Newsletter 677
[1]All of our Best of the Moment article recommendations, plus
FiveBooks interviews and other selected content from thebrower.com
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[6]Today Germany Is The Big Loser, Not Greece
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6. http://b.rw/Jud7op
Marshall Auerback | New Economic Perspectives | 21 May 2012
Germany has done exceptionally well out of the euro project. And now
with Greece in crisis they find themselves with much to lose. Syriza
leader, Alexis Tsipras, clearly recognises this. And he's prepared to
use it against them [7]Comments
Links:
7. http://thebrowser.com/articles/today-germany-big-loser-not-greece
[8]George Romney For President, 1968
Links:
8. http://b.rw/LlSXHa
Benjamin Wallace-Wells | New York | 20 May 2012
Romney: Father, son and ghost. How much does the life and experience of
George Romney, failed candidate for Republican nomination in 1968,
explain motivation and electoral strategy of his son Mitt? [9]Comments
Links:
9. http://thebrowser.com/articles/george-romney-president-1968
[10]The Facebook Fallacy
Links:
10. http://b.rw/JQCdNW
Michael Wolff | MIT Tech Review | 22 May 2012
Against Facebook. Provocative from the off: "Facebook is not only on
course to go bust, but will take the rest of the ad-supported Web with
it." It's a marketing business, run by geeks. It's not the next Google,
it's the next AOL [11]Comments
Links:
11. http://thebrowser.com/articles/facebook-fallacy
[12]Are We Asking The Right Questions?
Links:
12. http://b.rw/JufQOz
Leon Neyfakh | Boston Globe | 20 May 2012
Dan Rothstein believes we need to learn to question more effectively.
It's a skill that should be considered as important as literacy or
numeracy. “It’s essential to democracy. You want citizens to be able to
ask good questions" [13]Comments
Links:
13. http://thebrowser.com/articles/are-we-asking-right-questions
[14]How The Chicken Conquered The World
Links:
14. http://b.rw/JliuEY
Jerry Adler & Andrew Lawler | Smithsonian | 22 May 2012
Archaeologists believe chickens were first domesticated not for eating
but for cockfighting. Today they're "cogs in a system designed to
convert grain into protein with staggering efficiency". What happened
inbetween? [15]Comments
Links:
15. http://thebrowser.com/articles/how-chicken-conquered-world
[16]Damien Hirst: Two Weeks One Summer
Links:
16. http://b.rw/LpOtPV
Jonathan Jones | Guardian | 22 May 2012
There is something exhilarating about a truly hostile review, whether
deserved or not. This one begins: "The last time I saw paintings as
deluded as Damien Hirst's latest works, the artist's name was Saif
al-Islam Gaddafi" [17]Comments
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/articles/damien-hirst-two-weeks-one-summer
FiveBooks Interview
[18]Nick Harkaway on Negotiating the Digital Age
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/nick-harkaway-on-negotiating-digital-age
The challenges – and opportunities – of our times have never been
greater. Everything from our models of political participation to the
very architecture of our brains is at stake, says the novelist and
technology blogger [19]Read on
Links:
19. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/nick-harkaway-on-negotiating-digital-age
Featured Special Report
[20]The New Islamists
Links:
20. http://thebrowser.com/reports/new-islamists
The Arab Spring created opportunities for the region's Islamist
movements. What are they making of their chance? [21]Read on
Links:
21. http://thebrowser.com/reports/new-islamists
Reader Recommendations
@[22]polit2k Heist of the century: university corruption and the
financial crisis | Charles Ferguson [23]t.co/T0trAIWe via @[24]guardian
[25]#browsings [26]More like this
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22. http://twitter.com/polit2k
23. http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2012/may/21/heist-century-university-corruption?CMP=twt_gu
24. http://twitter.com/guardian
25. https://twitter.com/search?q=#browsings
26. http://thebrowser.com/browsings
Book of the Day
[27]Book of the Day
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27. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/laughing-policemen-by-maj-sjöwall-and-wahlöö
[28]The Laughing Policemen by Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö
Links:
28. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/laughing-policemen-by-maj-sjöwall-and-wahlöö
[29]Anders Roslund and Borge Hellstrom say: “Forty years later the
story is still gripping. The way they switch between the different
policemen contributing to the investigation is really good”
[30]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
29. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/anders-roslund-and-börge-hellström-on-swedish-crime-writing
30. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[31]Hans Rosling: Religions And Babies
Links:
31. http://thebrowser.com/videos/hans-rosling-religions-and-babies
Quick. Somebody endow a Nobel prize for data visualisation [32]More
videos
Links:
32. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[33]Curtis White, on free speech
Links:
33. http://crookedtimber.org/2012/05/19/good-lines
"In the United States, everyone may enjoy freedom of speech so long
as it doesn’t matter"
[34]More quotes
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34. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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