Newsletter 489
[1]All of our Best of the Moment article recommendations, plus FiveBooks
interviews and other selected content from thebrower.com
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[5]Difference Engine: Luddite Legacy
Links:
5. http://b.rw/u1dz2Z
Anonymous | Economist | 4 November 2011
Why have unemployment levels remained stubbornly high? Has technological
progress, and increasing digitization of knowledge, contributed by rendering
more and more jobs obsolete, while society simply hasn't caught up?
[6]Comments
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/difference-engine-luddite-legacy
[7]The Code Of The Winklevii
Links:
7. http://b.rw/uLXlSa
Dana Vachon | Vanity Fair | 3 November 2011
Investment banker-turned-author Dana Vachon profiles the Winklevoss
brothers, identical twin Olympic rowers who sued Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg
and refuse to admit defeat. The result is a hilarious, insightful look at
their battle [8]Comments
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/code-winklevii
[9]News Flash: WINEP Defends The 'Special Relationship'
Links:
9. http://b.rw/vVMUD3
Stephen Walt | Foreign Policy | 9 November 2011
For British readers, that's Washington's special relationship with Israel,
not the UK. Excellent analysis argues that unconditional nature of those
ties works against US national interests. Better to treat Israel like any
other ally [10]Comments
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/news-flash-winep-defends-special-relationship
[11]Are We A Democracy?
Links:
11. http://b.rw/uRw2tf
Gary Gutting | NYT | 9 November 2011
Philosopher answers, by way of Plato. "Current calls for 'less government'
actually mean less power for elected leaders and for the bureaucracies that
serve them and more power for the 'oligarchy' of millionaires and
corporations" [12]Comments
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/are-we-democracy
[13]How The US Justice Department Legally Hacked My Twitter Account
Links:
13. http://b.rw/uh52tj
Birgitta Jónsdóttir | Guardian | 11 November 2011
Icelandic MP and early WikiLeaks supporter Birgitta Jonsdottir describes her
outrage at the fact that the U.S. government was able to compel Twitter to
release her personal information [14]Comments
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/articles/how-us-justice-department-legally-hacked-my-twitter-account
[15]The Truth About Violence
Links:
15. http://b.rw/w3r1sI
Sam Harris | Sam Harris | 5 November 2011
"It is overwhelmingly likely that some of you will become the targets of
violence in the future. The purpose of this essay is to help prepare you for
it." So begins a masterful blogpost that explains the essentials of
self-defence [16]Comments
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/articles/truth-about-violence
FiveBooks Interview
[17]Alex Ross on Writing about Music
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/alex-ross-on-writing-about-music
Music gets deep inside us and inspires great writing too, says the music
critic. He tells us about Nietzsche’s infatuation with Wagner, Thomas
Mann’s imaginary compositions and what John Cage really meant by his 4’33”
of silence [18]Read on
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/alex-ross-on-writing-about-music
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]TimHarford: RT @[23]mark_dow Most complete, best
nuanced on Italy so far. (by @[24]greg_ip)[25]t.co/giaZ0CRB #[26]browsings
[27]More like this
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21. http://twitter.com/polit2k
22. http://twitter.com/TimHarford
23. http://twitter.com/mark_dow
24. http://twitter.com/greg_ip
25. http://t.co/giaZ0CRB
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/queer-london-by-matt-houlbrook
[29]Queer London by Matt Houlbrook
Links:
29. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/queer-london-by-matt-houlbrook
[30]Juliet Gardiner says: “Homosexuality was much more tolerated in the
thirties than we realise and Houlbrook has done a great service in ripping
that period apart”[31]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
30. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/juliet-gardiner-on-930s-britain
31. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[32]Burning Man 2011
Links:
32. http://thebrowser.com/videos/burning-man-2011
Time-lapse video. At 20 minutes, goes on for about 19 minutes more than most
videos in this space. Even so: Wish you were there [33]More videos
Links:
33. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[34]Slavoj Zizek, on duty
Links:
34. http://www.opendemocracy.net/ourkingdom/william-davies/happy-now-as-britain-prepares-to-measure-wellbeing-we-conclude-our-happine
"Personal enjoyment has become a greater obligation than self-discipline,
and brings an even greater sense of failure when it is not achieved"
[35]More quotes
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35. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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