Newsletter 712
[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]The Sharp, Sudden Decline Of America's Middle Class
Links:
6. http://b.rw/LfD0UY
Jeff Tietz | Rolling Stone | 25 June 2012
Janis Adkins never dreamt she'd be unemployed. She ran a successful
plant nursery in Utah. Then the recession wiped her out. Now she lives
in her car, parked up beside a church. And forages for food. Her story
is far from unique [7]Comments
Links:
7. http://thebrowser.com/articles/sharp-sudden-decline-americas-middle-class
[8]Deadwood
Links:
8. http://b.rw/MPSKyA
Rajiv Chandrasekaran | Foreign Policy | 26 June 2012
More on America's lost decade in Afghanistan. This from the civilian
side. Thousands of aid workers went out there to live in heavily
fortified camps, do email, collect wages, go home after a year,
scarcely if ever meeting Afghans [9]Comments
Links:
9. http://thebrowser.com/articles/deadwood
[10]Open Letter To A Friend And Colleague (Who Became Greece’s Finance
Minister Yesterday…)
Links:
10. http://b.rw/M3M17T
Yanis Varoufakis | Yanis Varoufakis | 27 June 2012
"What they are prepared to give you is more rope to hang yourself
(extensions, looser repayment schedules etc.). You must turn it down
and demand, instead, a ladder on which they must also climb." Good
luck. You'll need it [11]Comments
Links:
11. http://thebrowser.com/articles/open-letter-friend-and-colleague-who-became-greece’s-finance-minister-yesterday…
[12]Psychotherapy And The Pursuit Of Happiness
Links:
12. http://b.rw/Mna7Ko
Ronald Dworkin | New Atlantis | 25 June 2012
Psychotherapy used to be an intellectual movement, on fringes of
science and philosophy. Its practitioners were authoritative, and
distant from patients. Nowadays therapists are artificial friends for
lonely people. What happened? [13]Comments
Links:
13. http://thebrowser.com/articles/psychotherapy-and-pursuit-happiness
[14]One One-Hundredth Of A Second Faster
Links:
14. http://b.rw/MycyJ6
Mark McClusky | Wired | 25 June 2012
"Forget about recruiting the best athletes; if you really want to build
a great athletic team, it’s time to recruit the best PhDs." There
aren't any easy ways to gain an edge over competitors. Progress now
rests on hard science [15]Comments
Links:
15. http://thebrowser.com/articles/one-one-hundredth-second-faster
[16]Lone Wolf: The US Marine Who Captured 1,000 Japanese Soldiers
Links:
16. http://b.rw/LZKPCs
Giles Milton | Surviving History | 26 June 2012
Guy Gabaldon was an 18-year-old US Marine when during the battle of
Saipan in 1944 he singlehandedly captured, or persuaded to surrender,
more than 1,000 Japanese soldiers. Here's a brief account of his
extraordinary story [17]Comments
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/articles/lone-wolf-us-marine-who-captured-1000-japanese-soldiers
FiveBooks Interview
[18]Sebastian Seung on Identity and the Mind
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/sebastian-seung-on-identity-and-mind
The neuroscientist introduces us to the concept of the connectome, the
ever-changing map of connections between the brain’s neurons that makes
each of us who we are [19]Read on
Links:
19. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/sebastian-seung-on-identity-and-mind
Featured Special Report
[20]Women and the Workplace
Links:
20. http://thebrowser.com/reports/women-and-workplace
Women in the West may be slowly winning the battle for workplace
equality. But at what price? [21]Read on
Links:
21. http://thebrowser.com/reports/women-and-workplace
Reader Recommendations
@[22]polit2k Bronte Capital: Coronado Biosciences is not exactly kosher
| John Hempton [23]t.co/Fi7I51xv [24]#browsings [25]More like this
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22. http://twitter.com/polit2k
23. http://brontecapital.blogspot.fr/2012/06/coronado-biosciences-is-not-exactly.html
24. https://twitter.com/search?q=#browsings
25. http://thebrowser.com/browsings
Book of the Day
[26]Book of the Day
Links:
26. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/food-and-wine-greece-by-diane-kochilas
[27]The Food and Wine of Greece by Diane Kochilas
Links:
27. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/food-and-wine-greece-by-diane-kochilas
[28]Diana Farr Louis says: “She has a wonderful way of bringing in
recipes from all the regions and showing the variety of Greek cuisine
in the context of history and tradition” [29]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
28. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/diana-farr-louis-and-june-marinos-on-greek-cooking
29. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[30]Paxman Interviews Hapless Minister Chloe Smith
Links:
30. http://thebrowser.com/videos/paxman-interviews-hapless-minister-chloe-smith
The fun starts about six minutes in
[31]More videos
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31. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[32]Advice to a Young Political Reporter
Links:
32. http://www.gq.com/news-politics/big-issues/198809/dweebs-on-bus-alessandra-stanley-maureen-dowd-political-reporters
"Never order more than two dry martinis before dinner unless you can
see the table from where you're standing"
[33]More quotes
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33. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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