Newsletter 624
[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 Prevent Other Financial Crises
Links:
5. http://b.rw/GXF1SF
Nassim Nicholas Taleb & George Martin | Fooled By Randomness | 28 March
2012
Scholarly 12-page PDF, so save for a quiet moment, but do read. In
brief: The best way to stop banks collapsing is to make their owners
and managers personally liable for the consequences. The captain goes
down with the ship [6]Comments
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/how-prevent-other-financial-crises1
[7]What's Rupert's Game In Scotland?
Links:
7. http://b.rw/H39kNe
Eric Ellis | Global Mail | 27 March 2012
Murdoch has been tweaking the British government's tail over Scottish
independence and is now remarkably matey with Scottish first minister,
Alex Salmond. He does love to back a winner, but what is going on here?
Revenge? [8]Comments
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/whats-ruperts-game-scotland
[9]A Counterfeiting Conspiracy?
Links:
9. http://b.rw/GWyzwp
Ben Tarnoff | NYT | 27 March 2012
The story of Samuel Curtis Upham, an enterprising shopkeeper turned
forger. During the American civil war he waged a devastating attack on
the South with his counterfeit Confederate banknotes. And destroyed the
value of the currency [10]Comments
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/counterfeiting-conspiracy
[11]World War 3.0
Links:
11. http://b.rw/GXFDc0
Michael Joseph Gross | Vanity Fair | 30 March 2012
Privacy, piracy, security, sovereignty. Just some of the battle lines
drawn in the war over the Internet. And part of wider questions of
freedom and control. Later this year, the key UN treaty will be
revised. Here's what's at stake [12]Comments
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/world-war-30
[13]The Phantoms I've Killed
Links:
13. http://b.rw/HmCFRM
Tom Murphy | Do The Math | 27 March 2012
Physics professor decides to investigate, and cut, his domestic energy
use. Living in San Diego may help, but he managed to get his utility
electricity consumption down to a tenth of comparable local homes. This
is how he did it [14]Comments
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/articles/phantoms-ive-killed
[15]Lender’s Bagels And the Power Of Mediocrity
Links:
15. http://b.rw/H0FxE6
Matthew Yglesias | Slate | 27 March 2012
Nobody wants to say they changed the world by inventing an inferior
product, but that's how innovation often works. Murray Lender's frozen
bagels weren't as good as fresh ones, but they made a niche food into a
national favourite [16]Comments
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/articles/lender’s-bagels-and-power-mediocrity
FiveBooks Interview
[17]Barry Ritholtz on Causes of the Financial Crisis
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/barry-ritholtz-on-causes-financial-crisis
The Wall Street money manager diagnoses the ills of America’s political
and economic system in a fizzing, irreverent analysis (with promised
f-bombs thrown in) [18]Read on
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/barry-ritholtz-on-causes-financial-crisis
Featured Special Report
[19]Air Travel
Links:
19. http://thebrowser.com/reports/air-travel
Airlines opened to us a world of thrilling possibility. But, for many,
flying is still a terrifying prospect. Crashes, though rare, do happen.
And then there are the security procedures bequeathed to us by 9/11
[20]Read on
Links:
20. http://thebrowser.com/reports/air-travel
Reader Recommendations
@nuzav Jonathan Gruber, Health Care’s Mr. Mandate: [21]t.co/NM0PdxZd
#Browsings [22]#browsings [23]More like this
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21. http://t.co/NM0PdxZd
22. https://twitter.com/search?q=#browsings
23. http://thebrowser.com/browsings
Book of the Day
[24]Book of the Day
Links:
24. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/heptameron-by-marguerite-de-navarre
[25]The Heptameron by Marguerite de Navarre
Links:
25. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/heptameron-by-marguerite-de-navarre
[26]Nancy Goldstone says: “Marguerite is clearly getting her revenge on
her husband, and men in general. Think of it as Desperate Renaissance
Housewives” [27]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
26. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/nancy-goldstone-on-strong-women-bad-marriages
27. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[28]Ian McEwan Interview
Links:
28. http://thebrowser.com/videos/ian-mcewan-interview
On writing: There's a form of happiness that comes from total
absorption in doing something
[29]More videos
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29. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[30]George Dyson, on money
Links:
30. http://edge.org/conversation/a-universe-of-self-replicating-code
"Money is really a sort of a gentlemen's agreement to agree on where
the money is at a given time"
[31]More quotes
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31. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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