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Wednesday, October 10, 2012

The Browser daily newsletter [10 Oct 2012]

10 October 2012
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 Best of the Moment

The Greatest Fake-Art Scam in History?

Joshua Hammer | Vanity Fair | 10 October 2012

"The big question every reader will want to know is, how and why does a person become an art forger?" says Wolfgang Beltracchi. And, as mastermind of one of the most lucrative art frauds in postwar European history, he should know Comments

The Patent, Used As A Sword

Charles Duhigg & Steve Lohr | NYT | 7 October 2012

Patents are vital, but are being misused. In software, they're now often broad and vague, covering concepts rather than defined processes; they're being traded; and they're being used as weapons, sometimes cynically, against rivals Comments

Yesterday My Daughter Emigrated

Carlos Duarte | Huffington Post | 8 October 2012

"Yesterday my daughter emigrated in search of a future she couldn't find in her country and that society, or her parents, didn't know how to give her." A lament for Spain. And a denunciation of its politicians (h/t @rszbt) Comments

The Beautiful Game

Patrick Symmes | Outside | 9 October 2012

"Goals are nice. But fighting is forever." Inside the frightening world of Argentine football "fan clubs". Which operate more like violent criminal syndicates, having captured a good chunk of the clubs' economic value Comments

How To Die

Bill Keller | NYT | 7 October 2012

In praise of the Liverpool Care Pathway for the Dying Patient, a protocol used in British hospitals. You halt the insulin and antibiotics, pull out the IVs, let the patient drift towards a dignified death on a cloud of morphine Comments

Why Do We Behave So Oddly In Lifts?

William Kremer | BBC | 9 October 2012

"The way we behave in lifts, or elevators as they are known in the US, reveals a hidden anxiety. It has been observed that lift-travellers unthinkingly go through a set pattern of movements, as predetermined as a square dance" Comments

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