Weekly newsletter 54
[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 Global Power Shift From West To East
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5. http://b.rw/IFWC4a
Christopher Layne | National Interest | 25 April 2012
"The transition in progress represents more than just the end of the
post-1945 era of American global dominance. It also represents the end
of the era of Western dominance over world events that began roughly
five hundred years ago" [6]Comments
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6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/global-power-shift-west-east
[7]In Defence Of Obscure Words
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7. http://b.rw/IjH0Tg
Will Self | BBC | 20 April 2012
Learning requires effort. And that is how it should be. So it's dismal
to see "the traditional set texts chopped up into boneless nuggets of
McKnowledge, and students encouraged to do their research – such as it
is – on the web" [8]Comments
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8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/defence-obscure-words
[9]The Ayatollah Under The Bed(sheets)
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9. http://b.rw/J4Z9BL
Karim Sadjadpour | Foreign Policy | 23 April 2012
In the Islamic Republic of Iran, sex is not confined to the bedroom,
it's deeply political. And the country's fundamentalist clerics aren't
above considering juridical aspects of the most bizarre sexual
imaginings [10]Comments
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10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/ayatollah-under-bedsheets
[11]Photos Of New York From 100 Years Ago
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11. http://b.rw/Js5V6Q
Various | Daily Mail | 24 April 2012
Remarkable collection of never-before-seen photographs of New York City
from early 20th century. The city's Department of Records has released
850,000 images. Here are some of the most memorable [12]Comments
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12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/photos-new-york-100-years-ago
[13]Austerity, And A New Recession?
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13. http://b.rw/I9negz
Martin Eiermann | European | 23 April 2012
Interview with economist Joseph Stiglitz. And he's on top form from the
word go. "Academic economists played a big role in causing the crisis.
Their models were overly simplified, distorted, and left out the most
important aspects" [14]Comments
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14. http://thebrowser.com/articles/austerity-and-new-recession
[15]On The Origins Of The Arts
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15. http://b.rw/I8JcAZ
EO Wilson | Harvard | 20 April 2012
Harvard biologist tackles evolution of culture in a monumental essay.
Captivating throughout. "Rich and seemingly boundless as the creative
arts seem to be, each is filtered through the narrow biological
channels of human cognition" [16]Comments
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/articles/origins-arts
[17]The Aid Bitchslap
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17. http://b.rw/I2Viaz
Quinn Zimmerman | Shotgun Shack | 25 April 2012
American aid worker approaches end of two-year stint in Haiti, wonders:
What good did I do? All the imported equipment is broken. Society
continues as it did before. Nobody says thank you. On the contrary,
they hate us [18]Comments
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18. http://thebrowser.com/articles/aid-bitchslap
[19]Shift Happens
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19. http://b.rw/Jkj1ms
David Weinberger | Chronicle Review | 22 April 2012
Thomas Kuhn's "Structure Of Scientific Revolutions" rewrote the history
of science, by introducing the concept of "paradigm shift". Science
advances not by single ideas, but by systems of ideas, which displace
one another [20]Comments
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20. http://thebrowser.com/articles/shift-happens
FiveBooks Interview
[21]Barry Eichengreen
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21. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/barry-eichengreen-on-euro
[22]Barry Eichengreen on the Euro
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22. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/barry-eichengreen-on-euro
With hindsight, was the euro a good idea? Will it come through the
present crisis intact or will any country decide to leave? And what
happens if they do? All this and more answered by the economics
professor [23]Read on
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23. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/barry-eichengreen-on-euro
Featured Topic
[24]How To Die
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24. http://thebrowser.com/reports/how-die
How to face the end? Peacefully? Still fighting? With all of medicine's
help? Or naturally? [25]Read on
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25. http://thebrowser.com/reports/how-die
Reader Recommendations
@[26]polit2k MT @[27]EpicureanDeal: This NY Times article on Wal-Mart
is what investigative journalism is for and can be. [28]t.co/fFfcZjOT
[29]#browsings [30]More like this
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26. http://twitter.com/polit2k
27. http://twitter.com/EpicureanDeal
28. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/22/business/at-wal-mart-in-mexico-a-bribe-inquiry-silenced.html?_r=2
29. https://twitter.com/search?q=#browsings
30. http://thebrowser.com/browsings
Book of the Week
[31]Book of the Day
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31. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/travels-ibn-battutah-by-ibn-buttutah
[32]The Travels of Ibn Battutah by Ibn Battutah (edited by Tim
Mackintosh-Smith)
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32. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/travels-ibn-battutah-by-ibn-buttutah
[33]Ziauddin Sardar says: In a sense he hasn’t been bettered since the
14th century. The complete diversity of the Muslim world is there. He
is the traveller of the Islamic world[34]FiveBooks Archive
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33. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/travels-ibn-battutah-by-ibn-buttutah
34. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks
Video of the Week
[35]Martin Amis's Eulogy for Christopher Hitchens
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35. http://thebrowser.com/videos/martin-amiss-eulogy-christopher-hitchens
"Not always rational, and by no means always prudent, but penetratingly
sane. He knew who he was"
[36]More videos
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36. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Week
[37]Andy Borowitz, on free speech
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37. http://twitter.com/BorowitzReport/status/194573180189421568
"I may not agree with you, but I'll defend to the death my right to
tell you to shut up"
[38]More quotes
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38. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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