Newsletter 535
[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]Delayed Gratification
Links:
5. http://b.rw/vEkhr6
James Surowiecki | New Yorker | 26 December 2011
On the return of "layaway", or saving in instalments for big-ticket items
and buying when you've saved enough. Antithesis of, and antidote to credit
card binge. Not rational perhaps, but works because money to hand is money
spent [6]Comments
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/delayed-gratification
[7]A History Of Disappointment
Links:
7. http://b.rw/tYEY86
Jackson Lears | London Review Of Books | 29 December 2011
"How did Obama develop his paradoxical combination of fierce ambition and
persistent timidity?" Hostile assessment of US president says part of the
answer may lie in his family background and a "genealogy of disappointment"
[8]Comments
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/history-disappointment
[9]Modernisation, Not Morality, Is The Dirty Word Of Politics
Links:
9. http://b.rw/tU0NlW
Peter Oborne | Telegraph | 28 December 2011
"Modernisation" is little more than set of techniques for securing, keeping
power. Practitioners included Blair, Mandelson, Cameron. Worked in electoral
terms; useless at tackling national problems. Looks intellectually bankrupt
now [10]Comments
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/modernisation-not-morality-dirty-word-politics
[11]How Much Dam Energy Can We Get?
Links:
11. http://b.rw/tWJlIa
Tim Murphy | Do The Math | 20 December 2011
Physicist investigating how we can replace fossil fuels turns attention to
hydroelectric power. Steady, self-storing, efficient, low-carbon. Better
than tidal. But a few calculations show it'll never be a big player
[12]Comments
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/how-much-dam-energy-can-we-get
[13]George Steiner: A Certain Idea Of Knowledge
Links:
13. http://b.rw/vY0cNL
Juliette Cerf | Telerama/Presseurop | 30 December 2011
High-flying interview with literary scholar and polymath. Interesting
throughout. "Our world is shrinking. Science is becoming inaccessible to us.
Is it possible to be literate if you do not understand non-linear
equations?" [14]Comments
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/articles/george-steiner-certain-idea-knowledge
[15]Revolutionary Chaos
Links:
15. http://b.rw/rv5IUV
Sergei Karaganov | Foreign Affairs | 28 December 2011
Harsh, perceptive global view from dean of Russian foreign policy analysts.
Western democracy follows communism into oblivion. Authoritarianism emerges
as best form of government. History returns to "customary state of chaos"
[16]Comments
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/articles/revolutionary-chaos
FiveBooks Interview
[17]Best of FiveBooks on Sport
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/sport-best-fivebooks
Does the new year prompt thoughts of spending more time at the gym or on the
sports field? Concluding our best of FiveBooks series, here are five books
to inspire sporting (and gambling) endeavour [18]Read on
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/sport-best-fivebooks
Featured Special Report
[19]Cooking
Links:
19. http://thebrowser.com/reports/cooking
If cooking is your thing, or you want it to be, this is for you. From
interviews with top chefs to articles that range from the perfect appliance,
to food for athletes, to what's in your cappuccino, it's all here. Enjoy
[20]Read on
Links:
20. http://thebrowser.com/reports/cooking
Reader Recommendations
@polit2k In Indian Slum, Misery, Work, Politics and Hope | JIM YARDLEY | NYT
t.co/SpRhprqS #browsings [21]More like this
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21. http://thebrowser.com/browsings
Book of the Day
[22]Book of the Day
Links:
22. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/all-days-and-nights-by-william-maxwell
[23]All the Days and Nights by William Maxwell
Links:
23. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/all-days-and-nights-by-william-maxwell
[24]Mona Simpson says: “I absolutely love him. He’s one of our great short
story writers. He’s very delicate, very mid-Western” [25]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
24. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/mona-simpson-on-family-stories
25. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[26]Chemical Reactions
Links:
26. http://thebrowser.com/videos/chemical-reactions
Four minutes of flashing, banging, bubbling and burning. How many can you
identify? [27]More videos
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27. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[28]Gertrude Stein, on repetition
Links:
28. http://bobulate.com/post/14930080224/the-question-of-repetition-is-very-important-it
"There is no such thing as repetition. There is always a slight variation"
[29]More quotes
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29. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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