Newsletter 702
[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]Greece’s Choice: Bargaining Versus Pleading
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6. http://b.rw/K7Mobp
Yanis Varoufakis | Yanis Varoufakis | 15 June 2012
"If the essence of tragedy is good people caught up in a vicious
dilemma that makes it impossible for them clearly to distinguish the
virtuous from the disastrous choice, Greek voters are experiencing a
very real, personal tragedy" [7]Comments
Links:
7. https://thebrowser.com/articles/greece’s-choice-bargaining-versus-pleading
[8]The Rainmakers
Links:
8. http://b.rw/KsIgYo
George Pendle | FT | 15 June 2012
"The urge to change the weather has existed for as long as humans have
been subject to it". Plutarch believed battles could produce rain by
imitating sound of thunder. Nowadays the big hope is for cloud seeding.
But will it work? [9]Comments
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9. https://thebrowser.com/articles/rainmakers
[10]Bully Pulpit
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10. http://b.rw/K7Ju6G
Jane Mayer | New Yorker | 11 June 2012
Says talk-show host Bryan Fischer: "A rational culture will
discriminate against adultery, pedophilia, rape, bestiality, and, yes,
homosexual behavior." His goal is to make this view the official stance
of the Republican Party [11]Comments
Links:
11. https://thebrowser.com/articles/bully-pulpit
[12]Bath Salts: Deep In The Heart Of America's New Drug Nightmare
Links:
12. http://b.rw/KGD13X
Natasha Vargas-Cooper | Spin | 14 June 2012
Will bath salts become the next devastating drug epidemic – like crack
in the 1980s? "With LSD, you might see pink elephants, but with this
drug, you see demons, aliens, extreme paranoia, heart attacks, and
superhuman strength" [13]Comments
Links:
13. https://thebrowser.com/articles/bath-salts-deep-heart-americas-new-drug-nightmare
[14]Why Weren't They Grateful?
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14. http://b.rw/KGEMyi
Pankaj Mishra | London Review Of Books | 13 June 2012
Muhammad Mossadegh was, a new biography says, the first liberal leader
of the modern Middle East. He was sophisticated in his conception of
liberty, more democratically minded than Ataturk. But his timing was
all wrong [15]Comments
Links:
15. https://thebrowser.com/articles/why-werent-they-grateful
[16]The Simple, Humble, Surprisingly Sexy Button
Links:
16. http://b.rw/L0lQPv
Jude Stewart | Slate | 14 June 2012
"Buttons may seem humble today, but they have a decidedly racy side."
First decorative, then functional they evolved into emblems of sex and
money, used to highlight "sites of vitality, embarrassment, and thrill"
[17]Comments
Links:
17. https://thebrowser.com/articles/simple-humble-surprisingly-sexy-button
FiveBooks Interview
[18]Paul Theroux on Travelling
Links:
18. https://thebrowser.com/interviews/paul-theroux-on-travelling
Travel is a leap in the dark, says Paul Theroux – and one that will
leave you a different person at the other end. He recommends five
travel books that inspired him, from Mark Twain at sea to VS Naipaul in
India [19]Read on
Links:
19. https://thebrowser.com/interviews/paul-theroux-on-travelling
Featured Special Report
[20]The New Islamists
Links:
20. https://thebrowser.com/reports/new-islamists
The Arab Spring created opportunities for the region's Islamist
movements. What are they making of their chance? [21]Read on
Links:
21. https://thebrowser.com/reports/new-islamists
Reader Recommendations
@[22]polit2k MT @[23]paulmasonnews: [24]t.co/i5Y1Gsuf. It's all down
to Germany, whatever GR decides today. #[25]browsings #[26]greece
Links:
22. http://twitter.com/polit2k
23. http://twitter.com/paulmasonnews
24. http://t.co/i5Y1Gsuf.
25. http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=#browsings
26. http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=#greece
[27]More like this
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27. http://thebrowser.com/browsings
Book of the Day
[28]Book of the Day
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28. https://thebrowser.com/recommended/black-and-blue-how-racism-drugs-and-cancer-almost-destroyed-me-by-paul-canoville
[29]Black and Blue by Paul Canoville
Links:
29. https://thebrowser.com/recommended/black-and-blue-how-racism-drugs-and-cancer-almost-destroyed-me-by-paul-canoville
[30]David Baddiel says: “He’s 50 now and really looks very well,
considering that racism, drugs and cancer almost destroyed him”
[31]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
30. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/david-baddiel-on-football
31. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[32]Why Taxes Have To Be Raised On The Rich
Links:
32. https://thebrowser.com/videos/why-taxes-have-be-raised-rich
"Trickle-down economics is bunk"
[33]More videos
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33. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[34]Warren Buffett, on lobbying
Links:
34. http://www.farnamstreetblog.com/tax-code-and-incentives
"Every line in the tax code is there because someone was fighting
for it. The people who care about that line are concentrated and
focused on it, and people who are affected by that line are diffused
and really not even aware of it"
[35]More quotes
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35. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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