Newsletter 572
[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]Attack Dog
Links:
5. http://b.rw/xPD9Au
Jane Mayer | New Yorker | 6 February 2012
A very nice guy who makes very nasty ads. This is Larry McCarthy,
master of the negative TV ad, now working for Romney Super PAC.
Shredded Dukakis. Did for Gingrich in Iowa. What counts is whether it
works, not whether it's true [6]Comments
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/attack-dog
[7]DIY Science: Splitting The Atom
Links:
7. http://b.rw/w1O2yJ
Jon Ronson | Guardian | 3 February 2012
Interview with Richard Handl, who did try it at home. "First, he got a
saucepan. Into it he put his radioactive elements—the americium and
radium. He mixed them up with sulphuric acid and beryllium, and turned
on the stove" [8]Comments
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/diy-science-splitting-atom
[9]Can Italy Change?
Links:
9. http://b.rw/zkrbiS
Tim Parks | NYRB | 1 February 2012
Italy is marked by "a tendency to foment and then thrive on a gap
between the official version of events and their actual course, between
rules and practice, appearance and reality". So how will change affect
Italy, and Italians? [10]Comments
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/can-italy-change
[11]Lunch With Kenneth Rogoff
Links:
11. http://b.rw/wr4fbo
Gideon Rachman | FT | 3 February 2012
Conversation about economics and chess. “I’m not a great mathematician,
but game theory really clicked for me." Nice anecdotes about Karpov,
Fischer. On Europe: "We’re not in the endgame, we’re in the
middle-game" [12]Comments
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/lunch-kenneth-rogoff
[13]Russia's Line In The Sand
Links:
13. http://b.rw/A5IJiA
Dmitri Trenin | Foreign Affairs | 5 February 2012
Why Russia won't support UN condemnation of Syria's President Assad.
Not just solidarity among autocrats. Russia feels that it got burnt
over Libya. It doesn't trust the Syrian opposition. And it trusts the
US even less [14]Comments
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/articles/russias-line-sand
[15]The Virgin Father
Links:
15. http://b.rw/A5ktJE
Benjamin Wallace | New York | 5 February 2012
Trent Arsenault has never had sex, but he's the father of 15 children –
and counting. He's a well-paid tech worker, uses diet and exercise to
maximise his sperm count, and he gives away his semen for free. The FDA
doesn't like it [16]Comments
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/articles/virgin-father
FiveBooks Interview
[17]Roland Huntford on Polar Exploration
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/roland-huntford-on-polar-exploration
The author of “Race for the South Pole” discusses the early history of
polar exploration, and gives us some fascinating insights into what
made the Norwegians different from their British counterparts [18]Read
on
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/roland-huntford-on-polar-exploration
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]polit2k The End of Wall Street As They Knew It | Gabriel Sherman
[22]t.co/tgoRxjF1 #[23]gfc2 #[24]browsings #[25]ows[26]More like this
Links:
21. http://twitter.com/polit2k
22. http://nymag.com/news/features/wall-street-2012-2
23. http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=#gfc2
24. https://twitter.com/search?q=#browsings
25. http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=#ows
26. http://thebrowser.com/browsings
Book of the Day
[27]Book of the Day
Links:
27. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/maurice-by-em-forster
[28]Maurice by EM Forster
Links:
28. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/maurice-by-em-forster
[29]Edmund White says: “Historically, it’s very interesting – a book he
suppressed during his lifetime. It seems based on wish fulfilment, but
also has a lot of class analysis” [30]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
29. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/edmund-white-on-gay-fiction
30. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[31]Punk Economics: Lesson 1
Links:
31. http://thebrowser.com/videos/punk-economics-lesson-1
Fabulous illustrations of the euro crisis; make of the analysis what
you will
[32]More videos
Links:
32. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[33]Alex Macbeth, on parliaments
Links:
33. http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,812474,00.html
"The annual bill for operating the lower house of the Italian
parliament costs as much as those of Britain, Germany, France and
Spain combined"
[34]More quotes
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34. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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