Newsletter 567
[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]Why It's Kicking Off Everywhere
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5. http://b.rw/wHLz6j
Paul Mason | Scribd | 31 January 2012
Compelling tour d'horizon of political, social, economic turmoil. Is
this a "50-year moment" where crisis leads to protectionism, economic
nationalism, de-globalisation? Or could it be something much bigger – a
500-year event? [6]Comments
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6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/why-its-kicking-everywhere
[7]Who In God's Name Is Mitt Romney?
Links:
7. http://b.rw/yDT09l
Frank Rich | New York | 29 January 2012
Mitt Romney may be a political hack's idea of an electable conservative
president. But many voters have other ideas, certainly if South
Carolina is anything to go by. So, who is Mitt? What drives him and
what does he care about? [8]Comments
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/who-gods-name-mitt-romney
[9]Burning Man
Links:
9. http://b.rw/A7kNdX
Jay Kirk | GQ | 31 January 2012
Remarkable story of Sam Brown, who suffered unimaginable burns in a
bomb blast in Afghanistan. To alleviate the pain, he eventually turned
to Virtual Reality. And discovered a video game more effective at
killing pain than morphine [10]Comments
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/burning-man
[11]European Politicians In Denial As Greece Unravels
Links:
11. http://b.rw/x2y9gN
Sven Boll et al | Spiegel | 30 January 2012
Supposed rescue plans for Greece will never work. Greece isn't
illiquid. It's insolvent. Lending more money will only make things
worse. What's needed is a shock wave of defaults and bankruptcies. But
who dares say so? [12]Comments
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/european-politicians-denial-greece-unravels
[13]Elmore Leonard: Great American Novelist
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13. http://b.rw/yv2rUg
Philip Hensher | Guardian | 29 January 2012
Beyond genre. "Anyone can write a plot in which crooks kidnap each
other to extract each other's kidneys. It takes an Elmore Leonard to
conceive of one in which the kidneys are sold back to their indignant
original owner" [14]Comments
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/articles/elmore-leonard-great-american-novelist
[15]As Though We Were Immortal
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15. http://b.rw/xmI8bn
Namit Arora | 3 Quarks Daily | 30 January 2012
Writer recalls visit to Varanasi, India, one of seven holy sites of the
Hindus. Short history of the city, followed by reflections on the
traditional cremations that still take place daily along banks of the
Ganges [16]Comments
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/articles/though-we-were-immortal
FiveBooks Interview
[17]Robert Barnett on Tibet
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/robert-barnett-on-tibet
Discussions about Tibet are often reduced to arguments about China's
right to run it. The Tibetologist says this obscures a much more subtle
debate about what it means to be Tibetan in modern Tibetan society
[18]Read on
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/robert-barnett-on-tibet
Featured Special Report
[19]Drone Warfare
Links:
19. http://thebrowser.com/reports/drone-warfare
Should we worry about war conducted by remote control? Are there
ethical considerations? Will we become accustomed to unmanned warfare
in the future? What if a hacker took control of an army? It's all here
[20]Read on
Links:
20. http://thebrowser.com/reports/drone-warfare
Reader Recommendations
@[21]polit2k With a ban on bonuses, Fred Goodwin could even have kept
his knighthood | Simon
Jenkins[22]t.co/34FJhXnW @[23]guardian #[24]gfc2 [25]#browsings
[26]More like this
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21. http://twitter.com/polit2k
22. http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/jan/31/ban-bonuses-fred-goodwin-knighthood?CMP=twt_gu
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24. http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=#gfc2
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26. http://thebrowser.com/browsings
Book of the Day
[27]Book of the Day
Links:
27. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/assassination-federico-garcí-lorca-by-ian-gibson
[28]The Assassination of Federico García Lorca by Ian Gibson
Links:
28. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/assassination-federico-garcí-lorca-by-ian-gibson
[29]Paul Preston says: “The book is effectively a detective story.
Gibson gives the background of what Lorca was like and why he was
hated” [30]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
29. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/paul-preston-on-spanish-civil-war
30. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[31]Yosemite HD
Links:
31. http://thebrowser.com/videos/yosemite-hd
Mesmerising time-lapse video of Yosemite National Park. Four minutes of
stunning beauty
[32]More videos
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32. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[33]Tom Junod, on Newt Gingrich
Links:
33. http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/liberals-smarter-than-conservatives-6649182?click=news
"If you base your entire candidacy on your ability to beat Barack
Obama in a debate, you damned well better be able to beat Mitt
Romney"
[34]More quotes
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34. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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