Newsletter 493
A selection of our best article links of the week, plus featured FiveBooks
interviews, videos, quotations and more.
[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]Will This Election Be The Mormon Breakthrough?
Links:
5. http://b.rw/ssv2tK
Harold Bloom | NYT | 12 November 2011
Bloom on magnificent form in this most elegant evisceration of Mormonism
(old and new) and Mitt Romney. But why stop there? Bloom doesn't, sliding
the knife into Southern Baptists and wider American religion and politics
too [6]Comments
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/will-election-be-mormon-breakthrough
[7]No Easy Solution
Links:
7. http://b.rw/toj2IS
Jonathan Ford | Prospect | 14 November 2011
Clear summary of global financial woes – dangers of high debts, changing
demographics, current account imbalances. History suggests two remedies for
indebted nations – default or inflation. But what we need is organised
rebalancing [8]Comments
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/no-easy-solution
[9]Not Guilty By Reason Of Neuroscience
Links:
9. http://b.rw/vZN95d
Michael Gazzaniga | Slate | 15 November 2011
Gazzinga explores relationship of neuroscience to the law. Interesting
throughout. "Does modern neuroscience deepen our ideas about determinism,
and, with more determinism, is there less reason for retribution and
punishment?" [10]Comments
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/not-guilty-reason-neuroscience
[11]The Bible Of King James
Links:
11. http://b.rw/sXFl9p
Adam Nicholson | National Gegraphic | 15 November 2011
"No other book has given more to the English-speaking world. You don't have
to be a Christian to hear the power of those words—simple in vocabulary,
cosmic in scale, stately in their rhythms, deeply emotional in their impact"
[12]Comments
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/bible-king-james
[13]The Sheriff Of Cyber City
Links:
13. http://b.rw/tUx9hR
Ann Marsh | Stanford | 11 November 2011
Super profile of Paul Kocher, leading digital security expert. Secret of his
success? "Whittle problems down to projects that are manageable. Trying to
solve the world's data security problems is like a doctor trying to solve
death" [14]Comments
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/articles/sheriff-cyber-city
[15]This Is Penn State
Links:
15. http://b.rw/tEvq1q
Jon Wertheim & David Epstein | Sports Illustrated | 15 November 2011
And this is what you should read if you want to know about the most
explosive scandal in the history of US college sports. And why one of those
whose careers it ended was "arguably the most unfireable person in all of
sports" [16]Comments
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/articles/penn-state
FiveBooks Interview
[17]May Berenbaum on Bugs
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/may-berenbaum-on-bugs
Insects outnumber us, outweigh us, and without them ecosystems would
collapse. In short, we live on their planet. The entomologist explains why
we should value bugs more – even, or especially, the carrion beetles and
dung feeders [18]Read on
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/may-berenbaum-on-bugs
Featured Topic
[19]Syria Revolts
Links:
19. http://thebrowser.com/reports/syria-revolts
Months of anti-government protests; a brutal response by the authorities.
But what's really going on in Syria? Read on to find out [20]Read on
Links:
20. http://thebrowser.com/reports/syria-revolts
Reader Recommendations
_@_[21]polit2k RT @[22]TimHarford: The future of
bookshops? [23]t.co/42kufMvP Via @[24]mirabilisdave [25]#browsings [26]More
like this
Links:
21. http://twitter.com/polit2k
22. http://twitter.com/TimHarford
23. http://mirabilis-yearofwonders.blogspot.com/2011/10/im-just-bookseller-and-i-want-my.html
24. http://twitter.com/mirabilisdave
25. https://twitter.com/search?q=#browsings
26. http://thebrowser.com/browsings
Book of the Day
[27]Book of the Day
Links:
27. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/fast-food-nation-by-eric-schlosser
[28]Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser
Links:
28. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/fast-food-nation-by-eric-schlosser
[29]Barry Estabrook says: “Schlosser takes apart a single fast-food meal and
shows not only how it affects our health but also how the people who serve
it to you are treated” [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]Leonardo da Vinci - Painter At The Court of Milan
Links:
31. http://thebrowser.com/videos/leonardo-da-vinci-painter-court-milan
Tour around the truly incredible Leonardo exhibition at the National Gallery
in London, with curator Luke Syson
[32]More videos
Links:
32. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[33]Will Wilkinson, on GOP primaries
Links:
33. http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/willwilkinson/~3/DRRp5FUmo3A/romneyphobia
"Newt Gingrich now reigns supreme, lending some support to the proposition
that hot air rises"
[34]More quotes
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34. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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