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8/18/2023
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Woman Insects
If a bee can count and grasp concepts of sameness and difference, then maybe a bee can understand this message Woman Insects By Sylvia Bishop • 18 Aug 2023 View in browser View in browser The Woman
8/17/2023
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Jester West
Are your interests eclectic enough to qualify you for the role of court jester? Jester West By Sylvia Bishop • 17 Aug 2023 View in browser View in browser The Jester Of Tonga Maximilian Hess | Fence |
8/16/2023
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Lost Curse
Curse Of Cane // Lost Water Lost Curse By Sylvia Bishop • 16 Aug 2023 View in browser View in browser Curse Of Cane David Edgerton | Literary Review | 9th August 2023 Glowing review of a new history of
8/15/2023
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Weird Prices
Should Computers Decide Prices? // Catching Up On The Weird World Of LLMs Weird Prices By Sylvia Bishop • 15 Aug 2023 View in browser View in browser The Browser is working on its first reader meetups
8/14/2023
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Paris London
Looking for thought, imagination, reflection, beauty, love? Paris London By Sylvia Bishop • 14 Aug 2023 View in browser View in browser Paris Booksellers' Olympic Preparations Jacqueline Feldman |
8/14/2023
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Allergic America
Modernity Has Made Us Allergic // One Week In America Allergic America By Caroline Crampton & Sylvia Bishop • 9 Aug 2023 View in browser View in browser Modernity Has Made Us Allergic Theresa
8/14/2023
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Milton Sword
The Bullfighter Draws Her Sword // Why Read John Milton? Milton Sword By Caroline Crampton & Sylvia Bishop • 10 Aug 2023 View in browser View in browser The Bullfighter Draws Her Sword Geoffrey
8/14/2023
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Goats And Diplomats
A weekly letter from the founding editor of The Browser. Correspondence and criticism gratefully received and always read: robert@thebrowser.com If you are not a paying subscriber to The Browser, and
8/14/2023
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Living Largest
Feel like you're living it large? Living Largest By Sylvia Bishop • 11 Aug 2023 View in browser View in browser A Living History Of The Paper Airplane Sarah Wells & Jennifer Leman | Popular
8/14/2023
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City Confessions
Want to wander every street without wearing out your shoes? City Confessions By Sylvia Bishop • 13 Aug 2023 View in browser View in browser 6000 Miles Across New York City William B. Helmreich | LitHub
8/14/2023
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Waking River
Waking-Up Times, In Order // A River Runs Through It Waking River By Sylvia Bishop • 13 Aug 2023 View in browser View in browser Waking-Up Times, In Order Daniel Lavery | Chatner | 27th July 2023 Get
8/8/2023
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100 Waves
100 Things I Know // Killer Heat Waves Are Coming 100 Waves By Caroline Crampton & Sylvia Bishop • 8 Aug 2023 View in browser View in browser 100 Things I Know Mari Andrew | Out Of The Blue | 5th
8/7/2023
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Home Crocodile
See you later, alligator Home Crocodile By Robert Cottrell & Sylvia Bishop • 7 Aug 2023 View in browser View in browser Why Kundera Never Went Home Petr Drulak | Compact | 1st August 2023 He may
8/6/2023
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Animals Hatred
Home Is Where The Hatred Is // We Are All Animals At Night Animals Hatred By Sylvia Bishop • 6 Aug 2023 View in browser View in browser Home Is Where The Hatred Is Damian Le Bas | Literary Review | 1st
8/5/2023
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Chance Philosophy
There's a hole in this newsletter. Chance Philosophy By Sylvia Bishop • 5 Aug 2023 View in browser View in browser A Philosophy Of Holes Roberto Casati & Achille Varzi | SEP | 14th June 2023 A
8/4/2023
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Personal Wife
The world is large, and we can experience very little of it Personal Wife By Sylvia Bishop • 4 Aug 2023 View in browser View in browser The Limits Of Personal Experience Max Roser | Our World In Data |
8/3/2023
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Quiet Facts
Obituary For A Quiet Life // Facts Don't Change Minds Quiet Facts By Sylvia Bishop • 3 Aug 2023 View in browser View in browser Obituary For A Quiet Life Jeremy B. Jones | Bitter Southerner | 6th
8/2/2023
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Literary Cat
Is Nature A Gigantic Cat? // Death: A Literary Guide Literary Cat By Sylvia Bishop • 2 Aug 2023 View in browser View in browser Is Nature A Gigantic Cat? Nikola Tesla | Letters Of Note | 21st July 2023
8/1/2023
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Kafka Music
Kafka Agonistes // The Happiest Place Makes The Darkest Music Kafka Music By Sylvia Bishop • 1 Aug 2023 View in browser View in browser Kafka Agonistes David Mason | Hudson Review | 31st July 2023 The
7/31/2023
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Jogi Tips
Oh gosh - we think you're a charmer Jogi Tips By Sylvia Bishop • 31 Jul 2023 View in browser View in browser Internet Search Tips Gwern | 22nd July 2023 Don't be fooled by the bland title.