Newsletter 622
[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 Supreme Court's Dark Vision Of Freedom
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5. http://b.rw/GWjQQP
Dahlia Lithwick | Slate | 28 March 2012
Commentary on day one of case seeking overturn of Obama healthcare
reform. "The fight is about freedom. This morning we got a window into
the freedom some of the justices long for. And it is a dark, dark
place" [6]Comments
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/supreme-courts-dark-vision-freedom
[7]Richard Clarke On Stuxnet
Links:
7. http://b.rw/GZG2J5
Ron Rosenbaum | Smithsonian | 22 March 2012
Interview with Richard Clarke, counter-terrorism chief under three
American presidents, now private security consultant. "Pretty clear"
that America launched Stuxnet virus against Iranian nuclear
programme—with Israeli help [8]Comments
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/richard-clarke-stuxnet
[9]Do Chinese Factory Workers Dream Of iPads?
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9. http://b.rw/GUrf4z
Leslie Chang | New Yorker | 26 March 2012
The dominant narrative in the Western media about Chinese factories is
that conditions are oppressive and our demand for cheap goods makes
them so. But, says Chang, there are other ways of looking at the
situation [10]Comments
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10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/do-chinese-factory-workers-dream-ipads
[11]Character And Its Discontents
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11. http://b.rw/GSaZPQ
Iskra Fileva | NYT | 25 March 2012
Why do we assume people's characters are unified, that their behaviour
in one context will relate to their behaviour in another? Some
philosophers are prepared to deny the very existence of character
traits. But are they right? [12]Comments
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12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/character-and-its-discontents
[13]The Sony Schism
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13. http://b.rw/GV1UGt
Tim Kelly & Reiji Murai | Reuters | 26 March 2012
"When Hirai becomes Sony's president and CEO in April, he takes charge
of a company facing a crisis unlike anything it has experienced in its
nearly 70-year history." Here's an overview of what went wrong, and
what the future holds [14]Comments
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/articles/sony-schism
[15]Death Of A Data Haven
Links:
15. http://b.rw/Hdj2dl
James Grimmelmann | Ars Technica | 27 March 2012
Short history of Sealand, self-proclaimed micro-nation on an old
oil-rig in the North Sea. It's not actually independent, but it is very
isolated. Once a base for pirate broadcasters. Soon, perhaps, a home
for Wikileaks? [16]Comments
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/articles/death-data-haven
FiveBooks Interview
[17]John Gray on Critiques of Utopia and Apocalypse
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/john-gray-on-critiques-utopia-and-apocalypse
Is it inevitable that the desire to build a perfect world should end in
disaster? John Gray considers the flaws in utopian thinking, the
essential nature of humans, and the driving force behind the Tea Party
[18]Read on
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/john-gray-on-critiques-utopia-and-apocalypse
Featured Special Report
[19]Healthcare in America
Links:
19. http://thebrowser.com/reports/healthcare-america
The battle over US healthcare reform reaches the Supreme Court. Here's
what's at stake [20]Read on
Links:
20. http://thebrowser.com/reports/healthcare-america
Reader Recommendations
@[21]polit2k John Kay - My generation should repay its good
luck [22]t.co/388NzJWF #[23]browsings ht @[24]TimHarford [25]More like
this
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22. http://www.johnkay.com/2012/03/28/my-generation-should-repay-its-good-luck
23. https://twitter.com/search?q=#browsings
24. http://twitter.com/TimHarford
25. http://thebrowser.com/browsings
Book of the Day
[26]Book of the Day
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26. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/essence-and-alchemy-by-mandy-aftel
[27]Essence and Alchemy by Mandy Aftel
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27. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/essence-and-alchemy-by-mandy-aftel
[28]Denise Hamilton says: “This a wonderful, swoony, sensual book. She
gives you the history of perfume through the ages, from the ancient
Egyptians and Assyrians” [29]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
28. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/denise-hamilton-on-perfume
29. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[30]Twitter For Small Business
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30. http://thebrowser.com/videos/twitter-small-business
Nicely done. Makes a potentially annoying product sound really quite
desirable
[31]More videos
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31. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[32]Jay Rayner, on reading
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32. http://twitter.com/jonnygeller/status/183927619337723904
"Nobody reads a great novel to find out how it finishes"
[33]More quotes
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33. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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