Newsletter 519
[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]The Civil Archipelago
Links:
5. http://b.rw/rEHsnK
David Remnick | New Yorker | 12 December 2011
Superb, and superbly readable, account of Russia under Putin. Captures
cynicism, corruption and violence of the state; its historical
underpinnings; and growing discontent following latest parliamentary
elections [6]Comments
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/civil-archipelago
[7]Could This Be The End Of Cancer?
Links:
7. http://b.rw/sfYP6M
Sharon Begley | Newsweek | 12 December 2011
"After four decades of largely unfulfilled hopes, scientists have hit on a
potential cure that few thought possible a few years ago: Vaccines." Much
still to prove but early clinical trials show promising, if variable,
results [8]Comments
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/could-be-end-cancer
[9]The Book Of Jobs
Links:
9. http://b.rw/sPtigI
Joseph Stiglitz | Vanity Fair | 11 December 2011
"Even when we repair the banking system, we’ll still be in deep
trouble—because we were already in deep trouble. That seeming golden age of
2007 was far from a paradise." Here's why, and what we can learn from the
Great Depression [10]Comments
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/book-jobs
[11]Unraveling An Epidemic
Links:
11. http://b.rw/rUHNdU
Alan Zarembo | LA Times | 11 December 2011
Rate of autism diagnosis among children has risen 20-fold in 20 years. But
it's not a surge in disease, it's a surge in diagnosis. The "spectrum" is
wide, and being somewhere on it opens the way to publicly funded healthcare
[12]Comments
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/unraveling-epidemic
[13]Interview With David Graeber
Links:
13. http://b.rw/sc0K1M
Ellen Evans and Jon Moses | White Review | 1 December 2011
Anthropologist, inspiration for OWS, on anarchy, direct action. "The only
plausible scenario for revolution is when the forces of order refuse to
shoot. For most revolutions in world history, that is what ultimately
happens" [14]Comments
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/articles/interview-david-graeber
[15]The Mystery Of Carole Myers
Links:
15. http://b.rw/vHk5M3
Will Storr | Observer | 11 December 2011
She claimed that her parents abused her in satanic rituals, forced her to
kill her six children, put an implant in her eye that would explode if she
spoke of her ordeal. None true. But she had seen therapists. Were they to
blame? [16]Comments
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/articles/mystery-carole-myers
FiveBooks Interview
[17]Judith Flanders on Life in the Victorian Age
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/judith-flanders-on-life-victorian-age
History books often focus on big political or economic events, wars and
leaders. But there's much to learn from studying the way people lived, and
what made the Victorian age both like and unlike our own, as the author
explains [18]Read on
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/judith-flanders-on-life-victorian-age
Featured Special Report
[19]Extreme Food
Links:
19. http://thebrowser.com/reports/extreme-food
From foraging in the wild to foul restaurant dining, here is our toothsome
selection of writing on the world of extreme food [20]Read on
Links:
20. http://thebrowser.com/reports/extreme-food
Reader Recommendations
[21]teamsuccess100 Jon Moulton- a Dickens of a venture capitalist | Simon
Bowers | The Guardian [22]t.co/HsQs4emOvia @[23]guardian [24]#browsings
#[25]gfc2 #[26]gd2 [27]More like this
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21. http://twitter.com/teamsuccess100
22. http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2011/dec/01/jon-moulton-venture-capitalist-liam-fox?CMP=twt_gu
23. http://twitter.com/guardian
24. http://twitter.com/search?q=#browsings
25. http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=#gfc2
26. http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=#gd2
27. http://thebrowser.com/browsings
Book of the Day
[28]Book of the Day
Links:
28. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/tailor-king-by-anthony-arthur
[29]The Tailor-King by Anthony Arthur
Links:
29. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/tailor-king-by-anthony-arthur
[30]Mike Dash says: “The Anabaptists looked for a town that they could take
over and rebuild as a new Jerusalem and The Tailor-King is about what
happened inside the town” [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]'That's Not A Free Market, That's A Game'
Links:
32. http://thebrowser.com/videos/thats-not-free-market-thats-game-0
Jeffrey Sachs on top form discussing what went wrong with the global
economy, how to fix it
[33]More videos
Links:
33. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[34]Nassim Nicholas Taleb, on truth
Links:
34. http://www.fooledbyrandomness.com/ethics.pdf
"Never ask anyone for their opinion. Ask them what they have in their
portfolios"
[35]More quotes
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35. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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