Newsletter 507
[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]Yes, Virginia. The Banks Really Were Bailed Out
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5. http://b.rw/uyVS8L
Steve Waldman | Interfluidity | 29 November 2011
Yes, banks took loans from the Fed during credit crisis, but they've paid it
all back now. Since there were no credit losses, there wasn't really a
bailout, right? Wrong. Here's a super post that explains why, in no
uncertain terms [6]Comments
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/yes-virginia-banks-really-were-bailed-out
[7]Banishing Consciousness: The Mystery Of Anaesthesia
Links:
7. http://b.rw/t8QyPg
Linda Geddes | New Scientist | 29 November 2011
"The anaesthetic would make me feel drowsy, I would go to sleep, when I woke
up it would all be over. What they didn't tell me was how the drugs would
send me into the realms of oblivion. They couldn't. The truth is, no one
knows" [8]Comments
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/banishing-consciousness-mystery-anaesthesia
[9]Requiem For The Arab Spring
Links:
9. http://b.rw/slkoBH
Stephen Walt | Foreign Policy | 28 November 2011
Putting the Arab uprisings in historical perspective. Building new political
orders is difficult, unpredictable, takes time. Look at what happened with
the French and Russian revolutions, Iran, even America [10]Comments
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10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/requiem-arab-spring
[11]Spaces Of Banana Control
Links:
11. http://b.rw/temfR3
Nicola Twilley | Edible Geography | 29 November 2011
Inside New York's biggest banana warehouse, where climate control fools the
fruit into thinking it is still on the plant in tropical Ecuador. “The
energy coming off a box of ripening bananas could heat a small apartment”
[12]Comments
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/spaces-banana-control
[13]‘Going Dark’ Versus A ‘Golden Age For Surveillance’
Links:
13. http://b.rw/uuZZv3
Peter Swire & Kenesa Ahmad | cdt | 28 November 2011
Fine essay addresses the "going dark" problem, when law enforcement is
blinded by new forms of encrypted communication. Whilst an issue, this
misses the point. We actually live in a "golden age of surveillance". Here's
why [14]Comments
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/articles/‘going-dark’-versus-‘golden-age-surveillance’
[15]On Not Rolling The Log
Links:
15. http://b.rw/tnyWNH
Glen David Gold | LA Review of Books | 29 November 2011
A lesson and warning to aspiring authors, administered from the grave by an
acid William Faulkner. By all means cultivate literary friendships. But
don't commodify them. The price may be higher than you think [16]Comments
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/articles/not-rolling-log
FiveBooks Interview
[17]David Downie on Paris
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/david-downie-on-paris
The city of romance and art is also, like most big cities, a place of grit
and grime. The American writer and long-time Paris resident tells us where
to look if we're to understand the people and past of this most alluring
city [18]Read on
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/david-downie-on-paris
Featured Topic
[19]Epic Adventures
Links:
19. http://thebrowser.com/reports/epic-adventures
Extreme tourism, unwise adventure and plain bad luck. Enjoy it all from the
comfort of your armchair [20]Read on
Links:
20. http://thebrowser.com/reports/epic-adventures
Reader Recommendations
_@_[21]lookatluca Martin Samuel reacts to Gary Speed death. Proof the sports
desk can offer be the best writing on a daily [22]#browsings
[23]t.co/hiWBj3l0 [24]More like this
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21. http://twitter.com/lookatluca
22. https://twitter.com/search?q=#browsings
23. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/article-2067858/Gary-Speed-dead-Lets-ideas-haunting-suicide.html
24. http://thebrowser.com/browsings
Book of the Day
[25]Book of the Day
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25. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/invasion-america-by-francis-jennings
[26]The Invasion of America by Francis Jennings
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26. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/invasion-america-by-francis-jennings
[27]Colin Calloway says: “Jennings accuses Puritans of dispossessing native
people and committing genocide – and of distorting the historical record to
justify their actions” [28]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
27. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/colin-calloway-on-native-americans-and-colonisers
28. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[29]Page 23
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29. http://thebrowser.com/videos/page-23
And when you close the Ikea catalogue. What do all those smiling models do
then? [30]More videos
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30. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[31]James Surowiecki, on the eurozone
Links:
31. http://www.newyorker.com/talk/financial/2011/12/05/111205ta_talk_surowiecki
"This is that rarest of problems—one that you really can solve just by
throwing money at it"
[32]More quotes
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32. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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