Newsletter 645
[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]Another Night To Remember
Links:
5. http://b.rw/JdTtHN
Bryan Burrough | Vanity Fair | 19 April 2012
Reconstruction of the night the Costa Concordia became the largest
passenger ship ever wrecked. It's a "story of heroism and disgrace, and
also, in the mistakes of its captain and certain officers, a tale of
monumental human folly" [6]Comments
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/another-night-remember
[7]Post-Prozac Nation
Links:
7. http://b.rw/IDrOzV
Siddhartha Mukherjee | NYT | 19 April 2012
Was "serotonin hypothesis" of depression discarded too soon? Latest
research suggests serotonin is indeed central to functioning of mood,
but "its mechanism of action is vastly more subtle and more magnificent
than we ever imagined" [8]Comments
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/post-prozac-nation
[9]The World's Most Important Story
Links:
9. http://b.rw/J0mSIP
Jonathan Watts | China Dialogue | 17 April 2012
It's China. And in particular China's environment. Because that's the
basis of China's economy. The carbon-fuelled industrial model that
Britain pioneered 200 years ago is reaching its apex here. And perhaps
its end [10]Comments
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/worlds-most-important-story
[11]Sweden’s Secret Recipe
Links:
11. http://b.rw/HX8YnD
Fraser Nelson | Spectator | 14 April 2012
Profile of Anders Borg, Europe's best finance minister—and the only one
with a pony-tail and ear-ring. Successfully stimulated Swedish economy
by cutting taxes, while other countries borrowed their way deeper into
debt. [12]Comments
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/sweden’s-secret-recipe
[13]Inside The Racist Mind
Links:
13. http://b.rw/Jj8iwt
Touré | Time | 19 April 2012
"A white woman sidled up to me, leaned in close so no one near us could
hear, and said, 'I’m racist.' Many people would be repelled. I was
entranced. Here was someone who could tell me first hand how the racist
mind worked" [14]Comments
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/articles/inside-racist-mind
[15]Taxes And Cheating
Links:
15. http://b.rw/HRS2SV
Dan Ariely | Dan Ariely | 10 April 2012
Ariely's experiments show that people are more likely to cheat after
witnessing others get away with dishonest behaviour. But is it possible
to create circumstances in which they can witness cheating and yet
remain virtuous? [16]Comments
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/articles/taxes-and-cheating
FiveBooks Interview
[17]Michael Lind on American Economic History
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/michael-lind-on-american-economic-history
The American economy has been driven by waves of technological change
and the successful adoption of ideas from elsewhere. The author of Land
of Promise tells us how it happened, and what history teaches us about
the way ahead [18]Read on
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/michael-lind-on-american-economic-history
Featured Special Report
[19]Great Obituaries
Links:
19. http://thebrowser.com/reports/great-obituaries
Raise a glass to life's characters with our collection of writing about
eventful, unconventional lives. RIP [20]Read on
Links:
20. http://thebrowser.com/reports/great-obituaries
Reader Recommendations
@maisonneuvemag We expose bid-rigging, violence and sabotage at the
heart of Montreal snow removal: [21]t.co/DEeor6g8 #longreads #browsings
#muckreads [22]More like this
Links:
21. http://t.co/DEeor6g8
22. http://thebrowser.com/browsings
Book of the Day
[23]Book of the Day
Links:
23. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/information-master-by-dr-jacob-soll
[24]The Information Master by Dr Jacob Soll
Links:
24. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/information-master-by-dr-jacob-soll
[25]Ann Blair says: “Soll’s work is part of a new kind of history that
focuses on how archives were consciously formed as a source of
argumentation for state action” [26]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
25. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/ann-blair-on-history-information
26. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[27]The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down
Links:
27. http://thebrowser.com/videos/night-they-drove-old-dixie-down
Remembering Levon Helm, 1940-2012
[28]More videos
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28. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[29]Henry Ford, on market research
Links:
29. http://twitter.com/orsoraggiante/status/192830616260194305
"If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said a
faster horse"
[30]More quotes
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30. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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