Newsletter 512
[1]All of our Best of the Moment article recommendations, plus FiveBooks
interviews and other selected content from thebrower.com
Links:
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[5]What Makes A Rogue Trader?
Links:
5. http://b.rw/to6EcL
John Gapper | FT | 2 December 2011
"Like the cycles of financial speculation and crashes that have occurred
throughout history, rogue traders are always with us." Fascinating on what
drives us to gamble recklessly. Helps to know your bird-watching, says
Gapper [6]Comments
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/what-makes-rogue-trader
[7]A Monster Among the 'Frum'
Links:
7. http://b.rw/tXGBYh
Matthew Shaer | New York | 4 December 2011
When an eight-year-old Jewish boy disappeared in an orthodox neighbourhood
of Brooklyn in July, the community mobilised to find out what had happened.
What came next was unexpected. That they were looking for a killer from
within [8]Comments
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/monster-among-frum
[9]Rick Perry Has Three Strikes Against Him
Links:
9. http://b.rw/uj80nH
Bryan Burrough | Vanity Fair | 1 December 2011
"When you become the object of laughter and pity, you're done." Right?
Maybe, but the Republican contender has money, organisation, and has emerged
from the "oops" gaffe better than might have been expected. Enjoyable
profile [10]Comments
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/rick-perry-has-three-strikes-against-him
[11]Toward A Gentler, Kinder German Reich?
Links:
11. http://b.rw/u155uM
Tony Corn | Small Wars Journal | 29 November 2011
German elites are leveraging the eurozone crisis to change Europe's
institutional fundamentals and ensure Germany's dominance. But not to worry.
This "Merkelian Reich" would be a "benign, metrosexual, post-modern polity"
[12]Comments
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/toward-gentler-kinder-german-reich
[13]Our Microbiomes, Ourselves
Links:
13. http://b.rw/rRfu48
Carl Zimmer | NYT | 3 December 2011
Every human body is home to 100 trillion microbes. What if one of your
microbes is unique—and yields a powerful new antibiotic? Do you have a claim
on the profits? Are your parasites your property, or are they just visiting?
[14]Comments
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/articles/our-microbiomes-ourselves
[15]Upheaval At The New York Public Library
Links:
15. http://b.rw/vDI63g
Scott Sherman | Nation | 2 December 2011
Trotsky, Nabokov, Kennan worked in NYPL's Slavic and Baltic room. But you
can't, because it's just been closed. Due to megalomania. Library plans
$350m renovation of its central building, while cutting back on staff and
books [16]Comments
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/articles/upheaval-new-york-public-library
FiveBooks Interview
[17]Anthony Seldon on British Prime Ministers
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/anthony-seldon-on-british-prime-ministers
It's their frailty that makes politicians such interesting characters, says
Tony Blair's biographer. He tells us about the art of political biography
and the writers who've best captured leaders such as Churchill and Thatcher
[18]Read on
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/anthony-seldon-on-british-prime-ministers
Featured Special Report
[19]Great Obituaries
Links:
19. http://thebrowser.com/reports/great-obituaries
Raise a glass to life's characters with our collection of writing about
eventful, unconventional lives. RIP [20]Read on
Links:
20. http://thebrowser.com/reports/great-obituaries
Reader Recommendations
_@_[21]polit2k Fiskalunion is worst of all worlds for Europe | Ambrose
Evans-Pritchard | Telegraph [22]t.co/P1A1XeEC
@[23]Telegraph #[24]gfc2 #[25]gd2 [26]#browsings [27]More like this
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21. http://twitter.com/polit2k
22. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/ambroseevans_pritchard/8934363/Fiskalunion-is-worst-of-all-worlds-for-Europe.html
23. http://twitter.com/Telegraph
24. http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=#gfc2
25. http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=#gd2
26. https://twitter.com/search?q=#browsings
27. http://thebrowser.com/browsings
Book of the Day
[28]Book of the Day
Links:
28. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/tolerance-by-frank-furedi
[29]On Tolerance by Frank Furedi
Links:
29. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/tolerance-by-frank-furedi
[30]Claire Fox says: “Furedi looks at how the spirit of John Stuart Mill has
been destroyed in the contemporary era, despite our paying lip-service to
tolerance” [31]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
30. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/claire-fox-on-freedom-speech
31. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[32]An Atheist's Guide To The 2012 Election
Links:
32. http://thebrowser.com/videos/atheists-guide-2012-election
Penn Jillette on religiosity in politics. Not just a Republican trait.
Clinton had plenty of it. So does Obama [33]More videos
Links:
33. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[34]Anonymous, on bankers
Links:
34. http://kottke.org/11/12/give-a-man-a-bank-and-he-can-rob-the-world
"Give a man a gun and he can rob a bank. Give a man a bank and he can rob
the world"
[35]More quotes
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35. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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