Newsletter 537
[1]All of our Best of the Moment article recommendations, plus FiveBooks
interviews and other selected content from thebrower.com
Links:
1. http://thebrowser.com
[5]The Secret Life Of J Edgar Hoover
Links:
5. http://b.rw/tSPh49
Anthony Summers | Observer | 1 January 2012
Explosive read on former FBI director. Imagine a cross-dressing paranoid
narcissist with connections to organised crime. "Hoover was like a sewer
that collected dirt. I now believe he was the worst public servant in our
history" [6]Comments
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/secret-life-j-edgar-hoover
[7]The Limits Of Secularism
Links:
7. http://b.rw/tt7RA3
Jonathan Sacks | Standpoint | 27 December 2011
Interesting essay in defence of theism, by Chief Rabbi. Addressing why
religion survives, indeed thrives, in our modern world. "Science takes
things apart to see how they work; religion puts things together to see what
they mean" [8]Comments
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/limits-secularism
[9]The Accidental Universe: Science's Crisis Of Faith
Links:
9. http://b.rw/roUd2u
Alan Lightman | Harper's | 21 December 2011
"If the multiverse idea is correct, then the historic mission of physics to
explain all the properties of our universe in terms of fundamental
principles is futile, a beautiful philosophical dream that simply isn’t
true" [10]Comments
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/accidental-universe-sciences-crisis-faith
[11]Eulogies To Kim Jong Il
Links:
11. http://b.rw/vWXDqD
Anonymous | KCNA | 31 December 2011
Read and weep. "Let us make the whistle of the field train sounded by the
great Comrade Kim Jong Il on the forefront of the revolution reverberate
throughout the country as the drum of victory in the great upsurge!"
[12]Comments
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/eulogies-kim-jong-il
[13]The Law Of Online Sharing
Links:
13. http://b.rw/vyf9k9
Paul Boutin | Tech Review | 30 December 2011
"Facebook's impending problem is that even if the company enables future
pacemakers to share our every heartbeat, it cannot automate caring—the most
important part of the feedback loop that has driven the social Web's ascent"
[14]Comments
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/articles/law-online-sharing
[15]Gift Of Tongues
Links:
15. http://b.rw/tTA6aa
Anonymous | Economist | 28 December 2011
If you can speak more than 11 languages well, you are a hyperpolyglot. Which
doesn't mean you are a genius, though. It means you enjoy repetitive,
detailed learning. You are probably an introvert. And possibly a charlatan
[16]Comments
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/articles/gift-tongues
FiveBooks Interview
[17]Roman Krznaric on The Art of Living
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/roman-krznaric-on-art-living
To learn how to live well we must look to the past, says the author of a new
book on the subject. He recommends five books, from Thoreau to Orwell, that
inspire us to live more adventurously [18]Read on
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/roman-krznaric-on-art-living
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 RT @[22]rszbt: THIS: On fraud. RT @[23]aliegorey: Fannie and
Freddie Fantasies [24]t.co/oiVtlRah" #[25]browsings #[26]fraud #[27]SEC
[28]More like this
Links:
21. http://twitter.com/polit2k
22. http://twitter.com/rszbt
23. http://twitter.com/aliegorey
24. http://www.benzinga.com/general/politics/11/12/2228695/fannie-and-freddie-fantasies
25. https://twitter.com/search?q=#browsings
26. http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=#fraud
27. http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=#SEC
28. http://thebrowser.com/browsings
Book of the Day
[29]Book of the Day
Links:
29. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/way-we-live-now-by-anthony-trollope
[30]The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope
Links:
30. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/way-we-live-now-by-anthony-trollope
[31]John Gapper says: “Trollope succeeded in capturing the world of high
finance because his real interest was in bringing to life the way that money
could change human character” [32]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
31. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/john-gapper-on-financial-speculation
32. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[33]Human Vision
Links:
33. http://thebrowser.com/videos/human-vision
Bruce Hood explains the work done by the brain in processing information
from the eyes [34]More videos
Links:
34. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[35]Julian Baggini, on conservatism
Links:
35. http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/2/85ab3694-2a56-11e1-b7f2-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1iI9XFUzB
"Conservatism is not a philosophy but a disposition"
[36]More quotes
Links:
36. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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