Newsletter 476
[1]The Browser
Links:
1. http://thebrowser.com
[5]Has America Become an Oligarchy?
Links:
5. http://b.rw/rObVTu
Thomas Schulz | Spiegel | 28 October 2011
"Economists and political scientists believe the US has entered a new Gilded
Age, a period of systematic inequality dominated by a new class of
super-rich." Fine essay looks at the state of US society, politics and the
economy [6]Comments
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/has-america-become-oligarchy
[7]Thoughts On Steve Jobs, The Book
Links:
7. http://b.rw/sfOWR1
Steven Berlin Johnson | Steven Berlin Johnson | 28 October 2011
If you haven't read the biography, here's the cheat-sheet. It's a worthy
memorial. Lucky Isaacson was there to write it. Apple boss an egomaniac, but
saw need for collaborators: "Another John Lennon, always looking for
McCartneys" [8]Comments
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/thoughts-steve-jobs-book
[9]The Movie Set That Ate Itself
Links:
9. http://b.rw/tlh7nM
Michael Idov | GQ | 27 October 2011
Unmissable story of a most bizarre film project. A cast of thousands. Many
living full-time in a nightmare vision of 1950's Moscow. A totalitarian
society, under the control of a deranged director. Where the cameras are
always on [10]Comments
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/movie-set-ate-itself
[11]The Joyful Side Of Translation
Links:
11. http://b.rw/unoayf
Adam Thirlwell | NYT | 28 October 2011
Review of "dazzlingly inventive" book by David Bellos, translator of Kadare,
Perec. Problems of translation overstated. Often no one-to-one equivalence
of words across languages. But usage is what matters. That translates
[12]Comments
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/joyful-side-translation
[13]Alaska’s Billion Dollar Mountain
Links:
13. http://b.rw/tCCxhY
Daniel Grushkin | Businessweek | 27 October 2011
How Jim McKenzie acquired the mining rights to a mountain of rare earths
worth billions. "I didn’t think I’d get into the minerals business. It looks
like I orchestrated this brilliant move, right? But it’s just inadvertent
luck” [14]Comments
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/articles/alaska’s-billion-dollar-mountain
[15]Is Self-Knowledge Overrated?
Links:
15. http://b.rw/spu2lC
Jonah Lehrer | New Yorker | 25 October 2011
Lehrer reviews new title by influential psychologist Daniel Kahneman:
"Although we’d always seen ourselves as rational creatures, it turns out
human reason is rather feeble, easily overwhelmed by ancient instincts and
lazy biases" [16]Comments
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/articles/self-knowledge-overrated
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