Newsletter 379
[5]Wall Street’s Euthanasia Of Industry
Links:
5. http://b.rw/nysAaj
Bonnie Faulkner & Michael Hudson | Michael Hudson | 16 July 2011
Blistering critique of Obama's fiscal policy by economics professor.
Interview covers debt ceiling, Greece, China, bank bailouts. Opening
question: What is a jobless recovery? Answer: We call that a depression
[6]Comments
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/wall-street’s-euthanasia-industry
[7]The Singularity Is Far
Links:
7. http://b.rw/okX1YY
David J. Linden | BoingBoing | 14 July 2011
Neurobiologist counters Kurzweil's prediction that by 2039 brain nanobots
and mind-uploads will be commonplace. Understanding neural functions remains
a slow, linear process despite exponential growth in available research data
[8]Comments
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/singularity-far
[9]The Rape Of Men
Links:
9. http://b.rw/pHyWSJ
Will Storr | Observer | 17 July 2011
Remarkably powerful, harrowing piece of writing on a topic -- male rape --
that is largely ignored by UN, governments and aid agencies. "Of all the
secrets of war, there is one that is so well kept that it exists mostly as a
rumour" [10]Comments
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/rape-men
[11]Myanmar, Land Of Shadows
Links:
11. http://b.rw/ppijdk
Brook Larmer | National Geographic | 18 July 2011
Time to rethink Burma. It's not a morality play, at least not any longer,
with The Lady good and the soldiers bad. It's a big country with a
complicated history, where the shadows are starting to lift and lots of
things are possible [12]Comments
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/myanmar-land-shadows
[13]Steve Coogan’s Grand Ambitions
Links:
13. http://b.rw/nXqjkF
Giles Harvey | NYRB | 20 July 2011
Recent Michael Winterbottom film, "The Trip", with Steve Coogan and Rob
Brydon, is a masterpiece worthy of Joyce, or Borges, or Godard, or Beckett.
Even though, "as in a Beckett play, nothing really happens, dramatically
speaking" [14]Comments
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/articles/steve-coogan’s-grand-ambitions
[15]Baffled At A Bookcase
Links:
15. http://b.rw/pnWxJl
Alan Bennett | LRB | 20 July 2011
On the joys and privations of public libraries in England—especially
Leeds—in the 1950s. Vintage Alan Bennett, a hymn to the Yorkshire of his
childhood. Written in protest against library cuts under the present British
government [16]Comments
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/articles/baffled-bookcase
FiveBooks Interview
[17]Oscar Hijuelos on Cuba
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/oscar-hijuelos-on-cuba
The best-selling novelist tells us about books that evoke the land of his
parents, from a noirish take on contemporary Havana to the cabaret scene of
pre-Castro Cuba [18]Read on
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/oscar-hijuelos-on-cuba
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]nuzav The Spirit of the Spacesuit -[22] http://nyti.ms/pylf2Z
#Browsings [23]More like this
Links:
21. http://twitter.com/nuzav
22. http://nyti.ms/pylf2Z
23. http://thebrowser.com/browsings
Book of the Day
[24]Book of the Day
Links:
24. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/glut-mastering-information-through-ages-by-alex-wright
[25]Glut by Alex Wright
Links:
25. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/glut-mastering-information-through-ages-by-alex-wright
[26]Stephen Baker says: It’s a whole history of information and what we, as
humans, decide to keep in our heads. [27]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
26. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/stephen-baker-on-watson
27. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[28]The Not-Invented-Here Bias
Links:
28. http://thebrowser.com/videos/not-invented-here-bias
We can get attached not only to objects but to our own ideas. Too much,
sometimes. Let Edison be a lesson
[29]More videos
Links:
29. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[30]Tyler Cowen, on the euro
Links:
30. http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2011/07/the-gang-of-six-plan.html
"France gave birth to it, faltered, and left it on the doorstop of some
distant, passive-aggressive German parents. They are willing to feed the
thing, but not to pay the bill at Harvard"
[31]More quotes
Links:
31. http://thebrowser.com/quotations