Newsletter 733
[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]'Is He Coming? Is He? Oh God, I Think He Is'
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6. http://b.rw/LXeBbV
Sean Flynn | GQ | 18 July 2012
Gripping retelling by survivors of the day a year ago when a heavily
armed man dressed as a police officer came to their youth summer camp
and started shooting. Almost 80 died in what was the deadliest attack
in Norway since WWII [7]Comments
Links:
7. http://thebrowser.com/articles/he-coming-he-oh-god-i-think-he
[8]Are Warnings About The Side Effects Of Drugs Making Us Sick?
Links:
8. http://b.rw/O8WHyZ
Steve Silberman | Neurotribes | 16 July 2012
No doubt you understand all about the placebo effect, but how about
it's evil twin the nocebo effect? Instead of making patients feel
better, it makes them feel worse. And can even kill. Here's what you
need to know [9]Comments
Links:
9. http://thebrowser.com/articles/are-warnibgs-about-side-effects-drugs-making-us-sick
[10]The US Should Require All Citizens To Vote
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10. http://b.rw/Q5sR3V
Norman Ornstein | Atlantic | 17 July 2012
Should US follow Australia's example and make voting mandatory? Yes,
says Ornstein. It would enlarge the electorate in the centre ground,
increasing the sway of the "persuadable middle" and reducing influence
of ideological fringes [11]Comments
Links:
11. http://thebrowser.com/articles/us-should-require-all-citizens-vote
[12]Everything You Need To Know About The Fiscal Cliff In One Post
Links:
12. http://b.rw/NFv6mO
Dylan Matthews | Washington Post | 16 July 2012
Helpful backgrounder on the big issue for the American economy. In
plain English, with some simple charts. What is the "fiscal cliff"? How
big is it? What would the short-term and long-term effects of falling
off it be? [13]Comments
Links:
13. http://thebrowser.com/articles/everything-you-need-know-about-fiscal-cliff-one-post
[14]When The Army Was Democratic
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14. http://b.rw/SEGFzS
William Pfaff | NYRB | 16 July 2012
For America, the conscript army – the draft – had its uses, and
unintended benefits, but it was destroyed by Vietnam. When war ended,
the army demanded an all-professional force. It got it. This had
unintended consequences too [15]Comments
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15. http://thebrowser.com/articles/when-army-was-democratic-william-pfaff-nyrblog-new-york-review-books
[16]The Cult Of Science
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16. http://b.rw/NRgS6c
Jonathan Rée | New Humanist | 14 July 2012
Fine review of French intellectual Bruno Latour's On the Modern Cult of
the Factish Gods. In which he argues religion is more intelligent than
most assume. And there's nothing in it that should alarm scientists or
atheists [17]Comments
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/articles/cult-science
FiveBooks Interview
[18]Paul Kingsnorth on Civilisation and its Discontents
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/paul-kingsnorth-on-civilisation-and-its-discontents
One of our myths is the idea of progress – that things always get
better. But many human civilisations before ours have risen and then
collapsed. We’re no different, says the co-founder of the Dark Mountain
project [19]Read on
Links:
19. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/paul-kingsnorth-on-civilisation-and-its-discontents
Featured Special Report
[20]Paying for the US Election
Links:
20. http://thebrowser.com/reports/paying-election
How much is Romney vs Obama 2012 going to cost? Who's paying? And what
do they expect in return? [21]Read on
Links:
21. http://thebrowser.com/reports/paying-election
Reader Recommendations
@[22]polit2k The terminal disease afflicting banking | Izabella
Kaminska | FT Alphaville [23]t.co/E3Ca3FRb #[24]gfc2 [25]#browsings
#[26]derivatives @[27]izakaminska [28]More like this
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22. http://twitter.com/polit2k
23. http://ftalphaville.ft.com/blog/2012/07/18/1085541/the-terminal-disease-afflicting-banking
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25. https://twitter.com/search?q=#browsings
26. http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=#derivatives
27. http://twitter.com/izakaminska
28. http://thebrowser.com/browsings
Book of the Day
[29]Book of the Day
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29. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/myth-rational-market-by-justin-fox
[30]The Myth of the Rational Market by Justin Fox
Links:
30. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/myth-rational-market-by-justin-fox
[31]Barry Ritholtz says: “Justin Fox does a wonderful job of telling
the story of how the simple concept of the efficient market got
completely out of whack” [32]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
31. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/barry-ritholtz-on-causes-financial-crisis
32. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[33]Meet The Superhumans
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33. http://thebrowser.com/videos/meet-superhumans
You didn't care about the Paralympics? You do now [34]More videos
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34. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[35]Peggy Noonan, on anger
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35. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703766704576009943102291486.html
In politics, the angry person is generally understood to be the
loser
[36]More quotes
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36. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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