Newsletter 484
[1]The Browser
Links:
1. http://thebrowser.com
[5]The Tweaker
Links:
5. http://b.rw/v3s0CS
Malcolm Gladwell | New Yorker | 7 November 2011
Compelling read on character, sensibilities and skills of Steve Jobs. Part
Gladwell analysis, part review of Isaacson biography. Neither hagiography
nor hatchet job, but perhaps damning with faint praise [6]Comments
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/tweaker
[7]Eurozone Decouples From The World
Links:
7. http://b.rw/uzMrff
Gavyn Davies | FT | 6 November 2011
Eurozone is rich, with balance of payments surplus. No grounds for
international help. Problem is internal. Germany was financing peripheral
countries with private lending. Now it wants to stop, suddenly. Result:
crisis [8]Comments
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/eurozone-decouples-world
[9]Are There Mysterious Forces Lurking In Our Atoms And Galaxies?
Links:
9. http://b.rw/vxDTKx
Sean Carroll | Discover | 4 November 2011
For all their searching, physicists know of just four forces that influence
particles: Gravity, electromagnetism, strong, and weak, nuclear forces.
Researchers keep hunting for a fifth, but what are the chances of finding
another? [10]Comments
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/are-there-mysterious-forces-lurking-our-atoms-and-galaxies
[11]Obama’s Flunking Economy: The Real Cause
Links:
11. http://b.rw/sYGfwY
Ezra Klein | NYRB | 24 November 2011
Wrong to blame Geithner, Summers for Obama's weakness, as Ron Suskind does
in "Confidence Men". Blame Obama himself, for underestimating 2008 crash.
There again, if he had attempted strong remedies, Congress would have
blocked him [12]Comments
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/obama’s-flunking-economy-real-cause
[13]What’s The Language Of The Future?
Links:
13. http://b.rw/v5iWAE
Henry Hitchings | Salon | 6 November 2011
History is littered with the gravestones of artificial, universal languages.
Who now speaks Cosmoglossa, Interlingua, Romanizat or Molog? English remains
dominant lingua franca. But as it spreads, it's splintering into many
variants [14]Comments
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/articles/what’s-language-future
[15]What Do A Bunch of Old Jews Know About Living Forever?
Links:
15. http://b.rw/viNGDA
Jesse Green | New York | 6 November 2011
Irving Kahn is about to celebrate his 106th birthday. He still goes to work
every day. Scientists are studying him and several hundred other Ashkenazi
Jews to find out what keeps them going. And going. And going [16]Comments
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/articles/what-do-bunch-old-jews-know-about-living-forever
FiveBooks Interview
[17]Thomas Penn on Henry VII
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/thomas-penn-on-henry-vii
He was the Machiavelli of English kings – a chancer and usurper with a
highly dubious claim to the throne. But Henry VII ruled for 25 years and
founded a dynasty. His biographer tells us how he did it [18]Read on
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/thomas-penn-on-henry-vii
Featured Topic
[19]Espionage
Links:
19. http://thebrowser.com/reports/espionage
The irresistible subject - spies. Who are they? What do they really do? Are
today's spies that different from the heroes of the Cold War? Read on to
find out [20]Read on
Links:
20. http://thebrowser.com/reports/espionage
Reader Recommendations
_@_[21]Sigldigwt RT @[22]polit2k: MT @[23]petersims: Simon Johnson: 'We Are
Looking Straight Into The Face Of A Great Depression': [24]t.co/8e5vc9K7
[25]#browsings #[26]gfc2 [27]More like this
Links:
21. http://twitter.com/Sigldigwt
22. http://twitter.com/polit2k
23. http://twitter.com/petersims
24. http://seekingalpha.com/article/304761-simon-johnson-we-are-looking-straight-into-the-face-of-a-great-depression
25. https://twitter.com/search?q=#browsings
26. http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=#gfc2
27. http://thebrowser.com/browsings
Book of the Day
[28]Book of the Day
Links:
28. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/inherit-wind-by-jerome-lawrence-and-robert-e-lee
[29]Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E Lee
Links:
29. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/inherit-wind-by-jerome-lawrence-and-robert-e-lee
[30]Heather Brooke says: “This is an allegorical tale about a preacher who
is against the teaching of evolution. It is about the ability of people to
communicate ideas without persecution or obstruction” [31]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
30. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/heather-brooke-on-holding-power-account
31. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[32]Jeffrey Sachs And Niall Ferguson On The State Of America
Links:
32. http://thebrowser.com/videos/jeffrey-sachs-and-niall-ferguson-state-america
Take your sides, people
[33]More videos
Links:
33. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[34]Umberto Eco, on emotion
Links:
34. http://www.goodreads.com/interviews/show/622.Umberto_Eco
"Love is selective. Hatred is collective"
[35]More quotes
Links:
35. http://thebrowser.com/quotations