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	<title>The Browser</title>
	
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		<title>I Have Cancer, But Don’t Call Me Brave | Luke Allnutt | One Eyed Dog | 19th June 2013</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jun 2013 01:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Luke Allnutt</dc:creator>
		
		<description><![CDATA[Cancer lends itself to military metaphors. Sufferers &#8220;fight&#8221; or battle&#8221; the disease, though in practice this usually means accepting a prescribed course of treatment. &#8220;Whenever I hear those martial verbs, or hear people being described as brave, I feel a &#8230; <a href="http://thebrowser.com/link/i-have-cancer-but-dont-call-me-brave/">Read more &#8594;</a>]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[Cancer lends itself to military metaphors. Sufferers &#8220;fight&#8221; or battle&#8221; the disease, though in practice this usually means accepting a prescribed course of treatment. &#8220;Whenever I hear those martial verbs, or hear people being described as brave, I feel a little sorry for people with heart disease or Alzheimer’s, who, rather than warriors, tend to be portrayed as passive, voiceless victims, who never get to &#8216;fight&#8217; their illnesses but only ever &#8216;succumb&#8217;&#8221;<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/videofavourites/~4/TV_l_cx2RlU" height="1" width="1"/>]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Igor Stravinsky And The Rite of Spring | Robert Craft | Times Literary Supplement | 19th June 2013</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jun 2013 01:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Craft</dc:creator>
		
		<description><![CDATA[Centenary tribute from a friend of the composer. Long, discursive, not always easy going, but full of interesting detail. Original inspiration came from the work of Lithuanian painter Mikalojus Ciurlionis. &#8220;It is scarcely believable that The Rite of Spring, and &#8230; <a href="http://thebrowser.com/link/igor-stravinsky-and-the-rite-of-spring/">Read more &#8594;</a>]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[Centenary tribute from a friend of the composer. Long, discursive, not always easy going, but full of interesting detail. Original inspiration came from the work of Lithuanian painter Mikalojus Ciurlionis. &#8220;It is scarcely believable that <em>The Rite of Spring</em>, and before it <em>The Firebird</em> and <em>Petrushka</em>, were written by a composer still in his twenties, slightly more a decade after the death of Johannes Brahms&#8221;<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/videofavourites/~4/YnQD9Mlt6Oc" height="1" width="1"/>]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Postscript: James Gandolfini 1961-2013 | David Remnick | New Yorker | 19th June 2013</title>
		<link>http://feeds.thebrowser.com/~r/videofavourites/~3/5IKtu9e4gKg/david-remnick-remembers-james-gandolfini.html</link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jun 2013 01:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Remnick</dc:creator>
		
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;He played within a certain range. Like Jackie Gleason, he’ll be remembered for a particular role, and a particular kind of role, but there is no underestimating his devotion to the part of a lifetime that was given to him. &#8230; <a href="http://thebrowser.com/link/postscript-james-gandolfini-1961-2013/">Read more &#8594;</a>]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[&#8220;He played within a certain range. Like Jackie Gleason, he’ll be remembered for a particular role, and a particular kind of role, but there is no underestimating his devotion to the part of a lifetime that was given to him. In the dozens of hours he had on the screen, he made Tony Soprano — lovable, repulsive, cunning, ignorant, brutal — more ruthlessly alive than any character we’ve ever encountered in television&#8221;<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/videofavourites/~4/5IKtu9e4gKg" height="1" width="1"/>]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Law Of The Father | Çağlar Keyder | London Review Of Books | 19th June 2013</title>
		<link>http://feeds.thebrowser.com/~r/videofavourites/~3/RAqPOZ2TjmM/</link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jun 2013 01:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Çağlar Keyder</dc:creator>
		
		<description><![CDATA[So who &#8220;won&#8221; the confrontation in Turkey sparked by Gezi Park? Short answer: the protesters, at least on the longer view. &#8220;Erdoğan’s project to be anointed an omnipotent president through a change in the constitution is now no more than &#8230; <a href="http://thebrowser.com/link/law-of-the-father/">Read more &#8594;</a>]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[So who &#8220;won&#8221; the confrontation in Turkey sparked by Gezi Park? Short answer: the protesters, at least on the longer view. &#8220;Erdoğan’s project to be anointed an omnipotent president through a change in the constitution is now no more than a dream. The newcomers to the political arena may not yet be in a position to draft a new set of rules, but they have shifted the keystone that supports Turkey’s patriarchal firmament&#8221;<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/videofavourites/~4/RAqPOZ2TjmM" height="1" width="1"/>]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>What You Missed At Edward Snowden’s AMA | Jon Wilkins | Lost In Transcription | 18th June 2013</title>
		<link>http://feeds.thebrowser.com/~r/videofavourites/~3/hJgYj7Nj_cw/</link>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jun 2013 01:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jon Wilkins</dc:creator>
		
		<description><![CDATA[A crisp and forceful conversation with the NSA leaker, whatever you think of motives and actions. &#8220;Being called a traitor by Dick Cheney is the highest honor you can give an American, and the more panicked talk we hear from &#8230; <a href="http://thebrowser.com/link/what-you-missed-at-edward-snowdens-ama/">Read more &#8594;</a>]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[A crisp and forceful conversation with the NSA leaker, whatever you think of motives and actions. &#8220;Being called a traitor by Dick Cheney is the highest honor you can give an American, and the more panicked talk we hear from people like him, Feinstein, and King, the better off we all are. If they had taught a class on how to be the kind of citizen Dick Cheney worries about, I would have finished high school&#8221;<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/videofavourites/~4/hJgYj7Nj_cw" height="1" width="1"/>]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>A Faithful Hound | Colin Dickey | Lapham's Quarterly | 18th June 2013</title>
		<link>http://feeds.thebrowser.com/~r/videofavourites/~3/dem_-77QF30/a-faithful-hound.php</link>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jun 2013 01:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colin Dickey</dc:creator>
		
		<description><![CDATA[Reconstructing the history of a 13th-century cult in southern France. Parents would abandon sick children on the grave of Saint Guinefort, who was, apparently, a greyhound, credited with having once saved a baby from a snake. The underlying myth dates &#8230; <a href="http://thebrowser.com/link/a-faithful-hound/">Read more &#8594;</a>]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[Reconstructing the history of a 13th-century cult in southern France. Parents would abandon sick children on the grave of Saint Guinefort, who was, apparently, a greyhound, credited with having once saved a baby from a snake. The underlying myth dates back a thousand years to India, where the sacred animal was a mongoose. In the French variant, the dog was confused with a human saint, and a ritual was born        <img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/videofavourites/~4/dem_-77QF30" height="1" width="1"/>]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>What Grounds Paternal Obligations? | Owen Schaefer | Practical Ethics | 18th June 2013</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jun 2013 01:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Owen Schaefer</dc:creator>
		
		<description><![CDATA[Should unwilling fathers be required to pay child support? &#8220;If one has a strongly intuitionistic approach, the biological model (where participation in a process of sexual intercourse resulting in pregnancy and childbirth is sufficient for obligation) is probably the best &#8230; <a href="http://thebrowser.com/link/what-grounds-paternal-obligations/">Read more &#8594;</a>]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[Should unwilling fathers be required to pay child support? &#8220;If one has a strongly intuitionistic approach, the biological model (where participation in a process of sexual intercourse resulting in pregnancy and childbirth is sufficient for obligation) is probably the best option.  While it might lack in philosophical grounding, there are relatively few counterintuitive implications (at least that I can think of)&#8221;<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/videofavourites/~4/3YAw-GHik5o" height="1" width="1"/>]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>The Science Of Why We Don’t Believe In Science | Chris Mooney | Medium | 18th June 2013</title>
		<link>http://feeds.thebrowser.com/~r/videofavourites/~3/1b202KWwYCY/adfa0d026a7e</link>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jun 2013 01:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Mooney</dc:creator>
		
		<description><![CDATA[Much of this will be familiar to anybody who has dipped a toe into behavioural psychology — Kahneman, Kahan, confirmation bias, affect and so on — but still, it&#8217;s well put together, and pushes a bit harder than you might &#8230; <a href="http://thebrowser.com/link/the-science-of-why-we-dont-believe-in-science/">Read more &#8594;</a>]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[Much of this will be familiar to anybody who has dipped a toe into behavioural psychology — Kahneman, Kahan, confirmation bias, affect and so on — but still, it&#8217;s well put together, and pushes a bit harder than you might expect at first. Yes, people are reluctant to change their minds. But: &#8220;On the one hand, it doesn’t make sense to discard an entire belief system, built up over a lifetime, because of some new snippet of information&#8221;  <img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/videofavourites/~4/1b202KWwYCY" height="1" width="1"/>]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Brokeback In Belarus | Alyona Soiko | Open Democracy | 17th June 2013</title>
		<link>http://feeds.thebrowser.com/~r/videofavourites/~3/_57ukr7qRXY/brokeback-in-belarus</link>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jun 2013 01:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alyona Soiko</dc:creator>
		
		<description><![CDATA[Two male tractor drivers live together in a remote village in Belarus. Both had wives and children before discovering they were in love with each other. Their wives left, taking the children. Transcript of a frank and touching conversation. About &#8230; <a href="http://thebrowser.com/link/brokeback-in-belarus/">Read more &#8594;</a>]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[Two male tractor drivers live together in a remote village in Belarus. Both had wives and children before discovering they were in love with each other. Their wives left, taking the children. Transcript of a frank and touching conversation. About love, marriage, sex. &#8220;The village has accepted it. But then, this is a dead village, there’s nobody here but pensioners. The old dears found it a bit weird, of course, but they soon go used to it&#8221;<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/videofavourites/~4/_57ukr7qRXY" height="1" width="1"/>]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>The Whitey Bulger Trial | Seth Stevenson | Slate | 17th June 2013</title>
		<link>http://feeds.thebrowser.com/~r/videofavourites/~3/TpiUNY9zmPs/whitey_bulger_trial_john_martorano_killed_20_people_why_is_he_a_free_man.html</link>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jun 2013 01:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Seth Stevenson</dc:creator>
		
		<description><![CDATA[Day Five of Slate&#8216;s trial coverage. A recommendation for the series so far, not just this post. Every dose comes full of flavour. &#8220;John Martorano is a porpoise of a man inside a massive suit jacket. His face disappears into &#8230; <a href="http://thebrowser.com/link/the-whitey-bulger-trial/">Read more &#8594;</a>]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[Day Five of <em>Slate</em>&#8216;s trial coverage. A recommendation for the series so far, not just this post. Every dose comes full of flavour. &#8220;John Martorano is a porpoise of a man inside a massive suit jacket. His face disappears into the fat of his neck. When he takes the stand today—tinted eyeglasses, polka-dot tie, pocket square—he tells us he is 72 years old, divorced, and unemployed. Also, he has murdered 20 people&#8221;   <img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/videofavourites/~4/TpiUNY9zmPs" height="1" width="1"/>]]></content:encoded>
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