Weekly newsletter 45
[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]Obama, Explained
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5. http://b.rw/yDrgfJ
James Fallows | Atlantic | 9 February 2012
Monumental retrospective of US president's first term. Should we think
of him as the "chess master", able to think 10 moves ahead of his
opponents? Or as a mere pawn? Fallows considers in this 12,000-word
essay [6]Comments
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6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/obama-explained
[7]The Way Greeks Live Now
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7. http://b.rw/wuOGZ1
Russell Shorto | NYT | 13 February 2012
A glimpse into harsh reality of life in Greece, where half of all under
25s are now out of work. And yet despite economic turmoil "somehow
everyday life rumbles on, in a collective trance, shot through with
gallows humor" [8]Comments
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/way-greeks-live-now
[9]The Boy Who Played With Fusion
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9. http://b.rw/xT2jmw
Tom Clynes | Pop Science | 14 February 2012
"Someone like him comes along maybe once in a generation. He’s not just
smart; he’s cool, articulate. I think he may be the most amazing kid
I’ve ever met." Indeed. For at the tender age of 14, Taylor Wilson
achieved nuclear fusion [10]Comments
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10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/boy-who-played-fusion
[11]Equations That Rule Your World
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11. http://b.rw/ymfxHc
Ian Stewart | New Scientist | 13 February 2012
Some equations are simply more important than others. Here's a reminder
of seven, that enabled many of the technologies we now rely on: The
wave equation, Maxwell's four equations, the Fourier transform and
Schrödinger's equation [12]Comments
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12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/equations-rule-your-world
[13]The Doom Loop
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13. http://b.rw/y7iWRa
Andrew Haldane | LRB | 16 February 2012
Masterful essay on history of equity, leverage, risk-taking incentives
in the banking system. From 19th century to present day. "In
evolutionary terms, we have had survival not of the fittest but the
fattest." It's time for change [14]Comments
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14. http://thebrowser.com/articles/doom-loop
[15]King Of Pain
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15. http://b.rw/vZV4JF
Algis Valiunas | Claremont Institute | 10 February 2012
Fine, detailed evaluation of troubled life, and works of David Foster
Wallace. "With the benefit of time, it will be recognised that Wallace
had less in common with Eggers and Franzen than he did with Dostoevsky
and Joyce" [16]Comments
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/articles/king-pain
[17]In Conversation With Adam Curtis
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17. http://b.rw/xz2L0T
Hans Ulrich Obrist & Adam Curtis | e-flux | 11 February 2012
Absorbing interview with BBC documentary maker. "If you had to reduce
what I do, I look at how ideas have consequences, not necessarily what
the promoters of them intended." Fascinating on power, individualism,
populism [18]Comments
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/articles/conversation-adam-curtis
[19]Sophia’s Choices
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19. http://b.rw/AvNCcY
Sam Kashner | Vanity Fair | 14 February 2012
Rare interview with movie star Sophia Loren. Still irresistible at the
age of 77. "Head her in the direction of a camera, set her Etruscan
eyes dancing, and Sophia is one of the most magnificent women in the
world" [20]Comments
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20. http://thebrowser.com/articles/sophia’s-choices
FiveBooks Interview
[21]Christina Romer on Learning from the Great Depression
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21. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/christina-romer-on-learning-great-depression
The former chair of President Obama’s Council of Economic Advisers says
we’ve learned that terrible downturns can still occur, but also that
the right policy response can make a huge difference to the outcome
[22]Read on
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22. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/christina-romer-on-learning-great-depression
Featured Topic
[23]American Prisons
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23. http://thebrowser.com/reports/american-prisons
An epidemic of incarceration. A prison system that provides neither
retributive justice nor rehabilitation. Is this America's moral
catastrophe? [24]Read on
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24. http://thebrowser.com/reports/american-prisons
Reader Recommendations
@lookatluca Nice read on Shane Warne's endless second-last over
[25]t.co/qmlBQggV and a fine Oz website too @TheGlobalMail
[26]#browsings [27]More like this
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27. http://thebrowser.com/browsings
Book of the Week
[28]Book of the Day
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28. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/travels-ibn-battutah-by-ibn-buttutah
[29]The Travels of Ibn Battutah by Ibn Battutah (edited by Tim
Mackintosh-Smith)
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29. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/travels-ibn-battutah-by-ibn-buttutah
[30]Tim Mackintosh-Smith says: “In a sense he hasn’t been bettered
since the 14th century. The complete diversity of the Muslim world is
there. He is the traveller of the Islamic world” [31]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
30. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/tim-mackintosh-smith-on-travelling-muslim-world
31. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks
Video of the Week
[32]Hotel Bills And Hospital Bills
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32. http://thebrowser.com/videos/what-if-your-hotel-bill-was-hospital-bill
What if hotel bills were like (US) hospital bills. A good point well
made [33]More videos
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33. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Week
[34]Tim Vine, on domain names
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34. http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/mediamonkeyblog/2012/feb/09/tim-vine-award-winning-joke
"Conjunctivitis.com. That's a site for sore eyes"
[35]More quotes
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35. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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