Newsletter 566
[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]Jonathan Haidt Decodes The Tribal Psychology Of Politics
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5. http://b.rw/xTw0t1
Marc Parry | Chronicle | 29 January 2012
"Liberals need to be shaken. They simply misunderstand conservatives
far more than the other way around." Enjoyable profile of moral
psychologist Haidt. Turns out he praises Sarah Palin. Enjoys Glenn
Beck. Even reads National Review [6]Comments
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/jonathan-haidt-decodes-tribal-psychology-politics
[7]The Rape Of Persephone
Links:
7. http://b.rw/xokdov
Anonymous | Epicurean Dealmaker | 29 January 2012
"Now that Mitt Romney is running for the GOP nomination for President,
it seems everybody and his brother is taking a whack at the private
equity piñata." But some criticisms of the industry are unfair or
inaccurate. Here's why [8]Comments
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/rape-persphone
[9]The Man Behind Gingrich's Money
Links:
9. http://b.rw/xEFS2U
Mike McIntire & Michael Luo | NYT | 28 January 2012
Gingrich says he'll fight Romney all the way for the Republican
nomination. How? With money provided by Sheldon Adelson, big-thinking
casino magnate and staunch Zionist who's ploughing millions into
political battles [10]Comments
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/man-behind-gingrichs-money
[11]The Neuroscience Of Happiness
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11. http://b.rw/xjlRqK
Lucy McKeon | Salon | 28 January 2012
Conversation with psychology professor Shimon Edelman on happiness. "It
turns out the rewards we get for learning and understanding the
workings of the world really make it the journey, not the destination,
that matters most" [12]Comments
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/neuroscience-happiness
[13]A Fighter Abroad
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13. http://b.rw/yHzh4n
Brian Phillips | Grantland | 26 January 2012
"On December 10, 1810, in a muddy field around 25 miles from London, a
fight took place that was so dramatic, controversial, and ferocious
that it continues to haunt the imagination of boxing more than 200
years later" [14]Comments
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/articles/fighter-abroad
[15]America's Confessor
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15. http://b.rw/wj9r8O
Evan Hughes | Prospect | 25 January 2012
Frank Warren set up PostSecret, a hugely popular website that publishes
secrets sent in anonymously. Some are funny; others are sad, poignant,
even brutal. Is this a useful service for its users, or mere
titillation? [16]Comments
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/articles/americas-confessor
FiveBooks Interview
[17]Clive Stafford Smith on Capital Punishment
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/clive-stafford-smith-on-capital-punishment
The lawyer, who’s defended many clients on death row, tells us why the
legal system in capital cases is set up to fail, and says all of us
should know more about what happens in an execution [18]Read on
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/clive-stafford-smith-on-capital-punishment
Featured Special Report
[19]Behavioural Economics
Links:
19. http://thebrowser.com/reports/behavioural-economics
How do cognitive and emotional factors affect our understanding of
economic decisions? The field of behavioural economics attempts to
explain [20]Read on
Links:
20. http://thebrowser.com/reports/behavioural-economics
Reader Recommendations
@[21]ShaffinS Seeing the world as a prism of cultures - fascinating
Schumpeter @[22]TheEconomist [23]t.co/lcQzcAfZ [24]#browsings [25]More
like this
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21. http://twitter.com/ShaffinS
22. http://twitter.com/TheEconomist
23. http://www.economist.com/node/21543487
24. https://twitter.com/search?q=#browsings
25. http://thebrowser.com/browsings
Book of the Day
[26]Book of the Day
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26. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/power-powerless-by-václav-havel
[27]The Power of the Powerless by Václav Havel
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27. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/power-powerless-by-václav-havel
[28]Timothy Snyder says: “Havel will be remembered as the outstanding
East European dissident writer, and he will be remembered as such above
all for this essay” [29]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
28. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/timothy-snyder-on-dissent
29. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[30]Matthew's Day Off
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30. http://thebrowser.com/videos/matthews-day
For those old enough to remember Ferris Bueller
[31]More videos
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31. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[32]Sir William Francis Butler, on the military
Links:
32. http://www.azarask.in/blog/post/be-a-designer
"The society that separates its scholars from its warriors will have
its thinking done by cowards and its fighting by fools"
[33]More quotes
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33. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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