Newsletter 586
[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]Adventures In Behavioral Neurology
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5. http://b.rw/wGsaDL
VS Ramachandran | Edge | 20 February 2012
Neuroscientist explains mysteries of synesthesia (hearing colours,
tasting sounds), apotemnophilia (wanting to have healthy limbs
amputated), reflex sympathetic dystrophy (feeling chronic pain from
minor injuries). Fascinating [6]Comments
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/adventures-behavioral-neurology
[7]Party Crasher
Links:
7. http://b.rw/w4M8El
Kelefa Sanneh | New Yorker | 20 February 2012
With Ron Paul. "When he warns against threatening Iran, or calls the
war on drugs 'a total failure,' or observes that 'rich white people
don’t get the death penalty very often,' he seems like a man competing
in a separate contest" [8]Comments
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/party-crasher
[9]Interview: Paul Krugman
Links:
9. http://b.rw/wfD3Ph
Jonathan Tasini | Playboy | 16 February 2012
Forgive the NSFW wrapper to read the Nobel prize-winning economist talk
politics, economics, even music. Interesting throughout. "We should not
be using the language of sacrifice to talk about how we deal with the
current slump" [10]Comments
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/interview-paul-krugman
[11]The Price Of Dissent In Saudi Arabia
Links:
11. http://b.rw/wda3Y2
Toby Jones | Nation | 15 February 2012
Pity poor Hamza Kashgari. He made some injudicious comments on Twitter
and now he's a pawn about to be sacrificed by the Saudi ruling family.
This has little to do with the sanctity of Islam; everything to do with
power politics [12]Comments
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/price-dissent-saudi-arabia
[13]The Tragedy Of Fernando Torres
Links:
13. http://b.rw/zTjG4F
John Carlin | FT | 17 February 2012
Chelsea paid £50m for him and almost immediately he descended into a
catastrophic and inexplicable loss of form. From which he has yet to
emerge. But why does this sometimes happen to top sportspeople, and
what can they do about it? [14]Comments
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/articles/tragedy-fernando-torres
[15]Things I Have Learnt From And About IVF
Links:
15. http://b.rw/xguQgo
Maria Farrell | Crooked Timber | 18 February 2012
"IVF is highly political. It’s unpleasant, tiring and time-consuming.
It’s bloody expensive. In all these respects, it’s perhaps not bad
practice for the down-sides of parenthood. And at least it gives us a
chance" [16]Comments
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/articles/things-i-have-learnt-and-about-ivf
FiveBooks Interview
[17]Sam Bourne on Classic Thrillers
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/sam-bourne-on-classic-thrillers
The bestselling author of The Righteous Men tells us how his other job
as a political journalist helps with thriller writing, and what makes
le Carré, Forsyth and Buchan such masters of their trade [18]Read on
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/sam-bourne-on-classic-thrillers
Featured Special Report
[19]The Writing of Anthony Shadid
Links:
19. http://thebrowser.com/reports/writing-anthony-shadid
A selection of recent despatches by Anthony Shadid (1968-2012), one of
the best reporters working in the Middle East in the past 10 years
[20]Read on
Links:
20. http://thebrowser.com/reports/writing-anthony-shadid
Reader Recommendations
@[21]polit2k Paul Krugman | Pain Without Gain: [22]t.co/triPbSxm
#[23]gfc2 #[24]browsings #[25]austerity #[26]ows[27]More like this
Links:
21. http://twitter.com/polit2k
22. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/20/opinion/krugman-pain-without-gain.html?_r=1&src=tp
23. http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=#gfc2
24. https://twitter.com/search?q=#browsings
25. http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=#austerity
26. http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=#ows
27. http://thebrowser.com/browsings
Book of the Day
[28]Book of the Day
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28. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/life-little-known-planet-by-howard-ensign-evans
[29]Life on a Little Known Planet by Howard Ensign Evans
Links:
29. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/life-little-known-planet-by-howard-ensign-evans
[30]May Berenbaum says: “The book is a killer combination. It’s a
wonderful overview of how insects are important ecologically,
scientifically and culturally” [31]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
30. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/may-berenbaum-on-bugs
31. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[32]Food Rules
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32. http://thebrowser.com/videos/food-rules
Michael Pollan, animated by Marija Jacimovic [33]More videos
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33. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[34]Felisa Rogers, on aphrodisiacs
Links:
34. http://www.alternet.org/sex/154141/sex_and_food:_the_world's_strangest_aphrodisiacs_through_time/?page=entire
"Humans tend to get turned on by three categories of food: extremely
expensive food, food that is risky to acquire, and food that
resembles genitalia"
[35]More quotes
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35. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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