Newsletter 626
[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]America’s Dream Unravels
Links:
5. http://b.rw/H5UjEC
Edward Luce | FT | 30 March 2012
Outstanding essay looks at America's economic and political malaise. A
country where the Walton family is worth as much as bottom 150 million.
"Brain power is America’s future. But it doesn’t always appear too
cerebral in practice" [6]Comments
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/america’s-dream-unravels
[7]AI Robot: How Machine Intelligence Is Evolving
Links:
7. http://b.rw/HIEi7A
Marcus du Sautoy | Observer | 1 April 2012
"Turing might be disappointed that in his centenary year there are no
machines that can pass themselves off as humans but I think that he
would be more excited by the new direction artificial intelligence has
taken" [8]Comments
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/ai-robot-how-machine-intelligence-evolving
[9]The War Against Youth
Links:
9. http://b.rw/HGDobL
Stephen Marche | Esquire | 28 March 2012
The old are eating the young. They may not have set out to do so, but
economic and social policy has been rigged to serve their interests.
It's unaffordable socialism for the old; virulently purified capitalism
for the young [10]Comments
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/war-against-youth
[11]I Want To Be Alone: The Rise And Rise Of Solo Living
Links:
11. http://b.rw/H6ARhc
Eric Klinenberg et al | Guardian | 30 March 2012
"During the past half-century, our species has embarked on a remarkable
social experiment. For the first time, great numbers of people – at all
ages, in all places, of every political persuasion – have begun living
alone" [12]Comments
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/i-want-be-alone-rise-and-rise-solo-living
[13]Falklands, Thirty Years On
Links:
13. http://b.rw/Hq5CNw
Felipe Fernandez-Armesto | Independent | 31 March 2012
British were right to fight, but wrong not to make some compromise with
newly democratic Argentina in the years that followed—for example, by
agreeing to share revenues from offshore oil, or to transfer legal
sovereignty [14]Comments
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/articles/falkands-thirty-years
[15]The Upside Of Autism
Links:
15. http://b.rw/HG1Gmd
Jonah Lehrer | WSJ | 31 March 2012
Autism is better understood as a deviation than a disorder. So what
seems like a deficit is actually a trade-off – poor communication
skills may go with high perceptual capabilities and ability to process
lots of information quickly [16]Comments
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/articles/upside-autism
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]The Death Penalty
Links:
19. http://thebrowser.com/reports/death-penalty
To kill or not to kill? [20]Read on
Links:
20. http://thebrowser.com/reports/death-penalty
Reader Recommendations
@[21]polit2k Why Nations Fail | THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN | NYT
[22]t.co/yoM0DaD3 #[23]browsings #[24]itsthepoliticsstupid
@[25]baselinescene [26]More like this
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26. http://thebrowser.com/browsings
Book of the Day
[27]Book of the Day
Links:
27. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/murder-medici-princess-by-caroline-p-murphy
[28]Murder of a Medici Princess by Caroline P Murphy
Links:
28. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/murder-medici-princess-by-caroline-p-murphy
[29]Nancy Goldstone says: “This book is about a very strong woman:
Isabella, the daughter of Duke Cosimo I de' Medici, the powerful ruler
of 15th century Florence” [30]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
29. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/nancy-goldstone-on-strong-women-bad-marriages
30. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[31]Festival of Colours
Links:
31. http://thebrowser.com/videos/festival-colours
A technicolour explosion. Taking tie-dye to a whole new level
[32]More videos
Links:
32. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[33]Susan Sontag, on herself
Links:
33. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/01/opinion/sunday/a-sontag-sampler.html
“Just because I have opinions doesn’t mean I’m right”
[34]More quotes
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34. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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