Newsletter 581
[1]All of our Best of the Moment article recommendations, plus
FiveBooks interviews and other selected content from thebrower.com
Links:
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[5]In Conversation With Adam Curtis
Links:
5. http://b.rw/xz2L0T
Hans Ulrich Obrist & Adam Curtis | e-flux | 11 February 2012
Absorbing interview with BBC documentary maker. "If you had to reduce
what I do, I look at how ideas have consequences, not necessarily what
the promoters of them intended." Fascinating on power, individualism,
populism [6]Comments
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/conversation-adam-curtis
[7]Spending Won't Fix US Infrastructure
Links:
7. http://b.rw/zsH3fE
Edward Glaeser | Bloomberg | 14 February 2012
What's required is intelligent reform, not floods of extra financing
for moon shots and high-speed railways to nowhere. Here are seven ways
to improve transportation in America (also applicable to other
industrialised nations) [8]Comments
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/spending-wont-fix-us-infrastructure
[9]Basketball And Bankers' Pay
Links:
9. http://b.rw/ABmRkI
John Kay | John Kay/FT | 15 February 2012
Here's a way to rationalise sports stars' astronomical pay. If you
asked the millions of fans to pay 25 cents each to keep a top star
playing, they gladly would. Now: Can you imagine anybody doing the same
thing for Lloyd Blankfein? [10]Comments
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/basketball-and-bankers-pay
[11]Equations That Rule Your World
Links:
11. http://b.rw/ymfxHc
Ian Stewart | New Scientist | 13 February 2012
Some equations are simply more important than others. Here's a reminder
of seven, that enabled many of the technologies we now rely on: The
wave equation, Maxwell's four equations, the Fourier transform and
Schrödinger's equation [12]Comments
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/equations-rule-your-world
[13]Direct Negotiations: Recipe For Prolonging The Occupation
Links:
13. http://b.rw/y9MlcM
Noam Sheizaf | +972 | 13 February 2012
Real dynamic between Israel and Palestinians isn't land for peace, it's
land for legitimacy. But Israel gets its legitimacy as soon as
negotiations start; Palestinians have to wait for land. So Israel's
interest is talks without end [14]Comments
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/articles/direct-negotiations-recipe-prolonging-occupation
[15]Sophia’s Choices
Links:
15. http://b.rw/AvNCcY
Sam Kashner | Vanity Fair | 14 February 2012
Rare interview with movie star Sophia Loren. Still irresistible at the
age of 77. "Head her in the direction of a camera, set her Etruscan
eyes dancing, and Sophia is one of the most magnificent women in the
world" [16]Comments
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/articles/sophia’s-choices
FiveBooks Interview
[17]Antony Beevor on World War II
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/antony-beevor-on-world-war-ii
The author of Stalingrad and Berlin tells us about five key works on
the Second World War, from the War and Peace of the 20th century to
superlative accounts of Hitler and the atrocities of Stalin [18]Read on
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/antony-beevor-on-world-war-ii
Featured Special Report
[19]Free Will
Links:
19. http://thebrowser.com/reports/free-will
Does it exist? Or is it an illusion? Why not read on and decide for
yourself. As if you had any choice... [20]Read on
Links:
20. http://thebrowser.com/reports/free-will
Reader Recommendations
[21]hollidayfortwo RT @[22]guardian: NEW on @[23]guardianfilm: Arab
cinema on the cusp of a renaissance[24]t.co/oGj0e6xn
#[25]longreads [26]#browsings [27]More like this
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21. http://twitter.com/hollidayfortwo
22. http://twitter.com/guardian
23. http://twitter.com/guardianfilm
24. http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2012/feb/15/arab-cinema-cusp-potential-renaissance?CMP=twt_gu
25. http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=#longreads
26. https://twitter.com/search?q=#browsings
27. http://thebrowser.com/browsings
Book of the Day
[28]Book of the Day
Links:
28. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/night-and-horses-and-desert-by-robert-irwin-editor
[29]Night and Horses and the Desert by Robert Irwin (editor)
Links:
29. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/night-and-horses-and-desert-by-robert-irwin-editor
[30]Tim Mackintosh-Smith says: “It’s a good mix of poetry and prose and
the commentary that joins it together is superbly balanced. There is no
better anthology of Arabic literature” [31]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
30. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/tim-mackintosh-smith-on-travelling-muslim-world
31. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[32]Buzzer Beater
Links:
32. http://thebrowser.com/videos/buzzer-beater
A second to go. You must score to win. And you're at the wrong end of
the court. No problem
[33]More videos
Links:
33. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[34]Mitch Daniels, on America
Links:
34. http://blog.talkingphilosophy.com/?p=4207
"We do not accept that ours will ever be a nation of haves and have
nots; we must always be a nation of haves and soon to haves”
[35]More quotes
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35. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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