Newsletter 713
[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]Antifragile: Prologue
Links:
6. http://b.rw/KKihfp
Nassim Nicholas Taleb | Fooled By Randonmness | 25 June 2012
First chapter from Taleb's new book. We live in an uncertain world. So
learn to thrive on uncertainty. "Antifragility is beyond resilience or
robustness: The resilient resists shocks and stays the same; the
antifragile gets better" [7]Comments
Links:
7. https://thebrowser.com/articles/antifragile-prologue
[8]Distorted American Views Persist
Links:
8. http://b.rw/LfIajW
Rami Khouri | Agence Global | 27 June 2012
Excellent deconstruction of US reporting of Egypt. Recent WSJ article
spoke of secular Egyptians uneasy at what Islamist rule would mean for
a country that had been a bulwark of moderate governance. Here's what's
wrong with that [9]Comments
Links:
9. https://thebrowser.com/articles/distorted-american-views-persist
[10]The Morality Of The Invisible Hand
Links:
10. http://b.rw/LgzkCp
Gertrude Himmelfarb | Standpoint | 27 June 2012
"The animating spirit of The Wealth of Nations is 'interest' or
'self-love'; that of The Theory of Moral Sentiments is 'sympathy' or
'fellow-feeling'." How should we approach this apparent contradiction
in Adam Smith's writing? [11]Comments
Links:
11. https://thebrowser.com/articles/morality-invisible-hand
[12]'Pressure For Change Is At The Grassroots': An Interview With Chen
Guangcheng
Links:
12. http://b.rw/Mx5r2r
Ian Johnson | NYRB | 26 June 2012
To focus on its urban elites is to misunderstand contemporary China.
Such good things as are happening derive not from any better behaviour
by officials but because ordinary people are learning how to grasp the
law and push back [13]Comments
Links:
13. https://thebrowser.com/articles/pressure-change-grassroots-interview-chen-guangcheng
[14]Is The Euro Beyond Salvation?
Links:
14. http://b.rw/LgATjZ
Alan Wheatley | Reuters | 27 June 2012
"The obstacles facing the euro are daunting, but the main lesson of the
debt crisis is that markets underestimate at their peril the political
commitment of Europe's leaders to do what is necessary to preserve the
single currency" [15]Comments
Links:
15. https://thebrowser.com/articles/euro-beyond-salvation
[16]East London's Moment
Links:
16. http://b.rw/LgAeih
Hari Kunzru | More Intelligent Life | 27 June 2012
"The Olympic development aims to take much of east London straight from
post-industrial deliquescence into the age of conspicuous consumption."
But what happens to those who don't have the money to play?
[17]Comments
Links:
17. https://thebrowser.com/articles/east-londons-moment
FiveBooks Interview
[18]Daniel Pick on Nazism and Psychoanalysis
Links:
18. https://thebrowser.com/interviews/daniel-pick-on-nazism-and-psychoanalysis
The author of The Pursuit of the Nazi Mind tells us what we can learn
from attempts to use psychology, psychiatry and psychoanalysis to
understand Nazism [19]Read on
Links:
19. https://thebrowser.com/interviews/daniel-pick-on-nazism-and-psychoanalysis
Featured Special Report
[20]Women and the Workplace
Links:
20. https://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. https://thebrowser.com/reports/women-and-workplace
Reader Recommendations
@[22]polit2k Barclays tax claims: Macho poker bets, summary sackings
and an 'electric chair' [23]t.co/PBK33Txp @[24]guardian #[25]browsings
#[26]barclays
Links:
22. http://twitter.com/polit2k
23. http://t.co/PBK33Txp
24. http://twitter.com/guardian
25. http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=#browsings
26. http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=#barclays
[27]More like this
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27. http://thebrowser.com/browsings
Book of the Day
[28]Book of the Day
Links:
28. https://thebrowser.com/recommended/driving-mr-albert-by-michael-paterniti
[29]Driving Mr Albert by Michael Paterniti
Links:
29. https://thebrowser.com/recommended/driving-mr-albert-by-michael-paterniti
[30]Sebastian Seung says: “This is a fun book by a journalist,
describing his adventures driving across America with pieces of
Einstein’s brain in the trunk of his car” [31]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
30. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/sebastian-seung-on-identity-and-mind
31. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[32]Welcome To Bastion: Warzone Ethnography
Links:
32. https://thebrowser.com/videos/welcome-bastion-warzone-ethnography
Six weeks in Afghan military hospital. Some scenes may remind you of a
butcher's shop [33]More videos
Links:
33. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[34]Errol Morris, on smoking
Links:
34. http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/03/10/the-ashtray-this-contest-of-interpretation-part-5
"The attraction of smoking is that it simplifies the world into
three parts. There’s you, there’s the cigarette, and everything else
is the ashtray"
[35]More quotes
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35. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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