Weekly newsletter 49
[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]How One Man Escaped From A North Korean Prison Camp
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5. http://b.rw/zXR09I
Blaine Harden | Guardian | 16 March 2012
Shin In Geun is probably the only person to have been born in, and
escape from, a North Korean camp for political prisoners. His account
of the cruelty and viciousness of life inside Camp 14 is harrowing
almost beyond belief [6]Comments
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/how-one-man-escaped-north-korean-prison-camp
[7]The Case Against Google
Links:
7. http://b.rw/GPYmsU
Mat Honan | Gizmodo | 22 March 2012
Fundamentals have changed. Google's model no longer to maximise market
share. That's done. Now comes time for monetising captive audience by
whatever means available. Google's core product is no longer search.
It's Google [8]Comments
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/case-against-google
[9]Jungleland
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9. http://b.rw/GFBttZ
Nathaniel Rich | NYT | 21 March 2012
New Orleans's Lower Ninth Ward was slated to become "green space"
post-Katrina. But some residents wanted to return. So the result,
generously put, is laissez-faire. Population down by three-quarters;
flora and fauna running riot [10]Comments
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10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/jungleland
[11]Too Smart To Fail
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11. http://b.rw/yf4Uda
Thomas Frank | MIT Press Journals/Baffler | 16 March 2012
America suffers three big self-inflicted wounds in barely a decade:
"New Economy" bubble, war in Iraq, banking crash. Yet nobody gets held
to account, nobody gets shamed. Neither among the principals, nor the
pundits (PDF) [12]Comments
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12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/too-smart-fail
[13]Afghanistan: A Gathering Menace
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13. http://b.rw/FQq9Kc
Neil Shea | American Scholar | 12 March 2012
With US forces. "Many times I have watched soldiers or Marines, driven
by boredom or fear, behave selfishly and meanly, even illegally, in
minor ways. [Now] I felt I was watching some of the men unravel toward
serious crimes" [14]Comments
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14. http://thebrowser.com/articles/afghanistan-gathering-menace
[15]Logically Speaking
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15. http://b.rw/FPKNWS
Richard Marshall | 3:AM Magazine | 17 March 2012
Philosopher Graham Priest discusses paraconsistent logic, paradoxes,
dialetheism. "Contrary to orthodoxy in Western philosophy, some claims
are true and false, that is, they have a true negation. Nor is this
irrational." Here's why [16]Comments
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16. http://thebrowser.com/articles/logically-speaking
[17]The Evolution Of Death
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17. http://b.rw/wRF3ru
Dick Teresi | Salon | 18 March 2012
"Most of us would agree that King Tut and other mummified ancient
Egyptians are dead, and that you and I are alive. Somewhere in between
these two states lies the moment of death. But where is that?" It's
surprisingly tricky to tell [18]Comments
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18. http://thebrowser.com/articles/evolution-death
[19]Your Brain On Fiction
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19. http://b.rw/yCWpmL
Annie Murphy Paul | NYT | 17 March 2012
Investigating what neuroscience has to say about people who read
novels. "Reading great literature, it has long been averred, enlarges
and improves us as human beings. Brain science shows this claim is
truer than we imagined" [20]Comments
Links:
20. http://thebrowser.com/articles/your-brain-fiction
FiveBooks Interview
[21]John Carlin on Understanding Mandela and South Africa
Links:
21. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/john-carlin-on-understanding-mandela-and-south-africa
Nelson Mandela was a most unusual, and unusually astute, leader, says
John Carlin. He used forgiveness as a political tool, in so doing
ensuring that South Africa avoided what could have been a bloodbath
[22]Read on
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22. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/john-carlin-on-understanding-mandela-and-south-africa
Featured Topic
[23]Healthcare in America
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23. http://thebrowser.com/reports/healthcare-america
The battle over US healthcare reform reaches the Supreme Court. Here's
what's at stake [24]Read on
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24. http://thebrowser.com/reports/healthcare-america
Reader Recommendations
@JamesMcGirk RT @prospect_uk: The literary genre that defines our times
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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/promise-american-life-by-herbert-croly
[29]The Promise of American Life by Herbert Croly
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29. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/promise-american-life-by-herbert-croly
[30]Robert Reich says: "Croly was the first to understand that modern
capitalism required a government that was strong enough to
counterbalance the forces of large corporations" [31]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
30. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/robert-reich-on-saving-capitalism-and-democracy
31. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks
Video of the Week
[32]The Real Mitt Romney
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32. http://thebrowser.com/videos/real-mitt-romney
He stands up. With an introduction from Barack Obama. And music from
Eminem [33]More videos
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33. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Week
[34]Tony Blair, on governing
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34. http://twitter.com/clarkaw/status/181674833908736002
"You begin at your most popular and least capable, and end at your
least popular and most capable"
[35]More quotes
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35. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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