Weekly newsletter 48
[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'm Being Followed
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Alexis Madrigal | Atlantic | 29 February 2012
"The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people
click ads." 105 companies (at least) are tracking your browsing habits
for money. It's why most web sites can seem free. You should probably
know about it [6]Comments
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6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/im-being-followed
[7]The Siege Of September 13
Links:
7. http://b.rw/zNZ34s
Matthieu Aikins | GQ | 5 March 2012
Gripping inside account of 20-hour siege on American embassy in Kabul,
days after 10th anniversary of 9/11. "The fiction of common interests
that has underpinned US-Pakistani relations is wearing thin"
[8]Comments
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/siege-september-13
[9]Why The Future Of Neuroscience Will Be Emotionless
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9. http://b.rw/whHlYY
Sam McNerney | Why We Reason | 5 March 2012
The great debate over how we make decisions just took a new turn.
Neuroscientists have argued over relative influence of reason and
emotions. But a new paper raises a critical issue: Can we even agree
what emotions are? It seems not [10]Comments
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10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/why-future-neuroscience-will-be-emotionless
[11]Who Would God Vote For?
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11. http://b.rw/zKuWv1
Adam Curtis | BBC | 6 March 2012
"In the 1970s everything changed. For that was the moment when religion
was deliberately brought into politics in both America and Iran with
the aim of using it as a revolutionary force." Curtis tells the story
of how it happened [12]Comments
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12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/who-would-god-vote
[13]Economics In The Crisis
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13. http://b.rw/zuSlK3
Paul Krugman | NYT | 5 March 2012
"Times of economic disturbance and disorder, of crisis and chaos, are
times when economic analysis is especially likely to be wrong. Yet such
times are also when economics is most useful." Full transcript of
recent Krugman speech [14]Comments
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/articles/economics-crisis
[15]How Three Germans Are Cloning The Web
Links:
15. http://b.rw/yvLnyo
Caroline Winter | Businessweek | 2 March 2012
"The most admirable entrepreneurs are those with original ideas, ja?
It's a unique gift that you either have or you don't." Says Oliver
Samwer, one of three brothers who do not have ideas. They just copy
others. And make billions [16]Comments
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/articles/how-three-germans-are-cloning-web
[17]Our Great Moral Decline
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17. http://b.rw/w9Zt4o
RM | Economist | 2 March 2012
Really? Let's have a look at crime rate, abortion, charitable giving,
affiliation with religion and out-of-wedlock births. And, while we're
at it, let's think about what "moral" really means. Sober, sensible,
interesting analysis [18]Comments
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18. http://thebrowser.com/articles/our-great-moral-decline
[19]1984 Vs Brave New World
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19. http://b.rw/Aa4Soj
Aldous Huxley | Letters Of Note | 6 March 2012
Remarkable letter from Huxley to Orwell, written in 1949. "I feel that
the nightmare of Nineteen Eighty-Four is destined to modulate into the
nightmare of a world having more resemblance to that which I imagined
in Brave New World" [20]Comments
Links:
20. http://thebrowser.com/articles/1984-vs-brave-new-world
FiveBooks Interview
[21]Adam Gopnik on Favourite Essay Collections
Links:
21. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/adam-gopnik-on-favourite-essay-collections
What makes a great essayist? What had it, who didn’t? And whose work
left the biggest mark on the New Yorker? A longtime writer for the
magazine picks out five masters of the craft [22]Read on
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22. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/adam-gopnik-on-favourite-essay-collections
Featured Topic
[23]Israel and Iran
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23. http://thebrowser.com/reports/israel-and-iran
Will Israel bomb Iran? What is it telling the US, and what will
Washington do? And where does Iran stand? [24]Read on
Links:
24. http://thebrowser.com/reports/israel-and-iran
Reader Recommendations
@nuzav Sarah Ellison: Has The Washington Post Lost Its Way? | Business
| Vanity Fair [25]t.co/G0blkHU3 via @VanityFair [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/good-soldier-by-ford-madox-ford
[29]The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford
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29. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/good-soldier-by-ford-madox-ford
[30]Alexandra Harris says: It really is a sad story, about four people
– two couples – who are at a German spa resort, in love with the wrong
people [31]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
30. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/alexandra-harris-on-modernism
31. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks
Video of the Week
[32]Keep Calm And Carry On
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32. http://thebrowser.com/videos/keep-calm-and-carry
You've got the tea-mug. Here's the story [33]More videos
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33. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Week
[34]Robert Shiller, on virtue
Links:
34. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-03-08/finance-logic-can-banish-corruption-part-4-commentary-by-robert-shiller.html
"Our desire for praise can be truly satisfied only if we deserve it.
No one is satisfied merely to look praiseworthy"
[35]More quotes
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35. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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