Newsletter 647
[1]All of our Best of the Moment article recommendations, plus
FiveBooks interviews and other selected content from thebrower.com
Links:
1. http://thebrowser.com
[5]The Crisis Of Big Science
Links:
5. http://b.rw/IbGxAj
Steve Weinberg | NYRB | 19 April 2012
Physicists want bigger and bigger machines to discover smaller and
smaller things. They've bored a tunnel 17 miles long in Switzerland to
look for a particle that may not exist. Is science on this scale worth
the cost? [6]Comments
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/crisis-big-science
[7]How To Write Down The Debts And Restructure The Financial System
Links:
7. http://b.rw/Icx53c
Michael Hudson | INET | 13 April 2012
Financial sector and rentier partners captured gains, then spent part
of these gains on acquiring powerful voice in political process. In
courts and academia too. This sacrificing of economies to creditors
should be reversed (PDF) [8]Comments
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/how-write-down-debts-and-restructure-financial-system
[9]Living With The Gulf Oil Disaster, Two Years Later
Links:
9. http://b.rw/JmxS3N
David Gessner | On Earth | 20 April 2012
"If we expected the entire Gulf to become a toxic gumbo of Louisiana
sweet crude and dead animals, then no, the 'worst-case scenario' didn’t
come to pass. But if we don't address long-term degradation that will
be a worse fate" [10]Comments
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/living-gulf-oil-disaster-two-years-later
[11]How New York Lost The Apparel Business
Links:
11. http://b.rw/Jl6nWa
Marc Levinson | Bloomberg | 18 April 2012
Nobody does microeconomics better than Marc Levinson. How a change in
depreciation rules for sewing and cutting machines in 1962 transformed
not only America's clothing industry, but also New York. This column is
worth a book [12]Comments
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/how-new-york-lost-apparel-business
[13]In The Arcadian Woods
Links:
13. http://b.rw/IJtfKY
George Makari | NYT | 16 April 2012
Psychiatrist reflects on nature of anxiety, and its varied history.
"Present medical classifications offer up a smorgasbord of disorders
variously defined by the quality of nervousness, the object of terror,
or its source" [14]Comments
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/articles/arcadian-woods
[15]‘The Battle of Anghiari’
Links:
15. http://b.rw/IAY8U8
Charles Nicoll | London Review Of Books | 18 April 2012
On the trail of the lost Leonardo mural. Was it, as was assumed for
centuries, demolished and irrevocably lost? Or was it perhaps merely
hidden from view, covered over, preserved by Vasari behind the surface
of his own fresco? [16]Comments
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/articles/‘-battle-anghiari’
FiveBooks Interview
[17]Randall Grahm on Wine
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/randall-grahm-on-wine
The Californian winemaker gives us a fabulously eclectic reading list
for understanding and enjoying the world of wine
[18]Read on
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/randall-grahm-on-wine
Featured Special Report
[19]France Votes
Links:
19. http://thebrowser.com/reports/france-votes
French people go to the polls this weekend to elect a new president.
How do they feel about the choice in front of them? [20]Read on
Links:
20. http://thebrowser.com/reports/france-votes
Reader Recommendations
@rszbt I will not change my old 'mumpsimus' for your new 'sumpsimus'
>>> t.co/bxZqmiEL @sysparatem @polit2k #browsings[21]More like this
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21. http://thebrowser.com/browsings
Book of the Day
[22]Book of the Day
Links:
22. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/epic-gilgamesh-by-anonymous
[23]The Epic of Gilgamesh by Anonymous
Links:
23. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/epic-gilgamesh-by-anonymous
[24]Stephen Cave says: “It’s haunting, beautiful and in a tradition
with which we’re not familiar, but which speaks to us immediately”
[25]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
24. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/stephen-cave-on-immortality
25. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[26]Stupidity At 2500 FPS
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26. http://thebrowser.com/videos/stupidity-2500-fps
Does what it says on the can [27]More videos
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27. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[28]Charles Rosen, on surprise
Links:
28. http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2012/may/10/freedom-and-art
"From our artists and entertainers we expect originality, and resent
it when we get it"
[29]More quotes
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29. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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