Newsletter 558
[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]The Obama Memos
Links:
5. http://b.rw/zZMUIc
Ryan Lizza | New Yorker | 23 January 2012
Reflections on Obama's first term, "based on a review of hundreds of
pages of internal White House documents". Inside stuff confirms outside
impressions. Obama underestimated recession, misread Republican mood,
lost his edge [6]Comments
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/obama-memos
[7]Staring Into The Abyss
Links:
7. http://b.rw/zyQPmM
John Maudlin | Business Insider | 21 January 2012
Fine, if grim, analysis of Greek crisis, and possible ways forward for
eurozone. "For country after country, this is the Endgame. It is the
end of the Debt Supercycle. Debt has grown to the size that it cannot
be sustained" [8]Comments
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/staring-abyss
[9]The Smart Way To Play God With Earth's Limited Land
Links:
9. http://b.rw/yY9uxo
Mark Lynas | Scientific American | 20 January 2012
Clever, thought-provoking piece on sustainability. Suggests that "the
most positive trend of all in allowing us to minimise our impact on the
planet’s surface is one more often bemoaned than celebrated:
Urbanisation". Here's why [10]Comments
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/smart-way-play-god-earths-limited-land
[11]How US Lost Out On iPhone Work
Links:
11. http://b.rw/xRWt9C
Charles Duhigg and Keith Bradsher | NYT | 21 January 2012
Why Chinese factories make everything Apple. “You need a thousand
rubber gaskets? That's the factory next door. A million screws? That
factory is a block away. You need that screw made a little bit
different? Three hours" [12]Comments
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/how-us-lost-out-iphone-work
[13]Newt Heads For Florida
Links:
13. http://b.rw/wgBCbd
John Cassidy | New Yorker | 22 January 2012
One thinks of Cassidy as a business writer, but he's flourishing on the
Republican campaign trail. This piece on the second resurrection of
Newt Gingrich will demand a place in any serious anthology of 2012
political journalism [14]Comments
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/articles/newt-heads-florida
[15]The Mechanics Of Choice
Links:
15. http://b.rw/ybX7Vk
Anonymous | APS Observer | 12 January 2012
Background paper on the basics of behavioural psychology. Takes in
Kahneman and Tversky's work on irrational choices; and Stanovich and
West's model of two rival decision-making systems, one instinctive and
one reflective [16]Comments
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/articles/mechanics-choice
FiveBooks Interview
[17]Emrys Westacott on Philosophy and Everyday Living
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/emrys-westacott-on-philosophy-and-everyday-living
Philosophy is sometimes assumed to be a dry, academic subject but, in
reality, is anything but. A philosophy professor tells us how his
subject is at least as much about how we live, love and relate to each
other [18]Read on
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/emrys-westacott-on-philosophy-and-everyday-living
Featured Special Report
[19]Joe Paterno: 1926-2012
Links:
19. http://thebrowser.com/reports/joe-paterno-1926-2012
One of the greatest careers in US college athletics. But a life marred
by a terrible misjudgement. How will Joe Paterno be remembered?
[20]Read on
Links:
20. http://thebrowser.com/reports/joe-paterno-1926-2012
Reader Recommendations
@[21]polit2k Boom time in Beijing | Jeremy Paxman [22]t.co/nIwR6DFv via
@[23]guardian #[24]gfc2 [25]#browsings
Links:
21. http://twitter.com/polit2k
22. http://t.co/nIwR6DFv
23. http://twitter.com/guardian
24. http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=#gfc2
25. https://twitter.com/search?q=#browsings
[26]More like this
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26. http://thebrowser.com/browsings
Book of the Day
[27]Book of the Day
Links:
27. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/spirit-level-why-more-equal-societies-almost-always-do-better-by-richard-wilkinson-and-k
[28]The Spirit Level by Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett
Links:
28. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/spirit-level-why-more-equal-societies-almost-always-do-better-by-richard-wilkinson-and-k
[29]Will Hutton [30]says: “What I liked especially about The Spirit
Level is the way it builds a case that inequality is phenomenally
dysfunctional”
Links:
29. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/will-hutton-on-fairness-and-inequality
30. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/will-hutton-on-fairness-and-inequality
[31]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
31. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[32]Maths And Music
Links:
32. http://thebrowser.com/videos/maths-and-music
TED talk. Scott Rickard sets out to construct the ugliest piece of
music possible, on mathematical principles [33]More videos
Links:
33. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[34]Alain de Botton, on religions
Links:
34. http://blog.ted.com/2012/01/17/faq-with-alain-de-botton-on-religion-for-atheists
"Religions are giant machines directed to managing our inner life.
There is nothing like this in the secular world, and this seems a
pity"
[35]More quotes
Links:
35. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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