Newsletter 754
[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]Downfall Of A Tuscan Paradise
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6. http://b.rw/QJWnfH
Alexander Smoltczyk | Spiegel | 7 August 2012
Siena used to be model city. Beautiful, prosperous. Now it's probably
bust. Familiar Italian story—but with a twist. City controls Banca
Monte dei Paschi di Siena, and used it as giant slush fund. Whoops.
Billions down drain [7]Comments
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7. http://thebrowser.com/articles/downfall-tuscan-paradise
[8]How Google Can Avert The Next Financial Crisis
Links:
8. http://b.rw/OLfNxZ
Mark Buchanan | Bloomberg | 6 August 2012
How to identify systemic risk in finance? "What matters is how many
links a bank has to other institutions, how strong those links are and
how risky those other banks are." Is it time for DebtRank? Like
Google's PageRank, for banks [9]Comments
Links:
9. http://thebrowser.com/articles/how-google-can-avert-next-financial-crisis
[10]I Was One Of America's Top Psychics
Links:
10. http://b.rw/RiFp5M
Mark Edward | Alternet | 3 August 2012
"Yes, I can see the future, given the right perspective and
information, and of course I can read the paw of your pet poodle. I may
have a great gift, but it's the gift of gab mixed with a healthy dose
of imagination and nerve" [11]Comments
Links:
11. http://thebrowser.com/articles/i-was-one-americas-top-psychics
[12]Meet Olafur: The Coolest Guy At The Olympics
Links:
12. http://b.rw/QcU7qI
Joe Posnanski | Sports On Earth | 7 August 2012
Handball. It's a bit of a mystery to many of us. Joe Posnanski goes to
a game expecting to write about the valiant-but-sure-to-lose Great
Britain team. He stumbles, enjoyably, across something else entirely
[13]Comments
Links:
13. http://thebrowser.com/articles/meet-olafur-coolest-guy-olympics
[14]Survival Skill In Japan: Learn English
Links:
14. http://b.rw/QJZRig
Chico Harlan | Washington Post | 7 August 2012
Japanese firm with 6,000 workers switches to English as business
language. Gives employees two years to learn. Most hate it, but do
their best. Further proof of English as future global language? Or of
Japanese desperation? [15]Comments
Links:
15. http://thebrowser.com/articles/survival-skill-japan-learn-english
[16]The Top 10 Most Difficult Books
Links:
16. http://b.rw/OZdabc
Emily Colette Wilkinson & Garth Risk Hallberg | Publishers Weekly | 3
August 2012
If you've read all 10, take a bow. And tell the rest of us what the
heck's going on in them. Or what you would have chosen instead. But
remember that difficult doesn't mean unreadable or unrewarding, just
hard [17]Comments
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/articles/top-10-most-difficult-books
FiveBooks Interview
[18]Andrei Codrescu on Fantastical Tales
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/andrei-codrescu-on-fantastic-and-magical-tales
The Romanian-born poet tells us about his love for fantastic and
magical tales – particularly bloody ones with cannibalism, necrophilia
and alienated heroes [19]Read on
Links:
19. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/andrei-codrescu-on-fantastic-and-magical-tales
Featured Special Report
[20]Popular Science
Links:
20. http://thebrowser.com/reports/popular-science
Black holes, DIY bio-engineering, aliens and more. Interviews and
articles from many of the biggest names in Science. No prior knowledge
necessary [21]Read on
Links:
21. http://thebrowser.com/reports/popular-science
Reader Recommendations
@[22]polit2k Widening of Panama Canal will remake world trade patterns
| Tim Johnson | McClatchy [23]t.co/jA7aOPCm [24]#browsings [25]More
like this
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22. http://twitter.com/polit2k
23. http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2012/08/06/159848/widening-of-panama-canal-will.html
24. https://twitter.com/search?q=#browsings
25. http://thebrowser.com/browsings
Book of the Day
[26]Book of the Day
Links:
26. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/myth-sisyphus-by-albert-camus
[27]The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus
Links:
27. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/myth-sisyphus-by-albert-camus
[28]Kenan Malik says: “Here Camus confronts both the tragedy of recent
history [World War II] and what he sees as the absurdity of the human
condition” [29]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
28. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/kenan-malik-on-morality-without-god
29. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[30]Epic Slow Mo With Sony FS700
Links:
30. http://thebrowser.com/videos/epic-slow-mo-sony-fs700
Fun with a four-day camera rental [31]More videos
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31. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[32]Robert Samuelson, on happiness
Links:
32. http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-global-happiness-derby/2012/07/22/gIQAJWi8JT_story.html
"Only in the mid-1700s — the Enlightenment — did happiness become
socially acceptable. Before that, religious dogma encouraged austere
rectitude"
[33]More quotes
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33. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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