Weekly newsletter 69
[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]Extreme Weather
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6. http://b.rw/PqXLz0
Peter Miller | National Geographic | 15 August 2012
Torrential rain, blistering heatwaves, violent tornadoes – our world is
being shaken by the most severe weather in modern history. What's going
on? Have we damaged our climate irreparably? Are natural weather cycles
to blame? Both? [7]Comments
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7. http://thebrowser.com/articles/extreme-weather
[8]And So Once Gaddafi Left, One Spanish Town Got A Little Smurfier
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8. http://b.rw/R6gHGj
Eric Ellis | Global Mail | 17 August 2012
When Sony painted Juzcar blue as a publicity stunt for its Smurfs film,
the tourists started descending on the struggling Andalucian town. So
what should it do when Sony left? Return to whitewashed walls, or stay
Smurf blue? [9]Comments
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9. http://thebrowser.com/articles/and-so-once-gaddafi-left-one-spanish-town-got-little-smurfier
[10]The Veil Of Opulence
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10. http://b.rw/NkzqhU
Benjamin Hale | NYT | 12 August 2012
On Rawls, fairness, Romney and Obama. "Where the veil of ignorance
offers a test for fairness from an impersonal, universal point of view,
the veil of opulence offers a test for fairness from the first-person,
partial point of view" [11]Comments
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11. http://thebrowser.com/articles/veil-opulence
[12]Keystone
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12. http://b.rw/NxMKgZ
John Richardson | Esquire | 10 August 2012
Report from Fort McMurray, Alberta, "little Canadian town that might
just destroy the world". Huge reserves of tar-sand oil waiting to be
piped to Texas refineries. But should US be feeding or fighting
addiction to foreign oil? [13]Comments
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13. http://thebrowser.com/articles/keystone
[14]Does Copyright Matter?
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14. http://b.rw/QyzhST
Tim Parks | NYRB | 14 August 2012
"Do I, as an author, have the right to prevent people copying my books
for free? Should I have it? Does it matter?" Parks suggests the answer
lies not in theories of ownership but in how we see the social function
of copyright [15]Comments
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15. http://thebrowser.com/articles/does-copyright-matter
[16]Giant Size
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16. http://b.rw/RNKEvP
Tom Breihan | Classical | 13 August 2012
If you're over seven feet tall, between 20 and 40 years old, and in the
US, you're one of only 70. Breihan investigates what it's like to be a
giant. He should have some idea. He measures up at six foot eleven. And
three quarters [17]Comments
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17. http://thebrowser.com/articles/giant-size
[18]Chicken Of The Trees
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18. http://b.rw/S07C1B
Mike Sula | Chicago Reader | 16 August 2012
Country squirrels, fattened on nuts, make fine stew. What about their
urban cousins, fattened on dumpster-diving? Turns out, they taste
pretty good too. Even the brains: "Slightly creamy, almost like a soft,
roasted chestnut" [19]Comments
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19. http://thebrowser.com/articles/chicken-trees
[20]Last Morning In Al Hamra
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20. http://b.rw/OYAP9z
Hilary Mantel | Spectator | 14 August 2012
"When you come across an alien culture you must not automatically
respect it. You must sometimes pay it the complement of hating it."
Essay on the home life of women in Saudi Arabia. Written in 1987, now
published online [21]Comments
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21. http://thebrowser.com/articles/last-morning-al-hamra
FiveBooks Interview
[22]Robert Shiller on Human Traits Essential to Capitalism
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22. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/robert-shiller-on-human-traits-essential-capitalism
The Yale economist says rising inequality was a major cause of
America's economic problems, and that little is being done to reduce
the disparities. He gives us a reading list to understand how we got to
here [23]Read on
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23. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/robert-shiller-on-human-traits-essential-capitalism
Featured Topic
[24]Paul Ryan
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24. http://thebrowser.com/reports/paul-ryan
He's the man with the (budget) plan. What will the selection of the
Wisconsin congressman as vice presidential candidate do for the Romney
campaign? [25]Read on
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25. http://thebrowser.com/reports/paul-ryan
Reader Recommendations
@nuzav “@ProSyn: @Nouriel on the Euro zone: "if a breakup is
unavoidable, delaying it implies much higher costs." [26]t.co/TM29m4LO”
[27]#browsings [28]More like this
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28. http://thebrowser.com/browsings
Book of the Week
[29]Book of the Day
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29. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/quiet-american-by-graham-greene
[30]The Quiet American by Graham Greene
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30. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/quiet-american-by-graham-greene
[31]Charles Glass says: “This was written before the American war in
Vietnam. Graham Greene saw it coming. And it was the idealism of
liberals in America that led to the invasion of Vietnam by the armed
forces. They should have read the book first and realised what they
were doing.” [32]FiveBooks Archive
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31. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/charles-glass-on-americans-abroad
32. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks
Video of the Week
[33]People of the Lake
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33. http://thebrowser.com/videos/people-lake
Al Jazeera documentary about the Aral Sea
[34]More videos
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34. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Week
[35]David Lewis, on philosophers
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35. http://blog.kennypearce.net/archives/contemporary-thinkers/david-lewis
"It is the profession of philosophers to question platitudes that
others accept without thinking twice. A dangerous profession, since
philosophers are more easily discredited than platitudes"
[36]More quotes
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36. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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