Newsletter 509


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[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]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
    Links:
      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
    Links:
      31. http://thebrowser.com/quotations

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