Newsletter 377
[5]How We Broke The Murdoch Scandal
Links:
5. http://b.rw/rdKZV8
Alan Rusbridger | Newsweek | 18 July 2011
By 2009, life was getting lonely for The Guardian, whose reporter Nick
Davies had been pursuing the case doggedly. "Brooks had told colleagues that
the story was going to end with 'Alan Rusbridger on his knees, begging for
mercy'" [6]Comments
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/how-we-broke-murdoch-scandal
[7]Defaulting To Big Government
Links:
7. http://b.rw/obByMo
Simon Johnson | Project Syndicate | 18 July 2011
US politicians opposed to raising debt ceiling are playing with fire. In
event of default, private sector would collapse, unemployment would surge
past 20%. Ironically, default would increase size of government relative to
economy [8]Comments
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/defaulting-big-government
[9]Kiki Or Bouba? In Search Of Language's Missing Link
Links:
9. http://b.rw/rf3ff7
David Robson | New Scientist | 18 July 2011
Are the sounds that form any given word random or a reflection of its
inherent meaning? Linguistics has assumed the former. But new research is
challenging this view and suggesting that "sound symbolism" is common in
many languages [10]Comments
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/kiki-or-bouba-search-languages-missing-link
[11]Autumn Of The Empire
Links:
11. http://b.rw/n59nZk
Joshua Clover | LA Review of Books | 18 July 2011
Reflections on financial history. Four distinct eras of world domination,
each divided into merchant phase, industrial expansion, financialisation.
Shift to last phase signifies "autumn". When finance era ends, so does the
empire [12]Comments
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/autumn-empire
[13]Facebook And The Epiphanator
Links:
13. http://b.rw/r9pTze
Paul Ford | New York | 18 July 2011
There are two ways of consuming the world. The Facebook mode, in which we
accept life as a randomised torrent of human relationships; and the
"Epiphinator" mode, in which we demand stories with beginnings, ends,
themes, lessons [14]Comments
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/articles/facebook-and-epiphanator
[15]Bullshit Heaven
Links:
15. http://b.rw/n8Cl09
Jed Perl | New Republic | 14 July 2011
Murderous review of highbrow book about lowbrow painter Thomas Kinkade. "The
entire subject is a nervous breakdown waiting to happen. I am not always
sure whether the authors are being grimly sincere or shamelessly ironic"
[16]Comments
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/articles/bullshit-heaven
FiveBooks Interview
[17]Jay Rosen on Journalism in the Internet Age
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/jay-rosen-on-journalism-internet-age
In a break from our usual practice of focusing on books, we asked the
journalism analyst and veteran blogger to recommend five articles
illustrating the upheavals of the news business [18]Read on
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/jay-rosen-on-journalism-internet-age
Featured Topic
[19]Moral Philosophy
Links:
19. http://thebrowser.com/topics/moral-philosophy
Do babies have morals? Does surveillance make us better? Is free will an
illusion or not? Is there such a thing as evil? Get to grips with the big
questions of right and wrong [20]Read on
Links:
20. http://thebrowser.com/topics/moral-philosophy
Reader Recommendations
@[21]damienjoyce Spanish Civil War article via @[22]HistoryToday on the
forgotten battles between Republicans &
Nationalists [23]bit.ly/qK4FXz #[24]browsings [25]More like this
Links:
21. http://twitter.com/damienjoyce
22. http://twitter.com/HistoryToday
23. http://bit.ly/qK4FXz
24. http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=#browsings
25. http://thebrowser.com/browsings
Book of the Day
[26]Book of the Day
Links:
26. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/taste-by-roald-dahl
[27]Taste by Roald Dahl
Links:
27. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/taste-by-roald-dahl
[28]Randall Grahm says: "It is an amazing story. It is very funny and also
captures how wine tasters can use language to assert cultural superiority"
[29]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
28. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/randall-grahm-on-wine
29. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[30]Hail To The V
Links:
30. http://thebrowser.com/videos/hail-v
No. I'm just not going to be drawn on this one. Decide for yourself. But
admit: it's pretty advanced irony [31]More videos
Links:
31. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[32]Scott Adams, on free will
Links:
32. http://dilbert.com/blog/entry/the_end_of_free_will
"What if free will exists, but not everyone has it?"
[33]More quotes
Links:
33. http://thebrowser.com/quotations