Newsletter 559
[1]All of our Best of the Moment article recommendations, plus
FiveBooks interviews and other selected content from thebrower.com
Links:
1. http://thebrowser.com
[5]The Caging Of America
Links:
5. http://b.rw/x54R57
Adam Gopnik | New Yorker | 23 January 2012
More than six million people are under "correctional supervision" in
the US – more than were in Stalin's Gulags. Why so many? This superb
account suggests there's been a serious failure of common sense and
humanity [6]Comments
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/caging-america
[7]The New French Hacker-Artist Underground
Links:
7. http://b.rw/yY7Mkd
Jon Lackman | Wired | 23 January 2012
Story of UX, hacker-artists who protect, restore unloved French
artefacts. Turning the whole city, above and below ground into a
canvas, "its members say they can access every last government
building, every narrow telecom tunnel" [8]Comments
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/new-french-hacker-artist-underground
[9]A New Generation Of Political Islamists Steps Forward
Links:
9. http://b.rw/xW09XS
Olivier Roy | Washington Post | 21 January 2012
Islamists in the Arab world are benefiting from a democratisation they
didn't trigger. Ghost of Islamic totalitarian state is raised, but is
unlikely prospect. Islamists have changed. Political realism rules;
Turkey's AKP inspires [10]Comments
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/new-generation-political-islamists-steps-forward
[11]Italy’s Schettino Complex
Links:
11. http://b.rw/x5Mo3z
Ingrid Rowland | NYRB | 23 January 2012
Sunk ship a metaphor for Italy—or a Greek tragedy. "A man, no better or
worse than most of us, makes a mistake and thereby unleashes a
cataclysm, and we look on the resultant disaster with a cathartic mix
of pity and fear" [12]Comments
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/italy’s-schettino-complex
[13]The New Decembrists
Links:
13. http://b.rw/zV0krn
Michael Idov | New York | 22 January 2012
Inside Russia's anti-Putin protest movement. Its leadership apparently
drawn exclusively from the editorial staff of glossy magazines.
Hipsters, in short. Plotting against the Kremlin in chic little French
restaurants [14]Comments
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/articles/new-decembrists
[15]The Looming Threat Of A Solar Superstorm
Links:
15. http://b.rw/yLisJD
Lee Billings | Popular Mechanics | 23 January 2012
In 1859 a major solar storm, the "Carrington Event", hit Earth. Another
came in 1921. What if one struck tomorrow? "If a Carrington Event
happened right now it probably wouldn’t be a wake-up alarm—it would be
a goodnight call" [16]Comments
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/articles/looming-threat-solar-superstorm
FiveBooks Interview
[17]Mark Kurlansky on Favourite Science Books
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/mark-kurlansky-on-favourite-science-books
The bestselling author of Cod and Salt tells us about five science
books he loves – from whales and snails to evolution and string theory
– all of which make difficult subjects accessible[18]Read on
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/mark-kurlansky-on-favourite-science-books
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
@polit2k After Carnival's Shipwreck in Italy, We Take a Closer Look at
the Company | William Bruce t.co/yJkJP3ny #gfc2 #browsings [21]More
like this
Links:
21. http://thebrowser.com/browsings
Book of the Day
[22]Book of the Day
Links:
22. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/fault-lines-how-hidden-fractures-still-threaten-world-economy-by-raghuram-g-rajan
[23]Fault Lines by Raghuram G Rajan
Links:
23. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/fault-lines-how-hidden-fractures-still-threaten-world-economy-by-raghuram-g-rajan
[24]Will Hutton says: “Rajan sees American inequality, and what caused
it, as one of the generators of the financial crisis across the
capitalist West” [25]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
24. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/will-hutton-on-fairness-and-inequality
25. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[26]Hello
Links:
26. http://thebrowser.com/videos/hello
I'd like to see a theory of human behaviour that accounts for the
production of this particular masterpiece [27]More videos
Links:
27. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[28]A.J. Vetlesen, on pain
Links:
28. http://berlinbooks.org/brb/2012/01/a-tapestry-of-pain
"Generally speaking, pain is what makes the body a particularly
important concern for the individual"
[29]More quotes
Links:
29. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
| [30]Homepage | [31]Mobile Apps | [32]RSS Feeds | [33]Twitter |
[34]Facebook | [35]Privacy Policy | [36]Contact Us |
Having trouble reading this email? [37]View it in your browser.
You are receiving this email because you signed up for the Best of the
Moment newsletter on [38]thebrowser.com. [39]Click here to unsubscribe
Links:
30. http://thebrowser.com
31. http://thebrowser.com/app
32. http://thebrowser.com/feeds
33. http://twitter.com/thebrowser
34. http://www.facebook.com/Thebrowser
35. http://thebrowser.com/privacy-policy
36. http://thebrowser.com/contact
37. *|ARCHIVE|*
38. http://thebrowser.com/newsletters
39. *|UNSUB|*