Newsletter 789
[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]Obama's Way
Links:
6. http://b.rw/RGNnYu
Michael Lewis | Vanity Fair | 11 September 2012
Admiring portrait. Much discussed, now ungated. Perceptively done. Good
quotes. "There are some things about being president that I still have
difficulty doing. For example, faking emotion." Obama has found his
Schlesinger [7]Comments
Links:
7. https://thebrowser.com/articles/obamas-way
[8]America's 9/11 Response Subverted Our Values, Liberties
Links:
8. http://b.rw/QE9sXM
Juan Cole | Detroit News | 11 September 2012
"The United States government's reaction to the attacks of 9/11 some 11
years ago took the world into a tragic era of unnecessary wars and
confrontation that destabilized allies and threatened vital long-term
US interests" [9]Comments
Links:
9. https://thebrowser.com/articles/americas-911-response-subverted-our-values-liberties
[10]Cosmo, The Hacker 'God' Who Fell To Earth
Links:
10. http://b.rw/Od1kr1
Mat Honan | Wired | 11 September 2012
Sequel to last month's story in which tech writer Honan described how
his life descended into turmoil when he was hacked. This time, he goes
eyeball-to-eyeball with a 15-year-old master hacker who tells him how
and why he does it [11]Comments
Links:
11. https://thebrowser.com/articles/cosmo-hacker-god-who-fell-earth
[12]What Krugman & Stiglitz Can Tell Us
Links:
12. http://b.rw/QyaMuY
Jacob Hacker & Paul Pierson | NYRB | 7 September 2012
Assessment of new books by Nobel-winning economists Paul Krugman and
Joseph Stiglitz. Both diagnose major problems for the US, going far
beyond economics. If the cause is political, the cure must be too
[13]Comments
Links:
13. https://thebrowser.com/articles/what-krugman-stiglitz-can-tell-us
[14]When Networks Network
Links:
14. http://b.rw/P9y32V
Elizabeth Quill | ScienceNews | 9 September 2012
The science of how systems interact. "Findings suggest that networks of
networks pose risks of catastrophic danger that can exceed the risks in
isolated systems. A seemingly benign disruption can generate rippling
negative effect" [15]Comments
Links:
15. https://thebrowser.com/articles/when-networks-network
[16]Harvest
Links:
16. http://b.rw/P9vptX
Various | Big Picture | 10 September 2012
Wonderful photo gallery. Images of crops being brought in around the
world (wild haying in Switzerland looks a perilous activity), harvest
festivals, and a reminder that rain and agricultural plenty cannot be
taken for granted [17]Comments
Links:
17. https://thebrowser.com/articles/harvest
FiveBooks Interview
[18]Eric Olsen on How to Write
Links:
18. https://thebrowser.com/interviews/eric-olsen-on-how-write
From their egos and anxieties to the way they work, writers have more
in common than we might think. The journalist and editor takes us
inside the writing process and reveals who gives the best advice for
aspiring authors [19]Read on
Links:
19. https://thebrowser.com/interviews/eric-olsen-on-how-write
Featured Special Report
[20]Privacy Online
Links:
20. https://thebrowser.com/reports/privacy-online
Your movements are tracked and the data trail you leave is
commercialised. If privacy is gone, is "publicy" the future? Or is
there more value to privacy than some think? [21]Read on
Links:
21. https://thebrowser.com/reports/privacy-online
Reader Recommendations
@polit2k "@aussietorres: RT @edwardnh: How to Unscramble an Egg:
Undoing The Six Worst Economic Policy Mistakes [22]t.co/6Ouvja1H"
[23]#browsings [24]More like this
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22. http://t.co/6Ouvja1H
23. https://twitter.com/search?q=#browsings
24. http://thebrowser.com/browsings
Book of the Day
[25]Book of the Day
Links:
25. https://thebrowser.com/recommended/grasshopper-by-bernard-suits
[26]The Grasshopper by Bernard Suits
Links:
26. https://thebrowser.com/recommended/grasshopper-by-bernard-suits
[27]Nigel Warburton says: “Suits thinks games are the highest intrinsic
good and he's found a light-hearted way of getting to that conclusion –
by using arguments and considering counter-examples” [28]FiveBooks
Archive
Links:
27. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/nigel-warburton-on-introductions-philosophy
28. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[29]Steve Blank, On Start-Ups
Links:
29. https://thebrowser.com/videos/steve-blank-start-ups
"Start-ups go from failure to failure. But instead of firing the
executives, we fire the plan" [30]More videos
Links:
30. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[31]Terry Eagleton, on deviance
Links:
31. http://www.lrb.co.uk/v34/n17/terry-eagleton/grub-street-snob
"Those who prize the deviant should also cherish the normative,
since there would be no deviancy without it"
[32]More quotes
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32. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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