Newsletter 727
[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]Capitalism's Brave New World
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6. http://b.rw/N13iOW
Jonathan Last | Weekly Standard | 10 July 2012
What happens when labour is uncoupled from geography? When work, or
"microtasks", can be outsourced by the second (for microprices) to
anyone anywhere with an internet connection? It's happening now (h/t
Daniel Lippman) [7]Comments
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7. https://thebrowser.com/articles/capitalisms-brave-new-world
[8]A Fight To The Last Mexican
Links:
8. http://b.rw/Ml044e
David Simon | Audacity Of Despair | 10 July 2012
Americans are addicted to a futile war on drugs. "After forty years and
billions wasted, the drugs available on any American corner are purer,
cheaper, more plentiful than ever." In Mexico, drug was has cost 50,000
lives [9]Comments
Links:
9. https://thebrowser.com/articles/fight-last-mexican
[10]What Would Disprove Evolution?
Links:
10. http://b.rw/L5L2hY
Jerry Coyne | Why Evolution Is True | 9 July 2012
"If evolution is a scientific theory worth its salt, then there must be
some conceivable observations that could show it to be wrong. [Here
are] seven observations that, if repeated and confirmed, would disprove
parts of the theory" [11]Comments
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11. https://thebrowser.com/articles/what-would-disprove-evolution
[12]How Not To Host A Summit
Links:
12. http://b.rw/L6riuw
Aaron David Miller | Foreign Policy | 10 July 2012
Lessons from the 2000 Middle East peace talks at Camp David, by former
American official who was there. US can't force an agreement but it did
make three key errors, explained here. (For another view, see
http://is.gd/ev1sN0 ) [14]Comments
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14. https://thebrowser.com/articles/how-not-host-summit
[15]What The US Can Learn From Australia's Coal Mines
Links:
15. http://b.rw/NnP3Sf
Edward Glaeser | Bloomberg | 11 July 2012
From a purely economic point of view, what would a "drill, baby, drill"
attitude toward natural resources do for the United States? Glaeser
looks at Australia's experience and reports some perhaps surprising
answers [16]Comments
Links:
16. https://thebrowser.com/articles/what-us-can-learn-australias-coal-mines
[17]Postville, Iowa, Is Up For Grabs
Links:
17. http://b.rw/N3aXfA
Maggie Jones | NYT | 11 July 2012
Snapshot of small-town America. Employment is dominated by a kosher
meat factory. Low pay ensures the workforce is a shifting cast.
Guatemalans mostly, until a devastating Homeland Security raid. Then
Somalis, Palauans [18]Comments
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18. https://thebrowser.com/articles/postville-iowa-grabs
FiveBooks Interview
[19]Oliver Burkeman on Happiness Through Negative Thinking
Links:
19. https://thebrowser.com/interviews/oliver-burkeman-on-happiness-through-negative-thinking
You won’t become happy by trying to achieve happiness so why not
embrace the full repertoire of human emotions? There’s much solace and
consolation to be had if you know where to look, as the author of The
Antidote explains [20]Read on
Links:
20. https://thebrowser.com/interviews/oliver-burkeman-on-happiness-through-negative-thinking
Featured Special Report
[21]Consciousness
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21. https://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
[22]Read on
Links:
22. https://thebrowser.com/reports/consciousness
Reader Recommendations
@[23]eksymons #[24]browsings #[25]having it all. US way behind on basic
rights for women - first things first: not Slaughteresque guilt
[26]t.co/4YGnKngr
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23. http://twitter.com/eksymons
24. http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=#browsings
25. http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=#having
26. http://t.co/4YGnKngr
[27]More like this
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27. http://thebrowser.com/browsings
Book of the Day
[28]Book of the Day
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28. https://thebrowser.com/recommended/batman-court-owls-by-scott-snyder
[29]Batman: The Court of Owls by Scott Snyder
Links:
29. https://thebrowser.com/recommended/batman-court-owls-by-scott-snyder
[30]Will Brooker says: “The plot suggests that everything Batman
thought he knew about Gotham City was wrong, and the city is run by an
organisation called the court of owls”[31]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
30. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/will-brooker-on-comics
31. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[32]A Distillations Explainer: Sweat
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32. https://thebrowser.com/videos/distillations-explainer-sweat
Why does it smell?
[33]More videos
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33. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[34]Herbert Spencer, on morals
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34. http://www.google.lv/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=5&ved=0CF4QFjAE&url=http://www.amazon.com/Methods-Ethics-Henry-Sidgwick/dp/0915145286&ei=IDn9T9OTHbDV4QT7-Jj8Bg&usg=AFQjCNERlx9i5D65P7g0F8riS2oZnfL6qw
"A system of morals which shall recognise man's present
imperfections and allow for them cannot be devised, and would be
useless if it could be devised"
[35]More quotes
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35. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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