Newsletter 686
[1]All of our Best of the Moment article recommendations, plus
FiveBooks interviews and other selected content from thebrower.com
Links:
1. http://thebrowser.com
[6]Alexis Tsipras: The Greek Who Makes Europe Tremble
Links:
6. http://b.rw/JRemhy
Joanna Kakissis | Time | 31 May 2012
Interview with... Greece's next leader? "I have the sense that Greece
is in a Cold War-like state with its debtors, meaning that both sides
can push a button and destroy everything, knowing that there will be no
winners after that" [7]Comments
Links:
7. http://thebrowser.com/articles/alexis-tsipras-greek-who-makes-europe-tremble
[8]Nazi Collaborators Or Victims?
Links:
8. http://b.rw/JDco2R
Michael Moynihan | Tablet | 1 June 2012
They were German death camps on Polish soil. Obama mis-spoke. But
Poland and the Jews have a troubled history. "Wartime Poland was a
strange case of deeply rooted, historical anti-Semitism coexisting with
anti-Nazi resistance" [9]Comments
Links:
9. http://thebrowser.com/articles/nazi-collaborators-or-victims
[10]False Fronts In The Language Wars
Links:
10. http://b.rw/NnkLyv
Steven Pinker | Slate | 31 May 2012
Pinker takes on a "pseudo-controversy", the imagined clash between
prescriptivist and descriptivist theories of language. "Once you
understand that prescriptive rules are conventions, most of the
iptivist controversies evaporate" [11]Comments
Links:
11. http://thebrowser.com/articles/false-fronts-language-wars
[12]The Battle For The Cato Institute
Links:
12. http://b.rw/JSfZqw
Luke Mullins | Washingtonian | 30 May 2012
You may have noticed this a few months ago and dismissed it as an
academic squabble among policy wonks. Fleshed out here as a human
drama, it makes for a thrilling read. A secret legacy! A power
struggle! Battling billionaires! [13]Comments
Links:
13. http://thebrowser.com/articles/battle-cato-institute
[14]Burning Desire For Efficiency
Links:
14. http://b.rw/KZaVjJ
Tom Murphy | Do The Math | 29 May 2012
"Ever wondered how efficient it is to heat water? Of course you have!
Ever measured it?" Probably not, so here's Tom Murphy to take us
through the relative merits of using stove-top pots, microwaves and
kettles for heating water [15]Comments
Links:
15. http://thebrowser.com/articles/burning-desire-efficiency
[16]To Cheat Or Not To Cheat
Links:
16. http://b.rw/JD9X0q
Tom Verducci | Sports Illustrated | 29 May 2012
"This is a story about the hundreds, even thousands, of anonymous
ballplayers whose careers and lives were changed by a temptation that
defined an era." The temptation to cheat, to improve their game with
the use of steroids [17]Comments
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/articles/cheat-or-not-cheat
FiveBooks Interview
[18]Anatole Kaletsky on A New Capitalism
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/anatole-kaletsky-on-new-capitalism
We need to build an entirely new market system, not just patch up the
old one, says the economics commentator, who discusses the long-term
fallout of the financial crisis and possible futures for the eurozone
[19]Read on
Links:
19. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/anatole-kaletsky-on-new-capitalism
Featured Special Report
[20]Sport's Violence Problem
Links:
20. http://thebrowser.com/reports/sports-violence-problem
Nobody wants to take away the thrill and drama of the NFL or NHL, but
is middle age dementia an acceptable price for ex-players to pay?
[21]Read on
Links:
21. http://thebrowser.com/reports/sports-violence-problem
Reader Recommendations
@nuzav Queen's diamond jubilee: a vapid family and a mirage of
nationhood. What's to celebrate? | Polly Toynbee [22]t.co/InvpOi7I
[23]#browsings [24]More like this
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22. http://t.co/InvpOi7I
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/love-all-people-by-bill-hicks
[26]Love All the People by Bill Hicks
Links:
26. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/love-all-people-by-bill-hicks
[27]Lee Camp says: “He was one of the best comedians who ever lived.
This book is largely his routines written down. It’s great stuff – dark
and equally applicable today” [28]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
27. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/lee-camp-on-political-satire
28. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[29]World's Best Bartender
Links:
29. http://thebrowser.com/videos/worlds-best-bartender
Alexander Shtifanov from Ukraine. Cocktail shaker supreme [30]More
videos
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30. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[31]Nicholas Carr, on silence
Links:
31. http://www.roughtype.com/archives/2012/05/perfect_silence.php
"We've come to confuse communication with the exchange of explicit
information. What can't be turned into data loses its perceived
value"
[32]More quotes
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32. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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