Weekly newsletter 19
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Best of the Week
[5]Can the Middle Class Be Saved?
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5. http://b.rw/mZhNiT
Don Peck | Atlantic | 9 August 2011
Thoughtful essay on US wealth divide. "If the economic and cultural trends
under way continue unabated, class mobility will likely decrease in the
future, and class divides may eventually grow beyond our ability to bridge
them" [6]Comments
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6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/can-middle-class-be-saved
[7]Beyond Space-Time
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7. http://b.rw/oFyz9R
Amanda Gefter | New Scientist | 8 August 2011
Fascinating introduction to new theory of reality proposed by Canadian
physicists. Could lead to unification of general relativity and quantum
mechanics. This is Phase Space, a curious eight-dimensional world
[8]Comments
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/beyond-space-time
[9]Leap Of Faith
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9. http://b.rw/qcCzJw
Ryan Lizza | New Yorker | 15 August 2011
Everything you need to know about Michele Bachmann, Tea Party insurgent and
2012 Republican contender. A woman who offers "a set of beliefs more extreme
than those of any American politician of her stature, including Sarah Palin"
[10]Comments
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10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/leap-faith
[11]Riots: The Underclass Lashes Out
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11. http://b.rw/njw7kN
Mary Riddell | Telegraph | 8 August 2011
Inequality of income, opportunity and education is laid bare. Riots reveal
"a section of young Britain – the stabbers, shooters, looters, chancers and
their frightened acolytes – has fallen off the cliff-edge of a crumbling
nation" [12]Comments
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/riots-underclass-lashes-out
[13]Cincinnati
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13. http://b.rw/nv98sI
James Pogue | n+1 | 8 August 2011
Bravo. Lovely long essay capturing the great and small events of American
life as played out in a medium-sized midwestern city. Nothing seems to
happen here, and yet everything is of interest. Especially the serial killer
[14]Comments
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14. http://thebrowser.com/articles/cincinnati
[15]It’s The Economy, Dummkopf!
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15. http://b.rw/ogmh8k
Michael Lewis | Vanity Fair | 10 August 2011
Far-reaching investigation into Germany's attitude to money and role as euro
saviour. "In this financial world of deceit, Germans are natives on a
protected island who have not been inoculated against the virus carried by
visitors" [16]Comments
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/articles/it’s-economy-dummkopf
[17]Who Stole The Mona Lisa?
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17. http://b.rw/qpYmDg
Simon Kuper | Slate/FT | 7 August 2011
Great tale of theft of famous painting from Louvre in 1911. Security
eccentric, at best. More than a day passed before alarm was raised. Police
investigation stunningly incompetent. At one point, Picasso suspected
[18]Comments
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/articles/who-stole-mona-lisa
[19]The Cult Of Cats
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19. http://b.rw/qhJCDb
Tom Chatfield | Prospect | 20 July 2011
Domestication of a species is usually for the benefit of humans. But cats
are not useful to humans in any instrumental sense. They invited themselves
in, persuaded us to feed them, had us cleaning up the mess. How did they do
it? [20]Comments
Links:
20. http://thebrowser.com/articles/cult-cats
FiveBooks Interview
[21]Jonathan Keates on Great Letter Writers
Links:
21. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/jonathan-keates-on-great-letter-writers
Queen Victoria was anything but Victorian and Lord Byron was more vulnerable
than we think, says writer Jonathan Keates – who considers emails a poor
substitute for a hand-written correspondence [22]Read on
Links:
22. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/jonathan-keates-on-great-letter-writers
Featured Topic
[23]UK Riots
Links:
23. http://thebrowser.com/topics/uk-riots
This is our selection of the best writing on the riots to date. Keep
checking this page for updates over the coming days [24]Read on
Links:
24. http://thebrowser.com/topics/uk-riots
Reader Recommendations
_@polit2k_ The moral decay of our society is as bad at the top as the bottom
– Telegraph Blogs - [25]goo.gl/lJSZ0 [26]#browsings [27]More like this
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25. http://goo.gl/lJSZ0
26. https://twitter.com/search?q=#browsings
27. http://thebrowser.com/browsings
Book of the Week
[28]Book of the Day
Links:
28. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/gourmet-by-lu-wenfu
[29]The Gourmet by Lu Wenfu
Links:
29. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/gourmet-by-lu-wenfu
[30]Fuchsia Dunlop says:_ “It's a delightfully witty and humorous story by a
Suzhou-born writer and a kind of allegory for how difficult it is to build
an ideal world through ideology” _[31]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
30. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/fuschia-dunlop-on-chinese-food
31. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks
Video of the Week
[32]SmartBird
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32. http://thebrowser.com/videos/smartbird
Markus Fischer, of German engineering company Festo, demonstrates a
mechanical bird [33]More videos
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33. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Week
[34]John Naughton, on rioting
Links:
34. http://twitter.com/jjn1/status/101058755189420032
"Prosperity doesn't trickle down, but greed does"
[35]More quotes
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35. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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