Weekly newsletter 52
[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 Camorra Never Sleeps
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5. http://b.rw/HGmjhO
William Langewiesche | Vanity Fair | 10 April 2012
"It is an understanding, a way of justice, a means of creating wealth
and spreading it around. It has been a part of life in Naples for
centuries—far longer than the fragile construct called Italy has even
existed" [6]Comments
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/camorra-never-sleeps
[7]Exponential Economist Meets Finite Physicist
Links:
7. http://b.rw/I0WjR0
Tom Murphy | Do The Math | 10 April 2012
Can economic growth continue indefinitely? No, said the physicist to
the economist. And here, in a delightful re-creation of a recent dinner
conversation between the two, is why not [8]Comments
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/exponential-economist-meets-finite-physicist
[9]The Second-Term Illusion
Links:
9. http://b.rw/HCJZtC
Aaron David Miller | Foreign Policy | 11 April 2012
Do you think a second-term Obama presidency, freed from re-election
concerns, will tackle Netanyahu and push for Middle East peace? Here's
why it won't happen (and it's not because of the Israel lobby)
[10]Comments
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/second-term-illusion
[11]The Population Control Holocaust
Links:
11. http://b.rw/IoqJz4
Robert Zubrin | New Atlantis | 11 April 2012
Remarkable essay on disturbing history and politics of the "population
control movement", from US to China. Pseudoscience of Malthus led to
billions of ruined lives globally. The lesson? Side with human
ingenuity, not antihumanism [12]Comments
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/population-control-holocaust
[13]Scientology's 'Heretic'
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13. http://b.rw/HsrRTs
Guy Adams | Independent | 6 April 2012
Marty Rathbun spent 27 years with L Ron Hubbard's crowd. Oversaw
sensitive legal campaigns, even mentored Tom Cruise. Fled,
disillusioned in 2004. Dropped off radar for five years; emerged as
outspoken critic of his former "church" [14]Comments
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/articles/scientologys-heretic
[15]The End Of Empathy
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15. http://b.rw/ItPNDH
Walter Kirn | GQ | 9 April 2012
Mitt Romney does not feel your pain. There again, neither does Barack
Obama. But who says voters want familiarity and empathy anyway? It
wasn't on offer from FDR or JFK. Truth is, Americans want to salute
their leaders, not hug them [16]Comments
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/articles/end-empathy
[17]The Neuroscience Of Bob Dylan's Genius
Links:
17. http://b.rw/HokYjS
Jonah Lehrer | Guardian | 6 April 2012
"'It's just this sense that you got something to say.' What he felt was
the itch of an imminent insight, the tickle of lyrics that needed to be
written down. 'I found myself writing this song, this story, this long
piece of vomit'" [18]Comments
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/articles/neuroscience-bob-dylans-genius
[19]Is Facebook Making Us Lonely?
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19. http://b.rw/HDI1rc
Stephen Marche | Atlantic | 12 April 2012
"We are living in an isolation that would have been unimaginable to our
ancestors, and yet we have never been more accessible." Research
suggests we're becoming more lonely, and that's making us ill. Is
social media to blame? [20]Comments
Links:
20. http://thebrowser.com/articles/facebook-making-us-lonely
FiveBooks Interview
[21]Edward Lucas on Putin and Russian History
Links:
21. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/edward-lucas-on-putin-and-russian-history
The international editor of The Economist and author of a new book
about Russia gives an excoriating critique of Putinism and explains how
Russia's amoral present is rooted in a failure to come to terms with
its past [22]Read on
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22. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/edward-lucas-on-putin-and-russian-history
Featured Topic
[23]The Killing of Trayvon Martin
Links:
23. http://thebrowser.com/reports/killing-trayvon-martin
On the case that has pitched America into soul-searching and division
[24]Read on
Links:
24. http://thebrowser.com/reports/killing-trayvon-martin
Reader Recommendations
@SundeenMark Great piece Brittany's Choice by Greg Martin in Witness
Magazine[25] t.co/QtY4rWXG #longreads [26]#browsings [27]More like this
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25. http://t.co/QtY4rWXG
26. https://twitter.com/search?q=#browsings
27. http://thebrowser.com/browsings
Book of the Week
[28]The Last Days of Mankind by Karl Kraus
Links:
28. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/last-days-mankind-by-karl-kraus
[29]Niall Ferguson says: “I was entirely riveted by Kraus’s central
theme, which is that the First World War could to some extent be
understood as a media-driven event” [30]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
29. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/niall-ferguson-on-intellectual-influences
30. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks
Video of the Week
[31]Bang Goes The Theory
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31. http://thebrowser.com/videos/bank-goes-theory
Johnny Ball estimates the number of taxis in London using
capture/recapture [32]More videos
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32. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Week
[33]Marc Pincus, on failure
Links:
33. http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-04-12/how-to-fail-mark-pincus
"Success is dangerous because often you don’t understand why you
succeeded. You almost always know why you’ve failed"
[34]More quotes
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34. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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