Newsletter 487
[1]The Browser
Links:
1. http://thebrowser.com
[5]Why Americans Won't Do Dirty Jobs
Links:
5. http://b.rw/vVKtdk
Elizabeth Dwoskin | Businessweek | 10 November 2011
Alabama has 18% unemployment. But there are lots of difficult, dirty jobs
available. New laws forced migrant workers out; now few Americans are
prepared to take on their roles. “I have 158 jobs, I need to give them to
somebody" [6]Comments
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/why-americans-wont-do-dirty-jobs
[7]How To Save Israel
Links:
7. http://b.rw/uCQosY
Gershom Gorenberg | Slate | 9 November 2011
What will Israel be in five years, or 20? A thriving democracy within
smaller borders, or a pariah state where one ethnic group rules over
another? The hub of the Jewish world, or a place that Jews abroad prefer not
to think about? [8]Comments
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/how-save-israel
[9]The Resentment Machine
Links:
9. http://b.rw/t24Ubx
Freddie deBoer | New Inquiry | 7 November 2011
Provocative essay on capitalism, Internet. We are raised to compete for
status, material rewards. So, as adults, we invest great meaning in the
"cultural goods" we acquire. Web amplifies this, defining us by our vacuous
consumption [10]Comments
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/resentment-machine
[11]How A Financial Pro Lost His House
Links:
11. http://b.rw/uYa049
Carl Richards | NYT | 9 November 2011
Cautionary tale of excess, naiveté, financial risk. "This is the story of
how I lost my home, the profound ethical questions that arose along the way,
and what my wife and I learned from the mistakes that led us to that point"
[12]Comments
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/how-financial-pro-lost-his-house
[13]Crowds R Us
Links:
13. http://b.rw/rSJKJE
Ian Leslie | Intelligent Life | 2 November 2011
"Crowds, we are often told, are dumb. They obliterate reason, sentience and
accountability, turning individuals into helpless copycats." Which is
misleading. Crowds do indeed change our behaviour. But often for better. Not
for worse [14]Comments
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/articles/crowds-r-us
[15]How To Take Your 4-Year-Old Daughter To A Football Game
Links:
15. http://b.rw/sEc1WQ
Willie Geist | Grantland | 9 November 2011
"Ever since I moved to New York I've been meaning to go to a Columbia
University football game. But it's tough to find a wingman for a trip like
that. This year, I stopped asking my wife. Instead, I invited my 4-year-old
daughter" [16]Comments
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/articles/how-take-your-4-year-old-daughter-football-game
FiveBooks Interview
[17]Juliet Gardiner on 1930s Britain
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/juliet-gardiner-on-930s-britain
The 1930s are hugely underrated as a decade, says the historian. She tells
us about the social and design revolutions that made the thirties much more
than just a prelude to war [18]Read on
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/juliet-gardiner-on-930s-britain
Featured Topic
[19]Time
Links:
19. http://thebrowser.com/reports/time
What is it? Why isn't it the same everywhere? Can we travel through time?
Will there be an end to time? Read on to find out [20]Read on
Links:
20. http://thebrowser.com/reports/time
Reader Recommendations
@[21]polit2k: RT @[22]creditplumber: "The road to serfdom" - Marshall
Auerback in Naked Capitalism [23]t.co/i0EbeaAo #[24]gfc2
#[25]eurocrisis #[26]browsings [27]More like this
Links:
21. http://twitter.com/polit2k
22. http://twitter.com/creditplumber
23. http://t.co/i0EbeaAo
24. http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=#gfc2
25. http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=#eurocrisis
26. http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=#browsings
27. http://thebrowser.com/browsings
Book of the Day
[28]Book of the Day
Links:
28. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/all-president’s-men-by-bob-woodward-and-carl-bernstein
[29]All the President’s Men by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein
Links:
29. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/all-president’s-men-by-bob-woodward-and-carl-bernstein
[30]Nick Davies says: “Woodward and Bernstein simply wrote a great, really
detailed account of the work that went into the case. I still use sections
from it as case studies.” [31]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
30. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/nick-davies-on-investigative-journalism
31. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[32]So, Farewell, Rick Perry
Links:
32. http://thebrowser.com/videos/so-farewell-rick-perry
In the circumstances, you have to admire his relative composure [33]More
videos
Links:
33. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[34]Michael Arrington, on success
Links:
34. http://twitter.com/arrington/status/134160606646378496
"If failure doesn't make you a loser, then success doesn't really make you
a winner"
[35]More quotes
Links:
35. http://thebrowser.com/quotations