Newsletter 527
[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 Great Economic Divide Makes Everyone Poorer
Links:
5. http://b.rw/t3RzkQ
Mark Thoma | Fiscal Times | 20 December 2011
A simple thought experiment reveals why disparities in wealth, in a divided
society, hurt everyone. "The rich live in one world, the poor in another,
and mutually beneficial arrangements between the two groups fail to occur"
[6]Comments
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/great-economic-divide-makes-everyone-poorer
[7]Breakthroughs In Faith
Links:
7. http://b.rw/tmIar1
Olivier Roy | World Policy Institute | 19 December 2011
Fine essay on religion, democracy. "It does not make sense to demand
religious liberalism or theological reform or a preliminary secularization
as a requirement for making religion compatible with democracy." Here's why
[8]Comments
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/breakthroughs-faith
[9]Trials And Errors: Why Science Is Failing Us
Links:
9. http://b.rw/sLmsW7
Jonah Lehrer | Wired | 16 December 2011
Provocative essay on limits of reductionism in complex science, how we tend
to jump to conclusions about causality, and why this stymies progress. Put
simply, why it is that "the more we know, the less we seem to understand"
[10]Comments
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/trials-and-errors-why-science-failing-us
[11]I'm A Pedestrian In My Dreams
Links:
11. http://b.rw/tXsxiY
Markus Feldenkirchen & René Pfister | Spiegel | 19 December 2011
Model interview with German finance minister Wolgang Schäuble, crippled by
madman in 1990. Pushy but polite. Focus on disability and political life.
First question: "Is this the right job for a 69-year-old wheelchair user?"
[12]Comments
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/im-pedestrian-my-dreams
[13]The Great Train Robbery
Links:
13. http://b.rw/sWUena
Mark Pulham | Crime Magazine | 19 December 2011
How British gangsters stole $70m (in today's money) from a mail train. And
how a fanatical detective tracked them down. Almost a perfect crime: 120
mailbags offloaded in 40 minutes. But their fixer failed to clean up
afterwards [14]Comments
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/articles/great-train-robbery
[15]There’s Nothing Like A New York Hack
Links:
15. http://b.rw/u8t8ws
Hanna Rosin | New York | 11 December 2011
Taxi driver's daughter, on tricks of the trade. "He knew where the drug
deals were made and the best place to have sex in the afternoon. He knew
which deli made the best sunnyside up on toast and where you could find a
bathroom" [16]Comments
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/articles/there’s-nothing-new-york-hack
FiveBooks Interview
[17]John Gapper on Financial Speculation
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/john-gapper-on-financial-speculation
We all have a bit of the rogue trader in us. So says the chief business
commentator of the FT, who tells us about the greed, vanity and weakness
that can lead to financial disaster[18]Read on
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/john-gapper-on-financial-speculation
Featured Special Report
[19]Václav Havel
Links:
19. http://thebrowser.com/reports/václav-havel
In memoriam of the playwright and former Czech president, who's died at the
age of 75 [20]Read on
Links:
20. http://thebrowser.com/reports/václav-havel
Reader Recommendations
[21]@polit2k In Wall Street’s Back Offices, Loyalty Is Lost: Richard Sennett
- Bloomberg [22]t.co/G9XjZZAD via @[23]BloombergView #[24]gfc2
#[25]browsings [26]More like this
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26. http://thebrowser.com/browsings
Book of the Day
[27]Book of the Day
Links:
27. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/once-and-future-king-by-t-h-white
[28]The Once and Future King by T H White
Links:
28. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/once-and-future-king-by-t-h-white
[29]Lev Grossman says: “A thoroughly modern re-imagining of the story of
King Arthur. The first part alone may be the best story of a childhood ever
committed to paper” [30]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
29. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/lev-grossman-on-fantasy
30. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[31]A Circular Saw, A Gauloise And A Little Red Wine
Links:
31. http://thebrowser.com/videos/circular-saw-gauloise-and-little-red-wine
Design guru Stephen Bayley argues that manufacturing teaches the
relationship between effort and reward - a moral connection lost in the
financial industry [32]More videos
Links:
32. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[33]Václav Havel, on people power
Links:
33. http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Václav_Havel
"Even a purely moral act that has no hope of any immediate and visible
political effect can gradually and indirectly, over time, gain in
political significance"
[34]More quotes
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34. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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