Newsletter 705
[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]Clarity About Austerity
Links:
6. http://b.rw/NidQrS
Michael Spence | Project Syndicate | 19 June 2012
Nobel laureate on restoring stability and growth in eurozone. "What,
then, of the much-discussed conflict between austerity and growth? I
believe that it is based on a fairly serious misunderstanding." Here's
why [7]Comments
Links:
7. http://thebrowser.com/articles/clarity-about-austerity
[8]An American Gulag
Links:
8. http://b.rw/NifWb3
Andrew Cohen | Atlantic | 18 June 2012
Report from ADX-Florence: "The prison is a place of unspeakable cruelty
and state-sponsored wickedness, run by officials who ignore their own
policies and revel in humiliating prisoners by depriving them of basic
human dignities" [9]Comments
Links:
9. http://thebrowser.com/articles/american-gulag
[10]If They Could Only Talk
Links:
10. http://b.rw/PcEIbX
Hannah Bloch | National Geographic | 18 June 2012
We think we know the story. Polynesian settlers arrived in 800, built
statues, cut down forests. Soil erosion ruined the land. Society
collapsed into war, poverty, cannibalism. But what if it wasn't like
that at all? [11]Comments
Links:
11. http://thebrowser.com/articles/if-they-could-only-talk
[12]My Night With Zizek
Links:
12. http://b.rw/Ki2yiz
Alex Christofi | Prospect | 19 June 2012
Christofi joins the Slovenian philosopher, his beer-drinking disciples
and a few detractors for a 24-hour intellectual love-in cum book
launch. The fun starts with a talk on Hegel, before Zizek himself takes
the floor [13]Comments
Links:
13. http://thebrowser.com/articles/my-night-zizek
[14]A Vacation Goes South
Links:
14. http://b.rw/Ki5zzB
Frank Viviano | California | 18 June 2012
A journey to Mayan ruins in Guatemala goes awry. "A band of heavily
armed men suddenly erupted from the jungle, taking positions in the
center of the road. Cloth bags with eye holes masked their faces." The
drug gangs had arrived [15]Comments
Links:
15. http://thebrowser.com/articles/vacation-goes-south
[16]Nigel The Dormouse: The Brilliant Code-Breaker Who Changed The Course Of
World War One
Links:
16. http://b.rw/LbBGa9
Giles Milton | Surviving History | 18 June 2012
Brief excursion to January 1917. Britain is desperate to draw America
into the war on its side. Germany is also looking for allies. When an
encrypted German message is intercepted it turns out to be just what
London needed [17]Comments
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/articles/nigel-dormouse-brilliant-code-breaker-who-changed-course-world-war-one
FiveBooks Interview
[18]Andrew Gelman on How Americans Vote
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/andrew-gelman-on-how-americans-vote
As the US gears up for Obama-Romney 2012, the statistician and author
of Red State, Blue State, Rich State, Poor State uncovers the (often
surprising) realities of how Americans of different backgrounds vote
[19]Read on
Links:
19. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/andrew-gelman-on-how-americans-vote
Featured Special Report
[20]Consciousness
Links:
20. http://thebrowser.com/reports/consciousness
What is it? Where did it come from? How can we learn more about it?
Here's a quick look at what we do and don't know about consciousness
[21]Read on
Links:
21. http://thebrowser.com/reports/consciousness
Reader Recommendations
@[22]breizh2008 RT @[23]polit2k: RT @[24]evgenymorozov: Privacy Laws
Turn Europe into Economic Laboratory [25]t.co/jGaNSU41 [26]#browsings
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22. http://twitter.com/breizh2008
23. http://twitter.com/polit2k
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25. http://www.technologyreview.com/news/428051/privacy-laws-turn-europe-into-economic-laboratory
26. https://twitter.com/search?q=#browsings
27. http://thebrowser.com/browsings
Book of the Day
[28]Book of the Day
Links:
28. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/arctic-dreams-by-barry-lopez
[29]Arctic Dreams by Barry Lopez
Links:
29. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/arctic-dreams-by-barry-lopez
[30]Robert Macfarlane says: "It’s an investigation into how we imagine
place and how place imagines us. It changed my life and really made me
become a writer, if any one book did" [31]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
30. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/robert-macfarlane-on-wild-places
31. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[32]Brooklyn Watches
Links:
32. http://thebrowser.com/videos/brooklyn-watches
"The idea of buying a watch that's assembled by a person that's
standing in front of you is attractive" [33]More videos
Links:
33. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[34]Bruce Chatwin, on Russia
Links:
34. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/27/books/review/Mallon-t.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
"Most traditional Russian hospitality is a deep-seated desire to see
foreigners drunk"
[35]More quotes
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35. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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