Newsletter 543
[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]Streaming Dreams
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5. http://b.rw/wFkTnu
John Seabrook | New Yorker | 5 January 2012
Exceptional essay on streaming video giant, YouTube. How it started, grew,
now plans to change television forever. Traditional broadcasters beware:
"YouTube, home of grainy cellphone videos & skateboarding dogs, is going
pro" [6]Comments
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/streaming-dreams
[7]Terror On Trial
Links:
7. http://b.rw/y075w5
William Shawcross | WSJ | 7 January 2012
On imminent trial of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, apparent mastermind of 9/11.
Shawcross, son of chief prosecutor at Nuremberg trials, defends use of
military tribunal. "Morally hazardous actions" sometimes needed to protect
civilisation [8]Comments
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/terror-trial
[9]What Happens To Old And Expired Supermarket Foods
Links:
9. http://b.rw/xZPR5c
Nadia Arumugam | Forbes | 6 January 2012
Some thrown. Some cooked in store. Most goes to charity, or gets sold on to
salvage stores. Leftovers go to urban foragers. Might not taste great, but
it's mostly safe: “We put enough preservatives in our food to embalm an
elephant" [10]Comments
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10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/what-happens-old-and-expired-supermarket-foods
[11]Supreme Loser
Links:
11. http://b.rw/zvZNN2
Ali Vaez | Foreign Policy | 3 January 2012
Ayatollah Khamenei has almost perfect strategic misjudgement. No sense of
what's reasonable or possible. Pushing nuclear programme forward, but making
no friends. West should contain Iran until someone else takes charge
[12]Comments
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/supreme-loser
[13]A Darwinian Approach To Moral Philosophy
Links:
13. http://b.rw/xGcBYX
Michael Ruse | Talking Philosophy | 4 January 2012
Thoughtful essay on ethics, evolution. "I think there is a real difference
between moral claims and scientific claims, and while the latter can be used
to explain why we hold the former, they cannot be used to justify the
former" [14]Comments
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/articles/darwinian-approach-moral-philosophy
[15]Where Does The Fight In Us Come From?
Links:
15. http://b.rw/ytypY9
Ken Dryden | Grantland | 6 January 2012
Former Stanley Cup champion, Hall of Fame player explains what (ice) hockey
means to Canadians. Says it's possible to keep the fight but ditch the
fighting. That's where the spirit of hockey lies. In competitiveness, not
headshots [16]Comments
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/articles/where-does-fight-us-come
FiveBooks Interview
[17]Gary Taubes on Dieting
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/gary-taubes-on-dieting
Sticking to your new year’s resolutions? Still digesting Christmas lunch?
Ignore the conventional advice on losing weight, says the science writer –
what constitutes a healthy diet needs to be drastically re-evaluated
[18]Read on
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/gary-taubes-on-dieting
Featured Special Report
[19]Syria Revolts
Links:
19. http://thebrowser.com/reports/syria-revolts
Months of anti-government protests; a brutal response by the authorities.
But what's really going on in Syria? It's all here [20]Read on
Links:
20. http://thebrowser.com/reports/syria-revolts
Reader Recommendations
@polit2k RT @boomerangomics: Everything I need to know about startups, I
learned from a crime boss t.co/AdFOOKHg #browsings #gfc2 [21]More like this
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21. http://thebrowser.com/browsings
Book of the Day
[22]Book of the Day
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22. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/collected-short-stories-by-anton-chekhov
[23]Collected Short Stories by Anton Chekhov
Links:
23. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/collected-short-stories-by-anton-chekhov
[24]William Boyd says: “His stories are mould breaking in the sense that
nobody wrote short stories like Chekhov and now everybody writes short
stories like Chekhov”[25]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
24. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/william-boyd-on-writers-who-have-inspired-me
25. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[26]Smart Thief
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26. http://thebrowser.com/videos/smart-thief
Hang in to the end. All shall be revealed [27]More videos
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27. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[28]Julian Baggini, on conservatism
Links:
28. http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/2/85ab3694-2a56-11e1-b7f2-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1iI9XFUzB
"Conservatism is not a philosophy but a disposition"
[29]More quotes
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29. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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