Newsletter 539
[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]When Currencies Collapse
Links:
5. http://b.rw/whPsTW
Barry Eichengreen | Foreign Affairs | 15 December 2011
Superb essay. Euro, dollar account for 90% of global foreign exchange
reserves. What would happen if investor confidence in either faltered?
Eichengreen looks back to 1930s and 1970s for clues (Free access for Browser
readers) [6]Comments
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/when-currencies-collapse
[7]The Meaning Of Mitt
Links:
7. http://b.rw/ziUvAZ
Michael Kranish & Scott Helman | Vanity Fair | 4 January 2012
Timely feature on Republican contender, his family, career in business, and
leadership in Mormon church. "Mitt is always the star. And everybody else is
a bit player." Oh, and yes he really did strap his dog to the roof of his
car [8]Comments
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/meaning-mitt
[9]Behind The Rise Of The Great Powers
Links:
9. http://b.rw/xP50jW
Liu Xiaobo | Guernica | 3 January 2012
Translation of Nobel laureate's superb 2007 essay on state of China. Still
reads well. Chinese people are fed fabricated myths of success. Patriotism
is channeled into superficial, arrogant nationalism. Universal values
obliterated [10]Comments
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/behind-ithe-rise-great-powersi
[11]Greece: The History Behind The Collapse
Links:
11. http://b.rw/t38cL4
Georges Prévélakis | Eurozine | 23 December 2011
Professor of geopolitics at Sorbonne seeks to explain peculiarities of
Greece's political administration, dysfunctional economy, through lens of
history. And the lessons Europe must learn from his country's near failure
[12]Comments
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/greece-history-behind-collapse
[13]Why You Don't Really Have Free Will
Links:
13. http://b.rw/uM22zV
Jerry Coyne | USA Today | 1 January 2012
Popular newspaper column resolves argument that has engaged philosophers for
centuries. Well, not quite, but it's a nice punchy statement of the main
ideas from a serious thinker. And a good read. As if you had a choice
[14]Comments
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/articles/why-you-dont-really-have-free-will
[15]How Many Stephen Colberts Are There?
Links:
15. http://b.rw/wCezJ6
Charles McGrath | NYT | 4 January 2012
On host of fake news show _The Colbert Report_. Satire that blurs parody and
the parodied. Tried to buy naming rights for presidential primary. And add
referendum question on whether "corporations are people". Nearly succeeded
[16]Comments
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/articles/how-many-stephen-colberts-are-there
FiveBooks Interview
[17]William Boyd on Writers Who Have Inspired Me
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/william-boyd-on-writers-who-have-inspired-me
The acclaimed novelist tells us about the authors, from Heller to Chekhov,
who most influenced his own development as a writer – and reveals the secret
to a well-crafted sex scene [18]Read on
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/william-boyd-on-writers-who-have-inspired-me
Featured Special Report
[19]Republican Contenders
Links:
19. http://thebrowser.com/reports/republican-contenders
Will it be Romney? Or Anyone-But-Romney? These are the Republicans hoping to
be their party's choice to challenge President Obama [20]Read on
Links:
20. http://thebrowser.com/reports/republican-contenders
Reader Recommendations
_@_[21]polit2k Rethinking the Growth Imperative - Kenneth Rogoff - Project
Syndicate [22]t.co/158zdaB3 via @[23]ProSyn#[24]oped #[25]browsings
#[26]gfc2 h/t @[27]moorehn
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27. http://twitter.com/moorehn
28. http://thebrowser.com/browsings
Book of the Day
[29]Book of the Day
Links:
29. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/walden-by-henry-david-thoreau
[30]Walden by Henry David Thoreau
Links:
30. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/walden-by-henry-david-thoreau
[31]Roman Krznaric says: “In 1845 the American naturalist went out to live
in the woods of Western Massachusetts. Thoreau was one of the great masters
of the art of simple living” [32]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
31. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/roman-krznaric-on-art-living
32. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[33]OU Trick Shots With James Fraschilla
Links:
33. http://thebrowser.com/videos/ou-trick-shots-james-fraschilla
Extraordinary coordination (and probably an extraordinary number of takes).
Just watch it!
[34]More videos
Links:
34. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[35]Pete Warden, on data
Links:
35. http://petewarden.typepad.com/searchbrowser/2011/12/why-the-sumerians-invented-data.html
"Gathering data is not a neutral act. It will alter the power balance,
usually in favor of the people collecting the information"
[36]More quotes
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36. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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