Newsletter 526
[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 Intellectual And Politics
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5. http://b.rw/uNJPde
Vaclav Havel | Project Syndicate | 19 December 2011
"A good politician should be able to explain without seeking to seduce. He
should humbly look for the truth of this world without claiming to be its
professional owner. He should alert people to the good qualities in
themselves" [6]Comments
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/intellectual-and-politics
[7]The Wisdom Of Crowds
Links:
7. http://b.rw/rp04cc
Anonymous | Economist | 17 December 2011
Super piece on science of pedestrian behaviour, how we negotiate space as we
walk down busy pavements. “At low densities, behaviour is cognitive and
strategic. At high density, it’s about mass movement and physical pressures"
[8]Comments
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8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/wisdom-crowds
[9]Who's King Of The Castle?
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9. http://b.rw/s8Y4Fu
Charles Clover | FT | 16 December 2011
Conversation with chess supremo turned politician, Gary Kasparov. "I used to
play chess expecting to win. But politics was not about winning or losing.
It was about losing. From the beginning the position was a dead loss"
[10]Comments
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/whos-king-castle
[11]Flattery Inflation
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11. http://b.rw/uZpP2U
Xavier Marquez | Abandoned Footnotes | 14 December 2011
The more that underlings flatter their leader, the lower their collective
status becomes. And yet, in authoritarian regimes, they compete to do so. A
tragedy of the commons. It's how Caligula ran Rome, and Stalin ran Russia
[12]Comments
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12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/flattery-inflation
[13]Drone-Ethics Briefing
Links:
13. http://b.rw/vhsoxN
Patrick Lin | Atlantic | 15 December 2011
Philosopher discusses morality issues surrounding robot warfare. Interesting
throughout. "Robots can do many of our jobs better than we can, and maybe
even act more ethically, at least in the high-stress environment of war"
[14]Comments
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/articles/drone-ethics-briefing
[15]The Wrong Friends Might Just Sink Your Credit
Links:
15. http://b.rw/v77Ig9
Adrianne Jeffries | BetaBeat | 13 December 2011
Scary prospect: Banks using information from your Facebook, Twitter accounts
to determine your credit worthiness. It may not be a nightmare vision of the
future. A new wave of startups are building the algorithms to make it happen
[16]Comments
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/articles/wrong-friends-might-just-sink-your-credit
FiveBooks Interview
[17]Greil Marcus on Rock Music
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/greil-marcus-on-rock-music
Time to get out your old CDs and LPs. The music journalist picks five books
from Bob Dylan’s hinterland to confessions of a rock ’n roll groupie, and
explains why good criticism is like writing fiction [18]Read on
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/greil-marcus-on-rock-music
Featured Special Report
[19]North Korea
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19. http://thebrowser.com/reports/north-korea
As news breaks of Kim Jong-il's death, we look back at the legacy of his
tyrannical rule over North Korea [20]Read on
Links:
20. http://thebrowser.com/reports/north-korea
Reader Recommendations
_@_[21]polit2k RT @[22]AntDeRosa: @[23]pbump: Life as a young black man in
New York City. Damning in what it presents. Unignorable. [24]t.co/58MA1muF
[25]#browsings [26]More like this
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21. http://twitter.com/polit2k
22. http://twitter.com/AntDeRosa
23. http://twitter.com/pbump
24. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/18/opinion/sunday/young-black-and-frisked-by-the-nypd.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all
25. https://twitter.com/search?q=#browsings
26. http://thebrowser.com/browsings
Book of the Day
[27]Book of the Day
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27. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/jonathan-strange-mr-norrell-by-susanna-clarke
[28]Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
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28. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/jonathan-strange-mr-norrell-by-susanna-clarke
[29]Lev Grossman says: “The humour and sadness and beauty and complexity of
this book are like nothing that came before it. It’s a magic that feels
absolutely real” [30]FiveBooks Archive
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29. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/lev-grossman-on-fantasy
30. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[31]Frost Over The World – Vaclav Havel
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31. http://thebrowser.com/videos/frost-over-world-–-vaclav-havel
TV interview from 2008
[32]More videos
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32. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[33]Václav Havel, on theatre
Links:
33. http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Václav_Havel
"If you want to see your plays performed the way you wrote them, become
President"
[34]More quotes
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34. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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