Newsletter 196

[1]This Year, Change Your Mind
Links:
1. http://b.rw/dQfCHY

Oliver Sacks | NYT | 1 January 2011

Make a new-year resolution to stay mentally fit. Learn a language. Take up
beekeeping. Anything to keep your mind active, engaged, flexible and
playful. Brain has amazing capacity to grow and adapt, even late in life.

[2]Incredible Shrinking Sound Bite
Links:
2. http://b.rw/dK5CAk

Craig Fehrman | Boston Globe | 1 January 2011

Average politician's soundbite on US national TV fell from 43 seconds in
1968 to 8 seconds in 2008. Same happened in print 100 years earlier. Direct
quotes shrank. But it wasn't dumbing down. Media was getting better at
editing

[3]Wikileaks And Global Action
Links:
3. http://b.rw/hoFS2g

Clay Shirky | 31 December 2010

Cablegate isn't a re-run of Pentagon Papers. US media has national
loyalties, even when attacking US policy—as during Vietnam war. Wikileaks,
as a rootless global player, isn't loyal to anybody. No constraints on its
behaviour

[4]Wake Up, Smell The Mint Tea
Links:
4. http://b.rw/ihdDHx

Grace Dent | Guardian | 1 January 2011

Diary of a detox. It works. Up to a point. "I'm beginning to wonder whether
new energised me is actually happier. I realise that the point of a large
glass of cold Chablis at 8pm is to give the day a very definite full stop"
[5]View full selection
Links:
5. http://thebrowser.com/best

Today's FiveBooks Interview

[6]Milton Crawford on =DRUNKENNESS AND WRITING=
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/milton-crawford-on-drunkenness-and-writing

For writers, alcohol gives the brain a holiday, so you can sit down and
start afresh the next day, says writer and drinker Milton Crawford. He
chooses five books by like-minded authors. [7]Continue reading…
Links:
7. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/milton-crawford-on-drunkenness-and-writing

Topic

[8]Financial Crisis
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/topics/financial-crisis

In-depth primer for both the expert and the amateur. Experts interviewed
include Eichengreen, Barro and Rodrik. Wide range of hand-picked background
articles
[9]Continue reading…
Links:
9. http://thebrowser.com/topics/financial-crisis

Book of the Day

[10]The Great Gatsby
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/great-gatsby-by-f-scott-fitzgerald

-by F Scott Fitzgerald - Scott Fitzgerald was obviously quite a big boozer
himself and alcohol plays a central role in this book. Gatsby is a
bootlegger in the prohibition days and a lot of the action takes place with
alcohol around, either at Gatsby’s parties or on Tom and Daisy’s verandah
where they are drinking whiskey, so alcohol is a big backdrop to the whole
book.

[11]More recommendations…
Links:
11. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks

Browsings

[12]moulinlacoste The age gap in marriage. A positive spin on marriage
longevity between the babes and the wrinklies.[13]bit.ly/gjG6AP #browsings
[14]
More user recommended #browsings…
Links:
12. http://twitter.com/moulinlacoste
13. http://bit.ly/gjG6AP
14. http://thebrowser.com/browsings

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