Weekly newsletter 62
[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 Sharp, Sudden Decline Of America's Middle Class
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6. http://b.rw/LfD0UY
Jeff Tietz | Rolling Stone | 25 June 2012
Janis Adkins never dreamt she'd be unemployed. She ran a successful
plant nursery in Utah. Then the recession wiped her out. Now she lives
in her car, parked up beside a church. And forages for food. Her story
is far from unique [7]Comments
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7. http://thebrowser.com/articles/sharp-sudden-decline-americas-middle-class
[8]And The Good Ship Greece Sails On: 'Letter' To An Italian Colleague
Links:
8. http://b.rw/MJSxi8
Yanis Varoufakis | Yanis Varoufakis | 24 June 2012
"It is not that the members of our elites cannot see that Europe is
like a train derailing in slow motion." They can see it, but they can't
articulate a sensible policy response. So they hope for the best. And
the lights go out [9]Comments
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9. http://thebrowser.com/articles/and-good-ship-greece-sails-letter-italian-colleague
[10]Psychotherapy And The Pursuit Of Happiness
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10. http://b.rw/Mna7Ko
Ronald Dworkin | New Atlantis | 25 June 2012
Psychotherapy used to be an intellectual movement, on fringes of
science and philosophy. Its practitioners were authoritative, and
distant from patients. Nowadays therapists are artificial friends for
lonely people. What happened? [11]Comments
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11. http://thebrowser.com/articles/psychotherapy-and-pursuit-happiness
[12]The Manifest Destiny Of Artificial Intelligence
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12. http://b.rw/MBmLSz
Brian Hayes | American Scientist | 21 June 2012
Marvin Minsky, pioneer of artificial intelligence, believes original
lofty goals of his field lie neglected. Will we bother making a truly
intelligent machine? Or will the shallow technology in mindless
machines prove too effective? [13]Comments
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13. http://thebrowser.com/articles/manifest-destiny-artificial-intelligence
[14]Spoiled Rotten
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14. http://b.rw/NrWqWo
Elizabeth Kolbert | New Yorker | 25 June 2012
"Contemporary American kids may represent the most indulged young
people in the history of the world. This is a social experiment on a
grand scale, and a growing number of adults fear that it isn’t working
out so well" [15]Comments
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15. http://thebrowser.com/articles/spoiled-rotten
[16]Antifragile: Prologue
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16. http://b.rw/KKihfp
Nassim Nicholas Taleb | Fooled By Randonmness | 25 June 2012
First chapter from Taleb's new book. We live in an uncertain world. So
learn to thrive on uncertainty. "Antifragility is beyond resilience or
robustness: The resilient resists shocks and stays the same; the
antifragile gets better" [17]Comments
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17. http://thebrowser.com/articles/antifragile-prologue
[18]Waiting Game
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18. http://b.rw/PNKu4h
Frank Partnoy | FT | 22 June 2012
Wonderful. On the value of procrastination, or what the game of tennis
can teach us about decision making. "There is both an art and a science
to managing delay." It's something we've become less skilled at in our
high tech age [19]Comments
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19. http://thebrowser.com/articles/waiting-game
[20]The Morality Of The Invisible Hand
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20. http://b.rw/LgzkCp
Gertrude Himmelfarb | Standpoint | 27 June 2012
"The animating spirit of The Wealth of Nations is 'interest' or
'self-love'; that of The Theory of Moral Sentiments is 'sympathy' or
'fellow-feeling'." How should we approach this apparent contradiction
in Adam Smith's writing? [21]Comments
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21. http://thebrowser.com/articles/morality-invisible-hand
FiveBooks Interview
[22]Eric Berkowitz on Sex and Society
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22. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/eric-berkowitz-on-sex-and-society
For thousands of years, human societies have tried to regulate sexual
activity. The author of Sex and Punishment tells us why this should be
so, and how what’s permissible has varied according to time and place
[23]Read on
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23. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/eric-berkowitz-on-sex-and-society
Featured Topic
[24]Women and the Workplace
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24. http://thebrowser.com/reports/women-and-workplace
Women in the West may be slowly winning the battle for workplace
equality. But at what price? [25]Read on
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25. http://thebrowser.com/reports/women-and-workplace
Reader Recommendations
@davehill77 The Battle for the Soul of Occupy Wall Street
[26]t.co/50XcyrAL [27]#browsings [28]More like this
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26. http://t.co/50XcyrAL
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/f-scott-fitzgerald-by-matthew-j-bruccoli-editor
[30]F Scott Fitzgerald by Matthew J Bruccoli (editor)
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30. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/f-scott-fitzgerald-by-matthew-j-bruccoli-editor
[31]Sarah Churchwell says: If you really want to understand Fitzgerald
you need to hear his own voice. What I love about this book is that it
clearly conveys his sense of humour [32]FiveBooks Archive
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31. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/f-scott-fitzgerald-by-matthew-j-bruccoli-editor
32. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks
Video of the Week
[33]Should We Pay Children To Read?
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33. http://thebrowser.com/videos/should-we-pay-children-read
Philosopher Michael Sandel on topics from his book, "What Money Can't
Buy" [34]More videos
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34. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Week
[35]Jay Rosen, on pragmatism
Links:
35. http://pressthink.org/2012/06/covering-wicked-problems
"Our knowledge advances not when we have the best theory, or the
best data, or the best lab, but when we have really good problems"
[36]More quotes
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36. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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