Newsletter 516
[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]The Art Of Financial Disaster
Links:
5. http://b.rw/sZJU2F
John Lanchester | London Review Of Books | 6 December 2011
Another superb piece of writing on the financial crisis by Lanchester.
Picking apart the detail of three recent scandals – sale of Northern Rock to
Virgin, demise of MF Global and bizarre happenings at camera maker Olympus
[6]Comments
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/short-cuts-0
[7]Out-Of-Body Experience: Master Of Illusion
Links:
7. http://b.rw/tdkYwl
Ed Yong | Nature | 7 December 2011
"It is not every day that you are separated from your body and then stabbed
in the chest with a kitchen knife." So begins a terrific feature on
neuroscientist Henrik Ehrsson and his ground-breaking research into our
sense of self [8]Comments
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/out-body-experience-master-illusion
[9]The Long Life Of Homo Sovieticus
Links:
9. http://b.rw/tFca54
Anonymous | Economist | 9 December 2011
Soviet politics was "an artificial construct of doublethink, paternalism,
suspicion and isolationism". Putinism is more of the same—with "new
characteristics such as cynicism and aggression". Change needed. Don't hold
your breath [10]Comments
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/long-life-homo-sovieticus
[11]The Economics Of Moneyball
Links:
11. http://b.rw/u3klsi
Tyler Cowen & Kevin Grier | Grantland | 7 December 2011
Re-evaluating principles of Moneyball, a system that shot Billy Beane to
baseball fame. Do principles still work today? Yes, but not so easily. What
can we learn from the world of finance? One key thing: "The lucky will
appear wise" [12]Comments
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/economics-moneyball
[13]Southpaw Grammar
Links:
13. http://b.rw/sSbNWA
David Youdon | LA Review Of Books | 7 December 2011
Left-handedness counts for less now that we hardly use handwriting. Five of
last seven US presidents left-handed. Left-handers twice as likely to be
twins, twice as likely to have twins. But why "handedness" at all? A mystery
[14]Comments
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/articles/southpaw-grammar
[15]$100 Hand Of Blackjack, Foxwoods Casino
Links:
15. http://b.rw/sTc5OU
David Hill | McSweeney's | 7 December 2011
"'You count cards?' he asked me. 'A little,' I said. Would I like to give it
a go with them? It sounded like an adventure. The fact that I had no idea
how to count cards never entered in to my mind before I enthusiastically
agreed" [16]Comments
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/articles/100-hand-blackjack-foxwoods-casino
FiveBooks Interview
[17]Michael Dirda on Sherlock Holmes
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/michael-dirda-on-sherlock-holmes
Conan Doyle wrote 56 short stories and four novels starring his fictional
sleuth. So where to start? The writer and lifelong Sherlockian gives us his
personal choice of the best, and tells us more about their creator [18]Read
on
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/michael-dirda-on-sherlock-holmes
Featured Special Report
[19]Popular Science
Links:
19. http://thebrowser.com/reports/popular-science
Black holes, DIY bio-engineering, aliens and more. Interviews and articles
from many of the biggest names in Science. No prior knowledge necessary
[20]Read on
Links:
20. http://thebrowser.com/reports/popular-science
Reader Recommendations
_@polit2k_ Europe’s disastrous summit | Felix Salmon [21]t.co/WqWWgtAW LOL
"Eur ozone" _#gfc2 #gd2 #eurocrisis_ [22]#browsings [23]More like this
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21. http://t.co/WqWWgtAW
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/big-rich-rise-and-fall-greatest-texas-oil-fortunes-by-bryan-burrough
[25]The Big Rich: The Rise and Fall of the Greatest Texas Oil Fortunes by Bryan
Burrough
Links:
25. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/big-rich-rise-and-fall-greatest-texas-oil-fortunes-by-bryan-burrough
[26]Attica Locke says: “There’s no way to understand the culture and
politics of Texas without talking about oil. The oil industry fuelled the
rise of Texas” [27]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
26. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/attica-locke-on-texas
27. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[28]McDonald's Versus Burger King
Links:
28. http://thebrowser.com/videos/mcdonalds-versus-burger-king
Attack advertising. Fast-food edition [29]More videos
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29. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[30]William Davis, on money
Links:
30. http://www.newstatesman.com/magazines/2011/11/capitalism-essay-wealth-crisis
"The current crisis is not simply a market failure in which prices are not
functioning properly, but a loss of faith in money's capacity to tell the
truth"
[31]More quotes
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31. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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