Newsletter 474 (The Browser as two words)
[1]The Browser
Links:
1. http://thebrowser.com
[5]European Solidarity Is Ebbing Away
Links:
5. http://b.rw/tX5iUy
Charles Crawford | Telegraph | 27 October 2011
Day-to-day EU business takes place in a thick smog of bureaucrats and
experts. By comparison, summits are a clear blue sky. The questions are
clear and direct. The main one: Can EU leaders trust one another? Answer:
not any more [6]Comments
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/european-solidarity-ebbing-away
[7]Tissue-bank Shortage: Brain Child
Links:
7. http://b.rw/uwnloT
Alison Abbott | Nature | 26 October 2011
Tackling a thorny issue. Scientists urgently need more brain tissue samples
from children and foetuses for their research. But asking parents to donate
is a cultural taboo, especially as collection must happen so soon after
death [8]Comments
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/tissue-bank-shortage-brain-child
[9]Richard Stallman: Speaker Visit
Links:
9. http://b.rw/tZZv2E
Richard Stallman | My Society | 20 October 2011
All public speakers could learn something from this—if only how modest their
own demands are. Co-founder of free software movement will happily address
your meeting, so long as every last detail is exactly how he wants it
[10]Comments
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/richard-stallman-speaker-visit
[11]Relevance Of Irrelevance
Links:
11. http://b.rw/sgkL7l
Jed Perl | New Republic | 26 October 2011
George Braque was the equal of Picasso in pioneering cubism. His reputation
has languished unfairly. The two "represent divergent attitudes toward
modernity. Picasso is the athlete in the stadium. Braque is the poet in the
tower" [12]Comments
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/relevance-irrelevance
[13]Mosque And State
Links:
13. http://b.rw/soHxFH
Doyle McManus | LA Times | 23 October 2011
Islamist groups are poised to emerge as powerful players in Egyptian,
Libyan, Tunisian politics. US should engage. And not over-worry. Islamists
tend to do well in "breakthrough" elections. Then either lose support or
adapt [14]Comments
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/articles/mosque-and-state
[15]Vintage Smith
Links:
15. http://b.rw/vHn7YD
Mark Brown | This Land | 24 October 2011
Profile of Charles Smith, "antichrist of the wine trade“. Holds two
Winemaker of the Year awards. Labels include Velvet Devil Merlot, Boom Boom
Syrah and Kung Fu Girl Riesling. "He's very democratic. He has a wine for
everybody” [16]Comments
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/articles/vintage-smith
FiveBooks Interview
[17]Mark Thoma on Econometrics
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/mark-thoma-on-econometrics
It’s a discipline popular with the Nobel prize committee and mysterious to
most of the rest of us. So we asked an econometrician to explain what he
does, and why there’s such a battle of ideas (and models) in economics
[18]Read on
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/mark-thoma-on-econometrics
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
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UK) [22]t.co/bBJwJHkt #[23]gfc2 #[24]browsings @[25]wireduk [26]More like
this
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21. http://twitter.com/polit2k
22. http://t.co/bBJwJHkt
23. http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=#gfc2
24. http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=#browsings
25. http://twitter.com/wireduk
26. http://thebrowser.com/browsings
Book of the Day
[27]Book of the Day
Links:
27. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/goths-by-peter-heather
[28]The Goths by Peter Heather
Links:
28. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/goths-by-peter-heather
[29]Norman Davies says: "It’s a general survey of all the different Goths.
There is a chapter about the Visigoths in Aquitaine called “The First
Successor State” – to the Roman Empire in the west, that is." [30]FiveBooks
Archive
Links:
29. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/norman-davies-on-europe’s-vanished-states
30. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[31]David Calvo Juggles And Solves Rubik's Cubes
Links:
31. http://thebrowser.com/videos/david-calvo-juggles-and-solves-rubiks-cubes
At the same time. Impressive, you must admit
[32]More videos
Links:
32. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[33]Paul Seabright, on leadership
Links:
33. http://aidwatchers.com/2010/08/a-more-articulate-economist-formulates-perfectly-my-most-unpopular-development-argument
Politicians are in charge of the modern economy in much the same way as a
sailor is in charge of a small boat in a storm
[34]More quotes
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34. http://thebrowser.com/quotations