Newsletter 585
[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]The Sense Of An Ending
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5. http://b.rw/zSyLPm
Stephen Holmes & Ivan Krastev | Transit / Eurozine | 17 February 2012
"By engineering rigged elections that nobody bothered or dared to
protest, Putin managed to conceal his regime's deepest secret, namely
that Russia, rather than being misgoverned, is governed very laxly if
at all" [6]Comments
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/sense-ending
[7]Struggling Greeks Losing Belief In The State
Links:
7. http://b.rw/zXnsEa
Paul Mason | BBC | 17 February 2012
"It looks like something changed, tangibly, in the past 10 days. The
established parties lost belief in what the EU is forcing them to do;
parts of the EU lost belief in it too; and the people lost belief in
the political class" [8]Comments
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/struggling-greeks-losing-belief-state
[9]A Brief History Of Drones
Links:
9. http://b.rw/xyWVW4
John Sifton | Nation | 7 February 2012
Why do drones disturb us? It's to do with the distance between killer
and killed, the asymmetry. Also, the prospect of automation. "Drones
foreshadow the idea that brutality could become detached from humanity"
[10]Comments
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/brief-history-drones
[11]Consciousness Emerges
Links:
11. http://b.rw/wgQZIY
Laura Sanders | ScienceNews | 11 February 2012
"If you really want to understand consciousness, then you need to
separate the effects of attention." This is how scientists have begun
to do so, and what the results of their experiments suggest about the
human brain [12]Comments
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/consciousness-emerges
[13]Quadzilla
Links:
13. http://b.rw/wzlDnK
Hampton Sides | Outside | 24 January 2012
"He was traveling 72 mph—flying, but not in the right way." For he was
on skis, not in a plane. Even so Svindal soared 197 feet through the
sky before landing. His injuries were severe. But the champion would
return to compete again [14]Comments
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/articles/quadzilla
[15]Nanosecond Trading Could Make Markets Go Haywire
Links:
15. http://b.rw/yeOgWe
Brandon Keim | Wired | 16 February 2012
“There’s this whole world below 650 milliseconds. It’s like landing on
another planet. It’s an enormous part of the market which is out of
human reach." Only dimly understood, this is the home of flash crashes
and black swan events [16]Comments
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/articles/nanosecond-trading-could-make-markets-go-haywire
FiveBooks Interview
[17]Christina Romer on Learning from the Great Depression
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/christina-romer-on-learning-great-depression
The former chair of President Obama’s Council of Economic Advisers says
we’ve learned that terrible downturns can still occur, but also that
the right policy response can make a huge difference to the outcome
[18]Read on
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/christina-romer-on-learning-great-depression
Featured Special Report
[19]Wine
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19. http://thebrowser.com/reports/wine
From filthy plonk to first growth Bordeaux, there's something for every
palate in our cultural and historical survey of wine [20]Read on
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20. http://thebrowser.com/reports/wine
Reader Recommendations
@[21]nuzav House of Stone: [22]t.co/lJpyDwXh #[23]Browsings
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24. http://thebrowser.com/browsings
Book of the Day
[25]Book of the Day
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25. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/woman-berlin-by-anonymous
[26]A Woman in Berlin by Anonymous
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26. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/woman-berlin-by-anonymous
[27]Antony Beevor says: “Her account is so patently well observed of
what was going on [in 1945]. There is no self-pity, even though she
herself was raped on numerous occasions” [28]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
27. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/antony-beevor-on-world-war-ii
28. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[29]How To Handle A Wine, Part Eight
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29. http://thebrowser.com/videos/how-handle-wine-part-eight
How to use port tongs. Ingenious
[30]More videos
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30. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[31]EM Cioran, on God
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31. http://www.fraglit.com/impassioned/quotations/aphorisms/cioran-p.htm
"If truth were not boring, science would have done away with God
long ago"
[32]More quotes
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32. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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