Newsletter 648
[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]Get Rich U
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5. http://b.rw/I8YYqe
Ken Auletta | New Yorker | 23 April 2012
If the Ivy League was the breeding ground for old elites, Stanford is
the farm system for Silicon Valley. But with many students there
developing a gold-rush mentality, is it striking the right balance
between commerce and learning? [6]Comments
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6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/get-rich-u
[7]How To Follow Our Weird Politics
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7. http://b.rw/JoRMMh
Michael Tomasky | NYRB | 19 April 2012
Is it still the economy, stupid? No one would say economic conditions
are unimportant in determining the outcome of elections, but how much
do campaigns matter? Tomasky weighs up Romney vs Obama, 2012
[8]Comments
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8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/how-follow-our-weird-politics
[9]Word Order
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9. http://b.rw/K1Df3k
Lewis Lapham | TomDispatch | 22 April 2012
On language, information, technological change. The Internet may be a
marvellous machine, but it scans everything and hears nothing, as
tone-deaf as the filtering devices of the Pentagon (Starts after
seven-paragraph introduction) [10]Comments
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10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/word-order
[11]Greetings From The New Africa
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11. http://b.rw/IKAyo1
Richard Dowden | WSJ | 20 April 2012
It's a lot better than you think. "Most African countries have enjoyed
more than a decade of economic growth at rates we in the West can only
dream about." Two big new forces for growth: Chinese investment, and
mobile phones [12]Comments
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12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/greetings-new-africa
[13]Shift Happens
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13. http://b.rw/Jkj1ms
David Weinberger | Chronicle Review | 22 April 2012
Thomas Kuhn's "Structure Of Scientific Revolutions" rewrote the history
of science, by introducing the concept of "paradigm shift". Science
advances not by single ideas, but by systems of ideas, which displace
one another [14]Comments
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14. http://thebrowser.com/articles/shift-happens
[15]In Defence Of Obscure Words
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15. http://b.rw/IjH0Tg
Will Self | BBC | 20 April 2012
Learning requires effort. And that is how it should be. So it's dismal
to see "the traditional set texts chopped up into boneless nuggets of
McKnowledge, and students encouraged to do their research – such as it
is – on the web" [16]Comments
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/articles/defence-obscure-words
FiveBooks Interview
[17]Kenneth Mack on Race and the Law
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/kenneth-mack-on-race-and-law
The American law scholar discusses the warring ideals of egalitarianism
and exclusion at the heart of US politics and law, from the founding of
the nation up to the present day [18]Read on
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/kenneth-mack-on-race-and-law
Featured Special Report
[19]Sport's Violence Problem
Links:
19. http://thebrowser.com/reports/sports-violence-problem
Nobody wants to take away the thrill and drama of the NFL or NHL, but
is middle age dementia an acceptable price for ex-players to pay?
[20]Read on
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20. http://thebrowser.com/reports/sports-violence-problem
Reader Recommendations
@[21]polit2k MT @[22]EpicureanDeal: This NY Times article on Wal-Mart
is what investigative journalism is for and can be. [23]t.co/fFfcZjOT
[24]#browsings [25]More like this
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21. http://twitter.com/polit2k
22. http://twitter.com/EpicureanDeal
23. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/22/business/at-wal-mart-in-mexico-a-bribe-inquiry-silenced.html?_r=2
24. https://twitter.com/search?q=#browsings
25. http://thebrowser.com/browsings
Book of the Day
[26]Book of the Day
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26. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/technology-and-american-society-by-gary-cross-and-rick-szostak
[27]Technology and American Society by Gary Cross and Rick Szostak
Links:
27. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/technology-and-american-society-by-gary-cross-and-rick-szostak
[28]Michael Lind says: “This book is really useful – for example, on
how electricity transformed the household. Women in particular were
liberated from drudgery” [29]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
28. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/michael-lind-on-american-economic-history
29. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[30]Martin Amis's Eulogy for Christopher Hitchens
Links:
30. http://thebrowser.com/videos/martin-amiss-eulogy-christopher-hitchens
"Not always rational, and by no means always prudent, but penetratingly
sane. He knew who he was"
[31]More videos
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31. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[32]Scott Adams, on babies
Links:
32. http://dilbert.com/blog/entry/slowing_the_decline_in_your_personal_appeal
Humans start their lives at the peak of their popularity. You will
never regain the personal appeal you enjoyed as a baby
[33]More quotes
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33. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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