Newsletter 565
[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 Great Right Hope
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5. http://b.rw/zS7har
Peter Boyer | Newsweek | 28 January 2012
Mitt Romney is still struggling to convince Republicans that he's their
man. But he's now bound himself so tightly to a conservative agenda
that he'd have to govern pretty much as the ideological right would
like [6]Comments
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/great-right-hope
[7]The Story Of A Suicide
Links:
7. http://b.rw/zz245J
Ian Parker | New Yorker | 30 January 2012
Remember the case of the Rutgers student, Tyler Clementi, who committed
suicide after his roommate allegedly filmed him having gay sex and
broadcast it online? This monumental reconstruction suggests it wasn't
that straightforward [8]Comments
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/story-suicide
[9]Self As Symbol
Links:
9. http://b.rw/xBmx8t
Tom Siegfried | ScienceNews | 27 January 2012
Austrian logician Kurt Gödel proved that self-referentialism can create
unanswerable questions, unsolvable problems. His work revealed
paradoxes in mathematics, but it has important implications for
consciousness research too [10]Comments
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/self-symbol
[11]In Defense Of Drones
Links:
11. http://b.rw/zvkAYD
David Bell | New Republic | 27 January 2012
We talk about drones as a step change in war. Risk-free combat. But all
new technology in the history of weaponry has been directed towards
killing from a greater distance. It's a bit late to start feeling
queasy about that [12]Comments
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/defense-drones
[13]Art Of The Obituary
Links:
13. http://b.rw/yNUpjz
Harry de Quetteville | Telegraph | 29 January 2012
"On the telephone that morning I eventually got around to asking my
beautifully mannered caller when her husband had, in fact, died. 'Oh,'
came the reply, 'about 15 minutes ago. He’s right here'" [14]Comments
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/articles/art-obituary
[15]Wieber Fever
Links:
15. http://b.rw/xquJ9U
Alyssa Roenigk | ESPN | 27 January 2012
On the making of a gymnast. By her first birthday, Jordyn Wieber
already had noticeable muscles. On the changing table, she'd pull
herself up to a standing position and balance on one leg like a
flamingo. Now she's a world champion [16]Comments
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/articles/wieber-fever
FiveBooks Interview
[17]Paul Preston on the Spanish Civil War
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/paul-preston-on-spanish-civil-war
It was a bloody conflict that divided Spain and drew in Hitler, Stalin
and Mussolini. Later, it inspired great works of art and literature. An
eminent historian of the period tells us why it continues to fascinate
him [18]Read on
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/paul-preston-on-spanish-civil-war
Featured Special Report
[19]Great Obituaries
Links:
19. http://thebrowser.com/reports/great-obituaries
Raise a glass to life's characters with our collection of writing about
eventful, unconventional lives. RIP [20]Read on
Links:
20. http://thebrowser.com/reports/great-obituaries
Reader Recommendations
@[21]polit2k RT @[22]robertcottrell: Best-ever Lucy Kellaway column.
Which is setting the bar pretty
high.[23]t.co/pHAzN3Yg #[24]gfc2 [25]#browsings [26]More like this
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21. http://twitter.com/polit2k
22. http://twitter.com/robertcottrell
23. http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/3af5fc0c-482d-11e1-b1b4-00144feabdc0,Authorised=false.html?_i_location=http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/3af5fc0c-482d-11e1-b1b4-00144feabdc0.html&_i_referer=http://t.co/pHAzN3Yg#axzz1kw6GDMTS
24. http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=#gfc2
25. https://twitter.com/search?q=#browsings
26. http://thebrowser.com/browsings
Book of the Day
[27]Book of the Day
Links:
27. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/whale-by-philip-hoare
[28]The Whale by Philip Hoare
Links:
28. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/whale-by-philip-hoare
[29]Mark Kurlansky says: “This is a wonderful book. It is about the
whale, and everything about the whale – its history, its myth and its
science” [30]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
29. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/mark-kurlansky-on-favourite-science-books
30. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[31]London Coffee Bars, 1950s
Links:
31. http://thebrowser.com/videos/london-coffee-bars-1950s
Many a man who had thought to make his fortune from a sack of beans
found himself slaving over a spaghetti bolognaise [32]More videos
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32. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[33]Charles Moore, on Alain De Botton
Links:
33. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/charlesmoore/9048470/Religions-usefulness-is-drawn-from-its-truth.html
"It is rather as if someone wrote about the joys of military parades
without any conception that the job of soldiers is to fight"
[34]More quotes
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34. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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