Newsletter 644
[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]Economy Killers
Links:
5. http://b.rw/I0MmTs
Paul Krugman & Robin Wells | Salon | 15 April 2012
"How did America become a nation that could not rise to the biggest
economic challenge in three generations, a nation in which
scorched-earth politics and politicized economics created policy
paralysis?" Soaring inequality was key [6]Comments
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/economy-killers
[7]Why LBJ Should Be Ranked Alongside Lincoln
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7. http://b.rw/HVAGFL
Ron Rosenbaum | Smithsonian | 14 April 2012
Fourth volume of Robert Caro's great biography of Johnson focuses on
mysteries of character as much as it does on mysteries of power. And
specifically how LBJ and RFK could both combine vicious cruelty with
stirring kindness [8]Comments
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/why-lbj-should-be-ranked-alongside-lincoln
[9]How To Lower The Price Of Oil
Links:
9. http://b.rw/HUWjpk
Bernard Haykel, Giacomo Luciani & Eckart Woertz | Foreign Policy | 18
April 2012
"Why do oil prices remain stubbornly high? The reason is simply that
Saudi Arabia deliberately refrains from using the market power that it
might command." So here is what it should do, and what it would mean
[10]Comments
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/how-lower-price-oil
[11]It Was Satire
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11. http://b.rw/HJsy6q
Mary Beard | LRB | 18 April 2012
New biography of Caligula presents more nuanced view. Yes, he was
extravagant and cruel. But his reign started relatively well. Shades of
King Canute: He did extreme things—ennoble his horse—to test the limits
of his power [12]Comments
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/it-was-satire
[13]What Amazon's Ebook Strategy Means
Links:
13. http://b.rw/IS2oDd
Charlie Stross | Charlie's Diary | 14 April 2012
Don't listen to what Jeff Bezos says. Look at what he does. "The
peculiar evil genius of Amazon is that Amazon seems to be trying to
simultaneously establish a wholesale monopsony and a retail monopoly in
the ebook sector" [14]Comments
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/articles/what-amazons-ebook-strategy-means
[15]First, Do A Little Less Harm
Links:
15. http://b.rw/IAc0On
Mark Jenkins | Outside | 9 April 2012
A short course in wilderness first aid at the University of Wyoming.
Not for the squeamish. "By the end of this class you will know how to
deal with everything from a tension pneumothorax to torsion of the
testes” [16]Comments
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/articles/first-do-little-less-harm
FiveBooks Interview
[17]Stephen Cave on Immortality
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/stephen-cave-on-immortality
Will it be possible to live forever? Is there such a thing as the soul,
or immortality in one’s legacy? The author of a new book on immortality
explores the eternal questions, from elixirs of life to modern-day
cryonics [18]Read on
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/stephen-cave-on-immortality
Featured Special Report
[19]Human Modification
Links:
19. http://thebrowser.com/reports/human-modification
Scientists are experimenting with different ways to enhance humans.
What's possible? And what may be possible in the future? Does messing
with Mother Nature raise ethical questions? [20]Read on
Links:
20. http://thebrowser.com/reports/human-modification
Reader Recommendations
@[21]rszbt RT @[22]NiuB: Who are the Kwok
brothers? [23]t.co/jAD8e5ue" #[24]property
#[25]billionaires #[26]corruption #[27]browsings
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22. http://twitter.com/NiuB
23. http://t.co/jAD8e5ue
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26. http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=#corruption
27. http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=#browsings
[28]More like this
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28. http://thebrowser.com/browsings
Book of the Day
[29]Book of the Day
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29. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/naples-’44-by-norman-lewis
[30]Naples ’44 by Norman Lewis
Links:
30. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/naples-’44-by-norman-lewis
[31]Keith Lowe says: “Naples in 1944 was a city in meltdown. People
would do anything to get hold of some food: The black market was rife
and people resorted to banditry” [32]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
31. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/keith-lowe-on-aftermath-world-war-two
32. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[33]High Performance Touch
Links:
33. http://thebrowser.com/videos/high-performance-touch
Microsoft shows off a superfast touch-screen. Maybe it has a future as
a hardware company [34]More videos
Links:
34. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[35]Tim O'Reilly, on consumption
Links:
35. http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2012/04/18/tim-oreilly-at-mit-media-lab
"If you put your clothes in a clothes dryer, the energy you spend is
part of the measured economy. Hang them on the clothesline and they
disappear from our economy"
[36]More quotes
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36. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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