Newsletter 589
[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]Form And Fortune
Links:
5. http://b.rw/y4SxAK
Evgeny Morozov | New Republic | 22 February 2012
Best review yet of Isaacson's "Jobs". Maybe even better than the book.
Full of good stuff on Apple's design and marketing, its debt to the
Bauhaus. Makes the case that, for once, "corporate philosophy" is not
too strong a term [6]Comments
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/form-and-fortune
[7]Cheating Death
Links:
7. http://b.rw/y3VKkd
Alex Byrne | Boston Review | 21 February 2012
Can you survive death? For the time being it's a question of
technology. But if the tech ever gets solved, it will become a question
of philosophy. If you can store or replicate your mind or your body,
will it still be you? [8]Comments
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/cheating-death
[9]Too Big To Jail
Links:
9. http://b.rw/whOsoX
Simon Johnson | Project Syndicate | 22 February 2012
"The message to bank executives today is simple: Build your bank to be
as big as possible – and then keep growing. If you manage to become big
enough, you and your employees are not just too big to fail, but also
too big to jail" [10]Comments
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/too-big-jail
[11]The Great American Novel
Links:
11. http://b.rw/y3a5D9
Roger Kimball | Weekly Standard | 22 February 2012
There are plenty of good novels being published in America. Probably as
many as ever in the past. But no great novels, and there probably never
will again. Because the novel no longer occupies a central place in
American culture [12]Comments
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/great-american-novel
[13]Poker Lessons From Richelieu
Links:
13. http://b.rw/zQb5X6
David Bell | Foreign Affairs | 22 February 2012
Cardinal Richelieu is lauded as father of the modern European state.
Incorrectly. Instead he was "one the of greatest examples in history of
the politician as high-stakes gambler, notable less for what he did
than for how he did it" [14]Comments
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/articles/poker-lessons-richelieu
[15]The Scale Of The Universe
Links:
15. http://b.rw/zEDGyx
Cary Huang | HTwins | 9 February 2012
Excellent interactive feature sets size of our universe and us in
perspective. Zoom out from the minute neutrino, right up to the massive
Virgo Supercluster. Click on any objects you don't recognise to learn
more about them [16]Comments
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/articles/scale-universe
FiveBooks Interview
[17]Bruce Schneier on Trust
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/bruce-schneier-on-trust
Modern society depends on trust more than we realise, and the basis for
that trust is security. The trick, says the security guru, is
preserving the forces that allow us to trust one another, while also
knowing who not to trust [18]Read on
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/bruce-schneier-on-trust
Featured Special Report
[19]The New Islamists
Links:
19. http://thebrowser.com/reports/new-islamists
The Arab Spring has created opportunities for the region's Islamist
movements. How will they behave once in, or near, power? [20]Read on
Links:
20. http://thebrowser.com/reports/new-islamists
Reader Recommendations
@[21]zuberino Passionate denunciation of fracking technology, by
environmentalist Bill McKibben [22]t.co/24Aq6rLz #[23]browsings
#[24]mustread #[25]environment
Links:
21. http://twitter.com/zuberino
22. http://t.co/24Aq6rLz
23. http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=#browsings
24. http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=#mustread
25. http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=#environment
[26]More like this
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26. http://thebrowser.com/browsings
Book of the Day
[27]Book of the Day
Links:
27. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/question-palestine-by-edward-w-said
[28]The Question of Palestine by Edward W Said
Links:
28. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/question-palestine-by-edward-w-said
[29]Gabriel Piterberg says: “This looks at the way Palestine was viewed
in Europe and how it came to be regarded as belonging to the Jews who
had a right to return there” [30]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
29. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/gabriel-piterberg-on-zionism-and-anti-zionism
30. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[31]Love Is Making Its Way
Links:
31. http://thebrowser.com/videos/love-making-its-way
Josh Ritter music video. 12,000 paper cut-outs. No effects added in
post [32]More videos
Links:
32. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[33]Henry Ford, on innovation
Links:
33. http://www.farnamstreetblog.com/2012/02/the-balance-wheel-of-civilization
"Most of the present acute troubles of the world arise out of taking
on new ideas without first carefully investigating to discover if
they are good ideas"
[34]More quotes
Links:
34. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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