Newsletter 672
[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]Facebook: The Ultimate Dot-Com
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5. http://b.rw/JydTAv
John Cassidy | New Yorker | 16 May 2012
Cassidy casts his eye over impending Facebook IPO: "It’s the
fulfillment of the dreams of the nineties—and a reminder of their
potentially fatal attraction." Has a website that expands at astronomic
pace just got to be worth money? [6]Comments
Links:
6. https://thebrowser.com/articles/facebook-ultimate-dot-com
[7]What Is The Rational Response?
Links:
7. http://b.rw/Jslej3
Malcolm Bull | LRB | 16 May 2012
On the ethical problems of climate change. Should the well-being of
future generations take precedence over our own? Are we responsible for
the excesses of past generations? All over the world, or just our own
compatriots? [8]Comments
Links:
8. https://thebrowser.com/articles/what-rational-response
[9]Nadir And Me
Links:
9. http://b.rw/JRmF9t
Joseph Heath | Walrus | 15 May 2012
In Canada, rich and poor sit side by side waiting for treatment in the
local public clinic. A good thing. "The health care system constitutes
a point of forced solidarity." What's the US equivalent? The courtroom,
perhaps? [10]Comments
Links:
10. https://thebrowser.com/articles/nadir-and-me
[11]Glory Days: A Pundit's View Of Pax Americana
Links:
11. http://b.rw/L6Zzcn
Andrew Bacevich | Harper's | 16 May 2012
Against Robert Kagan, and his "Copernican interpretation of
contemporary history": America the sun around which all else orbits.
His new book, "The World America Made", is "a slim volume of mythopoeia
decked out in analytic drag" [12]Comments
Links:
12. https://thebrowser.com/articles/glory-days-pundits-view-pax-americana
[13]What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits Of Markets
Links:
13. http://b.rw/JvilzL
AC Grayling | Barnes & Noble Review | 9 May 2012
Grayling comments on Michael Sandel's new book, which explores
corrosive effects of assigning a price to everything. Where should we
draw the line between the marketable and the unmarketable? What things
should remain priceless? [14]Comments
Links:
14. https://thebrowser.com/articles/what-money-cant-buy-moral-limits-markets
[15]Hong Kong
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15. http://b.rw/IW2hkQ
Michael Paterniti | National Geographic | 15 May 2012
Hong Kong is in flux once more. "Now a Chinese special administrative
region, it is being remade yet again under diamond pressure. And
increasingly this city of over seven million inhabitants floats on a
growing sense of unease" [16]Comments
Links:
16. https://thebrowser.com/articles/hong-kong
FiveBooks Interview
[17]Keith Spera on the Music of New Orleans
Links:
17. https://thebrowser.com/interviews/keith-spera-on-music-new-orleans
The author of Groove Interrupted transports us to the world of Fats
Domino and Professor Longhair, and tells us how (and where) to sample
the city’s unique music culture [18]Read on
Links:
18. https://thebrowser.com/interviews/keith-spera-on-music-new-orleans
Featured Special Report
[19]London and the Olympics
Links:
19. https://thebrowser.com/reports/london-and-olympics
The Games creep ever closer, though in London you'd hardly know it.
Here's a sideways look at the event and its host city [20]Read on
Links:
20. https://thebrowser.com/reports/london-and-olympics
Reader Recommendations
[21]nuzav John Kay - The dogma of ‘credibility’ endangers
stability: [22]t.co/fbWwYYMt #[23]browsings [24]More like this
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21. http://twitter.com/nuzav
22. http://t.co/fbWwYYMt
23. http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=#browsings
24. http://thebrowser.com/browsings
Book of the Day
[25]Book of the Day
Links:
25. https://thebrowser.com/recommended/george-v-by-kenneth-rose
[26]George V by Kenneth Rose
Links:
26. https://thebrowser.com/recommended/george-v-by-kenneth-rose
[27]Robert Lacey says: “The best royal biography ever written. It is a
classic which is full of insight and humanity, along with dry wit and
revelation” [28]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
27. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/robert-lacey-on-queen
28. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[29]Paralysed Woman Moves Robot With Her Mind
Links:
29. https://thebrowser.com/videos/paralysed-woman-moves-robot-her-mind
Tetraplegic, paralysed and unable to speak for past 15 years, drinks
coffee unassisted. Using a robot and the power of thought
[30]More videos
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30. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[31]Bruce Sterling, on history
Links:
31. http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/The-Origins-of-Futurism.html
"If futurism is visionary, history is revisionary"
[32]More quotes
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32. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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