Newsletter 475 (The Browser as two words)
[1]The Browser
Links:
1. http://thebrowser.com
[5]The End of the American Era
Links:
5. http://b.rw/vfAjUx
Stephen Walt | National Interest | 25 October 2011
"The era when the United States could create and lead a political, economic
and security order in virtually every part of the world is coming to an end.
Which raises the obvious question: What should we do about it?" Excellent
essay [6]Comments
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/end-american-era
[7]Watch This Man
Links:
7. http://b.rw/vWpE4Z
Pankaj Mishra | LRB | 26 October 2011
On Niall Ferguson, popular neo-imperialist historian. Books full of "bluster
about the white man’s burden", provocative counterfactuals, voluminous
footnotes. No attempt to understand Asian history. Cartoonish view of modern
China [8]Comments
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/watch-man
[9]Jobs The Jerk
Links:
9. http://b.rw/tAqomW
Farhad Manjoo | Slate | 25 October 2011
Review of new biography of former Apple supremo. Some great yarns and a
corrective to recent hagiography, although book isn't as hostile as this
headline suggests. For Manjoo, the enterprise does have one key failing
though [10]Comments
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/jobs-jerk
[11]Wouldn’t It Be Cool If Shakespeare Wasn’t Shakespeare?
Links:
11. http://b.rw/tgnAka
Stephen Marche | NYT | 21 October 2011
A smart and funny rebuttal to the film, Anonymous. And much more as the
author neatly uses his anti-Oxfordian argument to tackle today’s conspiracy
theorists [12]Comments
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/wouldn’t-it-be-cool-if-shakespeare-wasn’t-shakespeare
[13]Fishing In Gaza
Links:
13. http://b.rw/rUAgrc
Anonymous | Notes From Behind The Blockade | 24 October 2011
"If the Israelis water cannon you, go to the front of the boat. They
generally target the engine”. The whole blog is worth reading. Covers
everyday life in Gaza, from the viewpoint of a foreign human-rights observer
[14]Comments
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/articles/fishing-gaza
[15]Assault On The Minibar
Links:
15. http://b.rw/vrYc7G
Dubravka Ugresic | Paris Review | 17 October 2011
Popularised by Hilton, after an executive saw miniatures of whisky on a Thai
Airways flight in 1974 and suggested putting them in guest rooms. "For many
a lonely businessman, the minibar is a symbolic substitute for home"
[16]Comments
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/articles/assault-minibar
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
@[21]polit2k RT @[22]cate_long: FT's Martin Wolf: The big questions raised
by anti-capitalist protests [23]t.co/YpG9bXma #[24]gfc2 #[25]browsings
[26]More like this
Links:
21. http://twitter.com/polit2k
22. http://twitter.com/cate_long
23. http://t.co/YpG9bXma
24. http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=#gfc2
25. http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=#browsings
26. http://thebrowser.com/browsings
Book of the Day
[27]Book of the Day
Links:
27. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/first-human-by-ann-gibbons
[28]The First Human by Ann Gibbons
Links:
28. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/first-human-by-ann-gibbons
[29]Tim White says: Ann is the correspondent for Science magazine who covers
this field, so she is extremely knowledgeable and very much up to
date.[30]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
29. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/tim-white-on-prehistoric-man
30. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[31]TEDx In A Box
Links:
31. http://thebrowser.com/videos/tedx-box
[32]More videos
Links:
32. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[33]Tom Stafford, on Twitter
Links:
33. http://www.thepsychologist.org.uk/archive/archive_home.cfm?volumeID=23&editionID=192&ArticleID=1722
Twitter is like having a little part of you that's always down the pub
[34]More quotes
Links:
34. http://thebrowser.com/quotations