Weekly newsletter 61
[1]A selection of our best article links of the week, plus featured
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[6]In Praise Of Leisure
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6. http://b.rw/N3BAwn
Robert Skidelsky & Edward Skidelsky | Chronicle Review | 18 June 2012
Resuscitating economics as a moral science. "Let us imagine that
everyone has enough to lead a good life. What is the good life? And
what is it not? And what changes in our moral and economic system are
needed to realise it?" [7]Comments
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7. http://thebrowser.com/articles/praise-leisure
[8]Why Women Still Can't Have It All
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8. http://b.rw/KAH2uh
Anne-Marie Slaughter | Atlantic | 21 June 2012
"Women of my generation have clung to the feminist credo we were raised
with, that we can 'have it all'. But my experience has forced me to
confront some uncomfortable facts that need to be widely
acknowledged—and quickly changed" [9]Comments
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9. http://thebrowser.com/articles/why-women-still-cant-have-it-all
[10]Unpopular Mandate
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10. http://b.rw/P9MMdL
Ezra Klein | New Yorker | 18 June 2012
How was it that a legal argument that was considered fringe in 2010
could become mainstream by 2012? It happened with the individual
mandate in US healthcare. Here's how and why it happened, and could
happen again [11]Comments
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11. http://thebrowser.com/articles/unpopular-mandate
[12]Bath Salts: Deep In The Heart Of America's New Drug Nightmare
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12. http://b.rw/KGD13X
Natasha Vargas-Cooper | Spin | 14 June 2012
Will bath salts become the next devastating drug epidemic – like crack
in the 1980s? "With LSD, you might see pink elephants, but with this
drug, you see demons, aliens, extreme paranoia, heart attacks, and
superhuman strength" [13]Comments
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13. http://thebrowser.com/articles/bath-salts-deep-heart-americas-new-drug-nightmare
[14]Final Battles Of Pope Benedict XVI
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14. http://b.rw/LqSwhx
Fiona Ehlers et al | Spiegel | 15 June 2012
Joseph Ratzinger turned 85 in April, the oldest Pope in more than a
century. He's having trouble speaking, let alone moving. And all around
him, by this account, the Vatican is in turmoil. The fight for the
succession is under way [15]Comments
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15. http://thebrowser.com/articles/final-battles-pope-benedict-xvi
[16]We Gave Colors Names, And It Messed With Our Brains
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16. http://b.rw/MlHN5g
Aatish Bhatia | Empirical Zeal | 5 June 2012
Our perceptions of colour are dictated at least partly by the names
that our languages assign to those colours. Japanese used to have one
word for both green and blue. As a result, Japanese often call green
traffic lights "blue" [17]Comments
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17. http://thebrowser.com/articles/we-gave-colors-names-and-it-messed-our-brains
[18]The Nonna State
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18. http://b.rw/N9iHLL
Alessandra Galloni | WSJ | 15 June 2012
"Family has long been the glue of Southern European society, and
intergenerational help has deep historical and religious roots." It's a
crucial invisible safety net for the young of Italy, Spain. But one
which is now under threat [19]Comments
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19. http://thebrowser.com/articles/nonna-state
[20]If They Could Only Talk
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20. http://b.rw/PcEIbX
Hannah Bloch | National Geographic | 18 June 2012
We think we know the story. Polynesian settlers arrived in 800, built
statues, cut down forests. Soil erosion ruined the land. Society
collapsed into war, poverty, cannibalism. But what if it wasn't like
that at all? [21]Comments
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21. http://thebrowser.com/articles/if-they-could-only-talk
FiveBooks Interview
[22]Matthew Engel on Britishness
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22. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/matthew-engel-on-britishness
Britain is a bewilderingly motley nation of phlegmatic grumblers, says
the author and editor – a seaside resort-going, class-conscious people
haunted by loss of empire, and we can’t even agree on what the country
is called [23]Read on
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23. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/matthew-engel-on-britishness
Featured Topic
[24]Human Modification
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24. http://thebrowser.com/reports/human-modification
Scientists are experimenting with different ways to enhance humans.
What's possible? And what may be possible in the future? Does messing
with Mother Nature raise ethical questions? [25]Read on
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25. http://thebrowser.com/reports/human-modification
Reader Recommendations
@[26]historyinanhour On this day in 1938, Joe Louis knocks out
Germany's Max Schmeling in their historic rematch:[27]t.co/OKeR2KRl
[28]#browsings [29]More like this
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26. http://twitter.com/historyinanhour
27. http://www.historyinanhour.com/2012/06/22/max-schmeling-summary
28. https://twitter.com/search?q=#browsings
29. http://thebrowser.com/browsings
Book of the Week
[30]Book of the Day
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30. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/area-darkness-by-vs-naipaul
[31]An Area of Darkness by VS Naipaul
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31. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/area-darkness-by-vs-naipaul
[32]Paul Theroux says: “This book really impressed me, and meeting him
I then saw how he travelled – how he provoked people into saying
things” [33]FiveBooks Archive
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32. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/paul-theroux-on-travelling
33. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks
Video of the Week
[34]On The Internet, Nobody Knows You're A Cat
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34. http://thebrowser.com/videos/internet-nobody-knows-youre-cat
This would make a good PSA, don't you think? [35]More videos
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35. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Week
[36]Adam Mars-Jones on writers
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36. http://www.lrb.co.uk/v34/n12/adam-mars-jones/anti-dad
"All writers overrate the impact of writing, or else they would
choose another line of work"
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37. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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