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The Browser daily newsletter [11 Oct 2012]

11 October 2012
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 Best of the Moment

Baseball Or Football? How Your Sports Choices Secretly Reveal Your Politics

Andy Sevastopoulos | StubHub Data | 10 October 2012

States in which the most baseball tickets are sold, relative to football tickets, vote Democrat. Whereas states which sell proportionately more football tickets vote Republican. (And that's American football, by the way) Comments

The 3-D Printed Future And Its Enemies

Peter Frase | Jacobin | 9 October 2012

Designers will inherit the problems of musicians today, "struggling to figure out how to react to consumers trading, remixing, and printing their creations all over the place". Should they sue for piracy, or go with the flow? Comments

Dangerous Intersection

Steven Strogatz | NYT | 8 October 2012

On catastrophe theory and sleep. Night-shift workers will know this: If you stay up particularly late, you tend to sleep less rather than more, even though you may feel very tired. Here's why. And how it relates to economics Comments

Chavez's Win Proves 'Elected Autocrat' Isn’t An Oxymoron

Clive Crook | Bloomberg | 9 October 2012

"Elected autocrat is a confusing category. [But] Chavez represents a third way, [and] he teaches us an important lesson: Democracy isn’t enough. Venezuela is indeed democracy at work – at work, yet gone tragically wrong" Comments

Doctor’s Bag For The New Millennium

Abraham Verghese | NYT | 8 October 2012

Three essentials: A pocket ultrasound machine, which beats the heck out of stethoscopes; a "PanOptic ophthalmoscope, an instrument that looks a bit like a large revolver"; and an iPad, for taking pictures and pulling up videos Comments

Michelin, Get Out Of The Kitchen!

AA Gill | Vanity Fair | 3 October 2012

Entertaining condemnation of the Michelin guide. An exercise in snobbery. It rewards "fat, conservative, fussy rooms that use expensive ingredients with ingratiating pomp to serve glossy plutocrats and their speechless rental dates" Comments

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