Weekly newsletter 47
[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]I Was A Warehouse Wage Slave
Links:
5. http://b.rw/zSgOBM
Mac McClelland | Mother Jones | 27 February 2012
Portrait of the American workplace in all its horror. Intrepid reporter
goes to work in warehouse owned by, or servicing, unnamed online retail
giant. Impossible targets; negligible pay; if you don't like it, you're
fired [6]Comments
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/i-was-warehouse-wage-slave
[7]Are Smartphones Changing What It Means To Be Human?
Links:
7. http://b.rw/xCMzEv
Janelle Nanos | Boston Magazine | 28 February 2012
Wonderful. Writer forms intimate bond with smartphone, then catches
herself treating it like a human and trying to hide facts from it.
"Where are we headed? I wanted to know before things got any weirder
between my phone and me" [8]Comments
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/are-smartphones-changing-what-it-means-be-human
[9]Global Warming Skeptics Are Wrong
Links:
9. http://b.rw/xcgupT
William Nordhaus | NYRB | 27 February 2012
Yale economist rebuts sceptics' arguments, point by point. The earth is
getting warmer. Due to carbon dioxide pollution. Humans are
responsible. The science is legitimate. It's a bad situation. It's
worth taking action [10]Comments
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/global-warming-skeptics-are-wrong
[11]Which Is The Best Language To Learn?
Links:
11. http://b.rw/yqkYaz
Robert Lane Greene | Intelligent Life | 24 February 2012
Assuming you already speak English. Mandarin jumps out as an obvious
choice, but complexity of its written form suggests it would be the
wrong candidate. Spanish? Arabic? Both are contenders. But Greene
plumps for French. Here's why [12]Comments
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/which-best-language-learn
[13]How Gogol Explains The Post-Soviet World
Links:
13. http://b.rw/zhXo0k
Thomas de Waal | Foreign Policy | 27 February 2012
"Here is a not entirely frivolous suggestion: How about skipping the
political science textbooks when it comes to trying to understand the
former Soviet Union and instead opening up the pages of Gogol, Chekhov,
and Dostoyevsky?" [14]Comments
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/articles/how-gogol-explains-post-soviet-world
[15]The Big Reveal
Links:
15. http://b.rw/xkWFlv
Adam Gopnik | New Yorker | 27 February 2012
On the Bible's last book. "Revelation, far from being meant as a
hallucinatory prophecy, is actually a coded account of events happening
at the time of writing. It’s really a political cartoon about the
crisis in the Jesus movement" [16]Comments
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/articles/big-reveal
[17]The Decline And Fall Of Parental Authority
Links:
17. http://b.rw/wjC12K
Ron Taffel | AlterNet | 22 February 2012
"I’m seeing mothers and fathers challenge the entire social,
educational, professional, and economic context of childrearing—a
system, they increasingly believe, that’s made effective parenting
almost unachievable" [18]Comments
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/articles/decline-and-fall-parental-authority
[19]Night Moves
Links:
19. http://b.rw/xJeH2E
Christine Baumgarthuber | New Inquiry | 23 February 2012
"Terrible and lonely are those hours during which I fret and worry and
stare at the ceiling. I certainly don't look forward to them. But there
was a time when late-night wakefulness wasn't something to be dreaded
but welcomed" [20]Comments
Links:
20. http://thebrowser.com/articles/night-moves
FiveBooks Interview
[21]Martin Bell on Reportage and War
Links:
21. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/martin-bell-on-reportage-and-war
The former BBC war reporter picks out essential reading on the Bosnia
and Vietnam wars and explains why a book of poetry speaks more to him
about the reality of conflict than any other writing [22]Read on
Links:
22. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/martin-bell-on-reportage-and-war
Featured Topic
[23]How To Die
Links:
23. http://thebrowser.com/reports/how-die
How to face the end? Peacefully? Still fighting? With all of medicine's
help? Or naturally? [24]Read on
Links:
24. http://thebrowser.com/reports/how-die
Reader Recommendations
@polit2k RT @baselinescene: House Republicans: Making the United States
More Like Greece, #whburningpreview [25]t.co/uKdpvMcV #gfc2
[26]#browsings [27]More like this
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25. http://t.co/uKdpvMcV
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/brothers-karamazov-by-fyodor-dostoevsky
[29]The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Links:
29. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/brothers-karamazov-by-fyodor-dostoevsky
[30]Richard Harries says: “A great novel of belief and unbelief.
Dostoyevsky himself was a passionate Orthodox Christian, but he felt
the flames of unbelief as much as anybody” [31]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
30. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/richard-harries-on-christianity
31. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks
Video of the Week
[32]The City of Samba
Links:
32. http://thebrowser.com/videos/city-samba
Tell me you don't want to go to Rio after seeing this
[33]More videos
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33. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Week
[34]Roy Amara, on change
Links:
34. http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2012/02/29/just-add-water
"We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two
years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next 10"
[35]More quotes
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35. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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