Newsletter 506
[1]All of our Best of the Moment article recommendations, plus FiveBooks
interviews and other selected content from thebrower.com
Links:
1. http://thebrowser.com
[5]The Xinjiang Procedure
Links:
5. http://b.rw/urPQz9
Ethan Gutman | Weekly Standard | 25 November 2011
"Chinese medical authorities admit the lion’s share of transplant organs
originate with executions, but no mainland doctors, even in exile, will
normally speak of performing such surgery." Now one has. Prepare for a
shocking story [6]Comments
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/xinjiang-procedure
[7]Euro Area Is Coming To An End
Links:
7. http://b.rw/tUpoDD
Peter Boone & Simon Johnson | Bloomberg | 28 November 2011
The markets have sent Germany a message. It's no longer a safe haven, and
there is no painless solution to euro troubles. This is the beginning of the
end for the currency zone. Here's why, and how it's likely to play out
[8]Comments
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/euro-area-coming-end
[9]Human Nature's Pathologist
Links:
9. http://b.rw/tE4Z7d
Carl Zimmer | NYT | 28 November 2011
Super profile of Steven Pinker, Harvard psychologist. Anarchist at age of 15
(“If you weren’t an anarchist, you couldn’t get a date”), student of human
nature, linguist, advocate of evolutionary psychology, now expert on
violence [10]Comments
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/human-natures-pathologist
[11]Central Booking
Links:
11. http://b.rw/tzrjOP
Keith Gessen | New Yorker | 28 November 2011
Prison diary. In which the author, "a 36-year-old white male from Newton,
Massachusetts" goes very briefly to jail for his part in Occupying Wall
Street. With probably more detail than you want about lavatory arrangements
[12]Comments
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/central-booking
[13]Straight Outta Compton
Links:
13. http://b.rw/sPmkUd
Jeff Benedict & Armen Keteyian | Sports Illustrated | 29 November 2011
Story of accomplished student and aspiring athlete growing up in South
Central LA. Violence is rife. And gangs target athletes for recruitment,
believing their membership brings prestige to the group. It's not easy to
steer clear [14]Comments
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/articles/straight-outta-compton
[15]The Unlikely Event
Links:
15. http://b.rw/tU3giY
Avi Steinberg | Paris Review | 28 November 2011
Modern airline safety cards are "spare, noiseless projections that maintain
a zen-like neutrality to the chaos and horror of the actual event". Jollier
in the 1950s. “Loosen your tie, but keep all your clothes on,” advised PanAm
[16]Comments
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/articles/unlikely-event
FiveBooks Interview
[17]Hal Foster on Pop Art
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/hal-foster-on-pop-art
What is pop art? Why did it catch on, and what does it mean? And what about
Warhol – was his work as superficial as he liked to say it was? The art
professor answers all this and much, much more [18]Read on
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/hal-foster-on-pop-art
Featured Topic
[19]The Occupy Movement
Links:
19. http://thebrowser.com/reports/occupy-movement
From New York to California, and many places inbetween, they are protesting.
But who are they, what do they want and what does it all mean? [20]Read on
Links:
20. http://thebrowser.com/reports/occupy-movement
Reader Recommendations
_@_[21]polit2k RT @[22]TimHarford: Paul Krugman's short essay on why debt
can be the cure for debt [23]t.co/O6V0ww1O#[24]gfc2 [25]#browsings [26]More
like this
Links:
21. http://twitter.com/polit2k
22. http://twitter.com/TimHarford
23. http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/11/25/death-by-hawkery/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
24. http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=#gfc2
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/insect-societies-by-edward-o-wilson
[28]The Insect Societies by Edward O Wilson
Links:
28. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/insect-societies-by-edward-o-wilson
[29]May Berenbaum says: “A book by the most famous entomologist in 50 years.
He distills down the essence of social behaviour across these organisms and
writes about them in captivating prose” [30]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
29. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/may-berenbaum-on-bugs
30. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[31]Hello, Little Printer
Links:
31. http://thebrowser.com/videos/hello-little-printer
It's the latest thing. You print stuff. On paper. In little bits [32]More
videos
Links:
32. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[33]Katja Grace, on happiness
Links:
33. http://meteuphoric.wordpress.com/2011/11/27/drinking-to-lower-standards
"One way to be more satisfied with life is to lower your standards"
[34]More quotes
Links:
34. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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