Newsletter 508
[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 Angela Merkel Act, Or Won't She?
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5. http://b.rw/uKdroc
Peter Coy | Businessweek | 30 December 2011
On Merkel's quest for a euro solution, not a quick fix. "The question is
whether, by the time she has perfected the blueprints for the high-class
renovation of Europe she and her supporters crave, the building will have
burned down" [6]Comments
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/will-angela-merkel-act-or-wont-she
[7]The Broken Contract
Links:
7. http://b.rw/tX9R10
George Packer | Foreign Affairs | 1 November 2011
US in decline. "All around, we see dazzling technological change, but no
progress." Surface of life goes on improving, but deep structures,
institutions, processes have decayed. Elites have lost their moral compass
(Free reg reqd) [8]Comments
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8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/broken-contract
[9]When Will We Have Unmanned Commercial Airliners?
Links:
9. http://b.rw/tYJqkg
Philip Ross | IEEE Spectrum | 29 November 2011
There used to be people who operated lifts for us; now we just have buttons
to press. Every train used to have engineers in the cabin; many now are
automated. So what about planes? They can already land unassisted. Why keep
pilots? [10]Comments
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/when-will-we-have-unmanned-commercial-airliners
[11]Canary In The Coal Mine
Links:
11. http://b.rw/txjlOU
James Vernon | Times Higher Education | 1 December 2011
Higher education used to be regarded in Britain as a public good. Now it's
been rebranded as a private investment. Which means an escalation of fees, a
build-up student debt, and the casualisation of academic labour. Who
benefits? [12]Comments
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/canary-coal-mine
[13]29/11/11 – A Turning Point In British History
Links:
13. http://b.rw/rB7wrI
Paul Mason | BBC | 30 November 2011
Chancellor's autumn statement laid bare some devastating truths. Economic
forecasts have been torn to shreds and, like America, we have an
impoverished middle class whose spending power cannot survive a slump in
house prices [14]Comments
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/articles/291111-–-turning-point-british-history
[15]Reader, I Marinated It
Links:
15. http://b.rw/v7TRaS
Mark Crick | Independent | 25 November 2011
Imagining how Virginia Woolf, Geoffrey Chaucer and Raymond Chandler would
have fared as food writers. From Lamb with Dill Sauce à la Raymond Chandler:
"I took hold of the joint. It felt cold and damp, like a coroner's
handshake" [16]Comments
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/articles/reader-i-marinated-it
FiveBooks Interview
[17]Michael Farr on Tintin
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/michael-farr-on-tintin
Why do the Tintin stories have such enduring appeal? A Tintinologist tells
us what makes them special, how their creator, Hergé, came to write them,
and why he was accused of being a Nazi collaborator [18]Read on
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/michael-farr-on-tintin
Featured Topic
[19]Euro On The Brink
Links:
19. http://thebrowser.com/reports/euro-brink
What's going wrong with the euro? Can the problem be contained? If so, how?
And what if it isn't? Read on to find out [20]Read on
Links:
20. http://thebrowser.com/reports/euro-brink
Reader Recommendations
@[21]polit2k RT @[22]BBCMarkMardell: Obama's former economic advisor thinks
the eurozone will break up[23]t.co/rTeG1Uxq #[24]gfc2 #[25]browsings
[26]More like this
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26. http://thebrowser.com/browsings
Book of the Day
[27]Book of the Day
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27. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/middle-ground-by-richard-white
[28]The Middle Ground by Richard White
Links:
28. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/middle-ground-by-richard-white
[29]Colin Calloway says: “The middle ground was an area where Indian power
was real, where Europeans had to compromise, not command. It was an area of
cautious coexistence” [30]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
29. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/colin-calloway-on-native-americans-and-colonisers
30. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[31]Soft Robot
Links:
31. http://thebrowser.com/videos/soft-robot
It's tiny. It's squishy. It goes anywhere. And yes, it's funded by Darpa
[32]More videos
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32. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[33]Michael Tomasky, on Herman Cain
Links:
33. http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2011/dec/22/herman-cain-ceo-self
"If one puts to the side his wildly extreme political views, his obvious
and cringe-inducing knowledge gaps, and his alleged treatment of women,
one can easily find things to admire in Herman Cain"
[34]More quotes
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34. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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