Newsletter 653
[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]Europe's Zero-Sum Dilemma
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5. http://b.rw/KgSAgo
Gideon Rachman | National Interest | 25 April 2012
"What is unfolding in Europe is a tragedy of good intentions. For
entirely honorable reasons, European leaders attempted to construct a
political and currency union." But now nationalist sentiments threaten
to tear it apart [6]Comments
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/europes-zero-sum-dilemma
[7]The Irrationality Of Irrationality: The Paradox Of Popular Psychology
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7. http://b.rw/IejIim
Samuel McNerney | Scientific American | 27 April 2012
There's no end of popular books on the shortcomings of rationality. Our
flaws have been exposed to all. But, ironically, many have absorbed
these titles uncritically, falling prey to the very biases they should
have learnt to avoid [8]Comments
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/irrationality-irrationality-paradox-popular-psychology
[9]The Capital Of The Forgetful
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9. http://b.rw/I3xbIL
Louis Theroux | BBC | 26 April 2012
"Phoenix is a mecca for America's elderly, who are attracted by the
year-round sun. It is also a kind of capital of the forgetful and the
confused. Not coincidentally, Phoenix is pioneering the way dementia
sufferers are treated" [10]Comments
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10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/capital-forgetful
[11]In Remembrance Of A Lifelong Political Thug
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11. http://b.rw/JJ85nv
David Greenberg | New Republic | 25 April 2012
Charles Colson, Richard Nixon's hatchet-man, was "the ugliest of the
Watergate thugs, the most shamelessly vicious". Religion changed, but
did not improve him. "The storyline of such a nasty man now finding God
proved irresistible" [12]Comments
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12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/remembrance-lifelong-political-thug
[13]That Whole London Thing
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13. http://b.rw/I3BTWM
AL Kennedy | Granta | 24 April 2012
"Homicidal drivers, ten quid coffees, and areas in which I could not
afford to buy anything more than a lock-up garage with a missing roof."
And still she wants to move there. Scottish writer considers the draw
of London [14]Comments
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/articles/whole-london-thing
[15]Giant Among Giants
Links:
15. http://b.rw/IpvOGF
Ken Silverstein | Foreign Policy | 23 April 2012
Profile of Glencore, commodities firm founded by Marc Rich. Controls
half of the world trade in zinc and copper, one-third of the coal
market. And, as you'd expect, deals with some pretty nasty governments
to secure supplies [16]Comments
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/articles/giant-among-giants
FiveBooks Interview
[17]Barry Eichengreen on the Euro
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/barry-eichengreen-on-euro
With hindsight, was the euro a good idea? Will it come through the
present crisis intact or will any country decide to leave? And what
happens if they do? All this and more answered by the economics
professor [18]Read on
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/barry-eichengreen-on-euro
Featured Special Report
[19]How To Die
Links:
19. http://thebrowser.com/reports/how-die
How to face the end? Peacefully? Still fighting? With all of medicine's
help? Or naturally? [20]Read on
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20. http://thebrowser.com/reports/how-die
Reader Recommendations
[21]prospect_uk Should people be paid for donating
blood? [22]t.co/fd4qJodZ #[23]browsings [24]More like this
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24. http://thebrowser.com/browsings
Book of the Day
[25]Book of the Day
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25. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/slowness-by-milan-kundera
[26]Slowness by Milan Kundera
Links:
26. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/slowness-by-milan-kundera
[27]Carl Honoré says: "For anyone wanting to delve into the
meta-physical underpinnings of the slow revolution, this is the perfect
primer" [28]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
27. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/carl-honoré-on-slow-living
28. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[29]Guatemala: The Maya
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29. http://thebrowser.com/videos/guatemala-maya
Foreigners in their own land
[30]More videos
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30. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[31]Tony Judt, on Israel-Palestine
Links:
31. http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2011/1101.odonnell.html
Two peoples, each sustained by its exclusive victim narrative,
competing indefinitely across the dead bodies of their children for
the same tiny piece of land
[32]More quotes
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32. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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