Newsletter 463
[1]The Browser
Links:
1. http://thebrowser.com
[5]Changing Times
Links:
5. http://b.rw/pvRrVD
Ken Auletta | New Yorker | 17 October 2011
Sympathetic profile of Jill Abramson, first female executive editor of the
_New York Times_. Not too long ago her appointment would have been
unthinkable. Now has to smooth off her rough edges, grapple with paper's
finances [6]Comments
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/changing-times
[7]'I Was No Longer Afraid To Die'
Links:
7. http://b.rw/n5UyRF
Boris Kachka | New York | 16 October 2011
On Joan Didion's new memoir of grief for her daughter. "One of the things
that happens when you write an intimate memoir is that you think it will be
cathartic. But very often it just doesn’t work that way" [8]Comments
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/i-was-no-longer-afraid-die
[9]Debt, Deficits, And Modern Monetary Theory
Links:
9. http://b.rw/qpwfZY
Winston Gee | Harvard International Review | 16 October 2011
Interview with economics professor Bill Mitchell, proponent of "modern
monetary theory". We need to understand that governments, as monopoly
issuers of currency, are "not constrained in their spending by a need to
raise revenue" [10]Comments
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/debt-deficits-and-modern-monetary-theory
[11]In Praise Of Wind Turbines
Links:
11. http://b.rw/o5OufZ
Will Self | BBC | 14 October 2011
Lovely writing, even if you don't want wind turbines on your doorstep. Our
landscape is already man-made; we've adapted our environment as others do.
"You might as well describe beavers' dams or termites' mounds as
'unnatural'" [12]Comments
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/praise-wind-turbines
[13]The Last-Place Aversion Paradox
Links:
13. http://b.rw/ooL94J
Ilyana Kuziemko & Michael Norton | Scientific American | 12 October 2011
Support for redistributive economic policies has fallen sharply in America
during the current recession. What people fear most is being right at the
bottom. Those near the bottom oppose policies that might lift others above
them [14]Comments
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/articles/last-place-aversion-paradox
[15]Sex, Lies & Prison Love
Links:
15. http://b.rw/q7hiyB
Jeff Sith | Recovering Politician | 3 October 2011
Prison culture explained, by ex-politician who spent a year inside for voter
fraud. Rule one: Don't eat the Snickers bar that's waiting on your bed when
you get to your cell. If you do, you're asking to "get your windows tinted"
[16]Comments
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/articles/sex-lies-prison-love
FiveBooks Interview
[17]Tim White on Prehistoric Man
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/tim-white-on-prehistoric-man
The paleoanthropologist tells us about his work investigating the origins of
_homo sapiens_ and explains what a 4.4 million-year-old skeleton he found in
Africa tells us about our common past
[18]Read on
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/tim-white-on-prehistoric-man
Featured Topic
[19]Epic Adventures
Links:
19. http://thebrowser.com/reports/epic-adventures
Extreme tourism, unwise adventure and plain bad luck. Enjoy it all from the
comfort of your armchair [20]Read on
Links:
20. http://thebrowser.com/reports/epic-adventures
Reader Recommendations
_@_[21]obitmag [22]#browsings #[23]longreads [24]#somethingtoread Left
Behind: Preparing yourself, and your bank accounts for The Rapture.
[25]t.co/1agFcd9E
[26]More like this
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21. http://twitter.com/obitmag
22. http://twitter.com/search?q=#browsings
23. http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=#longreads
24. http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=#somethingtoread
25. http://ht.ly/6Znnd
26. http://thebrowser.com/browsings
Book of the Day
[27]Book of the Day
Links:
27. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/basil-street-blues-by-michael-holroyd
[28]Basil Street Blues by Michael Holroyd
Links:
28. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/basil-street-blues-by-michael-holroyd
[29]Eva Hoffman says: “This gave me glimpses into a certain kind of
Englishness. It is a memoir of a privileged English family which has gone
into decline” [30]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
29. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/eva-hoffman-on-memoirs
30. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[31]Natural Gas Commercial
Links:
31. http://thebrowser.com/videos/natural-gas-commercial
The title is only there to put you off. It's actually a gorgeous piece of
visualisation [32]More videos
Links:
32. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[33]Will Davies, on capitalism
Links:
33. http://www.newleftreview.org/?page=article&view=2916
"The culture of capitalism must keep individuals sufficiently dissatisfied
that they continue to seek satisfaction from it, but not so dissatisfied
that they reject or resist it outright"
[34]More quotes
Links:
34. http://thebrowser.com/quotations