Weekly newsletter 34
[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 Xinjiang Procedure
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5. http://b.rw/urPQz9
Ethan Gutman | Weekly Standard | 25 November 2011
"Chinese medical authorities admit the lion’s share of transplant organs
originate with executions, but no mainland doctors, even in exile, will
normally speak of performing such surgery." Now one has. Prepare for a
shocking story [6]Comments
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6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/xinjiang-procedure
[7]The Broken Contract
Links:
7. http://b.rw/skMX7m
George Packer | Foreign Affairs | 1 November 2011
US in decline. "All around, we see dazzling technological change, but no
progress." Surface of life goes on improving, but deep structures,
institutions, processes have decayed. Elites have lost their moral compass
[8]Comments
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/broken-contract
[9]Banishing Consciousness: The Mystery Of Anaesthesia
Links:
9. http://b.rw/t8QyPg
Linda Geddes | New Scientist | 29 November 2011
"The anaesthetic would make me feel drowsy, I would go to sleep, when I woke
up it would all be over. What they didn't tell me was how the drugs would
send me into the realms of oblivion. They couldn't. The truth is, no one
knows" [10]Comments
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10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/banishing-consciousness-mystery-anaesthesia
[11]Yes, Virginia. The Banks Really Were Bailed Out
Links:
11. http://b.rw/uyVS8L
Steve Waldman | Interfluidity | 29 November 2011
Yes, banks took loans from the Fed during credit crisis, but they've paid it
all back now. Since there were no credit losses, there wasn't really a
bailout, right? Wrong. Here's a super post that explains why, in no
uncertain terms [12]Comments
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/yes-virginia-banks-really-were-bailed-out
[13]The Myth Of The Fourth Reich
Links:
13. http://b.rw/toopxZ
Richard Evans | New Statesman | 24 November 2011
Super analysis by Cambridge professor on how Germany's history affects its
attitude to euro plight. It's not a lingering desire to control Europe that
drives German policy, it's fearful memories of Weimar Republic [14]Comments
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/articles/myth-fourth-reich
[15]Human Nature's Pathologist
Links:
15. http://b.rw/tE4Z7d
Carl Zimmer | NYT | 28 November 2011
Super profile of Steven Pinker, Harvard psychologist. Anarchist at age of 15
(“If you weren’t an anarchist, you couldn’t get a date”), student of human
nature, linguist, advocate of evolutionary psychology, now expert on
violence [16]Comments
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/articles/human-natures-pathologist
[17]Spaces Of Banana Control
Links:
17. http://b.rw/temfR3
Nicola Twilley | Edible Geography | 29 November 2011
Inside New York's biggest banana warehouse, where climate control fools the
fruit into thinking it is still on the plant in tropical Ecuador. “The
energy coming off a box of ripening bananas could heat a small apartment”
[18]Comments
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/articles/spaces-banana-control
[19]The Unlikely Event
Links:
19. http://b.rw/tU3giY
Avi Steinberg | Paris Review | 28 November 2011
Modern airline safety cards are "spare, noiseless projections that maintain
a zen-like neutrality to the chaos and horror of the actual event". Jollier
in the 1950s. “Loosen your tie, but keep all your clothes on,” advised PanAm
[20]Comments
Links:
20. http://thebrowser.com/articles/unlikely-event
FiveBooks Interview
[21]David Lammy on Context of the UK Riots
Links:
21. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/david-lammy-on-context-uk-riots
We're richer and freer as a society than we used to be but it's now clear
there are downsides too. The MP for Tottenham, where the riots began, says
we've created a hyper-individualistic culture and explains how we must
change it [22]Read on
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22. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/david-lammy-on-context-uk-riots
Featured Topic
[23]Euro On The Brink
Links:
23. http://thebrowser.com/reports/euro-brink
What's going wrong with the euro? Can the problem be contained? If so, how?
And what if it isn't? Read on to find out [24]Read on
Links:
24. http://thebrowser.com/reports/euro-brink
Reader Recommendations
_@prospect_uk_ The crime-buster "princeling" wooing China with his red songs
and Maoist texts. Meet Bo Xilai [25]t.co/c9HP53j9 _#longreads_
[26]#browsings [27]More like this
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25. http://t.co/c9HP53j9
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/blue-lotus-by-hergé
[29]The Blue Lotus by Hergé
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29. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/blue-lotus-by-hergé
[30]Michael Farr says: “The Blue Lotus is the most important Tintin
adventure. It’s a masterpiece. Tintin is immersed in extreme realism –
Shanghai exactly as it was in 1934” [31]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
30. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/michael-farr-on-tintin
31. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks
Video of the Week
[32]Herman Cain's 9-9-9
Links:
32. http://thebrowser.com/videos/herman-cains-9-9-9
Animated voodoonomics. In brief: Nothing will get cheaper, but everyone will
be better off [33]More videos
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33. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Week
[34]James Surowiecki, on the eurozone
Links:
34. http://www.newyorker.com/talk/financial/2011/12/05/111205ta_talk_surowiecki
"This is that rarest of problems—one that you really can solve just by
throwing money at it"
[35]More quotes
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35. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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