Newsletter 617
[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]The Case Against Google
Links:
5. http://b.rw/GPYmsU
Mat Honan | Gizmodo | 22 March 2012
Fundamentals have changed. Google's model no longer to maximise market
share. That's done. Now comes time for monetising captive audience by
whatever means available. Google's core product is no longer search.
It's Google [6]Comments
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/case-against-google
[7]Sergeant Bales's Shame And Ours
Links:
7. http://b.rw/GGRjSf
George Packer | New Yorker | 20 March 2012
Don't minimise or medicalise alleged war crime of Staff Sergeant Robert
Bales. Don't say 'I told you so' and, certainly, don't praise it. But
do put it in context, and think about how and why this conflict is
being conducted [8]Comments
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/sergeant-baless-shame-and-ours
[9]The Brain: The Connections May Be The Key
Links:
9. http://b.rw/GFhKcU
Carl Zimmer | Discover | 20 March 2012
The brain contains 100 billion neurons, which are joined together by a
quadrillion connections. It’s these links that allow for learning and
memory. But no scientist has mapped this complex web, the connectome.
Enter Sebastian Seung [10]Comments
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/brain-connections-may-be-key
[11]Prepare For The End Of Dominance
Links:
11. http://b.rw/GDb0ap
Charles Kupchan | Atlantic | 20 March 2012
Robert Kagan says America can go on ruling the world. Obama agrees. But
they are wrong, and dangerously so. Denial of decline encourages
strategic complacency. America needs to adapt its posture: Less hard
power, more diplomacy [12]Comments
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/prepare-end-dominance
[13]John Stuart Mill And The Right To Die
Links:
13. http://b.rw/GR2l6H
Tauriq Moosa | Big Think | 21 March 2012
"Why do we say it's fine for a person to destroy his lungs, drive
extremely fast cars, drink excessively, but not end his life upon his
choosing, with his full consent, and painlessly?" Does this make us
hypocritical? [14]Comments
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/articles/john-stuart-mill-and-right-die
[15]Body Language
Links:
15. http://b.rw/GGLujg
Arika Okrent | Lapham's Quarterly | 22 March 2012
Investigating the act of gesturing. Even the congenitally blind, when
addressing others they know are blind, use gestures as they speak. Why
would this be? "When we form our thoughts into speech, some of it leaks
through our hands" [16]Comments
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/articles/body-language
FiveBooks Interview
[17]Robert Reich on Saving Capitalism and Democracy
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/robert-reich-on-saving-capitalism-and-democracy
Three decades of growing inequality and collapsing public morality have
pitched America into crisis, imperilling its democracy. But there are
precedents for a way out, says Robert Reich [18]Read on
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/robert-reich-on-saving-capitalism-and-democracy
Featured Special Report
[19]Drone Warfare
Links:
19. http://thebrowser.com/reports/drone-warfare
Should we worry about war conducted by remote control? Are there
ethical considerations? Will we become accustomed to unmanned warfare
in the future? What if a hacker took control of an army? It's all here
[20]Read on
Links:
20. http://thebrowser.com/reports/drone-warfare
Reader Recommendations
@prospect_uk Rwanda's "evil twin" [21]t.co/cMjqwZLc #longreads
[22]#browsings [23]More like this
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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/after-mandela-battle-soul-south-africa-by
[25]After Mandela by Alec Russell
Links:
25. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/after-mandela-battle-soul-south-africa-by
[26]John Carlin says: “Alec Russell describes that post-Mandela period
of disillusionment with rich anecdote, with very intelligent and
consistently measured analysis" [27]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
26. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/john-carlin-on-understanding-mandela-and-south-africa
27. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[28]Sketchy Romney
Links:
28. http://thebrowser.com/videos/sketchy-romney
Say what you like about Gingrich as a candidate. He's a heck of an
opponent [29]More videos
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29. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[30]Alison Gopnik, on children
Links:
30. http://www2.macleans.ca/2011/11/01/what’s-wrong-with-the-way-we-teach-and-how-a-year-out-of-university-changed-her-son’s-life
"Children are the R&D of the human species, adults are the
production and marketing”
[31]More quotes
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31. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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