Newsletter 556
[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]Iraq: Under Worse Management
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5. http://b.rw/AeS2UB
Elliott Woods | Businessweek | 18 January 2012
Security has improved, the economy is picking up, Iraq is open for business.
Well, that's the Iraqi prime minister's message. But what do Iraqis
themselves feel about Nouri al-Maliki and the future of their country? Good
sit-rep [6]Comments
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6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/iraq-under-worse-management
[7]Tracking The Tell-Tale Signs Of Pure Genius
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7. http://b.rw/wFuLfL
VS Ramachandran | Telegraph | 18 January 2012
Leading neuroscientist explains some of the strange case studies that reveal
just how adaptive and miraculous the brain really is. From phantom limbs, to
a man who exits a coma only to become convinced his parents are imposters
[8]Comments
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8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/tracking-tell-tale-signs-pure-genius
[9]Selling Votes
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9. http://b.rw/zlGLvu
John Holbo | Crooked Timber | 19 January 2012
It's probably a bad idea to let people sell their votes. On the other hand,
it could make for more creative politics. "People could donate to
candidates, to help them buy votes. You could have eminently populist
vote-buying drives" [10]Comments
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10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/selling-votes
[11]Writing Adrift In The World
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11. http://b.rw/A2eSFu
Tim Parks | NYRB | 19 January 2012
There is a problem with the novel. Parks's diagnosis is that fiction is
being internationalised and universalised. Writers are no longer anchored in
a literary canon or national tradition. Here's the case for why it matters
[12]Comments
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12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/writing-adrift-world
[13]The Nazi Leader Who Became The Oskar Schindler Of China
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13. http://b.rw/xInFX9
Iris Chang | Atlantic | 18 January 2012
"Dark times paralyze most people, but some very few, for reasons most of us
will never understand, are able to set aside all caution and do things even
they could not imagine themselves doing in ordinary times" [14]Comments
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14. http://thebrowser.com/articles/nazi-leader-who-became-oskar-schindler-china
[15]Lechery, Immodesty And The Talmud
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15. http://b.rw/xHPN6Q
Dov Linzer | NYT | 19 January 2012
Rabbi responds to ultra-Orthodox attempts to send women to the back of the
bus in Israel. Talmud's message to men: Problem is not with women in public;
it's with the sexualised way you choose to look at them (h/t Stuart Bailey)
[16]Comments
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16. http://thebrowser.com/articles/lechery-immodesty-and-talmud
FiveBooks Interview
[17]Will Hutton on Fairness and Inequality
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17. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/will-hutton-on-fairness-and-inequality
In contemporary capitalist societies, some inequality is inevitable and
desirable. But the rewards for the few at the top have soared while the rest
have been squeezed. We need a new social contract, says the author and
columnist [18]Read on
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18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/will-hutton-on-fairness-and-inequality
Featured Special Report
[19]Natural History
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19. http://thebrowser.com/reports/natural-history
Everything you need to know about natural history. Experts from London's
Natural History Museum discuss their top five books on everything - from
bats to plants, dinosaurs to meteorites and more [20]Read on
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20. http://thebrowser.com/reports/natural-history
Reader Recommendations
@guardian: .@JonRonson on reasons to be cheerful in 2012: it's the year
we'll start talking to robots t.co/7KYmIVmP #browsings [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/north-dallas-forty-by-peter-gent
[23]North Dallas Forty by Peter Gent
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23. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/north-dallas-forty-by-peter-gent
[24]Rick Telander says: “Even though the team has another name, it’s
obviously about the Cowboys. Players are being used almost like gladiators,
until they’re of no use any more” [25]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
24. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/rick-telander-on-american-football-and-its-dark-side
25. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[26]Things New Yorkers Say
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26. http://thebrowser.com/videos/things-new-yorkers-say
"You read the _Post_? Like, not ironically?"
[27]More videos
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27. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[28]Dominic Lawson, on government
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28. http://www.editorialintelligence.com/ebulletin/viewonline.php
"If your policy is one of retrenchment and austerity, it is advisable to
come up with something other than economic growth as a measure of your
success"
[29]More quotes
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29. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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