Newsletter 531
[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]How I Became A "Terrorist"
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5. http://b.rw/uwU10Y
Abdelrahman Al Ahmar | Haaretz | 23 December 2011
"Our homes were raided nightly. We saw our friends, mothers, sisters being
attacked. We saw no end in sight, just more Israelis about to move into our
neighbourhood and make our lives hell. So a group of us kids fought back"
[6]Comments
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6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/how-i-became-terrorist
[7]Navigating Love And Autism
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7. http://b.rw/sHoyWo
Amy Harmon | NYT | 26 December 2011
Boy meets girl. They fall in love. Nothing goes smoothly. Unusual? No.
Except both suffer from Asperger's syndrome. "Parents always ask, ‘Who would
like to marry my kid? They’re so weird.’ Another weird person, that’s who"
[8]Comments
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8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/navigating-love-and-autism
[9]Snakes And Ladders
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9. http://b.rw/v8Xha2
Amartya Sen | FT | 24 December 2011
Fine speech on global economy, growth, development: "I cannot hide from this
audience my belief that a great many countries in the West seem to be doing
their best to go straight into the mouth of a fairly hefty snake"
[10]Comments
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10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/snakes-and-ladders
[11]Dissolution
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11. http://b.rw/s5hVcZ
Robert Zaretsky | Tablet | 19 December 2011
Historian explains why he gave up lecturing on the Holocaust. It doesn't
obey logic or theory. You can't draw lessons or analogies from it. "Any
survivor has more to say than all historians combined about what happened”
[12]Comments
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12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/dissolution
[13]Stories
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13. http://b.rw/sBGhLw
Tyler Cowen | Less Wrong | 17 December 2011
TED talk transcript. We crave simplifying narratives, stereotypes, to help
us make sense of the world. Sometimes they help us to understand things. But
they blind us to new facts. If we rely on stories, we cease to learn
[14]Comments
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14. http://thebrowser.com/articles/stories
[15]War No More
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15. http://b.rw/v3BsKs
Timothy Snyder | Foreign Affairs | 19 December 2011
Historian disputes Steven Pinker's claim that humans are becoming more
peaceful. Individuals in a well-functioning modern state are less violent
than in earlier, wilder times. But the state itself can be much more violent
[16]Comments
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16. http://thebrowser.com/articles/war-no-more
FiveBooks Interview
[17]Best of FiveBooks on Science
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17. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/science-best-fivebooks
We select five science books from our archives to aid your new year’s
reading resolutions – from the cosmos to those who discovered its secrets,
the wonders of evolution to its freak occurrences [18]Read on
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18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/science-best-fivebooks
Featured Special Report
[19]Václav Havel
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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
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20. http://thebrowser.com/reports/václav-havel
Reader Recommendations
[21]obitmag #[22]longreads #[23]browsings #[24]longformorg My Mother's Last
Errand: Award-winning journalist Julia M. Klein reflects on grief
[25]t.co/Va2AfoPU [26]More like this
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21. http://twitter.com/obitmag
22. http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=#longreads
23. https://twitter.com/search?q=#browsings
24. http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=#longformorg
25. http://ht.ly/8amI1
26. http://thebrowser.com/browsings
Book of the Day
[27]Book of the Day
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27. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/decline-and-fall-roman-empire-by-edward-gibbon
[28]The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon
Links:
28. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/decline-and-fall-roman-empire-by-edward-gibbon
[29]Diarmaid MacCulloch says: “Gibbon’s work is not only a masterpiece of
18th century prose but it shapes the terms of historical debate now. It is
also compulsively entertaining” [30]FiveBooks Archive
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29. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/diarmaid-macculloch-on-history-christianity
30. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[31]Goodnight iPad
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31. http://thebrowser.com/videos/goodnight-ipad
Goodnight Air. Goodnight computers everywhere [32]More videos
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32. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[33]Roger Ebert, on "Armageddon"
Links:
33. http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/2011/12/test_in_the_meadow.html
"No matter what they're charging to get in, it's worth more to get out"
[34]More quotes
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34. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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