Newsletter 783
[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]How Bush Snared Blair
Links:
6. http://b.rw/TYFj1G
Kurt Eichenwald | Vanity Fair | 6 September 2012
Compelling read about run-up to the Iraq war. On this telling, Blair
and Cheney were in a behind-the-scenes battle to influence Bush. Putin
was having none of US hypocrisy; Chirac was merely stunned by Bush's
Biblical references [7]Comments
Links:
7. http://thebrowser.com/articles/how-bush-snared-blair
[8]Imaginary Presidents And Imaginary Gods: The Real 'Empty Chair' Effect
Links:
8. http://b.rw/RE0lVs
Jesse Bering | Bering In Mind | 4 September 2012
"When no other actual person is around, and when we’re tempted to do
something we know we shouldn’t, the illusion of a supernatural watcher
should meaningfully influence our behavioral decision-making." But does
it? [9]Comments
Links:
9. http://thebrowser.com/articles/imaginary-presidents-and-imaginary-gods-real-empty-chair-effect
[10]Understanding Gambling Addiction
Links:
10. http://b.rw/OVgzW6
Peter Dizikes | MIT Review | 4 September 2012
It's not about the winning, but the taking part. “It’s the flow of the
experience that people are after. Money to them is a means to sit there
longer, not an end. They don’t win a jackpot and leave, they win a
jackpot and stay" [11]Comments
Links:
11. http://thebrowser.com/articles/understanding-gambling-addiction
[12]Island Grabbing In Asia
Links:
12. http://b.rw/RDZTXd
Michael Klare | Foreign Affairs | 4 September 2012
Tensions rise in South China Sea as China, Japan, South Korea,
Philippines, Vietnam stake rival claims. Not the sea they want but the
oil and gas beneath, now becoming recoverable thanks to new deepwater
drilling technologies [13]Comments
Links:
13. http://thebrowser.com/articles/island-grabbing-asia
[14]Will Twitter’s Uncanny Luck Ever Run Out?
Links:
14. http://b.rw/NLXnz3
Sarah Lacy | Pando Daily | 4 September 2012
Will Twitter be able to replicate, or exceed, the success of companies
like Facebook? The jury is out. And divided in opinion. The reason? "No
company has ever defied the odds quite like this." Here's why
[15]Comments
Links:
15. http://thebrowser.com/articles/will-twitter’s-uncanny-luck-ever-run-out
[16]When Do We Become Truly Conscious?
Links:
16. http://b.rw/Smk2DM
Daniel Bor | Slate | 4 September 2012
"Consciousness is in many ways the most important question remaining
for science. But the nature of consciousness is not just a vital
question for science; it’s the source of some of our thorniest, most
fundamental ethical dilemmas" [17]Comments
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/articles/when-do-we-become-truly-conscious
FiveBooks Interview
[18]Keith Ellison on Progressivism
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/keith-ellison-on-progressivism
The co-chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus in the United
States tells us what progressives stand for and how they differ from
liberals [19]Read on
Links:
19. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/keith-ellison-on-progressivism
Featured Special Report
[20]The Fall of Lance Armstrong
Links:
20. http://thebrowser.com/reports/fall-lance-armstrong
Once a hero, but now the game is up. Here's how the aggressively
preserved reputation of Lance Armstrong finally crumbled [21]Read on
Links:
21. http://thebrowser.com/reports/fall-lance-armstrong
Reader Recommendations
@[22]newtonmatthew Shopping The House Of The Dead: The End of the
Suburban Dream [23]t.co/b0eh9hjx #[24]longreads [25]#browsings [26]More
like this
Links:
22. http://twitter.com/newtonmatthew
23. http://thoughtcatalog.com/2012/shopping-the-house-of-the-dead
24. http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=#longreads
25. https://twitter.com/search?q=#browsings
26. http://thebrowser.com/browsings
Book of the Day
[27]Book of the Day
Links:
27. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/feminist-promise-by-christine-stansell
[28]The Feminist Promise by Christine Stansell
Links:
28. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/feminist-promise-by-christine-stansell
[29]Eric Foner says: “Stansell helps us understand how liberalism
evolved to embrace individual rights and privacy in the most intimate
areas of personal life” [30]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
29. https://thebrowser.com/interviews/eric-foner-on-evolution-liberalism
30. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[31]Bill Clinton DNC Speech 2012
Links:
31. http://thebrowser.com/videos/bill-clinton-dnc-speech-2012
"We are here to nominate a president. And I've got one in mind"
[32]More videos
Links:
32. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[33]Isaiah Berlin, on life
Links:
33. http://www.eurozine.com/articles/2012-07-31-ignatieff-en.html
"As for the meaning of life, I do not believe that it has any, and
this is a source of great comfort to me"
[34]More quotes
Links:
34. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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