Weekly newsletter 33
[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]The Left-Behinds
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5. http://b.rw/uF8fvu
Michael Hirsh | National Journal | 21 November 2011
Today America struggles with record numbers of long-term unemployed and a
dwindling middle class. But this isn't a sudden effect of the financial
crisis – it's the result of three decades of short-sighted economic policy.
Here's why [6]Comments
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6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/left-behinds
[7]Fiber-Optics Exec By Day, Defender Of Justice By Night
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7. http://b.rw/sPOtxX
Joshua Davis | Wired | 22 November 2011
Astonishing story of successful sales exec who ran bizarre paramilitary
vigilante squad. His team included a 360lb postal worker, a lookalike
Playboy bunny and a weapons expert. Together they hunted down Ponzi scheme
fraudsters [8]Comments
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8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/fiber-optics-exec-day-defender-justice-night
[9]When Did the GOP Lose Touch With Reality?
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9. http://b.rw/w3jlSb
David Frum | New York | 20 November 2011
A disillusioned Republican writes. "In the face of dwindling upward mobility
and stagnating middle-class wages, my party’s economic ideas sometimes seem
to have shrunk to just one: More tax cuts for the very highest earners"
[10]Comments
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10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/when-did-gop-lose-touch-reality
[11]Athens Diary
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11. http://b.rw/tivmGX
James Meek | LRB | 22 November 2011
Notebook from a country unravelling. Only businesses thriving are pawn shops
and precious metal buyers. Economy is reverting to the 1950s. Get food from
relatives in the countryside, money from relatives aboard [12]Comments
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12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/athens-diary
[13]Facebook Is Starting To Lose Its Touch
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13. http://b.rw/sW9zNa
Kevin Kelleher | Reuters | 22 November 2011
800 million users. An IPO looming. Even a Facebook phone is rumoured. But it
has a problem too: It's ruining sharing. "Simply put, Facebook is making the
quantity of content more important than the quality." It may be a cardinal
sin [14]Comments
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14. http://thebrowser.com/articles/facebook-starting-lose-its-touch
[15]Philosophy Of Mind: An Overview
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15. http://b.rw/v6NX35
Laura Weed | Philosophy Now | 16 November 2011
Useful backgrounder on complex subject – the nature of the mind,
consciousness and perception. Can you distinguish verificationism from
behaviourism and scientific reductionism? No? Don't worry, this should set
you straight [16]Comments
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16. http://thebrowser.com/articles/philosophy-mind-overview
[17]Pre-Occupied
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17. http://b.rw/toL7pA
Mattathias Schwartz | New Yorker | 21 November 2011
Creator of Occupy Wall Street is a 69-year-old who lives on a farm outside
Vancouver. Born in Estonia; grew up in Australia where he designed computer
war games for the military. Principal collaborator hasn't seen him for four
years [18]Comments
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18. http://thebrowser.com/articles/pre-occupied
[19]George’s God
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19. http://b.rw/uTXNa0
Andrew Ferguson | Weekly Standard | 21 November 2011
Revisiting George Harrison, 10 years after his death from cancer. A man of
two halves. Good George was a modest fellow, devoted to spiritualism and
Krishna. Bad George had an "heroic capacity for cocaine, brandy, and
adultery" [20]Comments
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20. http://thebrowser.com/articles/george’s-god
FiveBooks Interview
[21]Tim Parks on Italian Fiction
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21. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/tim-parks-on-italian-fiction
The author, who’s lived in Italy for 30 years, takes us off the beaten track
through humour, satire and social history to recommend five richly rewarding
works of Italian fiction [22]Read on
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22. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/tim-parks-on-italian-fiction
Featured Topic
[23]Extreme Food
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23. http://thebrowser.com/reports/extreme-food
From foraging in the wild to foul restaurant dining, here is our toothsome
selection of writing on the world of extreme food [24]Read on
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24. http://thebrowser.com/reports/extreme-food
Reader Recommendations
_@polit2k_ Andy Haldane | The financial sector's contribution to the economy
over-esti .. [25]t.co/NqKCtev8 _@voxeu #gfc2 #browsings_ h/t _@Ian_Fraser_
[26]#browsings [27]More like this
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25. http://t.co/NqKCtev8
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/when-drummers-were-women-by-layne-redmond
[29]When the Drummers Were Women by Layne Redmond
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29. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/when-drummers-were-women-by-layne-redmond
[30]Santigold says: “This book is not just about drumming – it tells the
story of the relationship between women, music, religion and power”
[31]FiveBooks Archive
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30. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/santigold-on-musical-influences
31. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks
Video of the Week
[32]A Darkness Visible: Afghanistan
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32. http://thebrowser.com/videos/darkness-visible-afghanistan
"No one sees what is happening here." An extraordinary short film in six
parts.
[33]More videos
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33. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Week
[34]Andy Borowitz channels Rick Perry
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34. http://twitter.com/BorowitzReport/status/137266911309332480
"I would eliminate all the parts of government I can't remember"
[35]More quotes
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35. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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