Weekly newsletter 42
[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 Obama Memos
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5. http://b.rw/zZMUIc
Ryan Lizza | New Yorker | 23 January 2012
Reflections on Obama's first term, "based on a review of hundreds of
pages of internal White House documents". Inside stuff confirms outside
impressions. Obama underestimated recession, misread Republican mood,
lost his edge [6]Comments
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6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/obama-memos
[7]Will Israel Attack Iran?
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7. http://b.rw/ymWvl7
Ronen Bergman | NYT | 25 January 2012
Gripping account of Israeli perspective on Iranian nuclear programme.
Israel estimates that it has about nine months in which to derail the
project. After that, Iran would be able to withstand an attack. Will it
act? Looks that way [8]Comments
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/will-israel-attack-iran
[9]The Caging Of America
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9. http://b.rw/x54R57
Adam Gopnik | New Yorker | 23 January 2012
More than six million people are under "correctional supervision" in
the US – more than were in Stalin's Gulags. Why so many? This superb
account suggests there's been a serious failure of common sense and
humanity [10]Comments
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10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/caging-america
[11]The Looming Threat Of A Solar Superstorm
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11. http://b.rw/yLisJD
Lee Billings | Popular Mechanics | 23 January 2012
In 1859 a major solar storm, the "Carrington Event", hit Earth. Another
came in 1921. What if one struck tomorrow? "If a Carrington Event
happened right now it probably wouldn’t be a wake-up alarm—it would be
a goodnight call" [12]Comments
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12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/looming-threat-solar-superstorm
[13]George Soros On The Coming US Class War
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13. http://b.rw/yTV1vb
John Arlidge | Newsweek | 23 January 2012
"Europe is confronting a descent into chaos and conflict. In America,
Soros predicts riots that will lead to a brutal clampdown that will
dramatically curtail civil liberties. The global economic system could
even collapse" [14]Comments
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14. http://thebrowser.com/articles/george-soros-coming-us-class-war
[15]Citizen Philosophers
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15. http://b.rw/yyyLNx
Carlos Fraenkel | Boston Review | 21 January 2012
Intriguing look at Brazil, where all high-school students, irrespective
of class or background, have to study philosophy for two hours each
week. Can it teach students to build a better, fairer society?
[16]Comments
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16. http://thebrowser.com/articles/citizen-philosophers
[17]How US Lost Out On iPhone Work
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17. http://b.rw/xRWt9C
Charles Duhigg and Keith Bradsher | NYT | 21 January 2012
Why Chinese factories make everything Apple. “You need a thousand
rubber gaskets? That's the factory next door. A million screws? That
factory is a block away. You need that screw made a little bit
different? Three hours" [18]Comments
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/articles/how-us-lost-out-iphone-work
[19]The Splintered Skeptic
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19. http://b.rw/w6La2N
Richard Marshall | 3AM Magazine | 20 January 2012
Fascinating interview with philosopher Eric Schwitzgebel. "There’s no
way to develop an ambitious, broad-ranging, self-consistent
metaphysical system without doing serious violence to common sense
somewhere. It's just impossible" [20]Comments
Links:
20. http://thebrowser.com/articles/splintered-skeptic
FiveBooks Interview
[21]Francis Fukuyama on the Financial Crisis
Links:
21. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/francis-fukuyama-on-financial-crisis
The author of "The End of History" says the financial crisis revealed a
great deal about the nature of America’s political and economic system.
The shame, he says, is that opportunities to change it are now being
ignored [22]Read on
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22. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/francis-fukuyama-on-financial-crisis
Featured Topic
[23]Free Will
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23. http://thebrowser.com/reports/free-will
Does it exist? Or is it an illusion? Why not read on and decide for
yourself. As if you had any choice... [24]Read on
Links:
24. http://thebrowser.com/reports/free-will
Reader Recommendations
@damienjoyce George Soros in @nybooks on how to save the #euro
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Book of the Week
[28]Book of the Day
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28. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/elegant-universe-by-brian-greene-0
[29]The Elegant Universe by Brian Greene
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29. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/elegant-universe-by-brian-greene-0
[30]Mark Kurlansky says: “I love this book. Brian Greene makes quantum
physics and Einstein’s theory of relativity really make sense”
[31]FiveBooks Archive
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30. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/mark-kurlansky-on-favourite-science-books
31. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks
Video of the Week
[32]Maths And Music
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32. http://thebrowser.com/videos/maths-and-music
TED talk. Scott Rickard sets out to construct the ugliest piece of
music possible, on mathematical principles [33]More videos
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33. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Week
[34]Slavoj Zizek, on work
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34. http://www.lrb.co.uk/2012/01/11/slavoj-zizek/the-revolt-of-the-salaried-bourgeoisie
"The chance of being exploited in a long-term job is now experienced
as a privilege"
[35]More quotes
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35. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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