Newsletter 697
[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]How To Get Into And Out Of An Economic Crisis...
Links:
6. http://b.rw/MnaNxi
Andri Snær Magnason | Eurozine/Magyar Lettre | 6 June 2012
How Iceland committed economic suicide. "Economists speak of the
invisible hand of the market, correcting the market when an imbalance
arises. In Iceland, the imbalance had become such that an invisible
guillotine was formed" [7]Comments
Links:
7. https://thebrowser.com/articles/how-get-and-out-economic-crisis
[8]A Vintage Crime
Links:
8. http://b.rw/LVeeat
Michael Steinberger | Vanity Fair | 12 June 2012
Full story of Rudy Kurniawan, accused of selling millions of dollars of
counterfeit wines. "It is potentially the largest case of wine fraud in
history and may have left the market for rare and old wines
irredeemably corrupted" [9]Comments
Links:
9. https://thebrowser.com/articles/vintage-crime
[10]Benched
Links:
10. http://b.rw/MnamTJ
Jill Lepore | New Yorker | 11 June 2012
History of the US Supreme Court, and the struggle in America – not
always successful – to separate law and politics. Whatever the court
decides on Obamacare, it will leave questions about the court's role
past and present [11]Comments
Links:
11. https://thebrowser.com/articles/benched
[12]Happyism
Links:
12. http://b.rw/LlvaeE
Deirdre McCloskey | New Republic | 8 June 2012
Outstanding essay on measuring happiness. Critiques new "science" of
hedonics, and the dreaded 1-2-3 studies relied on by so many
economists. "We do not need more hedonomics or utilonomics or
freakonomics. We need humanomics" [13]Comments
Links:
13. https://thebrowser.com/articles/happyism
[14]Neither Sand Nor Sea
Links:
14. http://b.rw/KO45CS
Joshua Jelly-Schapiro | LA Review Of Books | 11 June 2012
Behind Bob Marley stood The Wailers. Behind The Wailers stood Jamaica.
Essay on the island and music pegged to a film and two biographies.
Marley as the Martin Luther King of Rastafarianism. Peter Tosh as the
Malcolm X [15]Comments
Links:
15. https://thebrowser.com/articles/neither-sand-nor-sea
[16]Embarrassing Parents And The Teenage Truth
Links:
16. http://b.rw/MusGre
Adam Gopnik | BBC | 10 June 2012
"The one thing that is written into the human genome is that exactly at
the age of 13, your child will discover that you are now the most
embarrassing, ridiculous and annoying person on the planet. This is a
universal truth" [17]Comments
Links:
17. https://thebrowser.com/articles/embarrassing-parents-and-teenage-truth
FiveBooks Interview
[18]Timothy Noah on The Inequality Crisis
Links:
18. https://thebrowser.com/interviews/timothy-noah-on-inequality-crisis
Income inequality has reached a crisis point in America, says the
author of The Great Divergence – yet with powerful nationwide pressure
to address the problem, there is also an opportunity for change
[19]Read on
Links:
19. https://thebrowser.com/interviews/timothy-noah-on-inequality-crisis
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]hakuunnamatata RT @[23]TorontoStar: At age 5, he gets lost on a
train. 25 years later, a son finds his mom [24]t.co/37fjgm8T
#[25]browsings @[26]Drudge_Report @[27]INDBreakingNews @[28]ndtv
Links:
22. http://twitter.com/hakuunnamatata
23. http://twitter.com/TorontoStar
24. http://t.co/37fjgm8T
25. http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=#browsings
26. http://twitter.com/Drudge_Report
27. http://twitter.com/INDBreakingNews
28. http://twitter.com/ndtv
[29]More like this
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29. http://thebrowser.com/browsings
Book of the Day
[30]Book of the Day
Links:
30. https://thebrowser.com/recommended/hoopla-by-harry-stein
[31]Hoopla by Harry Stein
Links:
31. https://thebrowser.com/recommended/hoopla-by-harry-stein
[32]Michael Carlson says: “It deals with the Black Sox scandal in 1919
[when] The Chicago White Sox accepted money from gamblers to throw the
World Series”[33]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
32. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/michael-carlson-on-baseball-novels
33. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[34]For Hire: Bangalore Rickshaw
Links:
34. https://thebrowser.com/videos/hire-bangalore-rickshaw
Put aside a couple of minutes to enjoy this. Lots of small pleasures
[35]More videos
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35. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[36]Emma Coats, on how to write
Links:
36. https://twitter.com/lawnrocket/status/212358738022113283
"I start with a situation I like, then I figure out what kind of
person would get themselves into it"
[37]More quotes
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37. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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