Newsletter 771
[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]All The Ayatollah's Men
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6. http://b.rw/RIRQL5
Ray Takeyh | National Interest | 23 August 2012
China’s foreign policy isn’t driven by Mao’s ideology any longer; it's
become pragmatic. As most revolutionary regimes do, given time. But
Iran’s leadership still clings to policies derived from Khomeini’s
ideological vision. Why? [7]Comments
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7. https://thebrowser.com/articles/all-ayatollahs-men
[8]How Keynes Can Help Us Solve The Eurozone Crisis
Links:
8. http://b.rw/R6WBr9
Simon Wren-Lewis | Social Europe Journal | 23 August 2012
Oxford economics professor attacks logic of eurozone's austerity
programme, and the belief that macroeconomic difficulties are due to
bad government decisions rather than those of the private sector.
Interesting throughout [9]Comments
Links:
9. https://thebrowser.com/articles/how-keynes-can-help-us-solve-eurozone-crisis
[10]Does Self-Awareness Require A Complex Brain?
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10. http://b.rw/OWcRKT
Ferris Jabr | Scientific American | 22 August 2012
Non-human animals may be conscious. But not self-aware. "To be
conscious is to think; to be self-aware is to realize that you are a
thinking being and to think about your thoughts." Here's what research
shows about self-awareness [11]Comments
Links:
11. https://thebrowser.com/articles/does-self-awareness-require-complex-brain
[12]Julian Assange And The Dark Art Of Diplomatic Communication
Links:
12. http://b.rw/T4ja1o
Charles Crawford | Telegraph | 23 August 2012
"It’s not as easy as you might think to convey a message to another
government accurately. Will your messenger convey the right message and
only that message? Do you want your message to be precise, or
ambiguous, or a bit of both?" [13]Comments
Links:
13. https://thebrowser.com/articles/julian-assange-and-dark-art-diplomatic-communication
[14]Being A Cheesemonger Is Better And Worse Than You Think It Is
Links:
14. http://b.rw/Ph6NOy
Martha Grover | Billfold | 24 August 2012
Wonderful recollections of working as a cheesemonger. "In the customer
service world, in the world of giving the most of yourself away on a
daily basis, there’s this paradox where in the end, you really give
people the least" [15]Comments
Links:
15. https://thebrowser.com/articles/being-cheesemonger-better-and-worse-you-think-it
[16]Venus And Serena Against The World
Links:
16. http://b.rw/Pf0jzJ
John Jeremiah Sullivan | NYT | 23 August 2012
In-depth profile of the Williams sisters ahead of another challenge for
the US Open. After a Wimbledon win for Serena and Olympic gold medals
for both, they are very much back. Even if the US may not be their
favoured hunting ground [17]Comments
Links:
17. https://thebrowser.com/articles/venus-and-serena-against-world
FiveBooks Interview
[18]Attica Locke on Texas
Links:
18. https://thebrowser.com/interviews/attica-locke-on-texas
The author of the acclaimed noir novel Black Water Rising tells us
about stories of freed slaves, oil barons and gangsters on the run –
books that capture the outlaw spirit of her home state [19]Read on
Links:
19. https://thebrowser.com/interviews/attica-locke-on-texas
Featured Special Report
[20]Free Will
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20. https://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. https://thebrowser.com/reports/free-will
Reader Recommendations
[22]breizh2008 RT @[23]polit2k: Who is Julian Assange? By the people
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Book of the Day
[28]Book of the Day
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28. https://thebrowser.com/recommended/through-language-glass-by-guy-deutscher
[29]Through the Language Glass by Guy Deutscher
Links:
29. https://thebrowser.com/recommended/through-language-glass-by-guy-deutscher
[30]Robert Lane Greene says: “Ludwig Wittgenstein famously said: ‘The
limits of my language mean the limits of my world.’ Deutscher cleverly
and really comprehensively describes the takedown of this worldview,
which happened with Chomsky.” [31]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
30. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/robert-lane-greene-on-language-and-mind
31. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[32]The Criminal Brain
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32. https://thebrowser.com/videos/criminal-brain
"We've got the psychopath. He's done the crime. Do we treat him, or put
him in the slammer?" [33]More videos
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33. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[34]John Jeremiah Sullivan, on Venus Williams
Links:
34. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/26/magazine/venus-and-serena-against-the-world.html?_r=1&ref=magazine&pagewanted=all
"Her smile had levels I wasn’t equipped to explore"
[35]More quotes
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35. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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