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Thursday, November 15, 2012

The Browser daily newsletter [15 Nov 2012]

15 November 2012
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 Best of the Moment

Be Persuasive. Be Brave. Be Arrested (If Necessary)

Jeremy Grantham | Nature | 14 November 2012

A resource crisis exacerbated by global warming is looming, says Grantham. Politicians and the public do not appreciate the seriousness of the issue. Scientists are good at measuring change, but they're not doing enough to stop it Comments

So Long, Mitt

Benjamin Wallace-Wells | New York | 11 November 2012

"Now, just a week after Romney seemed poised to become president, there is no segment of the Republican Party that could be called Romneyist." In the end, he offered not a philosophy, but the capacities of just one man, himself Comments

The Petraeus Illusion

Jon Lee Anderson | New Yorker | 13 November 2012

On the rise and fall of a myth. "Petraeus’s downfall is only as great as we choose to make it. He was an exceptional military officer, and he helped steer a turnaround in Iraq. But his lionization has been craven and boundless" Comments

I Lived A CIA Conspiracy Theory

Chuck Klosterman | Grantland | 13 November 2012

Further twist in already tangled Petraeus story. In July the NYT published an agony-column letter from a cuckolded husband describing exactly the circumstances of the Petraeus-Broadwell affair. Was it real? The agony-uncle explains Comments

Why Online Education Works

Alex Tabarrok | Cato Unbound | 12 November 2012

Higher education ripe for disruption. Expensive, exclusive. "Oxford in 2012 teaches students in ways remarkably similar to Oxford in 1096." Online teaching delivers better product to more people more cheaply. Like film vs theatre Comments

Restaurant Review: Guy’s American Kitchen & Bar

Pete Wells | NYT | 13 November 2012

No stars for TV chef's new venture in Times Square. "Somewhere within, is there a long refrigerated tunnel that servers have to pass through to make sure that the French fries, already limp and oil-sogged, are also served cold?" Comments

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