Newsletter 545
[1]All of our Best of the Moment article recommendations, plus FiveBooks
interviews and other selected content from thebrower.com
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1. http://thebrowser.com
[5]Revolution Number 99
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5. http://b.rw/AAMFU5
Max Charkin | Vanity Fair | 10 January 2012
Oral history of Occupy Wall St movement. From founding activists,
celebrities, accidental protesters. "At noon, everybody was supposed to show
up. We thought maybe there would be a couple thousand. At first it didn’t
seem like that" [6]Comments
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/revolution-number-99
[7]Recovering Adam Smith's Ethical Economics
Links:
7. http://b.rw/zT6Zp8
Anonymous | Philosopher's Beard | 6 January 2012
Adam Smith is rightly cited as the father of modern economics. But he was
also a prominent figure in the Scottish Enlightenment, friend of Hume, and
saw economics as a branch of moral philosophy. A view which is very relevant
today [8]Comments
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/recovering-adam-smiths-ethical-economics
[9]A Europe Of Small Minds
Links:
9. http://b.rw/xl9HKw
Erich Follath & Jan Puhl | Spiegel | 9 January 2012
Interview with Czech foreign minister Karl Fürst zu Schwarzenberg.
Aristocrat. Returned emigré. "I'm home again. I've survived the 20th
century." Interesting throughout, especially on Merkel, Germany, Europe.
[10]Comments
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/europe-small-minds
[11]Dark Matter Mysteries: A True Game Of Shadows
Links:
11. http://b.rw/AcqV77
Stuart Clark | New Scientist | 9 January 2012
Inside the hunt for dark matter, that supposedly binds galaxies together.
"Now that we have begun to see something, either astrophysics is wrong, or
particle physics is wrong, or our whole understanding of dark matter is
wrong" [12]Comments
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/dark-matter-mysteries-true-game-shadows
[13]Letter From New Orleans
Links:
13. http://b.rw/xU33p0
Wright Thompson | Grantland | 9 January 2012
Terrifically enjoyable read on four-time Louisiana governor and convicted
felon, Edwin Edwards. Now out of prison. Author of immortal election quote:
"The only way I'm losing is if I get caught in bed with a dead girl or a
live boy" [14]Comments
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/articles/letter-new-orleans
[15]War Horse: An Illustrated Review
Links:
15. http://b.rw/zMfCMN
Lisa Hanawalt | Hairpin | 9 January 2012
Arguably the best review ever. Certainly of "War Horse", as filmed by Steven
Spielberg. Possibly of any film. Or indeed anything else. Charming, concise,
evocative. The case for the illustrated review is hereby made [16]Comments
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/articles/war-horse-illustrated-review
FiveBooks Interview
[17]Toby Young on Journalism
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/toby-young-on-journalism
The journalist and author praises tabloid hacks, lambasts Johann Hari, picks
a bone with Christopher Hitchens, and selects five books that exemplify good
reporting – or satirise it mercilessly [18]Read on
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/toby-young-on-journalism
Featured Special Report
[19]Great Obituaries
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19. http://thebrowser.com/reports/great-obituaries
Raise a glass to life's characters with our collection of writing about
eventful, unconventional lives. RIP [20]Read on
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20. http://thebrowser.com/reports/great-obituaries
Reader Recommendations
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since 1915 - [23]t.co/0zAuv18G [it wont be broken by
Dodd-Frank] [24]#browsings [25]More like this
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23. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-01-09/cohan-how-wall-street-turned-a-crisis-into-a-cartel.html
24. https://twitter.com/search?q=#browsings
25. http://thebrowser.com/browsings
Book of the Day
[26]Book of the Day
Links:
26. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/catch-22-by-joseph-heller
[27]Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
Links:
27. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/catch-22-by-joseph-heller
[28]William Boyd says: “The most wonderful novel ever written, because of
its absurdist sense of humour and the way it looked at war” [29]FiveBooks
Archive
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28. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/william-boyd-on-writers-who-have-inspired-me?page=full
29. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[30]Joy Of Books
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30. http://thebrowser.com/videos/joy-books
Already I declare this to be the shelf-rearranging oh-my-gosh stop-motion
book-themed video of the year [31]More videos
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31. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[32]Pico Iyer, on style
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32. http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/books/la-ca-pico-iyer-20120108,0,2137466.story
"The long sentence opens doors that the short sentence slams shut"
[33]More quotes
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33. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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