Newsletter 602
[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]Economics In The Crisis
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5. http://b.rw/zuSlK3
Paul Krugman | NYT | 5 March 2012
"Times of economic disturbance and disorder, of crisis and chaos, are
times when economic analysis is especially likely to be wrong. Yet such
times are also when economics is most useful." Full transcript of
recent Krugman speech [6]Comments
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/economics-crisis
[7]Why The Future Of Neuroscience Will Be Emotionless
Links:
7. http://b.rw/whHlYY
Sam McNerney | Why We Reason | 5 March 2012
The great debate over how we make decisions just took a new turn.
Neuroscientists have argued over relative influence of reason and
emotions. But a new paper raises a critical issue: Can we even agree
what emotions are? It seems not [8]Comments
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/why-future-neuroscience-will-be-emotionless
[9]1984 Vs Brave New World
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9. http://b.rw/Aa4Soj
Aldous Huxley | Letters Of Note | 6 March 2012
Remarkable letter from Huxley to Orwell, written in 1949. "I feel that
the nightmare of Nineteen Eighty-Four is destined to modulate into the
nightmare of a world having more resemblance to that which I imagined
in Brave New World" [10]Comments
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/1984-vs-brave-new-world
[11]The Lethal Gene That Emerged In Ancient Palestine And Spread Around The
Globe
Links:
11. http://b.rw/wlDpfg
Jeff Wheelwright | Discover | 5 March 2012
"Shonnie Medina was a happy girl who felt she would die young." This is
the story of how 185delAG became the most studied, and worried about,
piece of DNA in history. It is a mutation in the BRCA1 gene, and it
causes breast cancer [12]Comments
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12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/lethal-gene-emerged-ancient-palestine-and-spread-around-globe
[13]We Can Live With A Nuclear Iran
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13. http://b.rw/wtn3Of
Paul Pillar | Washington Monthly | 6 March 2012
"One must ultimately ask whether the conjectured consequences of an
Iranian bomb would be worse than war with Iran. The conjectures are
just that. They are worst-case speculations, not adequate
justifications for going to war" [14]Comments
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/articles/we-can-live-nuclear-iran
[15]French And American Health Care
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15. http://b.rw/x5RrYc
Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry | Atlantic | 6 March 2012
The ingredients are much the same: Private medical institutions,
job-linked private insurance, Medicaid-type provisions for the poor.
Yet the French system works beautifully, and keeps costs down. What's
the French secret? [16]Comments
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/articles/french-and-american-health-care
FiveBooks Interview
[17]Adam Gopnik on Favourite Essay Collections
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/adam-gopnik-on-favourite-essay-collections
What makes a great essayist? What had it, who didn’t? And whose work
left the biggest mark on the New Yorker? A longtime writer for the
magazine picks out five masters of the craft [18]Read on
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/adam-gopnik-on-favourite-essay-collections
Featured Special Report
[19]Epic Adventures
Links:
19. http://thebrowser.com/reports/epic-adventures
Extreme tourism, unwise adventure and plain bad luck. Enjoy it all from
the comfort of your armchair [20]Read on
Links:
20. http://thebrowser.com/reports/epic-adventures
Reader Recommendations
@prospect_uk To grasp the new spirit of China, you need to read its new
generation of fiction writers[21]http://t.co/G93lLskv [22]#browsings
[23]More like this
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21. http://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/2012/02/the-key-to-china-literary-magazines-new-chinese-fiction-pathlight-chutzpah
22. https://twitter.com/search?q=#browsings
23. http://thebrowser.com/browsings
Book of the Day
[24]Book of the Day
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24. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/speak-memory-by-vladimir-nabokov
[25]Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov
Links:
25. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/speak-memory-by-vladimir-nabokov
[26]Anne Applebaum says: "One of the most beautiful memoirs ever
written. It is permeated with a sense of loss and exile" [27]FiveBooks
Archive
Links:
26. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/anne-applebaum-on-memoirs-communism
27. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[28]America's Dangerous Game
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28. http://thebrowser.com/videos/americas-dangerous-game
Is the US creating more enemies than it destroys in Yemen?
[29]More videos
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29. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[30]EF Schumacher, on progress
Links:
30. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lk9sKUiB2_M
"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more
violent. It takes genius to move in the opposite direction"
[31]More quotes
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31. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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