Newsletter 579
[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]Greece: A Default Is A Better Outcome Than The Deal On Offer
Links:
5. http://b.rw/yo3AJb
Marshall Auerback | New Economic Perspectives | 13 February 2012
"The market’s judgement is wrong: An outright default might ultimately
prove the better tonic for both Greece and the eurozone." Would be
messy but better than Portugal, Ireland left asking "If Greece doesn't
have to pay, why do I?" [6]Comments
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/greece-default-better-outcome-deal-offer
[7]Everywhere And Nowhere
Links:
7. http://b.rw/A7KIIP
Eric Been and Michael Goetzmann | LA Review Of Books | 10 February 2012
Review of John Jeremiah Sullivan's "Pulphead". And interview with
author. Who is increasingly being acclaimed as the next David Foster
Wallace. Though he appears here to be a touch less cerebral and a lot
less frenetic [8]Comments
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/everywhere-and-nowhere
[9]Why Companies Fail
Links:
9. http://b.rw/A3uigP
Megan McArdle | Atlantic | 11 February 2012
The American taxpayer has fixed all the obvious problems at General
Motors. Cost base transformed. Brands repositioned. But finally we bump
up against corporate culture. Can that be changed, or does GM carry
failure in its DNA? [10]Comments
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/why-companies-fail
[11]Mystery Of The Millionaire Metaphysician
Links:
11. http://b.rw/yxYyfA
James Ryerson | Slate | 10 February 2012
Eleven philosophers get an offer through the mail to read and review a
manuscript. Fee: $12,000. They accept. It's not a work of genius, but
nor is it nonsense. Who is the elusive author, and what does (s)he get
out of it? [12]Comments
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/mystery-millionaire-metaphysician
[13]Step 1: Give Every Kid A Laptop. Step 2: Learning Begins?
Links:
13. http://b.rw/z8bwK8
Cyrus Farivar | Ars Technica | 9 February 2012
Report on Nicholas Negroponte's ambitious One Laptop Per Child (OLPC)
project. Two million computers have been handed out, across 42
countries. So what lessons has OLPC taught us about the role of
technology in education? [14]Comments
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/articles/step-1-give-every-kid-laptop-step-2-learning-begins
[15]The Monster Of Glamis
Links:
15. http://b.rw/AgAD9E
Mike Dash | Smithsonian | 10 February 2012
Did Glamis Castle, in the Scottish lowlands, have a secret to hide?
Dash picks up the story of "an enigma that involved a hidden room, a
secret passage, scandal, and shadowy figures glimpsed by night on
castle battlements" [16]Comments
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/articles/monster-glamis
FiveBooks Interview
[17]Tim Mackintosh-Smith on
Travelling in the Muslim World
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/tim-mackintosh-smith-on-travelling-muslim-world
The author and eminent Arabist tells us about the rich tradition in
Islam of travelling to gain knowledge, and directs us towards some of
those, both Western and Arab, who’ve inspired with their tales of life
on the road [18]Read on
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/tim-mackintosh-smith-on-travelling-muslim-world
Featured Special Report
[19]Human Modification
Links:
19. http://thebrowser.com/reports/human-modification
Scientists are experimenting with different ways to enhance humans.
What's possible? And what may be possible in the future? Does messing
with Mother Nature raise ethical questions? [20]Read on
Links:
20. http://thebrowser.com/reports/human-modification
Reader Recommendations
@[21]outsidemagazine The Trials of Greg Mortenson, by @[22]AlexHeard
[23]t.co/pFDWQ44J #[24]longform #[25]Longreads
#[26]byliner #[27]browsings
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21. http://twitter.com/outsidemagazine
22. http://twitter.com/AlexHeard
23. http://t.co/pFDWQ44J
24. http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=#longform
25. http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=#Longreads
26. http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=#byliner
27. http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=#browsings
[28]More like this
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28. http://thebrowser.com/browsings
Book of the Day
[29]Book of the Day
Links:
29. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/proust-and-squid-by-maryanne-wolf
[30]Proust and the Squid by Maryanne Wolf
Links:
30. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/proust-and-squid-by-maryanne-wolf
[31]Peg Tyre says: “Read this and you will never again hand your iPhone
to your child in the stroller. You will start talking to them and
pointing out colours” [32]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
31. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/peg-tyre-on-educating-your-child
32. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[33]Future Hipsters
Links:
33. http://thebrowser.com/videos/future-hipsters
Social Media Week looks fifty years ahead [34]More videos
Links:
34. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[35]David Weinberger, on libraries
Links:
35. http://senseandreference.wordpress.com/2012/02/09/too-big-to-know-essential-readings-in-the-philosophy-of-lis
"The smartest person in the room is the room"
[36]More quotes
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36. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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