Newsletter 674
[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]Why Spain Will Leave the Euro
Links:
5. http://b.rw/JDTR7I
Michael Pettis | Economonitor | 18 May 2012
Just a matter of time. Painful, but no politically workable
alternative. "The country has already started on the self-reinforcing
downward spiral that leads to a crisis, and there is no one big enough
to reverse the spiral" [6]Comments
Links:
6. https://thebrowser.com/articles/why-spain-will-leave-euro
[7]Lunch With The FT: Cornel West
Links:
7. http://b.rw/JDVIJr
Anna Fifield | FT | 19 May 2012
Main topic: Losing faith in Obama. He overpromised, underdelivered.
“It’s like a novelist being obsessed with Tolstoy or Proust, and then
he ends up writing short stories that can barely get into some
middlebrow magazine." Ouch [8]Comments
Links:
8. https://thebrowser.com/articles/lunch-ft-cornel-west
[9]Hitler's Very Own Hot Jazz Band
Links:
9. http://b.rw/KysaMB
Mike Dash | Smithsonian | 17 May 2012
Goebbels knew he had to engage the public, at home and abroad. "It was
an effort that led directly to the creation of that oxymoron in
four-bar form: A Nazi-approved, state-sponsored hot jazz band known as
Charlie and His Orchestra" [10]Comments
Links:
10. https://thebrowser.com/articles/hitlers-very-own-hot-jazz-band
[11]Fresno
Links:
11. http://b.rw/Jl25Sk
Anonymous | n+1 | 18 May 2012
Essay. On growing up in an unhappy family in a blighted American town.
"Fresno is amorphous, a conical blob that looks like a piece of bubble
gum squashed against a sidewalk". Downtown died in the 1970s. Gangs
took over the streets [12]Comments
Links:
12. https://thebrowser.com/articles/fresno
[13]Addicts, Mythmakers And Philosophers
Links:
13. http://b.rw/JCNnUu
Alan Brody | Philosophy Now | 17 May 2012
Addiction assessed via philosophy. "For Socrates, ‘yielding to
temptation’ is not being unwillingly overpowered, but is the experience
of being a willing participant choosing what is at that moment wrongly
thought to be best" [14]Comments
Links:
14. https://thebrowser.com/articles/addicts-mythmakers-and-philosophers
[15]What A Physics Student Can Teach Us About How Visitors Walk Through A
Museum
Links:
15. http://b.rw/KyvV4T
Henry Adams | Smithsonian | 16 May 2012
Enjoyable blogpost on how people interact with museum exhibits.
Suggests we often look at paintings for just three seconds, and very
rarely for more than 45. Fine art encourages us to walk in orderly
fashion, but not so modern art [16]Comments
Links:
16. https://thebrowser.com/articles/what-physics-student-can-teach-us-about-how-visitors-walk-through-museum
FiveBooks Interview
[17]May Berenbaum on Bugs
Links:
17. https://thebrowser.com/interviews/may-berenbaum-on-bugs
Insects outnumber us, outweigh us, and without them ecosystems would
collapse. In short, we live on their planet. The entomologist explains
why we should value bugs more – even, or especially, the carrion
beetles and dung feeders[18]Read on
Links:
18. https://thebrowser.com/interviews/may-berenbaum-on-bugs
Featured Special Report
[19]Human Modification
Links:
19. https://thebrowser.com/reports/human-modification
Scientists are experimenting with different ways to enhance humans.
What's possible? And what may be possible in the future? Does messing
with Mother Nature raise ethical questions? [20]Read on
Links:
20. https://thebrowser.com/reports/human-modification
Reader Recommendations
[21]outsidemagazine Last Ones Left in a Toxic Kansas Town
#[22]longform #[23]longreads #[24]browsings [25]t.co/WfvI8By0
[26]More like this
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21. http://twitter.com/outsidemagazine
22. http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=#longform
23. http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=#longreads
24. http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=#browsings
25. http://t.co/WfvI8By0
26. http://thebrowser.com/browsings
Book of the Day
[27]Book of the Day
Links:
27. https://thebrowser.com/recommended/britain’s-gulag-brutal-end-empire-kenya-by-caroline-elkins
[28]Britain’s Gulag by Caroline Elkins
Links:
28. https://thebrowser.com/recommended/britain’s-gulag-brutal-end-empire-kenya-by-caroline-elkins
[29]Julia Lovell says: "This book raises very important and broad
questions about how we in Britain remember our imperial past"
[30]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
29. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/julia-lovell-on-opium-war
30. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[31]Love Letter To Plywood
Links:
31. https://thebrowser.com/videos/love-letter-plywood
Very probably the finest short video ever made in praise of plywood
[32]More videos
Links:
32. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[33]Andrew Brown, on religion
Links:
33. http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2012/may/17/buddhism-supernatural
"One of the central religious yearnings is for platitudes to be
true"
[34]More quotes
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34. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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