Weekly newsletter 67
[1]A selection of our best article links of the week, plus featured
FiveBooks interviews, videos, quotations and more.
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[6]Plasenzuela's Dirty Secrets
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6. http://b.rw/MAMb39
Guillermo Abril | El País | 30 July 2012
Inside Spain's most corrupt village. "European, state, and regional
funding has all disappeared without trace. Projects that never existed;
workers that never worked; taxes imposed on salaries that were never
passed on to the state" [7]Comments
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7. http://thebrowser.com/articles/plasenzuelas-dirty-secrets
[8]The Narco Tunnels Of Nogales
Links:
8. http://b.rw/MCGzoX
Adam Higginbotham | Businessweek | 2 August 2012
"If everyone had kept quiet, it could have been the most valuable
parking spot on earth." So begins a terrific piece on the tunnels of
Nogales, Arizona. Some have lifts or electric railways. All have one
purpose: Drug trafficking [9]Comments
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9. http://thebrowser.com/articles/narco-tunnels-nogales
[10]The Brain Set Free
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10. http://b.rw/OeJILK
Laura Sanders | ScienceNews | 27 July 2012
"In a fully set brain, signals fly around effortlessly, making
commonplace tasks short work. A master of efficiency, the adult brain
loses the exuberance of childhood." Could there be a way to recapture
its youthful flexibility? [11]Comments
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11. http://thebrowser.com/articles/brain-set-free
[12]A Crass And Consequential Error
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12. http://b.rw/R6Jmf2
Roger Cohen | NYRB | 31 July 2012
Anglo-American coup to oust Mossadegh as prime minister of Iran in 1953
was colossal own goal. Yes, he had nationalised the oil industry. But
he was a pro-Western democrat. Far better than the feckless Shah or the
ayatollahs [13]Comments
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13. http://thebrowser.com/articles/crass-and-consequential-error
[14]Conservatives And The State
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14. http://b.rw/QpDfU5
Francis Fukuyama | American Interest | 28 July 2012
Author calls for reinvention of American Conservatism on Hamiltonian
model, which requires a strong state as defender and promoter of
private property, market economy, fiscal responsibility, foreign policy
based on national interest [15]Comments
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15. http://thebrowser.com/articles/conservatives-and-state
[16]Face The Music
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16. http://b.rw/Pm8Crv
Tim Falconer | Maisonneuve | 1 August 2012
Reporter stumbles across surprisingly complex science of tone deafness.
Turns out he is genuinely amusic. Then the expert confesses: “I am
stunned. And I’ve seen many amusic cases. I would love to be in your
brain.” Here's why [17]Comments
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17. http://thebrowser.com/articles/face-music
[18]Get A Job: The Craigslist Experiment
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18. http://b.rw/N7cQ6U
Eric Auld | Thought Catalog | 23 July 2012
Eric Auld is 26, with a Master's degree in English. Looking for a
full-time job in a major US city. And getting nowhere fast. So he puts
a fake job ad on Craigslist to get a sense of the competition out there
(h/t Daniel Lippman) [19]Comments
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19. http://thebrowser.com/articles/get-job-craigslist-experiment
[20]The Body Olympic
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20. http://b.rw/Rgi8yw
Anthony Lane | New Yorker | 1 August 2012
Lovely, light-hearted spin around the Olympics from women's
weightlifting to "whippet with sideburns" Bradley Wiggins. "Like most
of those against whom he races, he appears to have dispensed with the
standard human need for fat" [21]Comments
Links:
21. http://thebrowser.com/articles/body-olympic
FiveBooks Interview
[22]Jerry Coyne on Evolution
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22. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/jerry-coyne-on-evolution
Conventional prose fiction falls short of the mark, says the English
author, who tells us about his modernist novel Umbrella, what the real
character of London is, and why he can’t stand the Olympics [23]Read on
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23. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/will-self-on-influences
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]rszbt A little less hubris ...: MT @[27]ProSyn: In "The Battle for
Churchill's Bust" by Ian Buruma [28]t.co/FadxEaG1 [29]#browsings
[30]More like this
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30. http://thebrowser.com/browsings
Book of the Week
[31]Book of the Day
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31. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/damned-lies-and-statistics-by-joel-best
[32]Damned Lies and Statistics by Joel Best
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32. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/damned-lies-and-statistics-by-joel-best
[33]David Spiegelhalter says: “There is a nice quote from Best that all
statistics are social products, the results of people’s efforts. He
says you should always ask, 'Why was this statistic created?'”
[34]FiveBooks Archive
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33. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/david-spiegelhalter-on-statistics-and-risk
34. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks
Video of the Week
[35]'Fictitious Capital' With Michael Hudson
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35. http://thebrowser.com/videos/fictitious-capital-michael-hudson
"There has been so much fraud as a result of deregulation that nobody
has any idea how much collateral is there"
[36]More videos
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36. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Week
[37]J.G. Ballard, on imagination
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37. http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/2929/the-art-of-fiction-no-85-j-g-ballard
"Imagination is the shortest route between any two conceivable
points"
[38]More quotes
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38. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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