Newsletter 704
[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]In Praise Of Leisure
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6. http://b.rw/N3BAwn
Robert Skidelsky & Edward Skidelsky | Chronicle Review | 18 June 2012
Resuscitating economics as a moral science. "Let us imagine that
everyone has enough to lead a good life. What is the good life? And
what is it not? And what changes in our moral and economic system are
needed to realise it?" [7]Comments
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7. http://thebrowser.com/articles/praise-leisure
[8]Nuke 'Em
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8. http://b.rw/KQhWnU
Frank Rich | New York | 17 June 2012
Negative campaigning isn't some toxic modern aberration in US
democracy. In 1828 race, Andrew Jackson was accused of murder,
cock-fighting and cannibalism. Let's face it, attack ads often work.
Obama should go for it, says Rich [9]Comments
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9. http://thebrowser.com/articles/nuke-em
[10]Why History Matters To Liberalism
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10. http://b.rw/LbDQGK
EJ Dionne | Democracy Journal | 13 June 2012
Super essay. "Americans disagree on who we are because we can’t agree
about who we’ve been. We are at odds over the meaning of our own
history and over what it is, philosophically and spiritually, that
makes us 'Americans'” [11]Comments
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11. http://thebrowser.com/articles/why-history-matters-liberalism
[12]Microbes Manipulate Your Mind
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12. http://b.rw/PcvkFx
Moheb Costandi | Scientific American | 17 June 2012
Fascinating look at a new frontier for neuroscience: Your gut. By the
age of three, there are 100 trillion microbes inhabiting your gut. And
research suggests they may be affecting your moods, emotions, even your
personality [13]Comments
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13. http://thebrowser.com/articles/microbes-manipulate-your-mind
[14]As Escapees Stream Out, A Penal Business Thrives
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14. http://b.rw/KQedH0
Sam Dolnick | NYT | 16 June 2012
Halfway houses were intended to help low-level offenders near end of
their sentences. But it's now a growth industry for private sector
providers, some with close links to politicians. Security is
notoriously lax. Are we still safe? [15]Comments
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15. http://thebrowser.com/articles/escapees-stream-out-penal-business-thrives
[16]Vanishing Voices
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16. http://b.rw/PciMOo
Russ Rymer | National Geographic | 18 June 2012
There are 7,000 spoken languages at present. But one dies out every two
weeks. "Different languages highlight the varieties of human
experience, revealing as mutable aspects of life that we tend to think
of as settled and universal" [17]Comments
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17. http://thebrowser.com/articles/vanishing-voices
FiveBooks Interview
[18]Robert Macfarlane on Wild Places
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18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/robert-macfarlane-on-wild-places
The author of an acclaimed trilogy about landscape and human thought
tells us about the intrepid, sometimes misanthropic writers who
inspired his own investigation of wilderness [19]Read on
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19. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/robert-macfarlane-on-wild-places
Featured Special Report
[20]Privacy Online
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20. http://thebrowser.com/reports/privacy-online
Your movements are tracked and the data trail you leave is
commercialised. If privacy is gone, is "publicy" the future? Or is
there more value to privacy than some think? [21]Read on
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21. http://thebrowser.com/reports/privacy-online
Reader Recommendations
@[22]prospect_uk My night with Zizek [23]t.co/wwQRlHAr @[24]VersoBooks
[25]#browsings [26]More like this
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26. http://thebrowser.com/browsings
Book of the Day
[27]Book of the Day
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27. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/where-are-customers’-yachts-by-fred-schwed
[28]Where Are the Customers’ Yachts? by Fred Schwed
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28. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/where-are-customers’-yachts-by-fred-schwed
[29]Jason Zweig says: “Even now, some 70 years later, this is still the
funniest book ever written about Wall Street” [30]FiveBooks Archive
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29. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/jason-zweig-on-personal-finance
30. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[31]Surface By Microsoft
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31. http://thebrowser.com/videos/surface-microsoft
Yes, it's probably another loser tablet. But the cover and keyboard are
killers. Port those to iPad soonest [32]More videos
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32. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[33]Adam Mars-Jones on writers
Links:
33. http://www.lrb.co.uk/v34/n12/adam-mars-jones/anti-dad
"All writers overrate the impact of writing, or else they would
choose another line of work"
[34]More quotes
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34. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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