Newsletter 538
[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]Bottle Rocket
Links:
5. http://b.rw/tz199Q
Kelefa Sanneh | New Yorker | 2 January 2012
Republican voters find the idea of an outsider appealing. But what exactly
does being an outsider mean? Sanneh joins the idiosyncratic Newt Gingrich on
the campaign trail to find out if he could be that candidate. Good read
[6]Comments
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/bottle-rocket
[7]Are We On Information Overload?
Links:
7. http://b.rw/sRbwWB
Thomas Rogers | Salon | 1 January 2012
Conversation with Harvard researcher David Weinberger on impact of the
Internet. Can too much information harm our brains? How is the nature of
expertise changing? Why should we value networked thinking? Interesting
throughout [8]Comments
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/are-we-information-overload
[9]Double-Blind Violin Test
Links:
9. http://b.rw/rEAqRk
Christopher Joyce | NPR | 2 January 2012
Beauty is in the ear of the beholder. Researchers give a group of
professional musicians several violins to play blindfolded, with at least
one Stradivarius among them. They can't tell the difference. Neither can
you, probably [10]Comments
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/double-blind-violin-test
[11]How To Be A Dictator
Links:
11. http://b.rw/vCEVyT
Alastair Smith | Economist | 1 January 2012
"The brilliance of the Soviet regime was not just that you relied on few
people, but that there were lots of replacements. This put your core circle
on notice that they were easily replaced. That made them horribly loyal"
[12]Comments
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/how-be-dictator
[13]Winter In New England
Links:
13. http://b.rw/tAj2gR
David Warsh | Economic Principals | 1 January 2012
Silicon Valley booms. New England declines. Thanks partly to an argument at
MIT in 1950s about how to make semiconductors. Robert Boyce had the right
answer, but lost the argument. He moved to California, tech moved with him
[14]Comments
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/articles/winter-new-england
[15]One In A Billion
Links:
15. http://b.rw/tlXkIN
Mark Winegardner | ESPN | 2 January 2012
At the age of 13, Satnam Singh Bhamara was already 6'11". His father, a
farmer in rural India, mounted a basketball hoop to a wall. His son
continued growing. Now 16, and over seven feet tall, could Bhamara be
India's Yao Ming? [16]Comments
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/articles/one-billion
FiveBooks Interview
[17]Emma Rothschild on Economic History
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/emma-rothschild-on-economic-history-and-world-economy
In time of economic crisis, studying the past can teach us much about the
world economy today. The professor of history and economics recommends
essential reading to get us started [18]Read on
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/emma-rothschild-on-economic-history-and-world-economy
Featured Special Report
[19]Euro On The Brink
Links:
19. http://thebrowser.com/reports/euro-brink
What's going wrong with the euro? Can the problem be contained? If so, how?
And what if it isn't? Read on to find out [20]Read on
Links:
20. http://thebrowser.com/reports/euro-brink
Reader Recommendations
_@_[21]smiler29 Lord Byron - an 18th century celeb diet icon #[22]browsings
[23]http://t.co/iMdNRLol [24]More like this
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23. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-16351761
24. http://thebrowser.com/browsings
Book of the Day
[25]Book of the Day
Links:
25. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/intimate-history-humanity-by-theodore-zeldin
[26]An Intimate History of Humanity by Theodore Zeldin
Links:
26. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/intimate-history-humanity-by-theodore-zeldin
[27]Roman Krznaric says: “I think this book is a watershed in the writing of
human history. Zeldin connects the past with the present like no other
historical writer” [28]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
27. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/roman-krznaric-on-art-living
28. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[29]Downhill Extreme
Links:
29. http://thebrowser.com/videos/downhill-extreme
Introducing the human rollerskate Jean Yves Blondeau, aka
Rollerman. Captivating and absurd
[30]More videos
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30. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[31]John Kay, on growing up
Links:
31. http://www.johnkay.com/2004/12/21/reasons-to-believe-in-hedge-funds-or-fairies
"Adulthood is the moment at which your expenditure on Christmas presents
first exceeds the value of the gifts you can expect to receive"
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32. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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