Newsletter 606
[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]How To Be Creative
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5. http://b.rw/ABreis
Jonah Lehrer | WSJ | 9 March 2012
"Creativity is not magic, and there's no such thing as a creative type.
Creativity is not a trait that we inherit in our genes or a blessing
bestowed by the angels. It's a skill. Anyone can learn to be creative."
Here's how [6]Comments
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6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/how-be-creative
[7]Great American Losers
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7. http://b.rw/zSBGct
Elaine Blair | NYRB | 9 March 2012
Postwar novelists—Updike, Mailer—were male triumphalists. Their
successors—Franzen, Shteyngart—have overcorrected. They want women to
like them. Their men are losers. Houllebecq is different. He doesn't
want to be liked [8]Comments
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8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/great-american-losers
[9]Fukushima: A Strange Kind Of Homecoming
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9. http://b.rw/yhg2p6
Mure Dickie | FT | 9 March 2012
One year after the nuclear disaster, the worst fears have receded. But
more than 100,000 people are still exiled from their homes, with no
medium-term prospect of return. They can go back for day trips though,
as the FT discovers [10]Comments
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10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/fukushima-strange-kind-homecoming
[11]Confessions Of A Genius Art Forger
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11. http://b.rw/A0TaMt
Lothar Gorris and Sven Röbel | Spiegel | 9 March 2012
Just what the headline says. Interview with Wolfgang Beltracchi. German
painter of fake expressionists. "I recognised what was special about a
particular artist, in order to do it just a little better than he had
managed himself" [12]Comments
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12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/confessions-genius-art-forger
[13]Abortion, Infanticide, Humanity, Free Speech
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13. http://b.rw/yExetl
Kenan Malik | Pandaemonium | 7 March 2012
Is there a difference in moral status between foetus and newborn? If
no, where does that argument lead? If yes, what is it and what does it
mean? Malik untangles a recent controversy in this typically sensible
and thoughtful piece [14]Comments
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14. http://thebrowser.com/articles/abortion-infanticide-humanity-free-speech
[15]Lunch With Charles Murray
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15. http://b.rw/wVRi5W
Edward Luce | FT | 9 March 2012
Starts off slowly, picks up speed. Manages to convey that the esteemed
conservative thinker is a lush, a braggart and a bore without saying as
much. Gives him space to get that message across for himself. Nicely
done [16]Comments
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16. http://thebrowser.com/articles/lunch-charles-murray
FiveBooks Interview
[17]Alexandra Harris on Modernism
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17. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/alexandra-harris-on-modernism
Modernism is about form more than content, says the scholar of English
literature. She tells us about the history of the movement, and picks
five works that exemplify or explain it [18]Read on
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18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/alexandra-harris-on-modernism
Featured Special Report
[19]Free Will
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19. http://thebrowser.com/reports/free-will
Does it exist? Or is it an illusion? Why not read on and decide for
yourself. As if you had any choice... [20]Read on
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20. http://thebrowser.com/reports/free-will
Reader Recommendations
@[21]polit2k RT @[22]TimHarford: The not-so-sweet smell of odious
debt [23]t.co/uyngsjYR #[24]gfc2 #[25]browsings
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21. http://twitter.com/polit2k
22. http://twitter.com/TimHarford
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[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/13-bankers-by-simon-johnson-and-james-kwak
[28]13 Bankers by Simon Johnson and James Kwak
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28. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/13-bankers-by-simon-johnson-and-james-kwak
[29]Daron Acemoglu says: “One of the really big issues raised by this
book is whether we are actually living in a kind of oligarchy of the
sort we attribute to places like Russia” [30]FiveBooks Archive
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29. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/daron-acemoglu-on-inequality
30. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[31]What Makes A Video Go Viral?
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31. http://thebrowser.com/videos/what-makes-video-go-viral
TED talk from a YouTube staffer. Short answer: Surprise people [32]More
videos
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32. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[33]Roseanne Barr, on television
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33. http://nymag.com/print/?/arts/tv/upfronts/2011/roseanne-barr-2011-5
Imitation is the sincerest form of show business
[34]More quotes
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34. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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