Newsletter 778
[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]Who Wears The Pants In This Economy?
Links:
6. http://b.rw/Ruqoyc
Hanna Rosin | NYT | 30 August 2012
In Alabama men grew up learning "how to work hard, how to support a
family, how to live a good life, how to have the American dream their
way". But that structure, those jobs are disappearing. Women are the
new breadwinners [7]Comments
Links:
7. https://thebrowser.com/articles/who-wears-pants-economy
[8]Nanotechnology: Armed Resistance
Links:
8. http://b.rw/TCLiJa
Leigh Phillips | Nature | 29 August 2012
"Why are radical environmental groups targeting nanotechnology? Is this
field being confronted with the same sort of militant hostility that
has dogged genetic-modification research and animal testing? And why
Mexico?" [9]Comments
Links:
9. https://thebrowser.com/articles/nanotechnology-armed-resistance
[10]What Is Value? What Is Money?
Links:
10. http://b.rw/TCJ0d0
Cesar Hidalgo | Edge | 28 August 2012
"There is value that gets generated, and there's value that can be
appropriated. And they're not the same thing." Traditional measures of
value were actually measures of appropriation. But this is now changing
[11]Comments
Links:
11. https://thebrowser.com/articles/what-value-what-money
[12]The Woman Who Needed to Be Upside-Down
Links:
12. http://b.rw/T0H567
Louis Janera | Discover | 27 August 2012
Husband arrives in ER carrying wife upside-down. So long as she's the
wrong way up she feels OK. Put her on her feet and she blacks out. She
had a heart operation two days before. Challenge for doctor: What's the
problem? [13]Comments
Links:
13. https://thebrowser.com/articles/woman-who-needed-be-upside-down
[14]How Digital Mapping Is Mapping Us
Links:
14. http://b.rw/OzLFWB
Oliver Burkeman | Guardian | 28 August 2012
Google and Apple have pretty much realised Borges's fantasy of a
one-to-one map of the world. Thanks to which, they can see us
everywhere. "There's a fine line between this being really useful, and
being really creepy". [15]Comments
Links:
15. https://thebrowser.com/articles/how-digital-mapping-mapping-us
[16]Hypnotising Chickens
Links:
16. http://b.rw/Oqmm5J
Paul Cullum | LA Review Of Books | 28 August 2012
Picaresque, trivia-packed essay on "Heart Of Glass", for which Herzog
hypnotised his cast. "He was forced to adopt an artificial voice when
giving instructions to the crew, lest the entire cast try to follow
them automatically" [17]Comments
Links:
17. https://thebrowser.com/articles/hypnotising-chickens
FiveBooks Interview
[18]Emrys Westacott on Philosophy and Everyday Living
Links:
18. https://thebrowser.com/interviews/emrys-westacott-on-philosophy-and-everyday-living
Philosophy is sometimes assumed to be a dry, academic subject but, in
reality, is anything but. A philosophy professor tells us how his
subject is at least as much about how we live, love and relate to each
other [19]Read on
Links:
19. https://thebrowser.com/interviews/emrys-westacott-on-philosophy-and-everyday-living
Featured Special Report
[20]Democracy
Links:
20. https://thebrowser.com/reports/democracy
Are Western states true democracies? Has democracy become a casualty of
the financial crisis? Can you have too much democracy? Read on to find
out [21]Read on
Links:
21. https://thebrowser.com/reports/democracy
Reader Recommendations
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26. http://thebrowser.com/browsings
Book of the Day
[27]Book of the Day
Links:
27. https://thebrowser.com/recommended/middlemarch-by-george-eliot
[28]Middlemarch by George Eliot
Links:
28. https://thebrowser.com/recommended/middlemarch-by-george-eliot
[29]Emrys Westacott says: “Eliot offers not so much an analysis of
self-deception as a clever portrayal of the different forms it takes
and how it’s often linked to self-interest”[30]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
29. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/emrys-westacott-on-philosophy-and-everyday-living
30. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[31]Mitt Romney Quits!
Links:
31. https://thebrowser.com/videos/mitt-romney-quits
He said it. Although not necessarily with the words in this order.
[32]More videos
Links:
32. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[33]Scott Adams, on the mind
Links:
33. http://dilbert.com/blog/entry/quantifying_gullibility
"On one hand, every educated person knows that the physical
structure of the human brain controls what people think and do. At
the same time, the vast majority of humans also believe brains are
part magic"
[34]More quotes
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34. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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