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The Browser daily newsletter [29 Aug 2012]

29 August 2012
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 Best of the Moment

Greed And Debt: The True Story Of Mitt Romney And Bain Capital

Matt Taibbi | Rolling Stone | 29 August 2012

"He is the frontman of an economic revolution, in which transactions are manufactured instead of products, wealth is generated without prosperity, and Cayman Islands partnerships are erected while American communities fall apart" Comments

Shattered Genius

Brett Forrest | Brett Forrest | 26 August 2012

On the trail of Grigori Perelman, brilliant Russian mathematician who solved the Poincaré Conjecture and later turned down a $1m reward for his work. After some amateur sleuthing, Forrest finds the reclusive genius in St Petersburg Comments

The Throwaways

Sarah Stillman | New Yorker | 27 August 2012

American police bully small-time drug users into serving as informants in high-risk drug and firearms investigations. It's a good deal for the police: Informants are cheap and biddable. Less so for the informants: They tend to die Comments

The System That Wasn’t There: Ayn Rand’s Failed Philosophy

Nicholas McGinnis | Rotman Institute Of Philosophy | 25 August 2012

"Everybody who likes Rand can defend at great length a number of socio-economic theses; what very few do is discuss the metaphysical underpinnings that purportedly justify her political and social views" Comments

Best Book Reviews Money Can Buy

David Streitfeld | NYT | 25 August 2012

Man opens website offering to write paid book reviews online. Two years later he's making $28,000 a month, pumping up writers' Amazon ratings. Reviews "have to be somewhere between enthusiastic and ecstatic" Comments

Battery Performance Deficit Disorder

Tom Murphy | Do The Math | 21 August 2012

Batteries. Useful, even essential for modern living. But do they live up to expectations? And how much are we going to be able to improve them? A physicist crunches some numbers, with specific reference to electric and hybrid cars Comments

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