Weekly newsletter 56
[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 Maturation Of The Billionaire Boy-Man
Links:
5. http://b.rw/IxWPWa
Henry Blodget | New York | 6 May 2012
Big profile of Zuckerberg, in advance of Facebook IPO. Was he lucky?
Did he have the right idea, at the right time? Yes, on both counts. But
he's also a talented leader. A much more impressive man than many are
prepared to admit [6]Comments
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/maturation-billionaire-boy-man
[7]The Climate Fixers
Links:
7. http://b.rw/Ke9UWO
Michael Specter | New Yorker | 7 May 2012
"Many people see geoengineering as a false solution to an existential
crisis—akin to encouraging a heart-attack patient to avoid exercise and
continue to gobble fatty food while simply doubling his dose of
Lipitor." Are they right? [8]Comments
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/can-geoengineering-solve-global-warming
[9]What Will Become Of The Paper Book?
Links:
9. http://b.rw/KENa5e
Michael Agresta | Slate | 8 May 2012
Will paper books exist in the future? Yes, but they'll look different.
This beautifully illustrated essay argues that as their role as vessels
for delivering text is lost to digital, their other qualities will grow
in importance [10]Comments
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/what-will-become-paper-book
[11]Greekonomics
Links:
11. http://b.rw/JdaCGp
Paul Mason | BBC | 9 May 2012
What happens after an election result like that? And in circumstances
like these? When to be in power is to commit political suicide. And
even the traditional parties cannot cooperate. Mason sees two possible
routes out [12]Comments
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/greekonomics
[13]The Ruins Of Yuanmingyuan
Links:
13. http://b.rw/KC8Rg3
Sheila Melvin | Caixin | 4 May 2012
When British and French forces looted and burned the Chinese emperors'
Summer Palace in 1860, they committed one of history's greatest
cultural crimes. They destroyed wantonly a paradise of treasures
assembled over centuries [14]Comments
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/articles/ruins-yuanmingyuan
[15]How Economists Have Misunderstood Inequality
Links:
15. http://b.rw/Iy04AS
Brad Plumer | Washington Post | 3 May 2012
Interview with economist James Galbraith. "There are common global
patterns in economic inequality across different countries that appear
to be very strongly related to major events affecting the world economy
as a whole" [16]Comments
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/articles/how-economists-have-misunderstood-inequality
[17]Rediscovering Literacy
Links:
17. http://b.rw/ILDSB4
Venkatesh Rao | Ribbon Farm | 3 May 2012
Literacy used to denote "linguistic sophistication", and was a skill
that could be refined with practice. Now it simply means "reading and
writing", and is no more than a "set of mechanical tests". What will
the future hold? [18]Comments
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/articles/rediscovering-literacy
[19]The Kid Who Wasn't There
Links:
19. http://b.rw/KHNlgo
Wright Thompson | ESPN | 3 May 2012
"I arrive in Odessa, Texas, flying low over black pump jacks, chasing
the sort of weird, true crime story that often gets reporters on
planes: A 16-year-old named Jerry Joseph, a basketball player, has been
found out as an imposter" [20]Comments
Links:
20. http://thebrowser.com/articles/kid-who-wasnt-there
FiveBooks Interview
[21]Simon Johnson on Why Economic History Matters
Links:
21. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/simon-johnson-on-why-economic-history-matters
History contains useful warnings and lessons. And, says the former IMF
chief economist, today's economic policymakers would do well to heed
them [22]Read on
Links:
22. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/simon-johnson-on-why-economic-history-matters
Featured Topic
[23]London and the Olympics
Links:
23. http://thebrowser.com/reports/london-and-olympics
The Games creep ever closer, though in London you'd hardly know it.
Here's a sideways look at the event and its host city [24]Read on
Links:
24. http://thebrowser.com/reports/london-and-olympics
Reader Recommendations
@nuzav The Myth About Marriage by Garry Wills | NYRblog | The New York
Review of Books: [25]t.co/exKb16iw [26]#browsings [27]More like this
Links:
25. http://t.co/exKb16iw
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/game-by-ken-dryden
[29]The Game by Ken Dryden
Links:
29. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/game-by-ken-dryden
[30]Bruce Dowbiggin says: “The Game may be the best sports book ever
written by a participant. Ken Dryden, the best goalie of his era,
played for the Canadiens in the 1970s” [31]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
30. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/bruce-dowbiggin-on-ice-hockey
31. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks
Video of the Week
[32]The Case For Naturalism
Links:
32. http://thebrowser.com/videos/case-naturalism
Physicist Sean Carroll explains how the progress of science has led to
the view that nothing exists beyond the natural universe. Magnificent
[33]More videos
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33. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Week
[34]Charles de Gaulle, on France
Links:
34. http://walt.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2012/05/07/quotation_for_the_day
"How can anyone govern a nation that has 246 different kinds of
cheese?"
[35]More quotes
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35. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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