Newsletter 599
[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]I'm Being Followed
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5. http://b.rw/z50QNZ
Alexis Madrigal | Atlantic | 29 February 2012
"The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people
click ads." 105 companies (at least) are tracking your browsing habits
for money. It's why most web sites can seem free. You should probably
know about it [6]Comments
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/im-being-followed
[7]Life Of The Party
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7. http://b.rw/xGInyK
Ryan Lizza | New Yorker | 2 March 2012
"As conservatives and Tea Party folks, we are not just wings of the
Republican Party," said Rick Santorum. "We are the Republican Party."
And he may be right. So, with Romney still failing to close the deal,
what happens now? [8]Comments
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/life-party
[9]Our Great Moral Decline
Links:
9. http://b.rw/w9Zt4o
RM | Economist | 2 March 2012
Really? Let's have a look at crime rate, abortion, charitable giving,
affiliation with religion and out-of-wedlock births. And, while we're
at it, let's think about what "moral" really means. Sober, sensible,
interesting analysis [10]Comments
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/our-great-moral-decline
[11]The Incentive Bubble
Links:
11. http://b.rw/yERQFW
Mihir Desai | Harvard Business Review | 18 February 2012
"Nothing is more important for a market economy than the structure of
incentives for managers and investors. Unfortunately, the idea of
market-based compensation is both remarkably alluring and deeply
flawed." Here's why [12]Comments
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/incentive-bubble
[13]How To Survive The End Of The Universe
Links:
13. http://b.rw/xcu2qZ
Andrew Grant | Discover | 28 February 2012
Entertaining read. There's plenty of speculation about how the universe
started, but what about how it ends? And what that might mean for us?
Let's fast forward a billion years and see what astronomers think the
future holds [14]Comments
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/articles/how-survive-end-universe
[15]Tony Judt: A Final Victory
Links:
15. http://b.rw/z5vQrZ
Jennifer Homans | NYRB | 1 March 2012
"For Tony, ideas were a kind of emotion, something he felt and cared
about in the way that most people do about feelings like sadness or
love." One of the finest thinkers of recent times remembered by his
wife in a touching essay [16]Comments
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/articles/tony-judt-final-victory
FiveBooks Interview
[17]Martin Bell on Reportage and War
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/martin-bell-on-reportage-and-war
The former BBC war reporter picks out essential reading on the Bosnia
and Vietnam wars and explains why a book of poetry speaks more to him
about the reality of conflict than any other writing [18]Read on
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/martin-bell-on-reportage-and-war
Featured Special Report
[19]Hackers
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19. http://thebrowser.com/reports/hackers
Cars, nuclear plants, computers, phones, webcams -- they all succumb to
hackers in the end [20]Read on
Links:
20. http://thebrowser.com/reports/hackers
Reader Recommendations
@[21]polit2k RT @[22]TheAtlantic: In case you missed it: the inside
story of how Wall Street beat Washington (again)
[23]t.co/1iAmlXjB #[24]gfc2 #[25]browsings
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21. http://twitter.com/polit2k
22. http://twitter.com/TheAtlantic
23. http://t.co/1iAmlXjB
24. http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=#gfc2
25. http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=#browsings
[26]More like this
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26. http://thebrowser.com/browsings
Book of the Day
[27]Book of the Day
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27. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/horace-and-morris-mostly-delores-by-james-howe-and-amy-walrod
[28]Horace and Morris but Mostly Delores by James Howe and Amy Walrod
Links:
28. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/horace-and-morris-mostly-delores-by-james-howe-and-amy-walrod
[29]Peggy Orenstein says: “It presents gender dynamics with more
realism than a typical agenda book. It’s about how kids can find common
interests that aren’t defined by gender”[30]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
29. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/peggy-orenstein-on-gender-trap
30. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[31]Albatros Bookmarks
Links:
31. http://thebrowser.com/videos/albatros-bookmarks
Latest from the Department of Better Mousetraps. And yes, that is how
it's spelt [32]More videos
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32. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[33]Frederic Raphael, on Herodotus
Links:
33. http://twitter.com/HistoryTODAY/status/28976108529
He was the first man to prove that history had a market, if you told
the right stories
[34]More quotes
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34. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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