Newsletter 490
[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]Down With The Eurozone
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5. http://b.rw/v5M9wv
Nouriel Roubini | Project Syndicate | 11 November 2011
Germany's medicine for European debt troubles is recessionary deflation,
which means concentrating pain in eurozone's periphery. It won't work, leads
to "paradox of thrift". Roubini's guess? "The endgame for the eurozone has
begun" [6]Comments
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/down-eurozone
[7]Interview With Graham Harman
Links:
7. http://b.rw/v4Ur86
Tom Beckett | Ask/Tell | 23 October 2011
Wide-ranging conversation with metaphysics professor. On relationship of
philosophy and poetry, Freud, Heidegger, Cezanne, even Zizek and future of
political left. Have "precise and assertive" philosophers become a
"pestilence"? [8]Comments
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/interview-graham-harman
[9]How Walmart Is Changing China
Links:
9. http://b.rw/v59ok2
Orville Schell | Atlantic | 9 November 2011
These two colossal entities share a curious alignment of goals, policies,
even 'ideologies'. "Together, they are engaging in a bold experiment in
consumer behavior modification, market economics, and environmental
stewardship" [10]Comments
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10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/how-walmart-changing-china
[11]William Shakespeare, Gangster
Links:
11. http://b.rw/sNTMQv
Mike Dash | Smithsonian | 7 November 2011
Here's an interesting look at an obscure legal paper that sheds some light
on the mystery of Shakespeare's early life, revealing "a squalid tale of
gangland rivalries in the theatrical underworld of Queen Elizabeth’s day"
[12]Comments
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/william-shakespeare-gangster
[13]Ukraine’s Last Chance?
Links:
13. http://b.rw/s6TCQX
Timothy Snyder | NYRB | 9 November 2011
President Yanukovych really doesn't seem to understand that the European
Union wants to help Ukraine, not to annexe it. And his confusion on that
point may lead to Ukraine's reabsorption by Russia, which has the opposite
aims [14]Comments
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/articles/ukraine’s-last-chance
[15]Darwin's Tongues
Links:
15. http://b.rw/vsoNvt
Bruce Bower | ScienceNews | 5 November 2011
Evolutionary biologists turn their attention to the origins of language. And
their studies of comparative speech data produce some surprising results
that challenge the views of traditional linguists, including Chomsky and
Greenberg [16]Comments
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/articles/darwins-tongues
FiveBooks Interview
[17]Barry Estabrook on Food Production
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/barry-estabrook-on-food-production
Do you know what’s in the food you eat, and how it gets from field to plate?
The author of an acclaimed exposé of American agribusiness tells us where to
look if we want to become better-informed consumers [18]Read on
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/barry-estabrook-on-food-production
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 My friend @[22]farano has written a great piece on why
#[23]Italy's problems go beyond Berlusconi
@[24]AlbertoNardelli [25]t.co/8YBfqw8G #[26]browsings
Links:
21. http://twitter.com/polit2k
22. http://twitter.com/farano
23. http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=#Italy
24. http://twitter.com/AlbertoNardelli
25. http://t.co/8YBfqw8G
26. http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=#browsings
[27]More like this
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27. http://thebrowser.com/browsings
Book of the Day
[28]Book of the Day
Links:
28. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/damascus-by-richard-beard
[29]Damascus by Richard Beard
Links:
29. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/damascus-by-richard-beard
[30]Nikolaos van Dam says: “This book about Damascus lifts the tip of the
veil of the many, many beauties that Syria has” [31]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
30. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/nikolaos-van-dam-on-syria
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]George Kennan, on logic
Links:
34. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/13/books/review/george-f-kennan-an-american-life-by-john-lewis-gaddis-book-review.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&pagewanted=all
“I have the habit of seeing two opposing sides of a question, both of them
wrong"
[35]More quotes
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35. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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