Newsletter 485
[1]The Browser
Links:
1. http://thebrowser.com
[5]End Bonuses For Bankers
Links:
5. http://b.rw/tQxrAT
Nassim Nicholas Taleb | NYT | 7 November 2011
Pay should be strictly regulated at systemically important financial
institutions—big banks, also some insurance companies and hedge funds. No
bonuses, ever. They're an incentive to take risks, which lead to bailouts
[6]Comments
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/end-bonuses-bankers
[7]The No-Growth Trap
Links:
7. http://b.rw/vjdbJo
Benjamin Friedman | National Interest | 25 October 2011
The world is caught in an increasingly acrimonious political deadlock,
driven by stagnating incomes and living standards. Economic growth is the
only panacea. But to achieve it, the political paralysis must be broken.
How? [8]Comments
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/no-growth-trap
[9]How Our Training Fails Us When It Counts
Links:
9. http://b.rw/v3z6cF
Kevin Bell | Army Magazine | 1 November 2011
Ethical training for soldiers needs to recognise that there isn't a huge
distance between being a good officer and torturing; that rules aren't
enough when faced with anger and trauma at having one's comrades killed
(PDF) [10]Comments
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/how-our-training-fails-us-when-it-counts
[11]All Roads Lead To (Ancient) Rome
Links:
11. http://b.rw/sYzn4R
Gilles Bransbourg | Newsweek | 6 November 2011
2,000 years ago Europe had a single currency. One that lasted for several
centuries without so much as a central bank. Key difference between Rome's
ancient economy and that of today's eurozone is principle of "subsidiarity"
[12]Comments
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/all-roads-lead-ancient-rome
[13]Facebook Vs Google: The Battle For The Future Of The Web
Links:
13. http://b.rw/sIrTuF
Miguel Helft & Jessi Hempel | Fortune | 3 November 2011
"In the long history of tech rivalries, rarely has there been a battle as
competitive as the raging war between the web's wonder twins." Enjoyable
overview of struggle to become superpower of the social web [14]Comments
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/articles/facebook-vs-google-battle-future-web
[15]Why Do People Eat Too Much?
Links:
15. http://b.rw/sIkVRl
Jonah Lehrer | Frontal Cortex | 7 November 2011
On the psychology of gluttony. "The question is why people opt for bigger
serving sizes. If we know we’re going to have a tough time not eating all
those French fries, why do we insist on ordering them? What drives us to
supersize?" [16]Comments
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/articles/why-do-people-eat-too-much
FiveBooks Interview
[17]Jerry McNerney on Clean Energy
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/jerry-mcnerney-on-clean-energy
We’re in a “dual energy crisis”, says the author of Clean Energy Nation, and
not doing enough about it. He tells us what we must do if we’re to overcome
our dependence on oil and limit the damaging effects of climate change
[18]Read on
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/jerry-mcnerney-on-clean-energy
Featured Topic
[19]Extreme Food
Links:
19. http://thebrowser.com/reports/extreme-food
From foraging in the wild to foul restaurant dining, here is our toothsome
selection of writing on the world of extreme food [20]Read on
Links:
20. http://thebrowser.com/reports/extreme-food
Reader Recommendations
_@_[21]polit2k MT @[22]guardian @[23]GeorgeMonbiot The 1% are the very best
destroyers of wealth the world has ever
seen [24]t.co/j12n2HiI #[25]ows #[26]gfc2 [27]#browsings [28]More like this
Links:
21. http://twitter.com/polit2k
22. http://twitter.com/guardian
23. http://twitter.com/GeorgeMonbiot
24. http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/nov/07/one-per-cent-wealth-destroyers?CMP=twt_gu
25. http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=#ows
26. http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=#gfc2
27. https://twitter.com/search?q=#browsings
28. http://thebrowser.com/browsings
Book of the Day
[29]Book of the Day
Links:
29. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/white-hotel-by-dm-thomas
[30]The White Hotel by DM Thomas
Links:
30. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/white-hotel-by-dm-thomas
[31]Heather Brooke says: “It is a novel, and one of my favourite books. It
shows a way to use writing to hold the powerful to account” [32]FiveBooks
Archive
Links:
31. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/heather-brooke-on-holding-power-account
32. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[33]Kings of the Ring
Links:
33. http://thebrowser.com/videos/kings-ring
Powerful documentary. Set aside 90 minutes
[34]More videos
Links:
34. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[35]Artie Shaw, on music
Links:
35. http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2005/03/ex-husband-of-love-goddesses/3748
"I did all you can do with a clarinet. Any more would have been less"
[36]More quotes
Links:
36. http://thebrowser.com/quotations