Newsletter 552
[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]Libertarian Illusions
Links:
5. http://b.rw/x9Yfbr
Jeffrey Sachs | Huffington Post | 15 January 2012
"Like many extreme ideologies, libertarianism gives a single answer to a
complicated world. It seems to cut through the fog and get to the heart of
solutions; illusions, alas, but powerful ones nonetheless" [6]Comments
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/libertarian-illusions
[7]He Told The Truth About China
Links:
7. http://b.rw/yhgcms
Simon Leys | NYRB | 16 January 2012
On the life and work of Liu Xiaobo, poet, thinker, public intellectual,
dissident. Returned from America to join Tiananmen protest in 1989. Given
11-year jail sentence in 2009; Nobel Peace Prize 2010. His only crime:
Honesty [8]Comments
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/he-told-truth-about-china
[9]Superstuff: When Quantum Goes Big
Links:
9. http://b.rw/xQDRQo
Michael Brooks | New Scientist | 16 January 2012
Introduction to surreal world of Superstuff. A world that exists at
temperatures close to absolute zero, where strange events worthy of the
finest magicians occur. Liquids flow up walls of containers, solids pass
through each other [10]Comments
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/superstuff-when-quantum-goes-big
[11]How The Fed Can Prevent The Next Financial Crisis
Links:
11. http://b.rw/yZhsIH
Mark Thoma | Fiscal Times | 17 January 2012
Fed wasn't asking right questions before crisis, nor did it act fast enough
once crisis began. Even then, it privileged tackling inflation over cutting
unemployment. Why? Many of its members are chosen by bankers. This must
change [12]Comments
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/how-fed-can-prevent-next-financial-crisis
[13]Do Sports Build Character Or Damage It?
Links:
13. http://b.rw/xUL5X0
Mark Edmundson | Chronicle Review | 15 January 2012
Interesting essay on benefits, disbenefits of sport. Starts, engagingly,
with author's reflections on his own high school (American) football career,
which proved to be a valuable learning experience (h/t Daniel Lippmann)
[14]Comments
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/articles/do-sports-build-character-or-damage-it
[15]Letter From Detroit
Links:
15. http://b.rw/ybA9OI
Ingrid Norton | LA Review of Books | 16 January 2012
City sprawls over 140 square miles, 30% of which is vacant. Trains haven't
run since 1980s. Dozens of major fires are reported every day. Population is
down by two-thirds since 1950. But amid the devastation there is creativity
[16]Comments
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/articles/letter-detroit
FiveBooks Interview
[17]Matthew O’Brien on Las Vegas
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/matthew-o’brien-on-las-vegas
Vegas tugs on the imagination like few other places. A sin city journalist
tells us about innocent beginnings, muckraking and mobsters, and how Vegas
has changed through boom and bust [18]Read on
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/matthew-o’brien-on-las-vegas
Featured Special Report
[19]Mind And Brain
Links:
19. http://thebrowser.com/reports/mind-and-brain
Everything you wanted - or didn't want - to know about your mind. From how
many friends your brain can cope with, to experts discussing consciousness
and mental illness [20]Read on
Links:
20. http://thebrowser.com/reports/mind-and-brain
Reader Recommendations
_@maisonneuvemag_ How Gary Doer, Manitoba's greenest premier, became
Harper's tar-sands salesman in Washington: [21]t.co/SmNa5Uc0 [22]#browsings
[23]More like this
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21. http://t.co/SmNa5Uc0
22. https://twitter.com/search?q=#browsings
23. http://thebrowser.com/browsings
Book of the Day
[24]Book of the Day
Links:
24. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/empires-word-by-nicholas-ostler
[25]Empires of the Word by Nicholas Ostler
Links:
25. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/empires-word-by-nicholas-ostler
[26]Henry Hitchings says: “It’s a history of all languages. To try and write
a history of the whole of language is an incredibly audacious thing, and
Ostler pulls it off” [27]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
26. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/henry-hitchings-on-language
27. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[28]Target Does Rube Goldberg
Links:
28. http://thebrowser.com/videos/target-does-rube-goldberg
94 rolls of toilet paper. 800 pounds of food. 31 days to build. 41 takes to
get it just right. (h/t Charles Crawford) [29]More videos
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29. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[30]Lewis Namier, to Isaiah Berlin
Links:
30. http://www.amazon.com/Enlightening-Letters-1946-1960-Isaiah-Berlin/dp/0701178892
"How intelligent you must be, to understand all you write"
[31]More quotes
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31. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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