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Monday, January 30, 2012

The Browser daily newsletter [30 Jan 2012]

30 January 2012

 Best of the Moment

The Great Right Hope

Peter Boyer | Newsweek | 28 January 2012

Mitt Romney is still struggling to convince Republicans that he's their man. But he's now bound himself so tightly to a conservative agenda that he'd have to govern pretty much as the ideological right would like Comments

The Story Of A Suicide

Ian Parker | New Yorker | 30 January 2012

Remember the case of the Rutgers student, Tyler Clementi, who committed suicide after his roommate allegedly filmed him having gay sex and broadcast it online? This monumental reconstruction suggests it wasn't that straightforward Comments

Self As Symbol

Tom Siegfried | ScienceNews | 27 January 2012

Austrian logician Kurt Gödel proved that self-referentialism can create unanswerable questions, unsolvable problems. His work revealed paradoxes in mathematics, but it has important implications for consciousness research too Comments

In Defense Of Drones

David Bell | New Republic | 27 January 2012

We talk about drones as a step change in war. Risk-free combat. But all new technology in the history of weaponry has been directed towards killing from a greater distance. It's a bit late to start feeling queasy about that Comments

Art Of The Obituary

Harry de Quetteville | Telegraph | 29 January 2012

"On the telephone that morning I eventually got around to asking my beautifully mannered caller when her husband had, in fact, died. 'Oh,' came the reply, 'about 15 minutes ago. He’s right here'" Comments

Wieber Fever

Alyssa Roenigk | ESPN | 27 January 2012

On the making of a gymnast. By her first birthday, Jordyn Wieber already had noticeable muscles. On the changing table, she'd pull herself up to a standing position and balance on one leg like a flamingo. Now she's a world champion Comments

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