Weekly newsletter 59
[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
[6]Why Working-Class People Vote Conservative
Links:
6. http://b.rw/L9vsSI
Jonathan Haidt | Guardian | 5 June 2012
Why would blue-collar workers vote for the political right when it
appears to be against their own economic interests to do so?
Commentators on the left tend to argue that they've been duped. But
there is a better explanation [7]Comments
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7. http://thebrowser.com/articles/why-working-class-people-vote-conservative
[8]Remarks At The Festival Of Economics, Trento Italy
Links:
8. http://b.rw/Mbabas
George Soros | Business Insider | 4 June 2012
Compelling read on failures of economic theory, and eurozone crisis.
Soros believes the euro will survive because a break-up would hurt
Germany as much as others. However, he says Berlin has only three
months in which to act [9]Comments
Links:
9. http://thebrowser.com/articles/remarks-festival-economics-trento-italy
[10]Obama Order Sped Up Wave Of Cyberattacks Against Iran
Links:
10. http://b.rw/KiEIsH
David Sanger | NYT | 1 June 2012
Extraordinary piece. Suggests Obama authorised wave after wave of cyber
strikes against Iranian nuclear sites. Under an operation codenamed
Olympic Games that was developed in tandem with Israel. Stuxnet was
part of it [11]Comments
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11. http://thebrowser.com/articles/obama-order-sped-wave-cyberattacks-against-iran
[12]What Is Wrong With Multiculturalism?
Links:
12. http://b.rw/MeG19Z
Kenan Malik | Pandaemonium | 4 June 2012
"Thirty years ago multiculturalism was widely seen as the answer to
many of Europe’s social problems. Today it is seen, by growing numbers
of people, not as the solution to, but as the cause of, Europe’s myriad
social ills" [13]Comments
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13. http://thebrowser.com/articles/what-wrong-multiculturalism
[14]The Curious Case Of Internet Privacy
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14. http://b.rw/KcO4q5
Cory Doctorow | MIT Tech Review | 6 June 2012
"The users and the analytics people are in a shooting war, but only the
analytics people are armed. There's a business opportunity for a
company that wants to supply arms to the rebels instead of the empire"
[15]Comments
Links:
15. http://thebrowser.com/articles/curious-case-internet-privacy
[16]How Do You Live Knowing You Might Have The Alzheimer's Gene?
Links:
16. http://b.rw/LieiUV
Gina Kolata | NYT | 7 June 2012
Not long ago Alzheimer's was regarded as a degenerative brain disease
with no known cause and no effective treatment. But one family who've
been repeatedly struck by it have been helping the search for
understanding and a cure [17]Comments
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/articles/how-do-you-live-knowing-you-might-have-alzheimers-gene
[18]Failure And Rescue
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18. http://b.rw/MbHq0S
Atul Gawande | New Yorker | 4 June 2012
The difference between triumph and defeat isn’t about willingness to
take risks or attempts to prevent failure. In medicine, and much else,
the difference is in how you react to failure. And whether you can
master the art of rescue [19]Comments
Links:
19. http://thebrowser.com/articles/failure-and-rescue
[20]How Silence Works
Links:
20. http://b.rw/MelkLZ
Jeremy Mesiano-Crookston | Awl | 1 June 2012
Surpisingly open email conversation with four trappist monks. Turns out
they don't take a vow of silence, can talk when necessary. "Cultivating
silence in a group is hard and a discipline we have to commit to over
and over again" [21]Comments
Links:
21. http://thebrowser.com/articles/how-silence-works
FiveBooks Interview
[22]John Dickie on the Italian Mafia
Links:
22. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/john-dickie-on-italian-mafia
The three biggest Italian mafias remain a powerful presence, with
tentacles reaching deep inside Italian business and politics. The
author of Mafia Brotherhoods busts the myth that it’s all in the family
[23]Read on
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23. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/john-dickie-on-italian-mafia
Featured Topic
[24]Wine
Links:
24. http://thebrowser.com/reports/wine
From filthy plonk to first growth Bordeaux, there's something for every
palate in our cultural and historical survey of wine [25]Read on
Links:
25. http://thebrowser.com/reports/wine
Reader Recommendations
@polit2k Monnet’s Ghost by Ian Buruma - Project Syndicate via @ProSyn
#oped [26]t.co/m3VqxQCM #eurocrisis #gfc2 [27]#browsings [28]More like
this
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26. http://t.co/m3VqxQCM
27. https://twitter.com/search?q=#browsings
28. http://thebrowser.com/browsings
Book of the Week
[29]Book of the Day
Links:
29. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/natural-by-bernard-malamud-and-kevin-baker
[30]The Natural by Bernard Malamud and Kevin Baker
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30. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/natural-by-bernard-malamud-and-kevin-baker
[31]Michael Carlson says: “A perfect, mythic take on baseball in which
he plays with the myth of the Fisher King and the Holy Grail”
[32]FiveBooks Archive
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31. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/michael-carlson-on-baseball-novels
32. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks
Video of the Week
[33]Making A Flamenco Guitar
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33. http://thebrowser.com/videos/making-flamenco-guitar
Usually takes 299 hours. Done here in three minutes [34]More videos
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34. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Week
[35]Steven Pinker, on category error
Links:
35. http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/letters/2012/06/04/120604mama_mail2
"It is like reading an explanation of global warming and mounting an
indignant defense of greenhouses"
[36]More quotes
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36. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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