Newsletter 663
[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 Once And Future Dollar
Links:
5. http://b.rw/Jd6Fwe
Barry Eichengreen | American Interest | 7 May 2012
Worries abound about global status of the dollar, what it would mean
for the US politically and economically if it weakened. But, as
Eichengreen shows, there are both benefits and drawbacks to the dollar
as reserve currency [6]Comments
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/once-and-future-dollar
[7]The English Wars
Links:
7. http://b.rw/KigHyV
Joan Acocella | New Yorker | 7 May 2012
Surveying the battle over the way we should speak. English "has always
been a ragbag" and that has encouraged permissiveness. But the
situation today is one of serious quarrel, between prescriptivists and
descriptivists [8]Comments
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/english-wars
[9]The Beating Heart Donors
Links:
9. http://b.rw/IYfZ9D
Dick Teresi | Discover | 2 May 2012
"Organ transplants would be peripheral to the story of death if they
were what the organ trade claimed them to be: The neat extraction of
body parts from totally dead, unfeeling corpses." Regrettably that is
far from the case [10]Comments
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/beating-heart-donors
[11]Maurice Sendak, Children’s Author Who Upended Tradition, Dies At 83
Links:
11. http://b.rw/JdfxBT
Margalit Fox | NYT | 8 May 2012
"Roundly praised, intermittently censored and occasionally eaten, Mr
Sendak’s books were essential ingredients of childhood for the
generation born after 1960 or thereabouts, and in turn for their
children" [12]Comments
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/maurice-sendak-children’s-author-who-upended-tradition-dies-83
[13]The Gruesome History Of Eating Corpses As Medicine
Links:
13. http://b.rw/JOwQId
Maria Dolan | Smithsonian | 7 May 2012
"For several hundred years many Europeans, including royalty, priests
and scientists, routinely ingested remedies containing human bones,
blood and fat as medicine for everything from headaches to epilepsy."
Last example? 1908 [14]Comments
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/articles/gruesome-history-eating-corpses-medicine
[15]Much To Answer For
Links:
15. http://b.rw/JaTcqE
Glenn Loury | Boston Review | 5 May 2012
Time to reappraise James Q. Wilson, political scientist and
criminologist. "Towering figure" in American social policy. But what a
legacy. His writings laid the foundations for generalised imprisonment
and zero-tolerance policing [16]Comments
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/articles/much-answer
FiveBooks Interview
[17]Bruce Dowbiggin on Ice Hockey
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/bruce-dowbiggin-on-ice-hockey
Fast, violent and with a passionately political history, hockey is the
sport that defines Canada. The sports columnist tells us how this came
to be, and why hockey, still a thrilling spectacle, has also become
more dangerous to play [18]Read on
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/bruce-dowbiggin-on-ice-hockey
Featured Special Report
[19]Air Travel
Links:
19. http://thebrowser.com/reports/air-travel
Airlines opened to us a world of thrilling possibility. But, for many,
flying is still a terrifying prospect. Crashes, though rare, do happen.
And then there are the security procedures bequeathed to us by 9/11
[20]Read on
Links:
20. http://thebrowser.com/reports/air-travel
Reader Recommendations
[21]evaeuropa RT @[22]polit2k: RT @[23]Frances_Coppola: RT
@[24]duncanweldon: Superb analysis of Hollande by
@[25]JeremyCliffe [26]t.co/edjPfZNu [27]#browsings [28]More like this
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21. http://twitter.com/evaeuropa
22. http://twitter.com/polit2k
23. http://twitter.com/Frances_Coppola
24. http://twitter.com/duncanweldon
25. http://twitter.com/JeremyCliffe
26. http://shiftinggrounds.org/2012/05/the-meaning-of-president-hollande
27. https://twitter.com/search?q=#browsings
28. http://thebrowser.com/browsings
Book of the Day
[29]Book of the Day
Links:
29. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/history-russian-revolution-by-leon-trotsky
[30]History of the Russian Revolution by Leon Trotsky
Links:
30. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/history-russian-revolution-by-leon-trotsky
[31]Roland Chambers says: “It pretends analytic detachment, but is, in
fact, a colossal vanity mirror, in which Trotsky examines his life’s
work as he wishes others to examine it” [32]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
31. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/roland-chambers-on-revolutionary-russia
32. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[33]The Case For Naturalism
Links:
33. http://thebrowser.com/videos/case-naturalism
Physicist Sean Carroll explains how the progress of science has led to
the view that nothing exists beyond the natural universe. Magnificent
[34]More videos
Links:
34. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[35]Augusten Burroughs, on happiness
Links:
35. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304746604577379891905861390.html?mod=googlenews_wsj#articleTabs=article
"Joy is a fleeting emotion, like a very long sneeze"
[36]More quotes
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36. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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