Newsletter 472
[1]The Browser
Links:
1. http://thebrowser.com
[5]Should Some Bankers Be Prosecuted?
Links:
5. http://b.rw/tqbNwM
Jeff Madrick & Frank Partnoy | NYRB | 24 October 2011
Financial firms on Wall Street and elsewhere unambiguously and
overwhelmingly created the conditions that led to catastrophe. Yet not a
single criminal charge has been filed against anyone at a major bank. Why is
this? [6]Comments
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/should-some-bankers-be-prosecuted
[7]Deep Intellect
Links:
7. http://b.rw/u0uPGq
Sy Montgomery | Orion | 25 October 2011
What goes on in the mind of an octopus? "As we gazed into each other’s eyes,
Athena encircled my arms with hers, latching on with first dozens, then
hundreds of her sensitive, dexterous suckers. She changed colour beneath my
touch" [8]Comments
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/deep-intellect
[9]6 Guys In A Capsule
Links:
9. http://b.rw/tJZWyU
Bill Donahue | Wired | 21 October 2011
"The Institute for Biomedical Problems is a world leader in the torture of
isolation." But even it has never tried anything like this before. Locking
six brave men in a tiny capsule. For 520 days. To test our ability to reach
Mars [10]Comments
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/6-guys-capsule
[11]The Myth Of Greek Profligacy
Links:
11. http://b.rw/vxFnPN
Marshall Auerback & Rob Parenteau | Naked Capitalism | 24 October 2011
"Reading the press, one gets the impression of a bunch of lazy Mediterranean
scroungers, enjoying one of the highest standards of living in Europe while
making the frugal Germans pick up the tab. This is nonsensical propaganda"
[12]Comments
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/myth-greek-profligacy
[13]Cosmic Neutrality
Links:
13. http://b.rw/vYfWXx
Frederic James | LRB | 20 October 2011
Review of newly translated novel by Danish 1917 Nobel prizewinner. Doesn't
sound compelling, but read on. Interesting throughout, especially on nature
of rebellion in Nordic countries, and problems of writing novels about
business [14]Comments
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/articles/cosmic-neutrality
[15]The Amanuensis
Links:
15. http://b.rw/ty0SL6
Mark Van de Walle | Paris Review | 24 October 2011
Portrait of Steve Lowe: Writer of pornographic novels, assistant to William
Burroughs, California hotelier, countercultural hub. "He was the center of
an elaborate network of near-mystical coincidence whose tendrils ran
everywhere" [16]Comments
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/articles/amanuensis
FiveBooks Interview
[17]Dorothy Singer on Play
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/dorothy-singer-on-play
Play is a vital learning experience. But not all play is equal. Some helps
children develop their imagination and learn cooperative behaviour. Some
doesn’t. The Yale psychologist explains all [18]Read on
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/dorothy-singer-on-play
Featured Topic
[19]Euro On The Brink
Links:
19. http://thebrowser.com/reports/euro-brink
What's going wrong with the euro? Can the problem be contained? If so, how?
And what if it isn't? Read on to find out [20]Read on
Links:
20. http://thebrowser.com/reports/euro-brink
Reader Recommendations
_@_[21]polit2k The cold, hard truth: the Euro is finished | Liberal
Conspiracy | Frances Coppola [22]t.co/I6QtwrxA via @[23]libcon
[24]#browsings [25]More like this
Links:
21. http://twitter.com/polit2k
22. http://liberalconspiracy.org/2011/10/25/the-cold-hard-truth-the-euro-is-finished
23. http://twitter.com/libcon
24. https://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/levant-by-philip-mansel
[27]Levant by Philip Mansel
Links:
27. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/levant-by-philip-mansel
[28]Norman Stone says: “Philip Mansel’s book Levant is a comparison of
Beirut, Alexandria and Smyrna in the modern age. It’s an awfully good
book” [29]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
28. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/norman-stone-on-turkish-history
29. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[30]Occupy Oakland: Teargas Fired
Links:
30. http://thebrowser.com/videos/occupy-oakland-teargas-fired
A heavy-handed response by police? You decide
[31]More videos
Links:
31. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[32]Ray Kurzweil, on progress
Links:
32. http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=e-zimmer-can-you-live-forever
Thirty linear steps take you to 30. Thirty exponential steps take you to a
billion
[33]More quotes
Links:
33. http://thebrowser.com/quotations