Newsletter 187
[1]Leonard Bernstein's Hands
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Robert Krulwich & Ezra Block | Robert Krulwich & Ezra Block | 21 December
2010
How Leonard Bernstein conducted an orchestra using only his face—a technique
known in the trade as "eyebrows only". (Do watch the embedded video.) And,
if you think that's strange, Valery Gergiev conducts with a toothpick
[2]Left Out
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Francis Fukuyama | Francis Fukuyama | 20 December 2010
Income inequality has risen sharply in America. Bankers have made out like
gangsters. So why no left-wing backlash? Perversely, main populist pressure
comes now from the right, opposing regulation and redistribution
[3]Bedbugs
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Hugh Pennington | Hugh Pennington | 22 December 2010
Everything you never wanted to know. Blood is their only food. They don't
spread disease. They travel on buses. They've been found in the Lincoln
Centre and the Met. They love rough surfaces. Their mating habits are
painful
[4]Kung Fu For Philosophers
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Peimin Ni | Peimin Ni | 8 December 2010
Westerners think "kung fu" is a kind of fighting. It's more a philosophical
term for practice, discipline, skill. Chinese philosophy emphasises
cultivation of the agent, not formulation of rules of conduct. How we live,
not why.
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Today's FiveBooks Interview
[6]R J Ellory on
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[7]Human Dramas
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Roger Ellory is a bestselling author whose recommendations include Annie
Proux, Stephen King and Truman Capote. There are, he says, no rules to great
writing. [8]Continue Reading…
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[9]Relationships
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Everything you always wanted to know (but were afraid to ask), includes
interviews with psychology and relationship experts from Mira Kirshenbaum to
Kate Figes and articles that cover the myriad of human complexities
[10]Continue reading…
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Book of the Day
[11]The Shipping News
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-by Annie Proulx - [12]Buy
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[14]andyguess John Lanchester: Newspapers' weakness could be their greatest
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