Newsletter 691
[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]Prep-School Predators
Links:
6. http://b.rw/NIlme0
Amos Kamil | NYT | 6 June 2012
Gripping account of child sex abuse at elite New York school in late
seventies/early eighties – an era when children knew which teachers to
avoid but had precious little support or means of challenging something
they knew was wrong [7]Comments
Links:
7. https://thebrowser.com/articles/prep-school-predators
[8]What Is Wrong With Multiculturalism?
Links:
8. http://b.rw/MeG19Z
Kenan Malik | Pandaemonium | 4 June 2012
"Thirty years ago multiculturalism was widely seen as the answer to
many of Europe’s social problems. Today it is seen, by growing numbers
of people, not as the solution to, but as the cause of, Europe’s myriad
social ills" [9]Comments
Links:
9. https://thebrowser.com/articles/what-wrong-multiculturalism
[10]Why Working-Class People Vote Conservative
Links:
10. http://b.rw/L9vsSI
Jonathan Haidt | Guardian | 5 June 2012
Why would blue-collar workers vote for the political right when it
appears to be against their own economic interests to do so?
Commentators on the left tend to argue that they've been duped. But
there is a better explanation [11]Comments
Links:
11. https://thebrowser.com/articles/why-working-class-people-vote-conservative
[12]Strangest Self-Experiments Ever
Links:
12. http://b.rw/KBBeks
Alex Boese | Neatorama | 5 June 2012
Including self-surgery: "There was one slight moment of panic when part
of his intestines unexpectedly popped out of his stomach as he leaned
too far forward, but he calmly shoved his guts back inside his body and
continued working" [13]Comments
Links:
13. https://thebrowser.com/articles/strangest-self-experiments-ever
[14]Austerity Has Never Worked
Links:
14. http://b.rw/McVOG9
Ha-Joon Chang | Guardian | 4 June 2012
By pushing these policies against all evidence, what are our leaders
telling us? That they want to preserve a society in which the rich have
to be made richer to work harder while the poor have to be made poorer
to work harder? [15]Comments
Links:
15. https://thebrowser.com/articles/austerity-has-never-worked
[16]Do Plants Think?
Links:
16. http://b.rw/KBv2Jb
Gareth Cook | Scientific American | 5 June 2012
Interview with Daniel Chamovitz, bioscientist. Genetic difference
between plants and animals not that great. A big stretch to say plants
think. But they are in some sense aware of the world around them, and
they respond to it [17]Comments
Links:
17. https://thebrowser.com/articles/do-plants-think
FiveBooks Interview
[18]Ariel Rubinstein on Game Theory
Links:
18. https://thebrowser.com/interviews/ariel-rubinstein-on-game-theory
Game theory is marketed as a system you can apply to any sphere of
life, but what’s the reality? The professor of economics guides us
through some classic studies [19]Read on
Links:
19. https://thebrowser.com/interviews/ariel-rubinstein-on-game-theory
Featured Special Report
[20]Paying for the US Election
Links:
20. https://thebrowser.com/reports/paying-election
How much is Romney vs Obama 2012 going to cost? Who's paying? And what
do they expect in return? [21]Read on
Links:
21. https://thebrowser.com/reports/paying-election
Reader Recommendations
@[22]polit2k Panic has become all too rational | Martin Wolf
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22. http://twitter.com/polit2k
23. http://t.co/Zn5Uza0o
24. http://t.co/6N7MQV51
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/education-henry-adams-by-henry-adams
[28]The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams
Links:
28. https://thebrowser.com/recommended/education-henry-adams-by-henry-adams
[29]Stephen Breyer says: “It’s a marvellous book. Every American should
read it and so should anyone who wants to understand America”
[30]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
29. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/stephen-breyer-on-intellectual-influences
30. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[31]Making A Flamenco Guitar
Links:
31. https://thebrowser.com/videos/making-flamenco-guitar
Usually takes 299 hours. Done here in three minutes [32]More videos
Links:
32. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[33]Stephen Moss, on public life in Britain
Links:
33. http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010/sep/03/homophobia-and-high-office
We have married the prurience and homophobia of the Christian era to
a modern desire to know everything -- the worst of all worlds
[34]More quotes
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34. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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