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Friday, November 2, 2012

The Browser daily newsletter [02 Nov 2012]

2 November 2012
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 Best of the Moment

Google Now: Behind The Predictive Future Of Search

Dieter Bohn | Verge | 29 October 2012

Google is using what it knows about you (a lot) to build Google Now. It combines voice search with "cards" that guess what you might want to know at any given moment. It's a kind of pre-emptive search. In time, it'll run our lives Comments

The Case Of The Mormon Historian

David Haglund | Slate | 1 November 2012

On being a Mormon intellectual. Can the two things go together, you ask. This is what happened when Michael Quinn challenged the history of the church he loved Comments

The New, New Black

Eric Ellis | Global Mail | 2 November 2012

Profile of Conrad Black, disgraced press baron. Now out of jail, promoting a book whitewashing his own reputation and savaging that of Rupert Murdoch, "a tottering, cowardly supplicant and a prime candidate for criminal prosecution" Comments

The Collaborator's Song

Anne Applebaum | Foreign Policy | 31 October 2012

On the Communist takeover of eastern Europe after WW2. "The genius of Soviet totalitarianism was its ability to get people to go along without apparent protest." But only for so long. Resentment and shame bred eventual rebellion Comments

The Curious Case Of The Sherlock Pilgrims

Edward Docx | Prospect | 31 October 2012

Docx witnesses two weird spectacles for the price of one when he travels to the Swiss Alps to see Sherlock Holmes "pilgrims" re-enact the story in which Conan Doyle attempted to kill off his hero at the Reichenbach falls Comments

Infographic: The History Of Silver

Stephen Ward | Perth Mint | 1 November 2012

Why have people throughout history stored liquid in silver vessels and used silver cups and cutlery? Why does silver tarnish, when in the past it didn't? And what made it valuable for early civilisations? Answers here (h/t @rszbt) Comments

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