Newsletter 415
[1]The Browser
Links:
1. http://thebrowser.com
[5]What Is Debt?
Links:
5. http://b.rw/ozHIL1
Philip Pilkington | Naked Capitalism | 26 August 2011
Fascinating interview with economic anthropologist David Graeber. "The big
question in the origins of money is how a sense of obligation – ‘I owe you
one’ – turns into something that can be precisely quantified." Through
violence? [6]Comments
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/what-debt
[7]Cockpit Crisis
Links:
7. http://b.rw/nFleCR
Chris Sorensen | Macleans | 24 August 2011
In five years, more than 50 commercial planes have crashed in
loss-of-control accidents. Many of these crashes should never have happened
but pilots failed to recognise the situation, in some cases aggravated it.
What's going on? [8]Comments
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/cockpit-crisis
[9]Behind The Curtain
Links:
9. http://b.rw/oOimrh
David Remnick | New Yorker | 26 August 2011
Commentary on Obama's "leading from behind" style of foreign policy.
Provoked ire of domestic critics but, in terms of outcomes, seems a decent
result in Libya. A little modesty and understanding of difference are a good
thing [10]Comments
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/behind-curtain
[11]The Cult Of Incompetent Bankers
Links:
11. http://b.rw/p2suvJ
Dean Baker | Counterpunch | 23 August 2011
Excoriating attack on ECB. Should be promoting expansion – instead it's
deliberately dampening growth to meet 2% inflation target. It's become "a
self-contained bureaucracy, just like the Communist Party in days of the
Soviet Union" [12]Comments
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/cult-incompetent-bankers
[13]Unbreakable
Links:
13. http://b.rw/n3APpv
Edward McClelland | Slate | 25 August 2011
Kratochvilova, Koch, Flo Jo. Tarred but they were never caught so their
records still stand, all but unreachable for today's female athletes. Is it
time to wipe records from their era and start again? [14]Comments
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/articles/unbreakable
[15]Obituary: Roman Opalka
Links:
15. http://b.rw/r9WE4d
Anonymous | Economist | 20 August 2011
"Painting numbers in careful succession from one to infinity he would make a
work of art that tracked as well as anything the movement of time in a life,
and life in time." Kept at it for 46 years. Completed numbers 1 to 5,500,000
[16]Comments
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/articles/obituary-roman-opalka
FiveBooks Interview
[17]Shahidul Alam on World Photography
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/shahidul-alam-on-world-photography
The Bangladeshi photojournalist tells us about the power of images and
offers some striking examples of the photographer as artist, witness or
activist [18]Read on
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/shahidul-alam-on-world-photography
Featured Topic
[19]Climate Change
Links:
19. http://thebrowser.com/topics/climate-change-0
Want to know how our planet is faring? Access the definitive reading list on
climate change, as recommended by Jonathan Porritt and others, and read
articles that will get you past the smoke and mirrors of Climategate
[20]Read on
Links:
20. http://thebrowser.com/topics/climate-change-0
Reader Recommendations
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[22]#browsings [23]More like this
Links:
21. http://t.co/2ZGOssd
22. https://twitter.com/search?q=#browsings
23. http://thebrowser.com/browsings
Book of the Day
[24]Book of the Day
Links:
24. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/cyber-war-next-threat-national-security-and-what-do-about-it-by-richard-clarke-and-rober
[25]Cyber War by Richard A Clarke and Robert Knake
Links:
25. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/cyber-war-next-threat-national-security-and-what-do-about-it-by-richard-clarke-and-rober
[26]Misha Glenny says: “It is the articulation of the nightmare scenario
that if we just sit back an effective cyber attack will be able to bring the
US down to a stone age level in 10 days” [27]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
26. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/misha-glenny-on-cyber-security
27. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[28]Duck Tron
Links:
28. http://thebrowser.com/videos/duck-tron
Advertisement for sticky tape. Just to show you can have a sizzling video
for the most inert product [29]More videos
Links:
29. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[30]Eric Hobsbawm, on elitism
Links:
30. http://nplusonemag.com/revolt-of-the-elites
It is possible for the poor to identify with multimillionaires, as in the
United States, saying, ‘If only I was lucky, I could become a pop star.’
But you can’t say, ‘If only I was lucky, I’d become a Nobel Prize
winner’
[31]More quotes
Links:
31. http://thebrowser.com/quotations