Newsletter 690
[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]China: The End of The Con
Links:
6. http://b.rw/KLCb8F
Andy Xie | Caixin | 4 June 2012
GDP figures have been pumped up by cheap credit, which encouraged
inventory-building, which masqueraded as real economic growth. But
stocks of real estate and commodities have grown too big to carry.
Crunch time has come [7]Comments
Links:
7. https://thebrowser.com/articles/china-end-con
[8]Austerity And Political Responsibility
Links:
8. http://b.rw/Kcbvta
Martin Eiermann | European | 4 June 2012
Conversation with Harvard political philosopher Harvey Mansfield. On
welfare state and role of virtue, responsibility in politics. "The
question is whether democracy continues to award itself greater
benefits than it can afford" [9]Comments
Links:
9. https://thebrowser.com/articles/austerity-and-political-responsibility
[10]Failure And Rescue
Links:
10. http://b.rw/MbHq0S
Atul Gawande | New Yorker | 4 June 2012
The difference between triumph and defeat isn’t about willingness to
take risks or attempts to prevent failure. In medicine, and much else,
the difference is in how you react to failure. And whether you can
master the art of rescue [11]Comments
Links:
11. https://thebrowser.com/articles/failure-and-rescue
[12]The Mayor Of Mayors
Links:
12. http://b.rw/MbJ5DD
Gabriel Sherman | New York | 3 June 2012
What Michael Bloomberg will do next. He'd love to be US president but,
as a centrist, that avenue appears closed off to him. So he's pursuing
the projects he cares about, on a global level. A kind of "mayor of the
world" [13]Comments
Links:
13. https://thebrowser.com/articles/mayor-mayors
[14]Jubilee've The Hype? One Hundred Years Of Royal PR
Links:
14. http://b.rw/MblteR
Roman Krznaric | Outrospection | 4 June 2012
The monarchy is popular in Britain, with many people viewing it as a
great tradition. But most of those ancient-looking ceremonies and
rituals are fairly recent innovations. "They are what historians call
‘invented traditions'" [15]Comments
Links:
15. https://thebrowser.com/articles/jubileeve-hype-one-hundred-years-royal-pr
[16]Salt, We Misjudged You
Links:
16. http://b.rw/MbMCSB
Gary Taubes | NYT | 2 June 2012
"The attitude that studies that go against prevailing beliefs should be
ignored on the basis that, well, they go against prevailing beliefs,
has been the norm for the anti-salt campaign for decades." Time for a
rethink? [17]Comments
Links:
17. https://thebrowser.com/articles/salt-we-misjudged-you
FiveBooks Interview
[18]Nikolaos van Dam on Syria
Links:
18. https://thebrowser.com/interviews/nikolaos-van-dam-on-syria
The veteran Dutch diplomat explains why meaningful political change in
Syria will be difficult to achieve – and warns that any move towards
democracy is likely to be accompanied by severe sectarian tension
[19]Read on
Links:
19. https://thebrowser.com/interviews/nikolaos-van-dam-on-syria
Featured Special Report
[20]Human Modification
Links:
20. 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? [21]Read on
Links:
21. https://thebrowser.com/reports/human-modification
Reader Recommendations
@[22]polit2k Facebook's Long-Term Problem | James Kwak | The Baseline
Scenario [23]t.co/9qAi6bEq via @[24]JamesYKwak #[25]browsings
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22. http://twitter.com/polit2k
23. http://t.co/9qAi6bEq
24. http://twitter.com/JamesYKwak
25. http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=#browsings
[26]More like this
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26. http://thebrowser.com/browsings
Book of the Day
[27]Book of the Day
Links:
27. https://thebrowser.com/recommended/havana-red-by-leonardo-padura
[28]Havana Red by Leonardo Padura
Links:
28. https://thebrowser.com/recommended/havana-red-by-leonardo-padura
[29]Oscar Hijuelos says: “Part of the reason I like his work so much is
that it has a real noiresque feel about it. He has a very literary
sensibility”[30]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
29. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/oscar-hijuelos-on-cuba
30. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[31]Speed Of Light
Links:
31. https://thebrowser.com/videos/speed-light
World's smallest live-action police chase. No CGI trickery [32]More
videos
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32. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[33]Henry Green on TV (in 1958)
Links:
33. http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/4800/the-art-of-fiction-no-22-henry-green#.T84MYMW2b-Q.twitter
"One of these days we are going to have TV sets which lonely people
can talk to and get answers back. Then no one will read anymore"
[34]More quotes
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34. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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