Newsletter 520
[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]Inside Newt's Stunning Comeback
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5. http://b.rw/siDFe4
Peter Boyer | Newsweek | 12 December 2011
Just a few months ago, Gingrich looked like a defeated man, his presidential
ambitions in tatters. But now he finds himself as Republican favourite, with
a substantial lead in the polls. Here's the story of his remarkable comeback
[6]Comments
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6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/inside-newts-stunning-comeback
[7]Britain Is Ruled By The Banks, For The Banks
Links:
7. http://b.rw/u6P5DP
Aditya Chakrabortty | Guardian | 12 December 2011
Devastating on Britain's metamorphosis to a "bankocracy". Banks contribute
far less in taxes, jobs than manufacturing. And their lending was never that
widespread. Why then are they suddenly so vital to the "national interest"?
[8]Comments
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8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/britain-ruled-banks-banks
[9]Kyoto Withdrawal Shames Us All
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9. http://b.rw/uK8gXr
John Ibbitson | Globe & Mail | 13 December 2011
"It isn’t easy for a country to descend, in the space of a single decade,
from crusader to pariah, as Canada has done on the environment. But our
political leaders were up to the task." And voters don't appear to care
[10]Comments
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10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/kyoto-withdrawal-shames-us-all
[11]Bank Says No? Ditch The Bank – Borrow From The Crowd
Links:
11. http://b.rw/vWwHCu
MacGregor Campbell | New Scientist | 12 December 2011
Everyone's fed up with banks not lending. But is there a better way to
organise financing? How about direct person-to-person lending? It has a long
history of false-starts, failures. But the Internet could yet make it a
viable model [12]Comments
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12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/bank-says-no-ditch-bank-–-borrow-crowd
[13]The New Science Of Our Cross-Wired Senses
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13. http://b.rw/rXrflG
Courtney Humphries | Boston Globe | 11 December 2011
You might reasonably assume that our five core senses – touch, sight,
hearing, taste and smell – operate independently. But researchers have shown
that they actually enhance, compete, even alter one another in many
surprising ways [14]Comments
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14. http://thebrowser.com/articles/new-science-our-cross-wired-senses
[15]Of Hume And Bondage
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15. http://b.rw/unaJ7y
Simon Blackburn | NYT | 11 December 2011
"Among philosophers it is not uncommon to find Hume patronised as a slightly
dim, inaccurate or naïve analytical philosopher." But that's misleading.
Here's a fine defence of Hume from one of UK's most admired academic
philosophers [16]Comments
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16. http://thebrowser.com/articles/hume-and-bondage
FiveBooks Interview
[17]Rana Mitter on 100 Years of Modern China
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/rana-mitter-on-100-years-modern-china
A century after the fall of China’s last imperial dynasty, the legacy of
revolution remains deeply ambiguous in today’s People’s Republic. The China
scholar tells us the story of the country’s tumultuous changes from 1911 to
2011 [18]Read on
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/rana-mitter-on-100-years-modern-china
Featured Special Report
[19]The Occupy Movement
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19. http://thebrowser.com/reports/occupy-movement
From New York to California, and many places inbetween, they are protesting.
But who are they, what do they want and what does it all mean? [20]Read on
Links:
20. http://thebrowser.com/reports/occupy-movement
Reader Recommendations
[21]polit2k Jon Corzine, rogue trader | Felix Salmon [22]t.co/THbLbf9E
[23]#browsings [24]More like this
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22. http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2011/12/12/jon-corzine-rogue-trader
23. https://twitter.com/search?q=#browsings
24. http://thebrowser.com/browsings
Book of the Day
[25]Book of the Day
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25. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/adventure-speckled-band-by-sir-arthur-conan-doyle
[26]The Adventure of the Speckled Band by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Links:
26. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/adventure-speckled-band-by-sir-arthur-conan-doyle
[27]Michael Dirda says: “It really has a superbly eerie atmosphere. Most
Sherlockians, if they had to pick just one story to represent the canon,
would choose this one” [28]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
27. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/michael-dirda-on-sherlock-holmes
28. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[29]How To Peel A Head Of Garlic ...
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29. http://thebrowser.com/videos/how-peel-head-garlic
... in less than ten seconds. Wanted: tips like this for everything in life
[30]More videos
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30. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[31]Duncan Watts, on leadership
Links:
31. http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2011/11/what_are_leaders_really_for.html
"When we hear that a raging forest fire has consumed millions of acres of
forest, we don’t assume that there was anything special about the initial
spark"
[32]More quotes
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32. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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