Newsletter 546
[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]Making It In America
Links:
5. http://b.rw/yqImFu
Adam Davidson | Atlantic | 10 January 2012
What is happening to manufacturing industry in America? And what does the
future hold for those who work in it? Superbly engaging and interesting
analysis told through stories of workers at South Carolina auto parts plant
[6]Comments
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/making-it-america
[7]The Whole True Story Of The Dougherty Gang
Links:
7. http://b.rw/yIRadG
Kathy Dobie | GQ | 10 January 2012
Spoiler alert: This story contains strippers, guns and car chases. Lives of
three siblings from Florida career out of control after comparatively small
offence results in legal catch-22. Fifteen-state crime spree follows
[8]Comments
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/whole-true-story-dougherty-gang
[9]The Fragile Teenage Brain
Links:
9. http://b.rw/xBC5VW
Jonah Lehrer | Grantland | 10 January 2012
Outstanding exploration of concussion dangers in (American) football.
Focuses on high school players, whose adolescent brains appear particularly
susceptible to long-term damage. And here's why new helmet technology
doesn't help [10]Comments
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/fragile-teenage-brain
[11]Unnatural Selection
Links:
11. http://b.rw/yKAoBl
Carolyn Abraham | Globe & Mail | 7 January 2012
"We now have the potential to banish genes that kill us, make us susceptible
to cancer, heart disease, depression, addictions, obesity, and to select
those that may make us healthier, stronger, more intelligent." But should
we? [12]Comments
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/unnatural-selection
[13]As God Intended
Links:
13. http://b.rw/xNba4O
Rosemary Hill | LRB | 5 January 2012
Long essay which will tell you, most pleasurably, everything about the life
and times of Capability Brown, landscape architect. Victim of his own
success. Laid out so many gardens in 18C England that his style became a
cliché [14]Comments
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/articles/god-intended
[15]Future Sex: Beyond Gay And Straight
Links:
15. http://b.rw/Ao8j53
Peter Tatchell | Huffington Post | 10 January 2012
If sexuality is a continuum ranging from exclusive heterosexuality to
exclusive homosexuality, what happens as homophobia diminishes? If
differences between homo and hetero no longer matter, what does it mean for
sex and identity? [16]Comments
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/articles/future-sex-beyond-gay-and-straight
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]Extreme Food
Links:
19. http://thebrowser.com/reports/extreme-food
From foraging in the wild to foul restaurant dining, here is our toothsome
selection of writing on the world of extreme food [20]Read on
Links:
20. http://thebrowser.com/reports/extreme-food
Reader Recommendations
[21]polit2k RT @[22]TimHarford: Great piece by John Kay on why "capitalism"
is a misnomer leading to mistaken analysis [23]t.co/IbpeEmlY
#[24]gfc2 [25]#browsings [26]More like this
Links:
21. http://twitter.com/polit2k
22. http://twitter.com/TimHarford
23. http://www.johnkay.com/2012/01/11/let’s-talk-about-the-market-economy?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
24. http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=#gfc2
25. https://twitter.com/search?q=#browsings
26. http://thebrowser.com/browsings
Book of the Day
[27]Book of the Day
Links:
27. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/other-rooms-other-wonders-by-daniyal-mueenuddin
[28]In Other Rooms, Other Wonders by Daniyal Mueenuddin
Links:
28. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/other-rooms-other-wonders-by-daniyal-mueenuddin
[29]Anatol Lieven says: “Mueenuddin has a deep understanding of the ways in
which power is exercised at ground level – the whole texture of life in the
Pakistani countryside” [30]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
29. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/anatol-lieven-on-understanding-pakistan
30. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[31]The Photographs Of Your Junk
Links:
31. http://thebrowser.com/videos/photographs-your-junk
They will be publicised. In the sweet Twittering song of your misguided
passion [32]More videos
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32. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[33]Jonathan Galassi, on poetry
Links:
33. http://www.economist.com/blogs/prospero/2012/01/qa-jonathan-galassi
"The poet's ultimate reward is to enter the language"
[34]More quotes
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34. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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