Weekly newsletter 46
[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 Conversion
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5. http://b.rw/A9XXmK
William Saletan | Slate | 22 February 2012
"To understand Mitt Romney, you have to understand the most difficult
passage of his political life: How he changed his position on abortion.
Not the story he tells about it, but the real story." A painstaking,
fascinating piece [6]Comments
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6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/conversion
[7]Form And Fortune
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7. http://b.rw/y3RAEA
Evgeny Morozov | New Republic | 22 February 2012
Best review yet of Isaacson's "Jobs". Maybe even better than the book.
Full of good stuff on Apple's design and marketing, its debt to the
Bauhaus. Makes the case that, for once, "corporate philosophy" is not
too strong a term [8]Comments
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8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/form-and-fortune
[9]Cheating Death
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9. http://b.rw/y3VKkd
Alex Byrne | Boston Review | 21 February 2012
Can you survive death? For the time being it's a question of
technology. But if the tech ever gets solved, it will become a question
of philosophy. If you can store or replicate your mind or your body,
will it still be you? [10]Comments
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10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/cheating-death
[11]Party Crasher
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11. http://b.rw/w4M8El
Kelefa Sanneh | New Yorker | 20 February 2012
With Ron Paul. "When he warns against threatening Iran, or calls the
war on drugs 'a total failure,' or observes that 'rich white people
don’t get the death penalty very often,' he seems like a man competing
in a separate contest" [12]Comments
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12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/party-crasher
[13]Research, No Motion
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13. http://b.rw/zutOou
Jesse Hicks | Verge | 21 February 2012
Outstanding analysis of Research In Motion: Its history, management,
failure to capitalise on early BlackBerry success, and future
potential. Are we watching the end of a once iconic brand? Or the start
of a turnaround? [14]Comments
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14. http://thebrowser.com/articles/research-no-motion
[15]The Price Of Dissent In Saudi Arabia
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15. http://b.rw/wda3Y2
Toby Jones | Nation | 15 February 2012
Pity poor Hamza Kashgari. He made some injudicious comments on Twitter
and now he's a pawn about to be sacrificed by the Saudi ruling family.
This has little to do with the sanctity of Islam; everything to do with
power politics [16]Comments
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/articles/price-dissent-saudi-arabia
[17]Never Surrender: The Lonely War Of Hiroo Onoda
Links:
17. http://b.rw/yPqPcz
Giles Milton | Surviving History | 21 February 2012
In 1944, elite Japanese soldier Hiroo Onoda was sent to the Filipino
island of Lubang on a mission to carry out sabotage attacks. He was
ordered never to surrender. And he didn't. Not until 29 years after the
war ended [18]Comments
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18. http://thebrowser.com/articles/never-surrender-lonely-war-hiroo-onoda
[19]The Scale Of The Universe
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19. http://b.rw/zEDGyx
Cary Huang | HTwins | 9 February 2012
Excellent interactive feature sets size of our universe and us in
perspective. Zoom out from the minute neutrino, right up to the massive
Virgo Supercluster. Click on any objects you don't recognise to learn
more about them [20]Comments
Links:
20. http://thebrowser.com/articles/scale-universe
FiveBooks Interview
[21]Edith Grossman on Translation
Links:
21. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/edith-grossman-on-translation
The award-winning literary translator discusses books on and of
translation that inspired her, and considers the trade-off between
fidelity and meaning that every translator faces [22]Read on
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22. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/edith-grossman-on-translation
Featured Topic
[23]Wine
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23. http://thebrowser.com/reports/wine
From filthy plonk to first growth Bordeaux, there's something for every
palate in our cultural and historical survey of wine [24]Read on
Links:
24. http://thebrowser.com/reports/wine
Reader Recommendations
@polit2k How to Halt the Butchery in Syria: ANNE-MARIE SLAUGHTER | NYT
Oped [25]t.co/bDhK4qE8 #syria #browsings [26]#browsings [27]More like
this
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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/fatherland-by-robert-harris
[29]Fatherland by Robert Harris
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29. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/fatherland-by-robert-harris
[30]Sam Bourne says: “As an example of a very well realised
high-concept thriller, you don’t get much better than Fatherland”
[31]FiveBooks Archive
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30. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/sam-bourne-on-classic-thrillers
31. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks
Video of the Week
[32]Hillbrow: Between Heaven and Hell
Links:
32. http://thebrowser.com/videos/hillbrow-between-heaven-and-hell
A personal journey to the heart of one of South Africa's most dangerous
neighbourhoods
[33]More videos
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33. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Week
[34]Robert Reich, on Super PACs
Links:
34. http://robertreich.org/post/18021562021
"Never before in the history of our Republic have so few spent so
much to influence the votes of so many"
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35. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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