Newsletter 679
[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]The Primal Ache: What Adam Smith Knew About Inequality
Links:
6. http://b.rw/JLlwTq
John Paul Rollert | Boston Review | 23 May 2012
"Being wealthy and feeling rich are often inversely correlated. In a
room full of rich men, only one doesn’t feel poor by comparison. This
lesson is often overlooked in the ongoing debate over income
inequality" [7]Comments
Links:
7. http://thebrowser.com/articles/primal-ache-what-adam-smith-knew-about-inequality
[8]Guess What's Cooking In The Garage
Links:
8. http://b.rw/LsGJfO
Jack Hitt | Popsci | 22 May 2012
Inside the world of DIY synthetic biology. Where amateurs attempt
genetic engineering in homemade labs. Will it lead to a wave of
scientific breakthroughs, and valuable new life forms? Or a new
generation of Dr Frankensteins? [9]Comments
Links:
9. http://thebrowser.com/articles/guess-whats-cooking-garage
[10]The Time Britain Slid Into Chaos
Links:
10. http://b.rw/JhaU9M
Michael Wood | BBC | 25 May 2012
Divisive inequality of wealth; rising unemployment and inflation;
anarchist riots on the streets of Europe; rise of extremist political
parties. 2012? No, 5th Century AD. What can fall of the Roman empire
tell us about euro crisis? [11]Comments
Links:
11. http://thebrowser.com/articles/time-britain-slid-chaos
[12]In The Beginning Was The Mudskipper?
Links:
12. http://b.rw/LsKcen
Carl Zimmer | Loom | 23 May 2012
Another magnificent piece of writing from Zimmer. This time on arctic
adventurers, fish, and "one of the most crucial transitions in history
of life": How the first tetrapods emerged from water, and started to
move about on dry land [13]Comments
Links:
13. http://thebrowser.com/articles/beginning-was-mudskipper
[14]Why Private Equity Firms Like Bain Really Are The Worst Of Capitalism
Links:
14. http://b.rw/KS8GyL
Josh Kosman | Rolling Stone | 23 May 2012
A rant, yes, but enjoyable. "Romney wants us to believe that critics of
private equity are against capitalism. They’re not. They’re against a
predatory system created and perpetuated by Wall Street solely to pump
its own profits" [15]Comments
Links:
15. http://thebrowser.com/articles/why-private-equity-firms-bain-really-are-worst-capitalism
[16]Take Me To Your Lieder
Links:
16. http://b.rw/LgaOTM
Stephen Fry | New Adventures | 24 May 2012
On Dietrich Fischer Dieskau, and why classical music is worth the
learning curve. "You’ll hate it at first perhaps. But leave it on.
Leave it on over the next few days and suddenly, it will steal into you
and never leave you" [17]Comments
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/articles/take-me-your-lieder
FiveBooks Interview
[18]Tariq Ramadan on Islam in the West
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/tariq-ramadan-on-islam-west
The Islamic scholar and commentator tells us what it means to be Muslim
and Western, and explains how mainstream views get trapped between
noisy extremism and a sensation-seeking media [19]Read on
Links:
19. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/tariq-ramadan-on-islam-west
Featured Special Report
[20]The Death Penalty
Links:
20. http://thebrowser.com/reports/death-penalty
To kill or not to kill? [21]Read on
Links:
21. http://thebrowser.com/reports/death-penalty
Reader Recommendations
prospect_uk A new book on evolution by a great biologist makes a slew
of mistakes, says @RichardDawkins [22]t.co/P7vfXb3i [23]#browsings
[24]More like this
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22. http://t.co/P7vfXb3i
23. https://twitter.com/search?q=#browsings
24. http://thebrowser.com/browsings
Book of the Day
[25]Book of the Day
Links:
25. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/tormented-hope-by-brian-dillon
[26]Tormented Hope by Brian Dillon
Links:
26. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/tormented-hope-by-brian-dillon
[27]Louise Foxcroft says: “Brian Dillon is very good at relating things
to the personal. He looks with enormous insight at the idea of
hypochondria” [28]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
27. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/louise-foxcroft-on-history-medicine-and-addiction
28. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[29]How To Tell You're An Atheist
Links:
29. http://thebrowser.com/videos/how-tell-youre-atheist
Daniel Dennett speaks
[30]More videos
Links:
30. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[31]Will Wilkinson, on virtue
Links:
31. http://bigthink.com/ideas/gopnik-vs-gotschall-on-stories
"Behaving morally in the moment has little to do with sympathy and a
lot to do with one's immoral options simply not coming to mind"
[32]More quotes
Links:
32. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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