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Saturday, September 8, 2012

The Browser daily newsletter [8 Sept 2012]

8 September 2012
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 Best of the Moment

'When Spain Hands Us Over To Morocco, This Is What They Do To Us'

Monica Ceberio Belaza | El País | 5 September 2012

A trip inside "Oujda University" – a Moroccan ghetto for sub-Saharan migrants moving north to Europe. "Do you really find it so strange for us to leave countries where there is nothing?" asks a Gambian mechanical engineer Comments

Alex Rovt, The Fertilizer Baron Of Manhattan

Andrew Rice | Businessweek | 6 September 2012

Don't call him a Russian or a Ukrainian. He prefers Carpathian. And after building up and selling a vast fertiliser empire in eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, he's acquiring New York real estate. A lot of it Comments

Elephants Dying In Epic Frenzy As Ivory Fuels Wars and Profits

Jeffrey Gettleman | NYT | 3 September 2012

"Africa is in the midst of an elephant slaughter. Poachers are wiping out tens of thousands of elephants a year, more than at any time in the previous two decades, with the underground ivory trade becoming increasingly militarised" Comments

The Great Transformation In The Global Labour Market

Phillip Brown & Hugh Lauder | Eurozine/Soundings | 5 September 2012

"The stark reality is that while the global labour market may contribute to the narrowing of some aspects of global inequality, it has contributed to widening inequalities within Britain and most other western economies" Comments

Can Facebook-Style Elections Produce Candidates We Actually 'Like'?

David Freedman | Discover | 4 September 2012

"My parents voted by picking one of the two parties and then agreeing with whatever it decided." But it doesn't need to be like that any longer. Here's how technology could be used to re-imagine political elections Comments

How Google Builds Its Maps – And What It Means For The Future Of Everything

Alexis Madrigal | Atlantic | 6 September 2012

Don't think of Google Maps as like a paper map. "I honestly think we're seeing a more profound change, for map-making, than the switch from manuscript to print in the Renaissance," says one cartographic historian (h/t @polit2k) Comments

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