Weekly newsletter 32
[1]A selection of our best article links of the week, plus featured
FiveBooks interviews, videos, quotations and more.
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Best of the Week
[5]Why Americans Won't Do Dirty Jobs
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5. http://b.rw/vVKtdk
Elizabeth Dwoskin | Businessweek | 10 November 2011
Alabama has 18% unemployment. But there are lots of difficult, dirty jobs
available. New laws forced migrant workers out; now few Americans are
prepared to take on their roles. “I have 158 jobs, I need to give them to
somebody" [6]Comments
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6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/why-americans-wont-do-dirty-jobs
[7]How The GOP Became The Party Of The Rich
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7. http://b.rw/t5kKT1
Tim Dickinson | Rolling Stone | 9 November 2011
History of modern American fiscal policy, from the inflation of the 1970s
through to the Bush tax cuts and the Tea Party. Because it's in Rolling
Stone it's actually fun to read, and full of stuff to make non-rich people
angry [8]Comments
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8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/how-gop-became-party-rich
[9]The King Of Human Error
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9. http://b.rw/vas7z8
Michael Lewis | Vanity Fair | 8 November 2011
"When I first met Kahneman he was making himself more miserable about his
unfinished book than any writer I’d seen. It turned out to be just a warm-up
for the misery to come, the start of an extraordinary act of literary
masochism" [10]Comments
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10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/king-human-error
[11]'In Assad’s Syria, There Is No Imagination'
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11. http://b.rw/v8w0R1
Anthony Shadid | Frontline | 8 November 2011
Hafez al-Assad was a ruthless cynic who ruled Syria with fear and violence.
Son Bashar thought he could lighten up, get popular, and hold on to power
that way. Wrong. Once you've built a wall of dread, you can't dismantle it
[12]Comments
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12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/“-assad’s-syria-there-no-imagination”
[13]The Resentment Machine
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13. http://b.rw/t24Ubx
Freddie deBoer | New Inquiry | 7 November 2011
Provocative essay on capitalism, Internet. We are raised to compete for
status, material rewards. So, as adults, we invest great meaning in the
"cultural goods" we acquire. Web amplifies this, defining us by our vacuous
consumption [14]Comments
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14. http://thebrowser.com/articles/resentment-machine
[15]Orphans
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15. http://b.rw/uCASQr
Steve Silberman | Fray | 10 November 2011
"My dad was always a punctual man, even in death." Steve Silberman remembers
the life and death of his father in this moving and very personal essay
[16]Comments
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16. http://thebrowser.com/articles/orphans
[17]Magnificent Visions
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17. http://b.rw/tX4b7T
Ted Mann | Vanity Fair | 11 November 2011
Intrepid writer goes to Peru in search of hallucinogen ayahuasca. Encounters
mysterious shamans and seven-storey pyramid on the Amazon, built by an
Englishman inspired by the mind-altering drug. Then he tries it himself
[18]Comments
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18. http://thebrowser.com/articles/magnificent-visions
[19]How To Take Your 4-Year-Old Daughter To A Football Game
Links:
19. http://b.rw/sEc1WQ
Willie Geist | Grantland | 9 November 2011
"Ever since I moved to New York I've been meaning to go to a Columbia
University football game. But it's tough to find a wingman for a trip like
that. This year, I stopped asking my wife. Instead, I invited my 4-year-old
daughter" [20]Comments
Links:
20. http://thebrowser.com/articles/how-take-your-4-year-old-daughter-football-game
FiveBooks Interview
[21]Alex Ross on Writing about Music
Links:
21. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/alex-ross-on-writing-about-music
Music gets deep inside us and inspires great writing too, says the music
critic. He tells us about Nietzsche’s infatuation with Wagner, Thomas
Mann’s imaginary compositions and what John Cage really meant by his 4’33”
of silence [22]Read on
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22. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/alex-ross-on-writing-about-music
Featured Topic
[23]Time
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23. http://thebrowser.com/reports/time
What is it? Why isn't it the same everywhere? Can we travel through time?
Will there be an end to time? Read on to find out [24]Read on
Links:
24. http://thebrowser.com/reports/time
Reader Recommendations
_@mrianleslie_ Short, beautifully written recollection of Alan Turing, by
Alan Garner: [25]t.co/8ysvK5CJ [26]#browsings [27]More like this
Links:
25. http://t.co/8ysvK5CJ
26. https://twitter.com/search?q=#browsings
27. http://thebrowser.com/browsings
Book of the Week
[28]Book of the Day
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28. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/oranges-by-john-mcphee
[29]Oranges by John McPhee
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29. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/oranges-by-john-mcphee
[30]Barry Estabrook says: “It is a short book and it is not a political
book. But you come away never being able to look at an orange in the same
way again” [31]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
30. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/barry-estabrook-on-food-production
31. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks
Video of the Week
[32]Burning Man 2011
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32. http://thebrowser.com/videos/burning-man-2011
Time-lapse video. Long but loveable. Wish you were here [33]More videos
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33. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Week
[34]Umberto Eco, on emotion
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34. http://www.goodreads.com/interviews/show/622.Umberto_Eco
"Love is selective. Hatred is collective"
[35]More quotes
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35. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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