Newsletter 732
[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]How Google Is Becoming An Extension Of Your Mind
Links:
6. http://b.rw/McEClw
Stephen Shankland | CNET | 16 July 2012
Google's stated mission is: "To organize the world's information and
make it universally accessible and useful." But that now seems narrow
and restrictive. Here's why, and what we should expect from the search
giant in the future [7]Comments
Links:
7. http://thebrowser.com/articles/how-google-becoming-extension-your-mind
[8]Obama Winning Ugly
Links:
8. http://b.rw/Nv4Woo
John Dickerson | Slate | 16 July 2012
Romney wants voters to remember Obama 2008 and feel let down. Also to
see him as a better manager of the economy. But "he's never really
offered a story to voters about how his career as a successful
businessman will be good for us" [9]Comments
Links:
9. http://thebrowser.com/articles/obama-winning-ugly
[10]Do Business Schools Incubate Criminals?
Links:
10. http://b.rw/NRrKkC
Luigi Zingales | Bloomberg | 16 July 2012
Yes. Students graduate with a sound grasp of economics, a poor grasp of
ethics. "They perceive any failure to commit a high-benefit crime with
a low expected cost as a failure to act rationally, almost a proof of
stupidity" [11]Comments
Links:
11. http://thebrowser.com/articles/do-business-schools-incubate-criminals
[12]Tibet’s Golden 'Worm'
Links:
12. http://b.rw/NRrAJX
Michael Finkel | National Geographic | 17 July 2012
Thousands of Tibetan yak herders who once lived in poverty now own
motorcycles, flat-screen TVs and iPhones. How? It's all down to yartsa
gunbu — a rare fungus, with supposed medicinal properties [13]Comments
Links:
13. http://thebrowser.com/articles/tibet’s-golden-worm
[14]China's Version Of Too Big To Fail
Links:
14. http://b.rw/MxUXwV
Andy Xie | Caixin | 16 July 2012
Moral hazard caused Western financial crash. China has similar problem
looming in bond market, which "functions on the expectation that the
central government will bail everyone out, whatever crazy products
mushroom in the market" [15]Comments
Links:
15. http://thebrowser.com/articles/chinas-version-too-big-fail
[16]Once Upon A Time
Links:
16. http://b.rw/MxXsiJ
Joan Acocella | New Yorker | 16 July 2012
"The reason that most people value fairy tales, I would say, is that
they do not detain us with hope but simply validate what is." They tell
us that knowledge, or fear, of danger and deprivation is not fantastic,
but realistic [17]Comments
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/articles/once-upon-time-0
FiveBooks Interview
[18]Malise Ruthven on Islamism
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/malise-ruthven-on-islamism
The author of Encounters with Islam tells us about Islamism as politics
and as terrorism, and argues that the war on terror relied on a
fundamental misunderstanding of the nature of the threat [19]Read on
Links:
19. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/malise-ruthven-on-islamism
Featured Special Report
[20]London and the Olympics
Links:
20. http://thebrowser.com/reports/london-and-olympics
The Games are almost upon us, though in London you'd hardly know it.
Here's a sideways look at the event and its host city [21]Read on
Links:
21. http://thebrowser.com/reports/london-and-olympics
Reader Recommendations
@[22]pritchard33 “The views of the middle class and poor have virtually
no relationship to policy outcomes.”[23]t.co/uY9Kvb2A #[24]rootstriker
[25]#browsings [26]More like this
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26. http://thebrowser.com/browsings
Book of the Day
[27]Book of the Day
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27. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/inimitable-jeeves-by-pg-wodehouse
[28]The Inimitable Jeeves by PG Wodehouse
Links:
28. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/inimitable-jeeves-by-pg-wodehouse
[29]Sophie Ratcliffe says: “Wodehouse has such a gift with language.
The placement of the word “macaroon” in this story is magnificent”
[30]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
29. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/sophie-ratcliffe-on-pg-wodehouse
30. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[31]Inside Syria – Nawaf Fares
Links:
31. http://thebrowser.com/videos/inside-syria-–-nawaf-fares
'The Syrian regime is dead'
[32]More videos
Links:
32. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[33]Albert Camus, on love
Links:
33. http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/14/sartre-and-camus-in-new-york
“It is necessary to fall in love, if only to provide an alibi for
all the random despair you are going to feel anyway”
[34]More quotes
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34. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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