Newsletter 633
[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]We're Good Europeans Yet They All Hate Us
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5. http://b.rw/HpwklB
Christopher Caldwell | Standpoint | 2 April 2012
"The main thrust of European consolidation has always been
anti-democratic, whether avowedly or not. But the move away from
democracy, sovereignty and accountability has taken on a new élan as
Germany has moved to Europe's fore" [6]Comments
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6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/were-good-europeans-yet-they-all-hate-us
[7]Words As Weapons
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7. http://b.rw/HFY9bT
Susan Benesch | World Policy Institute | 28 March 2012
"One can estimate the likelihood that speech will spark violence in any
given situation using just these five criteria: The speaker, the
audience, the speech itself, the social and historical context, and the
means of dissemination" [8]Comments
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8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/words-weapons
[9]Selling You On Facebook
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9. http://b.rw/Ick4Iu
Julia Angwin & Jeremy Singer-Vine | WSJ | 7 April 2012
"Facebook provides a free service that users pay for by providing
details about their lives, friendships, interests and activities."
Don't be surprised if your religious, political, sexual preferences end
up in some strange places [10]Comments
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10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/selling-you-facebook
[11]Forty Years In Solitary Confinement And Counting
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11. http://b.rw/HemMbM
Tim Franks | BBC | 4 April 2012
This month two men in Louisiana will complete 40 years in solitary
confinement. What does incarceration like this do to a prisoner's mind?
And is it even legal, when it's for such an extended time? [12]Comments
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/forty-years-solitary-confinement-and-counting
[13]The Logistical Nightmare Of Leaving Afghanistan
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13. http://b.rw/HTrSiU
Christain Neef | Spiegel | 3 April 2012
When Britain fled Afghanistan in 1842, it lost 17,000 soldiers en
route. Russia scrambled out in 1989 under fire from the mujahedin. Nato
hopes to do it a bit more gracefully, but it needs help from Russia and
Uzbekistan [14]Comments
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14. http://thebrowser.com/articles/logistical-nightmare-leaving-afghanistan
[15]When Eddie Met Haile
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15. http://b.rw/Ig8zuL
Eddie Izzard | FT | 7 April 2012
British comedian travels to Addis Ababa to try out some barefoot
running with double Olympic champion Haile Gebrselassie. Not much goes
according to plan, but at least the hyenas don't attack. Enjoyable
throughout [16]Comments
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16. http://thebrowser.com/articles/when-eddie-met-haile
FiveBooks Interview
[17]David Spiegelhalter on Statistics and Risk
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17. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/david-spiegelhalter-on-statistics-and-risk
Every statistic is the result of someone’s work, and we’d do well to
ask ourselves why it was created. That way, says the statistician, we
have a better chance of working out when dangers are being overstated
and data misused [18]Read on
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18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/david-spiegelhalter-on-statistics-and-risk
Featured Special Report
[19]The Death Penalty
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19. http://thebrowser.com/reports/death-penalty
To kill or not to kill? [20]Read on
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20. http://thebrowser.com/reports/death-penalty
Reader Recommendations
@[21]rszbt Book review: "Many have covered this ground but few have the
same access or depth of knowledge"[22]t.co/dvMkEHLt #[23]AhmedRashid
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Book of the Day
[26]Book of the Day
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26. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/big-short-inside-doomsday-machine-by-michael-lewis
[27]The Big Short by Michael Lewis
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27. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/big-short-inside-doomsday-machine-by-michael-lewis
[28]Barry Ritholtz says: "Michael Lewis, to me, is the preeminent
narrator [of the financial crisis]. He is the guy who constructs the
story better than anybody else" [29]FiveBooks Archive
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28. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/barry-ritholtz-on-causes-financial-crisis
29. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[30]Anthony Caro at Chatsworth
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30. http://thebrowser.com/videos/anthony-caro-chatsworth
Tour of the sculptor's exhibition
[31]More videos
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31. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[32]Terry Eagleton, on comparison
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32. http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/apr/06/event-literature-terry-eagleton-review
"A tortoise resembles orthopaedic surgery in that neither can ride a
bicycle"
[33]More quotes
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33. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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