Newsletter 779
[1]All of our Best of the Moment article recommendations, plus
FiveBooks interviews and other selected content from thebrower.com
Links:
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[6]Wall Street's War On The Cities
Links:
6. http://b.rw/PU274f
Michael Hudson | Counterpunch | 31 August 2012
"The pace of Wall Street’s war against the 99% is quickening in
preparation for the kill. So it’s time to default. Otherwise, Wall
Street will turn us into Greece. That is the financial plan, to be
sure" [7]Comments
Links:
7. https://thebrowser.com/articles/wall-streets-war-cities
[8]Everything You Think You Know About China Is Wrong
Links:
8. http://b.rw/PTAybp
Minxin Pei | Foreign Policy | 29 August 2012
West should be worrying about China's decline, not its rise. Factors
that powered the rise, including demography, disregard for environment,
super-cheap labour, easy global market access, are reversing or
disappearing [9]Comments
Links:
9. https://thebrowser.com/articles/everything-you-think-you-know-about-china-wrong
[10]The Rise And Fall of DC Stephenson
Links:
10. http://b.rw/QKaO2z
Karen Abbott | Smithsonian | 30 August 2012
Remembering the loathsome Davis Curtis Stephenson, American political
power broker and Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan. This is the story of
his rise to power and eventual conviction for rape, kidnapping,
conspiracy, and murder [11]Comments
Links:
11. https://thebrowser.com/articles/rise-and-fall-dc-stephenson
[12]Lance Armstrong's Secret Is Out
Links:
12. http://b.rw/PTYkUD
Christopher Keyes | Outside | 31 August 2012
"Armstrong was not just another cyclist caught in the middle of an
established drug culture—he was a pioneer pushing into uncharted
territory. On the Postal squad there was a pecking order. Armstrong got
the superior treatments" [13]Comments
Links:
13. https://thebrowser.com/articles/lance-armstrongs-secret-out
[14]The Dog And The Frisbee
Links:
14. http://b.rw/PTYYBp
Andrew Haldane | Federal Reserve Bank Of Kansas City | 31 August 2012
Speech. "Modern finance is complex, perhaps too complex. Regulation of
modern finance is complex, almost certainly too complex. As you do not
fight fire with fire, you do not fight complexity with complexity."
(24-page PDF) [15]Comments
Links:
15. https://thebrowser.com/articles/dog-and-frisbee
[16]Diary Of A Mad Fact-Checker
Links:
16. http://b.rw/N2Fs5y
James Pogue | Oxford American | 27 August 2012
"I work on and off as a fact-checker at the most accurate magazine in
America. I think so, at least. A few months ago I wouldn’t have
believed that anyone outside New York would care seven thousand
words-worth about what I do there" [17]Comments
Links:
17. https://thebrowser.com/articles/diary-mad-fact-checker
FiveBooks Interview
[18]David Lebovitz on Desserts
Links:
18. https://thebrowser.com/interviews/david-lebovitz-on-desserts
Great desserts can be amazingly simple, and even low in fat. The pastry
chef and author cooks up a mouth-watering reading list to bring your
recipes up to date [19]Read on
Links:
19. https://thebrowser.com/interviews/david-lebovitz-on-desserts
Featured Special Report
[20]America On Drugs
Links:
20. https://thebrowser.com/reports/america-drugs
Ritalin, Adderall, LSD, cocaine. Even bath salts. What is drug use
doing to Americans? [21]Read on
Links:
21. https://thebrowser.com/reports/america-drugs
Reader Recommendations
[22]nuzav Is Kip Litton a Marathon Fraud? : The New
Yorker [23]t.co/oLmJig7I via @[24]NewYorker #[25]browsings
#[26]longreads
Links:
22. http://twitter.com/nuzav
23. http://t.co/oLmJig7I
24. http://twitter.com/NewYorker
25. http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=#browsings
26. http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=#longreads
Book of the Day
[27]Book of the Day
Links:
27. https://thebrowser.com/recommended/happiness-hypothesis-by-jonathan-haidt
[28]The Happiness Hypothesis by Jonathan Haidt
Links:
28. https://thebrowser.com/recommended/happiness-hypothesis-by-jonathan-haidt
[29]Emrys Westacott says: “Haidt has a formula for happiness: Genetics
+ conditions + choices. This is a formula for a realistic approach to
trying to achieve the good life” [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]Introducing The Leap
Links:
31. https://thebrowser.com/videos/introducing-leap
Minority Report on your computer [32]More videos
Links:
32. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[33]Herbert Simon, on behaviour
Links:
33. http://www.kansascityfed.org/publicat/sympos/2012/ah.pdf
“Human beings are quite simple. The apparent complexity of our
behaviour is largely a reflection of the complexity of the
environment in which we find ourselves”
[34]More quotes
Links:
34. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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