Newsletter 654
[1]All of our Best of the Moment article recommendations, plus
FiveBooks interviews and other selected content from thebrower.com
Links:
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[5]The Trust Molecule
Links:
5. http://b.rw/IBfNcT
Paul Zak | WSJ | 28 April 2012
"In our blood and in the brain, oxytocin appears to be the chemical
elixir that creates bonds of trust not just in our intimate
relationships but also in our business dealings, in politics and in
society at large" [6]Comments
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/trust-molecule
[7]China's Corporate Leninism
Links:
7. http://b.rw/JQWaRy
John Lee | American Interest | 23 April 2012
"The structure of the Chinese political economy today is consciously
designed to resist the transformative effects of participation and
eventual integration into a liberal order." Super essay explains how,
and why, this came to be [8]Comments
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/chinas-corporate-leninism
[9]Interview: Stephen King
Links:
9. http://b.rw/Il7J5T
Neil Gaiman | Neil Gaiman's Journal | 28 April 2012
Badly hurt ten years ago in a road accident. Now recovered, and writing
1500 words every day “I sit down maybe at quarter past eight in the
morning and I work until quarter to twelve." Next book: An amusement
park serial killer [10]Comments
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/interview-stephen-king
[11]How Free Is The Will?
Links:
11. http://b.rw/IgbZTK
Russell Blackford | ABC | 27 April 2012
I know, you've read too much on free will already. But this one's worth
it. Super explanation of dominant position in contemporary philosophy.
Followed by a sharp critique of new book "Free Will" by popular thinker
Sam Harris [12]Comments
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/how-free-will
[13]Ego Depletion
Links:
13. http://b.rw/IvY6Sw
Anonymous | You Are Not So Smart | 17 April 2012
Fascinating essay on willpower. Tests suggest it's a finite resource,
not a skill. "Every time you exert control over the giant system that
is you, that control gets weaker." Why? It just might be as simple as a
lack of glucose [14]Comments
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/articles/ego-depletion
[15]Genocide And The Fine Arts
Links:
15. http://b.rw/IL1kgY
Adam Thirlwell | New Republic | 20 April 2012
Discursive but always interesting mediation on Claude Lanzmann's
memoir, "Patagonian Hare", and on his epic Holocaust film, "Shoah"—"one
of the sternest, strangest, and most important films made in the short
history of cinema" [16]Comments
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/articles/genocide-and-fine-arts
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]Ali and Frazier
Links:
19. http://thebrowser.com/reports/ali-and-frazier
Three fights against each other, two of the greatest heavyweight boxers
of all time, one hell of a story [20]Read on
Links:
20. http://thebrowser.com/reports/ali-and-frazier
Reader Recommendations
[21]evaholland Wonderful essay from @[22]AmandaGiracca, on the mystery
of the Eastern cougar. Concerning Cougar: [23]t.co/TZF0mgGO
#[24]longreads #[25]browsings [26]More like this
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21. http://twitter.com/evaholland
22. http://twitter.com/AmandaGiracca
23. http://t.co/TZF0mgGO
24. http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=#longreads
25. http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=#browsings
26. http://thebrowser.com/browsings
Book of the Day
[27]Book of the Day
Links:
27. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/sidereus-nuncius-by-galileo-galilei
[28]Sidereus Nuncius by Galileo Galilei
Links:
28. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/sidereus-nuncius-by-galileo-galilei
[29]Dava Sobel says: This is a thrilling book. It is the moment that
astronomy became an observational science. [30]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
29. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/dava-sobel-on-early-history-astronomy
30. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[31]President Obama at the 2012 White House Correspondents Dinner
Links:
31. http://thebrowser.com/videos/president-obama-2012-white-house-correspondents-dinner
America's dogs can't afford four more years of Obama
[32]More videos
Links:
32. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[33]Robert Gates, on North Korea
Links:
33. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_us_north_korea;_ylt=AomqTT03DkTyOrBQ11LN53qs0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTNoazFsdTZmBGFzc2V0A2FwLzIwMTAxMTI0L3VzX3VzX25vcnRoX2tvcmVhBGNjb2RlA21vc3Rwb3B1bGFyBGNwb3MDMQRwb3MDMgRwdANob21lX2Nva2UEc2VjA3luX3RvcF9zdG9yeQRzbGsDb2JhbWFwbGVkZ2Vz
I don't know the answer to any question about North Korea that
begins with the word "why"
[34]More quotes
Links:
34. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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