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Note To Our Readers: RSS Feeds | Robert Cottrell | The Browser | 28 March 2013

The Browser — Thu, 28 Mar 2013 16:06:01 +0000

As part of our move to a new platform and new hosting today, we are consolidating our RSS feeds into a one full feed, to which you can subscribe at this address (if it's not live now it will be soon): http://thebrowser.com/feed

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The Browser — Thu, 28 Mar 2013 10:55:36 +0000

A Delicate Operation | Simon Garfield | Intelligent Life | 01 March 2013

The Browser — Wed, 27 Mar 2013 16:16:19 +0000

Urologist specialising in prostate cancer contracts prostate cancer, opts for surgery. "Professor Dasgupta places his colleague’s gland on a piece of gauze and prods and stretches it. It is dark-reddish, grainy and meaty, and if I hadn’t just seen it functioning inside a human being I would have thought it as benign as a piece of chicken tikka"

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Building The World's Largest Ship

The Browser — Sat, 23 Mar 2013 11:25:50 +0000

Ten Most Influential Travel Books | Tony Perrottet | Smithsonian | 21 March 2013

The Browser — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 16:05:30 +0000

"What follows is a brazenly opinionated short-list of travel classics—some notorious, some barely remembered—that have inspired armchair travelers to venture out of their comfort zone and hit the road." From Herodotus to Peter Mayall by way of Marco Polo, Mark Twain, Norman Douglas, Freya Stark, Jack Kerouac and Bruce Chatwin

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Departures | Ta-Nehisi Coates | Atlantic | 21 March 2013

The Browser — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 05:39:54 +0000

"Yesterday I ate a bad nut on the train to Boston and went into anaphylactic shock. A doctor who happened to be seated nearby shot me up with a epipen. The train made an emergency stop in New London. I was shivering crazily. After I laid down, I heard the doctor say, 'I can't get a pulse.' This is something no one ever wants to hear"

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What Foster Parents Wish Other People Knew | Sharon Astyk | Casaubon's Book | 12 March 2013

The Browser — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 07:37:52 +0000

"Kids in foster care have endured a lot of trauma. Sometimes that does come with behavioural challenges. But many of the brightest, best behaved, kindest, most loving children I’ve met are foster kids. They aren’t second-best kids, they aren’t homicidal maniacs, and because while they are here they are mine, they are the best kids in the world"

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Why The Pope Wears Red Shoes | Massimo Gatto | New York Review Of Books | 12 March 2013

The Browser — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 07:36:34 +0000

Notes on the history and iconography of the Papal costume. "When red shoes were the height of fashion in Etruscan Rome, that is, five hundred years before the birth of Jesus, they designated the wearer as an aristocrat, someone who could afford leather that had been colored with the most expensive dye in the Mediterranean"

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Reinventing The Airline Industry | Jude Gomila | Jude Gomila | 12 March 2013

The Browser — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 07:24:44 +0000

Grab-bag of ideas to make flying less bothersome. "Having to watch the simple safety instructions every flight is a waste of time and energy for the passenger. No one even watches it anyway. We need to take this online and out of the cabin, making it a test that people hold a license for, rather like a driving license"

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China’s Worldwide Underground Milk Powder Network | Tabitha Speelman | Tea Leaf Nation | 11 March 2013

The Browser — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 10:36:43 +0000

Chinese demand for baby milk powder overwhelms Hong Kong, spreads to Netherlands, Germany. Chinese consumers distrust domestic powder after poisoning scandals; middle-class parents will spend 25-40% of monthly income to buy imported powder. Hong Kong criminalises export of powder to conserve domestic supplies. Dutch shops start to limit sales

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