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Thursday, October 25, 2012

The Browser daily newsletter [25 Oct 2012]

25 October 2012
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 Best of the Moment

The Kindness Of Beasts

Mark Rowlands | Aeon | 24 October 2012

Can animals be moral? "A growing number of animal scientists are going over to the dark side, and at least flirting with the idea that animals can act morally." Which is not to say the days of trying animals in court should return Comments

Broken BRICs

Ruchir Sharma | Foreign Affairs | 22 October 2012

"The notion of wide-ranging convergence between the developing and the developed worlds is a myth. As of 2011 the difference in per capita incomes between the rich and the developing nations was back to where it was in the 1950s" Comments

If Smart Is The Norm, Stupidity Gets More Interesting

David Dobbs | NYT | 22 October 2012

"Where does intelligence come from? How is it built? Researchers have tried hard to find the answer in our genes." And they haven't got very far. Maybe we should be trying to identify what makes people stupid instead Comments

The Unnatural: Bobby Fischer

Jonathan Safran Foer | Slate | 24 October 2012

"He worked harder than any of his peers. He attempted to conceal his insecurity behind an ego built for 20, and his self-love behind self-hatred behind self-love. And perhaps more than any human who has ever lived, he kvetched" Comments

The Truck Stop Killer

Vanessa Veselka | GQ | 24 October 2012

Vanessa Veselka was a teenage hitchhiker in the mid-1980s. It almost got her killed. Years later, she returns to the scenes of her youth, looking for clues about the man who menaced her and links with a convicted serial killer Comments

Why I Won't Vote

James Altucher | Altucher Confidential | 22 October 2012

Want an alternative take on Romney vs Obama? "People get very upset about this voting thing. I’m accused of being unpatriotic, for instance. I’m not asking anyone to agree with me. [But] here are some reasons for not voting" Comments

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