Newsletter 745
[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]Fussbudget
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6. http://b.rw/OsPvkZ
Ryan Lizza | New Yorker | 30 July 2012
"To envisage what Republicans would do if they win in November, the
person to understand is not necessarily Romney, who has been a policy
cipher all his public life. The person to understand is Paul Ryan"
[7]Comments
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7. http://thebrowser.com/articles/fussbudget
[8]The Brain Set Free
Links:
8. http://b.rw/OeJILK
Laura Sanders | ScienceNews | 27 July 2012
"In a fully set brain, signals fly around effortlessly, making
commonplace tasks short work. A master of efficiency, the adult brain
loses the exuberance of childhood." Could there be a way to recapture
its youthful flexibility? [9]Comments
Links:
9. http://thebrowser.com/articles/brain-set-free
[10]Conservatives And The State
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10. http://b.rw/QpDfU5
Francis Fukuyama | American Interest | 28 July 2012
Author calls for reinvention of American Conservatism on Hamiltonian
model, which requires a strong state as defender and promoter of
private property, market economy, fiscal responsibility, foreign policy
based on national interest [11]Comments
Links:
11. http://thebrowser.com/articles/conservatives-and-state
[12]Olympics As Ritual
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12. http://b.rw/MVYCaw
Louis Menand | New Yorker | 30 July 2012
Modern cultures love invented traditions—ritualised events presented as
revivals of ancient practices, designed to imply continuity with a
distant past. They give an illusion of permanence, and feed our tribal
instincts [13]Comments
Links:
13. http://thebrowser.com/articles/olympics-ritual
[14]Abundance On Trial: The Cultural Significance Of 'Sustainability'
Links:
14. http://b.rw/LYtuto
Joshua Yates | Hedgehog Review | 30 July 2012
"Sustainability is a word that gives voice to our present fears and
uncertainties about whether we live in a world of scarcity or
abundance, just as it augurs and upholds our hopes for thriving in a
decidedly uncertain future" [15]Comments
Links:
15. http://thebrowser.com/articles/abundance-trial-cultural-significance-sustainability
[16]Enceladus: Home Of Alien Lifeforms?
Links:
16. http://b.rw/NPhxo6
Robin McKie | Observer | 29 July 2012
The search for extraterrestrial life in our solar system has tended to
focus on Mars. But a growing number of scientists believe Enceladus, an
icy moon of Saturn, is a much better bet. This piece explains why
[17]Comments
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/articles/enceladus-home-alien-lifeforms
FiveBooks Interview
[18]Selina Hastings on Evelyn Waugh and the Bright Young Things
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/selina-hastings-on-evelyn-waugh-and-bright-young-things
The biographer explores the decadence of the young and rich in 1920s
London, and tells us about Evelyn Waugh’s rebellious youth, bullying
disposition and later breakdown – as well as just how much (and early)
he drank [19]Read on
Links:
19. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/selina-hastings-on-evelyn-waugh-and-bright-young-things
Featured Special Report
[20]Free Will
Links:
20. http://thebrowser.com/reports/free-will
Does it exist? Or is it an illusion? Why not read on and decide for
yourself. As if you had any choice... [21]Read on
Links:
21. http://thebrowser.com/reports/free-will
Reader Recommendations
@[22]nuzav London Olympics 2012: we’re Olympic whingers – thank
goodness via @[23]Telegraph [24]t.co/X0ACdOPM [25]#browsings [26]More
like this
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22. http://twitter.com/nuzav
23. http://twitter.com/Telegraph
24. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/olympics/9437509/London-Olympics-2012-were-Olympic-whingers-thank-goodness.html
25. https://twitter.com/search?q=#browsings
26. http://thebrowser.com/browsings
Book of the Day
[27]Book of the Day
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27. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/dreyfus-affair-j’accuse-and-other-writings-by-emile-zola
[28]The Dreyfus Affair: J’accuse and other writings by Emile Zola
Links:
28. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/dreyfus-affair-j’accuse-and-other-writings-by-emile-zola
[29]Ruth Harris says: “This is an open letter he wrote in 1898 in the
newspaper L’Aurore and is an extraordinary polemic. He deployed all his
literary talent in its writing” [30]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
29. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/ruth-harris-on-dreyfus-and-belle-epoque
30. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[31]HP Offers That Cloud Thing
Links:
31. http://thebrowser.com/videos/hp-offers-cloud-thing
Perfect for backing up your CD-Roms [32]More videos
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32. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[33]J.G. Ballard, on imagination
Links:
33. http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/2929/the-art-of-fiction-no-85-j-g-ballard
"Imagination is the shortest route between any two conceivable
points"
[34]More quotes
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34. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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