Newsletter 492
[1]All of our Best of the Moment article recommendations, plus FiveBooks
interviews and other selected content from thebrower.com
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1. http://thebrowser.com
[5]The Two Year Window
Links:
5. http://b.rw/tdHedQ
Jonathan Cohn | New Republic | 9 November 2011
Neuroscience uncovers an ugly truth: "Neglect of very young children does
not merely stunt their emotional development. It changes the architecture of
their brains." Important implications for battle against poverty (Ungated
for us) [6]Comments
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/two-year-window
[7]The End Of Borders
Links:
7. http://b.rw/uPcB5Y
Ben Austen | Businessweek | 10 November 2011
The bookstore chain that did everything wrong. Bought long leases on huge
shops in second-rate locations. Bet heavily on CDs just as the music
business slumped. Outsourced online sales to Amazon. Six CEOs in 10 years
[8]Comments
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/end-borders
[9]Why We May Be In Store For A Passionless Presidential Race
Links:
9. http://b.rw/se4gs4
Robert Reich | Guernica | 14 November 2011
Succinct analysis. Explains why progressives, Democratic base unenthusiastic
about Obama; and why Republicans will end up with Romney, despite disliking
him. Americans want inspiration; political passions will move elsewhere
[10]Comments
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/why-we-may-be-store-passionless-presidential-race
[11]Whatever Happened To Discipline And Hard Work?
Links:
11. http://b.rw/t4vZDV
Tyler Cowen | NYT | 12 November 2011
Occupy movement has raised important issues of inequality. But there's too
much talk about riches. Not enough about values. "The relevant question, in
my view, is not about how much you have earned but about how you have earned
it" [12]Comments
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/whatever-happened-discipline-and-hard-work
[13]Autism's Early Child
Links:
13. http://b.rw/sbZEpd
Christopher Stevens | Observer | 13 November 2011
Fifty years ago Michael Edge was one of the first British children to be
diagnosed as autistic. When his mother took him to a psychiatrist, she was
advised to send him away to care and forget him. She refused. This is their
story [14]Comments
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14. http://thebrowser.com/articles/autisms-early-child
[15]The Bolshoi’s Latest Act
Links:
15. http://b.rw/uvc9Kl
Simon Morrison | NYRB | 12 November 2011
Russian opera house reopens after six-year, $680m renovation. Principal
conductor says acoustics now "terrible". Audience boos first public
performance. "It has been transformed into a fantastically unpredictable
space" [16]Comments
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/articles/bolshoi’s-latest-act
FiveBooks Interview
[17]Norman Naimark on Genocide
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/norman-naimark-on-genocide
Genocide isn’t the preserve of fanatics and racist thugs – it’s part of
human nature, says the historian. He tells us how it happens, who denies it
and where it could return [18]Read on
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/norman-naimark-on-genocide
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 Krugman vs Summers: The debate | Felix
Salmon [22]t.co/dOhzpjM0 #[23]gfc2 [24]#browsings @[25]felixsalmon [26]More
like this
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21. http://twitter.com/polit2k
22. http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2011/11/15/krugman-vs-summers-the-debate
23. http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=#gfc2
24. https://twitter.com/search?q=#browsings
25. http://twitter.com/felixsalmon
26. http://thebrowser.com/browsings
Book of the Day
[27]Book of the Day
Links:
27. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/omnivore’s-dilemma-search-perfect-meal-fast-food-world-by-michael-pollan
[28]The Omnivore’s Dilemma by Michael Pollan
Links:
28. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/omnivore’s-dilemma-search-perfect-meal-fast-food-world-by-michael-pollan
[29]Barry Estabrook says: “Pollan looks at the way we subsidise big
commodity agriculture, which encourages an artificially cheap system for bad
food” [30]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
29. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/barry-estabrook-on-food-production
30. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[31]Catvertising
Links:
31. http://thebrowser.com/videos/catvertising
"By 2015, cat videos are going to represent 90% of content on the world-wide
web" [32]More videos
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32. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[33]Charles Crawford, on stereotypes
Links:
33. http://charlescrawford.biz/blog/mars-venus-extremism-revisited-
The trouble with simplification is that things are complicated. The
trouble with things being complicated is that we need to simplify them
[34]More quotes
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34. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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