Newsletter 548
[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]Do Some Cultures Have Their Own Ways Of Going Mad?
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5. http://b.rw/wjVtS8
Latif Nasser | Boston Globe | 8 January 2012
"Arctic hysteria" afflicts only Greenland Inuit. "Dhat syndrome" is peculiar
to India. Cape Verdians fear "sleeping blood". What about Westerners? Are
their mental illnesses also bound to national and local cultures?
[6]Comments
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/do-some-cultures-have-their-own-ways-going-mad
[7]The Revolt Of The Salaried Bourgeoisie
Links:
7. http://b.rw/yksMK2
Slavoj Žižek | LRB | 11 January 2012
Thought-provoking essay on employment, shortfalls of capitalism. Heightened
productivity, increased efficiencies mean just one thing: "The chance of
being exploited in a long-term job is now experienced as a privilege"
[8]Comments
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/revolt-salaried-bourgeoisie
[9]Steve Ballmer Reboots
Links:
9. http://b.rw/Avjej8
Ashlee Vance | Businessweek | 12 January 2012
"You get the sense he could beat you up." But he's a smart cat too. Got the
Cloud right. Skype, X-Box, Kinect doing nicely. Smartphone OS improving
fast. The word on Windows 8 is good. Is the supertanker turning round?
[10]Comments
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/steve-ballmer-reboots
[11]Warming To Life In The Hot Zone
Links:
11. http://b.rw/yFviG4
David Mould | Times Higher Education | 12 January 2012
Two American researchers head to a village in northern Kazakhstan to see
what life is like on a former nuclear test site. Their first thought, on
arrival? The inhabitants simply must be relocated. Here's why they changed
their minds [12]Comments
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/warming-life-hot-zone
[13]Lockdown: The Coming War On General-Purpose Computing
Links:
13. http://b.rw/y4Xvzj
Cory Doctorow | Boing Boing | 10 January 2012
"Can't you just make us a general-purpose computer that runs all the
programs, except the ones that scare and anger us?" Fine essay on Stop
Online Piracy Act (SOPA), implausability of regulating Internet and
computing effectively [14]Comments
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/articles/lockdown-coming-war-general-purpose-computing
[15]Who Pinched My Ride?
Links:
15. http://b.rw/xBeugd
Patrick Symmes | Outside | 9 January 2012
"In America’s rough streets, there are four forms of currency—cash, sex,
drugs, and bicycles. Of those, only one is routinely left outside
unattended." Cyclist investigates what happens when your prized possession
is stolen [16]Comments
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/articles/who-pinched-my-ride
FiveBooks Interview
[17]Henry Hitchings on Language
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/henry-hitchings-on-language
The wordsmith and cultural historian debunks common myths about English,
recommends the smartest writing about words, and says apostrophes are
“orthographic squiggles” not worth fighting for [18]Read on
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/henry-hitchings-on-language
Featured Special Report
[19]North Korea
Links:
19. http://thebrowser.com/reports/north-korea
In the aftermath of Kim Jong-il's death, we look back at the legacy of his
tyrannical rule over North Korea [20]Read on
Links:
20. http://thebrowser.com/reports/north-korea
Reader Recommendations
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bad economic news. [21]t.co/sHNRWXeE” #browsings [22]#browsings [23]More
like this
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22. https://twitter.com/search?q=#browsings
23. http://thebrowser.com/browsings
Book of the Day
[24]Book of the Day
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24. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/uncommon-therapy-psychiatric-techniques-milton-h-erickson-md-by-jay-haley
[25]Uncommon Therapy by Jay Haley
Links:
25. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/uncommon-therapy-psychiatric-techniques-milton-h-erickson-md-by-jay-haley
[26]Mira Kirschenbaum says: “Erickson understood that if therapy is about
change, not insight, then in some important way you’re not tethered to
reality" [27]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
26. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/mira-kirshenbaum-on-relationship-therapy
27. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[28]The Predictability Of Unpredictability
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28. http://thebrowser.com/videos/predictability-unpredictability
If that's the title, you already know the principal speaker: Nassim Nicholas
Taleb [29]More videos
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29. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[30]Laini Guinier, on politics
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30. http://www.bostonreview.net/BR37.1/ndf_lani_guinier_gerald_torres_black_politics.php
"The dominant preference of politicians is reelection"
[31]More quotes
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31. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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