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The Browser daily newsletter [13 Oct 2012]

13 October 2012
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 Best of the Moment

The Swingers' Guide To Islam

Aubrey Belford | Global Mail | 11 October 2012

Popular Islam can come in some unlikely guises and Belford has found one of them: A hilltop shrine in Java where thousands of Muslims regularly attend a ritual that involves seeking blessing through having sex with a stranger Comments

The Dementia Plague

Stephen Hall | MIT Technology Review | 5 October 2012

Greater longevity means more and more old people with dementia requiring lifelong care. Drug industry offers expensive, marginally-effective treatments to desperate families, but reality is bleak: "You don't get better, ever" Comments

Who Knows What

Massimo Pigliucci | Aeon | 8 October 2012

We divide up attempts to understand our world into the humanities and sciences, with philosophy and social sciences somewhere in the middle. What can we learn from the way we set, and argue over, these disciplinary boundaries? Comments

Why Does Everyone Love It But Me?

Lisa Levy | Millions | 10 October 2012

Interview with literary critic Daniel Mendelsohn. "You have to dig in your heels a little and resist. It's your duty to use your mind, use your tools, to dissect the object at hand and to look at it, not coldly, but coolly" Comments

Is The Afterlife Full Of Fluffy Clouds And Angels?

Colin Blakemore | Telegraph | 10 October 2012

In last week's Newsweek, a neurosurgeon recounted his experience of near-death in, shall we say, remarkable terms. The neuroscientist Colin Blakemore responds Comments

Fact-Checking The Use Of The Word 'Fact'

Jen Doll | Atlantic Wire | 9 October 2012

We all know what a fact is, don't we? Then why do so many of us unthinkingly misuse the word "fact"? Or use it as part of a phrase that would be better eliminated. Often, if it's a fact, you don't need to say that it's a fact Comments

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