Weekly newsletter 60
[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]The Second Term
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6. http://b.rw/Mn7tlS
Ryan Lizza | New Yorker | 11 June 2012
Present indications are that Obama vs Romney will be a very tight
contest. If it's Obama, narrowly, what will he do, how will he behave
in a second term? Lizza sketches out his likely priorities, and scope
for action [7]Comments
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7. http://thebrowser.com/articles/second-term
[8]Neuroscience: The Mind Reader
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8. http://b.rw/MsW1oK
David Cyranoski | Nature | 12 June 2012
Adrian Owen has achieved the unthinkable: He's found a way to
communicate with people who have been left in vegetative states. But
his research raises issues – should he ask patients if they want to
discontinue life support? [9]Comments
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9. http://thebrowser.com/articles/neuroscience-mind-reader
[10]The Macroeconomics Of Chinese Kleptocracy
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10. http://b.rw/LeRpBE
John Hempton | Bronte Capital | 10 June 2012
"China is a kleptocracy of a scale never seen before in human history.
This post aims to explain how this wave of theft is financed, what
makes it sustainable and what will make it fail." (h/t Florens
Sauerbruch) [11]Comments
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11. http://thebrowser.com/articles/macroeconomics-chinese-kleptocracy
[12]Nixon Was Far Worse Than We Thought
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12. http://b.rw/N1VKMQ
Bob Woodward & Carl Bernstein | Washington Post | 8 June 2012
Forty years on from Watergate, we know much more about Nixon's
presidency, most of it bad. He waged war "against the anti-Vietnam War
movement, the news media, the Democrats, the justice system and,
finally, against history itself" [13]Comments
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13. http://thebrowser.com/articles/nixon-was-far-worse-we-thought
[14]Of Flying Cars And The Declining Rate Of Profit
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14. http://b.rw/MpwCJQ
David Graeber | Baffler | 4 June 2012
Futurologists thought we would have flying cars, force-fields, tractor
beams, teleportation, antigravity sleds, immortality drugs and space
colonies. But the only technologies to have advanced since the 1970s
are those of simulation [15]Comments
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15. http://thebrowser.com/articles/flying-cars-and-declining-rate-profit
[16]A Case So Cold It Was Blue
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16. http://b.rw/L72jev
Mark Bowden | Vanity Fair | 14 June 2012
"The first thing Nels Rasmussen asked Detective Mayer the day after his
daughter was murdered was 'Have you checked out John’s ex-girlfriend,
the lady cop?'" They hadn't. When they finally did, 23 years later, the
mystery unfolded [17]Comments
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17. http://thebrowser.com/articles/case-so-cold-it-was-blue
[18]Happyism
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18. http://b.rw/LlvaeE
Deirdre McCloskey | New Republic | 8 June 2012
Outstanding essay on measuring happiness. Critiques new "science" of
hedonics, and the dreaded 1-2-3 studies relied on by so many
economists. "We do not need more hedonomics or utilonomics or
freakonomics. We need humanomics" [19]Comments
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19. http://thebrowser.com/articles/happyism
[20]Did He Feel Good?
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20. http://b.rw/LITt7q
Ian Penman | City Journal | 8 June 2012
Superb piece on godfather of soul James Brown, pegged to new biography.
"The Hardest Working Man in Show Business rubbed up against the worst
dreams of men and ultimately paid a heavy, soul-consuming price"
[21]Comments
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21. http://thebrowser.com/articles/did-he-feel-good
FiveBooks Interview
[22]Paul Theroux on Travelling
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22. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/paul-theroux-on-travelling
Travel is a leap in the dark, says Paul Theroux – and one that will
leave you a different person at the other end. He recommends five
travel books that inspired him, from Mark Twain at sea to VS Naipaul in
India [23]Read on
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23. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/paul-theroux-on-travelling
Featured Topic
[24]Euro On The Brink
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24. http://thebrowser.com/reports/euro-brink
What's going wrong with the euro? Can the problem be contained? If so,
how? And what if it isn't? Read on to find out [25]Read on
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25. http://thebrowser.com/reports/euro-brink
Reader Recommendations
@nuzav Stalin & Hitler: Mass Murder by Starvation by Timothy Snyder |
The New York Review of Books: [26]t.co/ie6bAvPS [27]#browsings [28]More
like this
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26. http://t.co/ie6bAvPS
27. https://twitter.com/search?q=#browsings
28. http://thebrowser.com/browsings
Book of the Week
[29]Book of the Day
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29. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/code-street-by-elijah-anderson
[30]Code of the Street by Elijah Anderson
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30. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/code-street-by-elijah-anderson
[31]Gavin Knight says: “In street families it’s all about respect and
aggression. To be respected you have to give the impression that you
are capable of extreme violence quickly” [32]FiveBooks Archive
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31. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/gavin-knight-on-gang-crime
32. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks
Video of the Week
[33]10 Bets You Will Always Win
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33. http://thebrowser.com/videos/10-bets-you-will-always-win
Paul Newman got his thumbs broken for this sort of thing [34]More
videos
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34. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Week
[35]Warren Buffett, on brevity
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35. http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/2012/06/11/exclusive-warren-buffett-a-few-lessons-for-investors-and-managers
"The truly big investment idea can usually be explained in a short
paragraph"
[36]More quotes
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36. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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