Weekly newsletter 40
[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]Making It In America
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5. http://b.rw/yqImFu
Adam Davidson | Atlantic | 10 January 2012
What is happening to manufacturing industry in America? And what does the
future hold for those who work in it? Superbly engaging and interesting
analysis told through stories of workers at South Carolina auto parts plant
[6]Comments
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/making-it-america
[7]Streaming Dreams
Links:
7. http://b.rw/wFkTnu
John Seabrook | New Yorker | 5 January 2012
Exceptional essay on streaming video giant, YouTube. How it started, grew,
now plans to change television forever. Traditional broadcasters beware:
"YouTube, home of grainy cellphone videos & skateboarding dogs, is going
pro" [8]Comments
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/streaming-dreams
[9]Recovering Adam Smith's Ethical Economics
Links:
9. http://b.rw/zT6Zp8
Anonymous | Philosopher's Beard | 6 January 2012
Adam Smith is rightly cited as the father of modern economics. But he was
also a prominent figure in the Scottish Enlightenment, friend of Hume, and
saw economics as a branch of moral philosophy. A view which is very relevant
today [10]Comments
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/recovering-adam-smiths-ethical-economics
[11]Will We Be All Right In The End?
Links:
11. http://b.rw/xhXHbw
David Runciman | LRB | 5 January 2012
Democracy is being tested severely in Europe. It's not looking that healthy
in America. "The fear is that the political system we’ve relied on in the
past might not be up to the task at hand, but it’s the only one we’ve got"
[12]Comments
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/will-we-be-all-right-end
[13]Do We Need Doctors Or Algorithms?
Links:
13. http://b.rw/wZB8Af
Vinod Khosla | TechCrunch | 10 January 2012
Silicon Valley legend bets on algorithms: "I doubt very much if within 15
years I won’t be able to ask Siri’s great great grandchild for an opinion
far more accurate than the one I get today from the average physician."
Here's why [14]Comments
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/articles/do-we-need-doctors-or-algorithms
[15]State Of The Union
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15. http://b.rw/yUW8bp
David Remnick | New Yorker | 9 January 2012
Book review that may obviate your need to read Jodi Kantor's "The Obamas".
Her book serves up a few scoops of ice cream; Remnick gives some historical
perspective on first couple dynamics. Nixon, predictably, comes out badly
[16]Comments
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/articles/state-union
[17]The Whole True Story Of The Dougherty Gang
Links:
17. http://b.rw/yIRadG
Kathy Dobie | GQ | 10 January 2012
Spoiler alert: This story contains strippers, guns and car chases. Lives of
three siblings from Florida career out of control after comparatively small
offence results in legal catch-22. Fifteen-state crime spree follows
[18]Comments
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/articles/whole-true-story-dougherty-gang
[19]Letter From New Orleans
Links:
19. http://b.rw/xU33p0
Wright Thompson | Grantland | 9 January 2012
Terrifically enjoyable read on four-time Louisiana governor and convicted
felon, Edwin Edwards. Now out of prison. Author of immortal election quote:
"The only way I'm losing is if I get caught in bed with a dead girl or a
live boy" [20]Comments
Links:
20. http://thebrowser.com/articles/letter-new-orleans
FiveBooks Interview
[21]Henry Hitchings on Language
Links:
21. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/henry-hitchings-on-language
The wordsmith and cultural historian debunks common myths about English,
recommends the smartest writing about words, and says apostrophes are
“orthographic squiggles” not worth fighting for [22]Read on
Links:
22. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/henry-hitchings-on-language
Featured Topic
[23]Putin's Russia
Links:
23. http://thebrowser.com/reports/putins-russia
A disputed election, protests, accusations of being a mafia state. As
Vladimir Putin prepares to take back the presidency, what kind of country
does he lead? [24]Read on
Links:
24. http://thebrowser.com/reports/putins-russia
Reader Recommendations
_@polit2k_ Simon Johnson: Could Huntsman and the Democrats Ally on Bank
Reform? | NYT [25]t.co/G1cpcZok [26]#browsings [27]More like this
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25. http://t.co/G1cpcZok
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/couples-by-john-updike
[29]Couples by John Updike
Links:
29. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/couples-by-john-updike
[30]William Boyd says: “The book is a fantastically acute and brilliantly
well-observed account of society. It gets the human condition really well”
[31]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
30. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/william-boyd-on-writers-who-have-inspired-me
31. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks
Video of the Week
[32]Wilco, Nick Lowe and Mavis Staples
Links:
32. http://thebrowser.com/videos/wilco-nick-lowe-and-mavis-staples-rehearse-weight
Rehearsing "The Weight", in Chicago [33]More videos
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33. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Week
[34]Steve Chapman, on Newt Gingrich
Links:
34. http://reason.com/archives/2012/01/12/the-republicans-cow-pie-bingo
"No one has ever left a Gingrich encounter wanting to hear more"
[35]More quotes
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35. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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