, the focus of his mother's rage, with a father who appeared not to care. Things came to a head and he shot them dead. Sent into the adult justice system, he was sentenced to 60 years. What sort of future should he have? Comments

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