Newsletter 509
[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]Raise Taxes On Rich To Reward True Job Creators
Links:
5. http://b.rw/rUg1Al
Nick Hanauer | Bloomberg | 1 December 2011
After Buffett, Hanauer. "I'm a very rich person. And I can say with
confidence that rich people don’t create jobs. Middle-class consumers do."
So put purchasing power back in their hands by taxing the rich, and watch
businesses grow [6]Comments
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/raise-taxes-rich-reward-true-job-creators
[7]Hidden Potential Of Autistic Kids
Links:
7. http://b.rw/uIqFIn
Rose Eveleth | Scientific American | 30 November 2011
Conventional assessments of low-functioning autistic children focus on what
they can't do. How about discovering what they're good at? It's not that
they can't learn. It's more that they don't learn the way that average kids
do [8]Comments
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/hidden-potential-autistic-kids
[9]Building A Better Mitt Romney-Bot
Links:
9. http://b.rw/t0VeWK
Robert Draper | NYT | 30 November 2011
On the campaign trail with Mitt Romney, as rivals implode around him. "The
data-driven former corporate consultant seems like a man puzzling his way to
victory, doing and saying whatever might solve the problem immediately at
hand" [10]Comments
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/building-better-mitt-romney-bot
[11]A Computer That Thinks Like The Universe
Links:
11. http://b.rw/v4Vi9H
Joshua Rothman | Boston Globe | 26 November 2011
Good backgrounder on quantum computing. A technology that could
revolutionise how we think about logic, mathematics and the universe. Even
failure to make it work might have important implications for our
understanding of physics [12]Comments
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/computer-thinks-universe
[13]Errata
Links:
13. http://b.rw/sMazoi
Belén Fernández | Guernica | 1 December 2011
Takedown of Thomas Friedman, winner of three Pulitzer Prizes. "Friedman’s
writing is characterised by a reduction of complex international phenomena
to simplistic rhetoric and theorems that rarely withstand the test of
reality" [14]Comments
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/articles/errata
[15]My Cybersexual Education
Links:
15. http://b.rw/vbOGuX
Alexandra Molotkow | Toronto Life | 1 December 2011
"I am part of the first generation to come of age online, and my adolescent
development dovetails with that of the social web. I’ve lived over half my
life through the Internet. We grew up publicly, and we grew up fast"
[16]Comments
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/articles/my-cybersexual-education
FiveBooks Interview
[17]David Lammy on Context of the UK Riots
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/david-lammy-on-context-uk-riots
We're richer and freer as a society than we used to be but it's now clear
there are downsides too. The MP for Tottenham, where the riots began, says
we've created a hyper-individualistic culture and explains how we must
change it [18]Read on
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/david-lammy-on-context-uk-riots
Featured Special Report
[19]Republican Contenders
Links:
19. http://thebrowser.com/reports/republican-contenders
Romney, Bachmann or Perry? AN Other? Read our selection of background and
analysis articles on the Republicans hoping to be their party's choice to
challenge President Obama [20]Read on
Links:
20. http://thebrowser.com/reports/republican-contenders
Reader Recommendations
_@prospect_uk_ The crime-buster "princeling" wooing China with his red songs
and Maoist texts. Meet Bo Xilai [21]t.co/c9HP53j9 [22]#browsings [23]More
like this
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21. http://t.co/c9HP53j9
22. https://twitter.com/search?q=#browsings
23. http://thebrowser.com/browsings
Book of the Day
[24]Book of the Day
Links:
24. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/blue-lotus-by-hergé
[25]The Blue Lotus by Hergé
Links:
25. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/blue-lotus-by-hergé
[26]Michael Farr says: “The Blue Lotus is the most important Tintin
adventure. It’s a masterpiece. Tintin is immersed in extreme realism –
Shanghai exactly as it was in 1934” [27]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
26. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/michael-farr-on-tintin
27. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[28]Herman Cain's 9-9-9
Links:
28. http://thebrowser.com/videos/herman-cains-9-9-9
Animated voodoonomics. In brief: Nothing will get cheaper, but everyone will
be better off [29]More videos
Links:
29. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[30]Bob Mankoff, on compromise
Links:
30. http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/cartoonists/2011/11/the-perfect-cartoon.html
"The pursuit of happiness and the pursuit of perfection are mutually
exclusive"
[31]More quotes
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31. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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