Newsletter 500
[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]Athens Diary
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James Meek | LRB | 22 November 2011
Notebook from a country unravelling. Only businesses thriving are pawn shops
and precious metal buyers. Economy is reverting to the 1950s. Get food from
relatives in the countryside, money from relatives aboard [6]Comments
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6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/athens-diary
[7]Facebook Is Starting To Lose Its Touch
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7. http://b.rw/sW9zNa
Kevin Kelleher | Reuters | 22 November 2011
800 million users. An IPO looming. Even a Facebook phone is rumoured. But it
has a problem too: It's ruining sharing. "Simply put, Facebook is making the
quantity of content more important than the quality." It may be a cardinal
sin [8]Comments
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8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/facebook-starting-lose-its-touch
[9]Going Green
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9. http://b.rw/uub8cX
Robert Butler | Intelligent Life | 21 November 2011
Every big scientific moment is also a cultural one. Galileo's universe. The
Lisbon earthquake. Darwin's evolution. In our time, the revolution is in
climate science. Finest artistic product to date: Cormac McCarthy's "The
Road" [10]Comments
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10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/going-green
[11]To Euro!
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11. http://b.rw/swQN3C
Yannis Ioannides & Chris Pissarides | Greek Economists For Reform | 21
November 2011
Interesting counterweight to arguments that Greece should default, leave
euro, re-take control of own economy. In brief, reintroduced drachma could
drop so much in value that benefits of default would evaporate [12]Comments
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12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/euro
[13]Out Of Thin Air
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13. http://b.rw/tt6zdu
David Edmonds | Prospect | 16 November 2011
In the past even training was considered unsporting. Now Pistorius runs on
blades, athletes use altitude tents, footballers wear high-tech boots. But
deciding which technologies are legal opens a debate over metaphysics of
sport [14]Comments
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14. http://thebrowser.com/articles/out-thin-air
[15]George’s God
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15. http://b.rw/uTXNa0
Andrew Ferguson | Weekly Standard | 21 November 2011
Revisiting George Harrison, 10 years after his death from cancer. A man of
two halves. Good George was a modest fellow, devoted to spiritualism and
Krishna. Bad George had an "heroic capacity for cocaine, brandy, and
adultery" [16]Comments
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16. http://thebrowser.com/articles/george’s-god
FiveBooks Interview
[17]Michael Kazin on Roots of the Occupy Movement
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17. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/michael-kazin-on-roots-occupy-movement
As police confront Occupy protesters, the history professor and co-editor of
Dissent magazine looks back at US leftist movements from abolitionism to
Vietnam to see where OWS came from and what it can learn from the past
[18]Read on
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18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/michael-kazin-on-roots-occupy-movement
Featured Topic
[19]Great Obituaries
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19. http://thebrowser.com/reports/great-obituaries
Raise a glass to life's characters with our collection of writing about
eventful, unconventional lives. RIP [20]Read on
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20. http://thebrowser.com/reports/great-obituaries
Reader Recommendations
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Book of the Day
[26]Book of the Day
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26. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/zeno’s-conscience-by-italo-svevo
[27]Zeno’s Conscience by Italo Svevo
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27. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/zeno’s-conscience-by-italo-svevo
[28]Tim Parks says: “It’s one of the first novels ever written about
psychotherapy and it’s completely hilarious because it shows that Zeno
really has no idea who he is”[29]FiveBooks Archive
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28. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/tim-parks-on-italian-fiction
29. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[30]The Next Big Thing
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30. http://thebrowser.com/videos/next-big-thing
Samsung mocks the cult of Apple. Not (yet) very effectively, but an
interesting direction [31]More videos
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31. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[32]Vernon Royce, on gratitude
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32. http://www.amazon.com/Masters-Strangers-Brothers-Charles-Percy/dp/1842324233
"Gratitude isn't an emotion. But the expectation of gratitude is a very
lively one"
[33]More quotes
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33. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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