Newsletter 706
[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]Why Women Still Can't Have It All
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6. http://b.rw/KAH2uh
Anne-Marie Slaughter | Atlantic | 21 June 2012
"Women of my generation have clung to the feminist credo we were raised
with, that we can 'have it all'. But my experience has forced me to
confront some uncomfortable facts that need to be widely
acknowledged—and quickly changed" [7]Comments
Links:
7. https://thebrowser.com/articles/why-women-still-cant-have-it-all
[8]Can The Rest Of Europe Stand Up To Germany?
Links:
8. http://b.rw/MveCiu
Anatole Kaletsky | Reuters | 20 June 2012
"Germany is too big and powerful to coexist comfortably with its
European neighbours in any political structure ruled purely by national
interests. Yet it isn’t big and powerful enough to dominate its
neighbours decisively" [9]Comments
Links:
9. https://thebrowser.com/articles/can-rest-europe-stand-germany
[10]Peak Planet: Are We Starting To Consume Less?
Links:
10. http://b.rw/KMMY4L
Fred Pearce | New Scientist | 20 June 2012
Sooner or later, most argue, our relentless extraction of natural
resources, coupled with a steadily increasing population, will damage
our planet irreparably. But is this view misguided? Here are the
arguments, for and against [11]Comments
Links:
11. https://thebrowser.com/articles/peak-planet-are-we-starting-consume-less
[12]Could The Euro Destroy The EU?
Links:
12. http://b.rw/MvcYgP
Kemal Dervis & Javier Solana | Europe's World | 20 June 2012
Expert analysis of eurozone woes. And threat crisis poses to whole
European Union. Immediate future looks bleak. "Europe is at the
crossroads: Either it moves ahead with greater sharing of sovereignty,
or it may well collapse" [13]Comments
Links:
13. https://thebrowser.com/articles/could-euro-destroy-eu
[14]What Happens When We Turn The World's Most Famous Robot Test On
Ourselves?
Links:
14. http://b.rw/M8D5xl
Evan Selinger | Atlantic | 20 June 2012
Moving the goalposts of the Turing Test. Could you pass muster as an
authority in a specialist field? Convince an expert that you're the
real deal? The skill's called "interactional expertise". Here's what we
know about it [15]Comments
Links:
15. https://thebrowser.com/articles/what-happens-when-we-turn-worlds-most-famous-computer-test-ourselves
[16]My Father's Voice
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16. http://b.rw/M8CD26
Taylor Plimpton | New Yorker | 17 June 2012
"If George Plimpton wasn’t my father and I’d never met him, and I heard
that voice emerge from his lips and matched it with his severe Roman
features and his usual blue blazer, I might have assumed that he was a
little pompous" [17]Comments
Links:
17. https://thebrowser.com/articles/my-fathers-voice
FiveBooks Interview
[18]Peter Bergen on Osama bin Laden
Links:
18. https://thebrowser.com/interviews/peter-bergen-on-osama-bin-laden
Many thought that 9/11 was the start of an Al-Qaeda assault on the
West, but it turned out to be Bin Laden’s Pearl Harbor – a victory that
led to strategic defeat – says one of the few reporters who met the
Saudi-born militant [19]Read on
Links:
19. https://thebrowser.com/interviews/peter-bergen-on-osama-bin-laden
Featured Special Report
[20]Healthcare in America
Links:
20. https://thebrowser.com/reports/healthcare-america
The battle over US healthcare reform reaches the Supreme Court. Here's
what's at stake [21]Read on
Links:
21. https://thebrowser.com/reports/healthcare-america
Reader Recommendations
@[22]polit2k RT @[23]davewiner: Simon Johnson: The End of the Euro Is
Not About Austerity. [24]t.co/rD6XkWbE #[25]eurocrisis
#[26]browsings #[27]gfc2
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22. http://twitter.com/polit2k
23. http://twitter.com/davewiner
24. http://t.co/rD6XkWbE
25. http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=#eurocrisis
26. http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=#browsings
27. http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=#gfc2
[28]More like this
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28. http://thebrowser.com/browsings
Book of the Day
[29]Book of the Day
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29. https://thebrowser.com/recommended/hidden-history-women’s-ordination-by-gary-macy
[30]The Hidden History of Women’s Ordination by Gary Macy
Links:
30. https://thebrowser.com/recommended/hidden-history-women’s-ordination-by-gary-macy
[31]Bettany Hughes says: “He says that women had a much stronger role
in the early church than the official versions tell us. Women were
working as priests and possibly bishops” [32]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
31. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/bettany-hughes-on-divine-women
32. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[33]On The Internet, Nobody Knows You're A Cat
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33. https://thebrowser.com/videos/internet-nobody-knows-youre-cat
This would make a good PSA, don't you think? [34]More videos
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34. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[35]Charles Pierce, on drugs in sport
Links:
35. http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/8071810/the-roger-clemens-verdict-our-senseless-national-drug-hysteria
"Trying Roger Clemens a second time has to be the biggest waste of
federal criminal-justice resources since the last time Alberto
Gonzales drew a paycheck"
[36]More quotes
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36. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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