Newsletter 775
[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]Greed And Debt: The True Story Of Mitt Romney And Bain Capital
Links:
6. http://b.rw/OJNdMa
Matt Taibbi | Rolling Stone | 29 August 2012
"He is the frontman of an economic revolution, in which transactions
are manufactured instead of products, wealth is generated without
prosperity, and Cayman Islands partnerships are erected while American
communities fall apart" [7]Comments
Links:
7. http://thebrowser.com/articles/greed-and-debt-true-story-mitt-romney-and-bain-capital
[8]Shattered Genius
Links:
8. http://b.rw/NU7IbT
Brett Forrest | Brett Forrest | 26 August 2012
On the trail of Grigori Perelman, brilliant Russian mathematician who
solved the Poincaré Conjecture and later turned down a $1m reward for
his work. After some amateur sleuthing, Forrest finds the reclusive
genius in St Petersburg [9]Comments
Links:
9. http://thebrowser.com/articles/shattered-genius
[10]The Throwaways
Links:
10. http://b.rw/Nwwj6R
Sarah Stillman | New Yorker | 27 August 2012
American police bully small-time drug users into serving as informants
in high-risk drug and firearms investigations. It's a good deal for the
police: Informants are cheap and biddable. Less so for the informants:
They tend to die [11]Comments
Links:
11. http://thebrowser.com/articles/throwaways-0
[12]The System That Wasn’t There: Ayn Rand’s Failed Philosophy
Links:
12. http://b.rw/NyfO4e
Nicholas McGinnis | Rotman Institute Of Philosophy | 25 August 2012
"Everybody who likes Rand can defend at great length a number of
socio-economic theses; what very few do is discuss the metaphysical
underpinnings that purportedly justify her political and social views"
[13]Comments
Links:
13. http://thebrowser.com/articles/system-wasn’t-there-ayn-rand’s-failed-philosophy
[14]Best Book Reviews Money Can Buy
Links:
14. http://b.rw/OjlKyH
David Streitfeld | NYT | 25 August 2012
Man opens website offering to write paid book reviews online. Two years
later he's making $28,000 a month, pumping up writers' Amazon ratings.
Reviews "have to be somewhere between enthusiastic and ecstatic"
[15]Comments
Links:
15. http://thebrowser.com/articles/best-book-reviews-money-can-buy
[16]Battery Performance Deficit Disorder
Links:
16. http://b.rw/SrTv6Y
Tom Murphy | Do The Math | 21 August 2012
Batteries. Useful, even essential for modern living. But do they live
up to expectations? And how much are we going to be able to improve
them? A physicist crunches some numbers, with specific reference to
electric and hybrid cars [17]Comments
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/articles/battery-performance-deficit-disorder
FiveBooks Interview
[18]May Berenbaum on Bugs
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/may-berenbaum-on-bugs
Insects outnumber us, outweigh us, and without them ecosystems would
collapse. In short, we live on their planet. The entomologist explains
why we should value bugs more – even, or especially, the carrion
beetles and dung feeders [19]Read on
Links:
19. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/may-berenbaum-on-bugs
Featured Special Report
[20]Mitt Romney
Links:
20. http://thebrowser.com/reports/mitt-romney
He has clawed his way to the finishing line for the Republican party
nomination. But what makes the man who would be president tick?
[21]Read on
Links:
21. http://thebrowser.com/reports/mitt-romney
Reader Recommendations
@[22]TheBrowser For Spain's Jobless, Time Equals Money: @[23]wsj on the
increasing popularity of time banks. h/t @[24]polit2k [25]#browsings
[26]t.co/7ar5fKnb [27]More like this
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27. http://thebrowser.com/browsings
Book of the Day
[28]Book of the Day
Links:
28. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/fluctuating-fortunes-by-david-vogel
[29]Fluctuating Fortunes by David Vogel
Links:
29. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/fluctuating-fortunes-by-david-vogel
[30]Timothy Noah says: “Vogel’s book is a pioneering work of economic
history and tells the very important story of how business mobilised to
push back [against the consumer movement] in the 1970s” [31]FiveBooks
Archive
Links:
30. http://%20http//thebrowser.com/interviews/timothy-noah-on-inequality-crisis
31. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[32]Fugu
Links:
32. http://thebrowser.com/videos/fugu
Like Ratatouille. But in Japan. And with fish [33]More videos
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33. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[34]Susan Sontag, on marriage
Links:
34. http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/08/17/susan-sontag-on-marriage
"In marriage, every desire becomes a decision"
[35]More quotes
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35. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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