Newsletter 171
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Writing Worth Reading
[2]Russia Below The Surface
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C.J. Chivers | NYT | 1 December 2010
At last, an unflinching account of corruption in Russia. Drawn from
Wikileaks cables, in which diplomats say privately what no reputable source
would say publicly. The crooks are the government. And vice-versa
[3]The Coldest Place On Earth
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Adam Mynott | BBC News | 1 December 2010
Report from Yakutsk, in Siberia, where winter temperatures can drop to -60C.
To bury a body, you light a fire on the ground, thaw through a foot or two
of earth, dig it out, repeat until you have a grave
[4]Tablets
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Paul Graham | Paul Graham | 2 December 2010
"The fact that you can change font sizes easily means the iPad effectively
replaces reading glasses. I wouldn't be surprised if, by playing some tricks
with the accelerometer, you could replace the bathroom scales"
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Letter From Dublin
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Kevin O'Rourke | Eurointelligence | 2 December 2010
Excellent, suitably outraged judgement on the IMF/EU Irish rescue package.
It puts Ireland on course for a sovereign default in two or three years
time, in preference to a banking-sector default now
[6]Larkin's Letters To Monica
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Alan Jenkins | TLS | 1 December 2010
Gorgeous review of Philip Larkin's collected letters to his long-time
mistress, Monica Jones. Permeated by Larkin's sad, lyrical, grumbling
character. Why didn't he marry her? The poems give the answer
[7]
Missing The Point Of WikiLeaks
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Will Wilkinson | Economist | 1 December 2010
With or without Julian Assange, future large leaks are inevitable. The
technology is out there. That's good, if we want to "challenge the
institutions that control our fate, by bringing their secrets to light"
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The New Gawker Media
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Felix Salmon | Reuters | 1 December 2010
Enough Gawker, already! But if your ears prick up at the words "Nick
Denton", then Christmas has come early. A Felix masterpiece, combining
history, financial analysis, and, somewhere deep down, a love song
[9]Rise Of Computational Forensics
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Sargur Srihari | IEEE Spectrum | 1 December 2010
Identifying criminals from fingerprints, shoe prints, handwriting,
speech-patterns etc. is still largely a matter of expert opinion. Large
data-sets, high-powered computing can make process more objective
[10]
Russia’s Reckoning with Katyń
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Timothy Snyder | NYR Blog | 1 December 2010
Russia deserves praise for acknowledging Katyń as Soviet crime, mass-murder
of Polish elite. But note, Russia is offering the admission as a foreign
policy gambit. Wants Poland, now it's in the EU, as an ally
[11]Why Big Cities Work
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Mario Polese | City Journal | 1 December 2010
Futurologists said high-speed telecoms would enable companies, workers, to
disperse. Hasn't happened. Economic activity still concentrates in big
cities, seeking face-time, buzz, industry clusters
[12]Go! Fight! Win!
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David Gewanter | Times Higher Education | 2 December 2010
British academic journal marvels at scale, wealth, professionalism of
American college sport. University of Michigan seems more like a huge
football club that happens to have a university attached to it
[13]Deadly Medicine
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Donald Bartlett et al | Vanity Fair | 1 December 2010
American drug firms move clinical trials overseas, often to poor and
developing countries. Cheaper to find subjects there, easier to conceal or
falsify adverse results, less fuss if guinea pigs die
Topic: Ireland's Debt Crisis
Painful death of a Celtic Tiger. Barry Eichengreen, Martin Wolf and others
on what went wrong, and...... [14]Continue reading...
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14. http://thebrowser.com/topics/irelands-debt-crisis
[15]Today on FiveBooks: Dani Rodrik on globalisation
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15. http://fivebooks.com
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