Newsletter 517
[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]Ghost Ship
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5. http://b.rw/vSAqz6
Paul Collins | Slate | 6 December 2011
In 1872 the entire crew of the Mary Celeste disappeared without a trace. And
then the story gets weird. Collins delves into one of history's most
fascinating maritime mysteries [6]Comments
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/ghost-ship
[7]Disaster Can Wait
Links:
7. http://b.rw/sRw7fO
Barry Eichengreen | Project Syndicate | 9 December 2011
Here's a prediction: "2012 will not be a year of crisis, but nor will it
bring an end to our economic troubles. Rather, it will be a year of muddling
through." European recession is "baked in" but euro survival won't be
resolved [8]Comments
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/disaster-can-wait
[9]Shamanism And The City
Links:
9. http://b.rw/sfzNpv
Marisa Meltzer | Good | 22 November 2011
Many cultures have used psychedelic substances in spiritual rituals for
centuries, but now you don't have to venture to far-flung regions for the
experience. Here, a young reporter ventures into the "Wild West of
consciousness" [10]Comments
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/shamanism-and-city
[11]Interview With Joshua Cohen
Links:
11. http://b.rw/rzXzJ1
Martin Eiermann | European | 8 December 2011
Stanford professor, editor of Boston Review, talks political philosophy.
Rising inequality undermines the unity, and thus the durability of the
American state. Which was founded on the proposition that people are created
equal [12]Comments
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12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/interview-joshua-cohen
[13]I Just Want To Go On A Walk
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13. http://b.rw/spy4lH
AV Flox | BlogHer | 2 December 2011
What it's like to be a young woman in the city who just wants to go on a
walk undisturbed. "I no longer see compliments as nice, spontaneous
gestures, I see only the strings attached" [14]Comments
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/articles/i-just-want-go-walk
[15]Now That Books Mean Nothing
Links:
15. http://b.rw/tQCFnA
Nell Boeschenstein | Morning News | 8 December 2011
Recuperating after major surgery, writer is surrounded by books but finds
reading is last thing she wants to do. "It’s not easy to tell people who
love you and who are trying to help you that what they are doing is not
helping" [16]Comments
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/articles/now-books-mean-nothing
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]Russia and the FSU
Links:
19. http://thebrowser.com/reports/russia-and-fsu
From the war in Chechnya to the murky depths of the KGB archive. Everything
you need to know (well, nearly everything) about Russia's past and present
[20]Read on
Links:
20. http://thebrowser.com/reports/russia-and-fsu
Reader Recommendations
@[21]polit2k: FT Women of 2011 in @[22]FTWeekendMag, including Gillian Tett
interview with #[23]IMF chief Christine
@[24]Lagarde [25]t.co/TLXhZBIT #[26]browsings [27]More like this
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21. http://twitter.com/polit2k
22. http://twitter.com/FTWeekendMag
23. http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=#IMF
24. http://twitter.com/Lagarde
25. http://t.co/TLXhZBIT
26. http://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/big-con-by-david-w-maurer
[29]The Big Con by David W Maurer
Links:
29. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/big-con-by-david-w-maurer
[30]Mike Dash says: “Maurer found out the story of “the big cons”. This is
when you stay with somebody for weeks or months and take off with their
entire life savings” [31]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
30. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/mike-dash-on-hidden-history
31. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[32]Why Is This Man Smiling?
Links:
32. http://thebrowser.com/videos/why-man-smiling
Romney PAC takes aim at Gingrich. Republicanism is a broad but fissile
church [33]More videos
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33. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[34]Paul Kedrosky, on the Bible
Links:
34. http://twitter.com/pkedrosky/status/144967723821187072
"Leviticus is best understood as Judge Judy for desert tribes"
[35]More quotes
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35. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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