Newsletter 659
[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]The 99 Percent Wakes Up
Links:
5. http://b.rw/IxgsQK
Joseph Stiglitz | Daily Beast | 2 May 2012
Reflections on global economy, Occupy movement. "Much of what has gone
on can only be described by the words moral deprivation. Something
wrong had happened to the moral compass of so many people working in
the financial sector" [6]Comments
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/99-percent-wakes
[7]Why Google Isn’t Making Us Stupid…Or Smart
Links:
7. http://b.rw/IIWkKx
Chad Wellmon | Hedgehog Review | 27 April 2012
"Asking whether Google makes us stupid, as some cultural critics
recently have, is the wrong question. It assumes sharp distinctions
between humans and technology that are no longer, if they ever were,
tenable." Here's why [8]Comments
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/why-google-isn’t-making-us-stupid…or-smart
[9]Interpreting Shari’a
Links:
9. http://b.rw/IZ9Wz6
Mishal Husain | Guernica | 1 May 2012
Interview with human rights lawyer Sadakat Kadri, on origins and
interpretation of Shari'a law. Widely misunderstood, by Muslims and
non-Muslims alike. Shia approach more flexible than Sunni. Iran even
finances sex change operations [10]Comments
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/interpreting-shari’
[11]Remembering Amarillo Slim Whichever Way We Wish
Links:
11. http://b.rw/J0rnCu
Greg Dinkin | Grantland | 1 May 2012
Four times world poker champion. Talk-show favourite. Friend of
presidents. So thin he looked like "the advance man for a famine".
Could "talk the nuts off a motorcycle". Sold his memoirs to Hollywood.
Then came the scandal [12]Comments
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/remembering-amarillo-slim-whichever-way-we-wish
[13]Two Hundred Years Of Surgery
Links:
13. http://b.rw/K5O1ZT
Atul Gawande | New England Journal Of Medicine | 3 May 2012
"Surgery is a profession defined by its authority to cure by means of
bodily invasion. The brutality and risks of opening a living person's
body have long been apparent, the benefits only slowly and haltingly
worked out" [14]Comments
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/articles/two-hundred-years-surgery
[15]How To End This Depression
Links:
15. http://b.rw/K5Onzx
Paul Krugman | NYRB | 3 May 2012
"The depression we’re in is essentially gratuitous. Recovery would be
almost ridiculously easy to achieve. All we need is to reverse the
austerity policies of the past couple of years and temporarily boost
spending" [16]Comments
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/articles/how-end-depression
FiveBooks Interview
[17]Ma Jian on Chinese Dissident Literature
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/ma-jian-on-chinese-dissident-literature
Writers in China are afraid to criticise their state and society, says
the London-based author. He picks five works of Chinese literature,
from the 3rd century BC to 2008, which show how it’s done [18]Read on
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/ma-jian-on-chinese-dissident-literature
Featured Special Report
[19]Healthcare in America
Links:
19. http://thebrowser.com/reports/healthcare-america
The battle over US healthcare reform reaches the Supreme Court. Here's
what's at stake [20]Read on
Links:
20. http://thebrowser.com/reports/healthcare-america
Reader Recommendations
[21]ankurrathi2 Brutal Eye Opener - "Starving in India" - Series of 6
Articles = [22]t.co/tBZ1ybnK via @[23]WSJ [24]#browsings [25]More like
this
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21. http://twitter.com/ankurrathi2
22. http://foreignpolicyblogs.com/2012/05/03/starving-india-series-opens-eyes
23. http://twitter.com/WSJ
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/mandela-by-anthony-sampson
[27]Mandela by Anthony Sampson
Links:
27. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/mandela-by-anthony-sampson
[28]John Carlin says: If I have to go to a desert island and take one
Mandela book with me it would be Sampson’s. He has the credibility of
knowing Mandela as well as any biographer could be expected to
[29]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
28. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/john-carlin-on-understanding-mandela-and-south-africa
29. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[30]Brian Greene: Why Is Our Universe Fine-Tuned For Life?
Links:
30. http://thebrowser.com/videos/brian-greene-why-our-universe-fine-tuned-life
Get ready for dark energy and the multiverse
[31]More videos
Links:
31. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[32]Venkatesh Rao, on culture
Links:
32. http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2012/05/03/rediscovering-literacy
"Civilisation is the process of turning the incomprehensible into
the arbitrary"
[33]More quotes
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33. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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