Newsletter 696
[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 Second Term
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6. http://b.rw/Mn7tlS
Ryan Lizza | New Yorker | 11 June 2012
Present indications are that Obama vs Romney will be a very tight
contest. If it's Obama, narrowly, what will he do, how will he behave
in a second term? Lizza sketches out his likely priorities, and scope
for action [7]Comments
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7. http://thebrowser.com/articles/second-term
[8]Science's Long—And Successful—Search For Where Memory Lives
Links:
8. http://b.rw/Mn8DxE
Dan Hurley | Discover | 7 June 2012
The engram, the physical trace of memory in the brain, seemed a
mythical concept. No longer. "We now know enough about memory and how
memories are formed that we can actually find the engram, and by
finding it, we can manipulate it" [9]Comments
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9. http://thebrowser.com/articles/sciences-long—and-successful—search-where-memory-lives
[10]Private Prisons Profit From Immigration Crackdown
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10. http://b.rw/Mnbdny
Chris Kirkham | Huffington Post | 7 June 2012
On the lucrative business of incarcerating immigrants. "You build a
strong image of fear of these Mexican immigrants, which creates a moral
justification for imprisoning them, and at the same time brings in lots
of money" [11]Comments
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11. http://thebrowser.com/articles/private-prisons-profit-immigration-crackdown
[12]Why Elites Fail
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12. http://b.rw/LsZp2j
Christopher Hayes | Nation | 6 June 2012
Misleading title. What it's about is why meritocracies and democracies
fail. They turn into plutocracies and oligarchies. Incumbents in any
meritocracy eventually capture the high ground for themselves and their
heirs [13]Comments
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13. http://thebrowser.com/articles/why-elites-fail
[14]Interview: Terry Eagleton
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14. http://b.rw/JUIYbS
ALexander Barker and Alex Niven | Oxonian Review | 4 June 2012
On politics, Catholicism, academia. "Most people I know in academia
want to get out. The neo-managerial ethos has effectively brought to an
end a 200-year-old tradition of the university as a centre of critique"
[15]Comments
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15. http://thebrowser.com/articles/interview-terry-eagleton
[16]Nixon Was Far Worse Than We Thought
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16. http://b.rw/N1VKMQ
Bob Woodward & Carl Bernstein | Washington Post | 8 June 2012
Forty years on from Watergate, we know much more about Nixon's
presidency, most of it bad. He waged war "against the anti-Vietnam War
movement, the news media, the Democrats, the justice system and,
finally, against history itself" [17]Comments
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/articles/nixon-was-far-worse-we-thought
FiveBooks Interview
[18]Dana Mackenzie on the Beauty and Fun of Mathematics
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/dana-mackenzie-on-beauty-and-fun-mathematics
From mathematical card tricks to an arrangement of interlocking
pentagons previously thought impossible, the maths writer explains why
solutions to maths problems can be as beautiful as paintings or
sculpture [19]Read on
Links:
19. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/dana-mackenzie-on-beauty-and-fun-mathematics
Featured Special Report
[20]Parenting
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20. http://thebrowser.com/reports/parenting
What's the best way to bring up children? Indeed, is there a right way
at all? [21]Read on
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21. http://thebrowser.com/reports/parenting
Reader Recommendations
@[22]ankurrathi2 What Data can do and cannot do = [23]t.co/x4LuLZfl RT
@[24]guardian [25]#browsings [26]More like this
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22. http://twitter.com/ankurrathi2
23. http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2012/may/31/data-journalism-focused-critical
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/middlemarch-by-george-eliot
[28]Middlemarch by George Eliot
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28. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/middlemarch-by-george-eliot
[29]Emrys Westacott says: “Eliot offers not so much an analysis of
self-deception as a clever portrayal of the different forms it takes
and how it’s often linked to self-interest” [30]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
29. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/emrys-westacott-on-philosophy-and-everyday-living
30. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[31]Earth At Tipping Point
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31. http://thebrowser.com/videos/earth-tipping-point
James Fallows calls this the most important news of the year. Or,
perhaps, of all time [32]More videos
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32. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[33]Peter Thiel, on exit strategies
Links:
33. http://blakemasters.tumblr.com/post/24122680868/peter-thiels-cs183-startup-class-15-notes-essay
"A good first step towards selling your company is declaring that
you'll never sell it"
[34]More quotes
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34. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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