Newsletter 587
[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]'Germany Has Been the Winner In The Globalization Process'
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5. http://b.rw/yRxi0E
Anonymous | Spiegel | 20 February 2012
Interview with Kenneth Rogoff on Greece, future of euro. "To make
Greece competitive, wages would have to be halved. That is impossible
to implement politically, but without a steep wage cut, the economy
will continue to stagnate" [6]Comments
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6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/germany-has-been-winner-globalization-process
[7]The Jerusalem Syndrome
Links:
7. http://b.rw/wpqhwu
Chris Nashawaty | Wired | 17 February 2012
A man becomes so convinced he is Samson, he tries to pull down the
Western Wall. A woman persuades herself she is the Virgin Mary, even
heads to Bethlehem to find her child, Jesus. Why can Jerusalem cause
such strange behaviour? [8]Comments
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/jerusalem-syndrome
[9]Portrait Of The Young Vladimir Putin
Links:
9. http://b.rw/wjdylZ
Masha Gessen | Daily Beast | 20 February 2012
Book extract. "He has created his own mythology of a child of
post-siege Leningrad, a mean, hungry, impoverished place that bred
mean, hungry, ferocious children." In fact, he was relatively well-off.
But still mean and ferocious [10]Comments
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/portrait-young-vladimir-putin
[11]Fossil Fuels: I'm Not Dead Yet
Links:
11. http://b.rw/zMWavm
Tom Murphy | Do The Math | 14 February 2012
Gulf between fossil fuels and alternatives is huge in many ways. We
cannot simply shift sources of energy. Instead, there'll be a
transition. And that will involve large-scale exploitation of
alternative fossil fuels [12]Comments
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/fossil-fuels-im-not-dead-yet
[13]Manufacturing Illusions
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13. http://b.rw/ysBIZo
Robert Reich | Robert Reich | 17 February 2012
"Suddenly, manufacturing is back – at least on the American election
trail. But don’t be fooled. The real issue isn’t how to get
manufacturing back. It’s how to get good jobs and good wages back. They
aren’t at all the same thing" [14]Comments
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/articles/manufacturing-illusions
[15]Germania: Hitler's Dream Capital
Links:
15. http://b.rw/x9ljLA
Roger Moorhouse | History Today | 16 February 2012
"Speer’s planned rebuilding of Berlin is too readily dismissed as a
Nazi pipedream; a still-born manifestation of Hitler’s architectural
fantasies thankfully confined to the drawing board." In fact, it was
central to Nazi ideology [16]Comments
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/articles/germania-hitlers-dream-capital
FiveBooks Interview
[17]David Goodhart on Immigration and Multiculturalism
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/david-goodhart-on-immigration-and-multiculturalism
Managing immigration has become a key political question of our times.
The author of a forthcoming book on the subject tells us about the
British experience, and what helps multiculturalism succeed or fail
[18]Read on
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/david-goodhart-on-immigration-and-multiculturalism
Featured Special Report
[19]Democracy
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19. http://thebrowser.com/reports/democracy
Are Western states true democracies? Has democracy become a casualty of
the financial crisis? Can you have too much democracy? Read on to find
out [20]Read on
Links:
20. http://thebrowser.com/reports/democracy
Reader Recommendations
@[21]polit2k ".. not a final definitive rescue of Greece" BBC News -
Greece: Dangerous precedent? | Robert Peston
[22]t.co/c3ezHA1w #[23]greece [24]#browsings [25]More like this
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22. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-17110089
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25. http://thebrowser.com/browsings
Book of the Day
[26]Book of the Day
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26. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/dior-dior-autobiography-christian-dior-by-christian-dior
[27]Dior by Dior by Christian Dior
Links:
27. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/dior-dior-autobiography-christian-dior-by-christian-dior
[28]Justine Picardie says: "Dior’s autobiography is very sober in tone,
which is true of the designer’s own personality. But it’s a fascinating
insight into the New Look" [29]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
28. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/justine-picardie-on-fashion-biographies
29. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[30]Gorilla Lured By iPhone
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30. http://thebrowser.com/videos/gorilla-lured-iphone
Ingenious zoo-going hack. And it works on higher-order primates too
[31]More videos
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31. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[32]Jacob Kirkegaard, on crisis
Links:
32. http://themonkeycage.org/blog/2012/02/15/brinkmanship-and-the-euro-still-a-bad-idea
"The essence of crisis is unpredictability. The crisis that is
confidently believed to involve no danger of things getting out of
hand is no crisis"
[33]More quotes
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33. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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