Newsletter 564
[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]Banks Weren't Meant To Be Like This
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5. http://b.rw/xmWnyv
Michael Hudson | Naked Capitalism | 27 January 2012
"Banking has moved so far away from funding industrial growth and
economic development that it now benefits at the economy’s expense in a
predatory and extractive way, not by making productive loans."
Something has to change [6]Comments
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6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/banks-werent-meant-be
[7]The Ethics Of Brain Boosting
Links:
7. http://b.rw/zeQPPa
Jonathan Wood | Oxford Science Blog | 26 January 2012
If there was a cheap device that improved your language skills, maths,
memory, general reasoning, would you buy it? Hope you never have to
answer that? Well, now you might. Looks like "transcranial direct
current stimulation" works [8]Comments
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/ethics-brain-boosting
[9]In Mekong, Chinese Murders, Bloody Diplomacy
Links:
9. http://b.rw/xC3ppR
Andrew Marshall | Reuters | 27 January 2012
Reporting from the Golden Triangle. Heroin still the main business, but
challenged by methamphetamine. Other contraband includes wild animals,
weaponry, North Korean refugees. Not to mention the gambling, warfare,
murder [10]Comments
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/mekong-chinese-murders-bloody-diplomacy
[11]What's Wrong With The Teenage Mind?
Links:
11. http://b.rw/yIFvTT
Alison Gopnik | WSJ | 28 January 2012
Children are reaching puberty earlier and earlier in life. And yet
these same children are adopting adult roles later and later. Which
makes for "a good deal of teenage weirdness". Fine essay explains
what's really going on [12]Comments
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12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/whats-wrong-teenage-mind
[13]The Best Madam In America
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13. http://b.rw/yc8UXL
Ron Chepesiuk | Crime | 16 January 2012
On the making of a New York brothel keeper. Started career in 1920
almost accidentally. Clients soon stretched from gangsters and
politicians to intellectual elite. At one time, head waiters all over
Manhattan were on her payroll [14]Comments
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/articles/best-madam-america
[15]Burgled In Philly
Links:
15. http://b.rw/zMSoGU
John Davidson | Bygone Bureau | 18 January 2012
In which the author learns, after having two automatic rifles stolen
from his apartment, that the easiest way to get his stuff back is to
have one drug dealer lie to another drug dealer while he lies to the
police [16]Comments
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/articles/burgled-philly
FiveBooks Interview
[17]Francis Fukuyama on the Financial Crisis
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/francis-fukuyama-on-financial-crisis
The author of "The End of History" says the financial crisis revealed a
great deal about the nature of America’s political and economic system.
The shame, he says, is that opportunities to change it are now being
ignored [18]Read on
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/francis-fukuyama-on-financial-crisis
Featured Special Report
[19]Epic Adventures
Links:
19. http://thebrowser.com/reports/epic-adventures
Extreme tourism, unwise adventure and plain bad luck. Enjoy it all from
the comfort of your armchair [20]Read on
Links:
20. http://thebrowser.com/reports/epic-adventures
Reader Recommendations
@ShaffinS @TheEconomist: London is getting bigger, and straining under
the weight. t.co/yGHOLf3c #browsings [21]More like this
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21. http://thebrowser.com/browsings
Book of the Day
[22]Book of the Day
Links:
22. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/forest-people-by-colin-m-turnbull
[23]The Forest People by Colin M Turnbull
Links:
23. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/forest-people-by-colin-m-turnbull
[24]Emrys Westacott says: “What strikes me about the pygmies is that
they’re not trying to achieve anything beyond what they already have.
We take it as a given that we should be striving for things”
[25]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
24. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/emrys-westacott-on-philosophy-and-everyday-living
25. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[26]Sirenia Shadows
Links:
26. http://thebrowser.com/videos/sirenia-shadows
Lazy days with the manatees of Florida. For which, you may have
noticed, we have a soft spot
[27]More videos
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27. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[28]Alfred Hitchcock, on suspense
Links:
28. http://tomshone.blogspot.com/2011/05/fine-art-of-suspense-botched.html
Suspense consists of letting an audience know precisely what is about
to happen—and then making them wait for it
[29]More quotes
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29. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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