Weekly newsletter FINAL
[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
[5]The Two Year Window
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5. http://b.rw/tdHedQ
Jonathan Cohn | New Republic | 9 November 2011
Neuroscience uncovers an ugly truth: "Neglect of very young children does
not merely stunt their emotional development. It changes the architecture of
their brains." Important implications for battle against poverty (Ungated
for us) [6]Comments
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/two-year-window
[7]Will This Election Be The Mormon Breakthrough?
Links:
7. http://b.rw/ssv2tK
Harold Bloom | NYT | 12 November 2011
Bloom on magnificent form in this most elegant evisceration of Mormonism
(old and new) and Mitt Romney. But why stop there? Bloom doesn't, sliding
the knife into Southern Baptists and wider American religion and politics
too [8]Comments
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/will-election-be-mormon-breakthrough
[9]The Educational Lottery
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9. http://b.rw/sdglE5
Steven Brint | LA Review of Books | 15 November 2011
Superb, highly readable essay on state of higher education. Focuses on
America, but debate and tensions over access, standards, goals and
aspirations will be familiar to readers in Britain and elsewhere
[10]Comments
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10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/educational-lottery
[11]Capitalism Vs The Climate
Links:
11. http://b.rw/w3LFAh
Naomi Klein | Nation | 9 November 2011
"Climate change detonates the ideological scaffolding on which contemporary
conservatism rests." To resolve the ecological crisis will require radical
overhaul of free market capitalism. Outstanding essay explains why
[12]Comments
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12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/capitalism-vs-climate
[13]This Is Penn State
Links:
13. http://b.rw/tEvq1q
Jon Wertheim & David Epstein | Sports Illustrated | 15 November 2011
And this is what you should read if you want to know about the most
explosive scandal in the history of US college sports. And why one of those
whose careers it ended was "arguably the most unfireable person in all of
sports" [14]Comments
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14. http://thebrowser.com/articles/penn-state
[15]The Truth About Violence
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15. http://b.rw/w3r1sI
Sam Harris | Sam Harris | 5 November 2011
"It is overwhelmingly likely that some of you will become the targets of
violence in the future. The purpose of this essay is to help prepare you for
it." So begins a masterful blogpost that explains the essentials of
self-defence [16]Comments
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/articles/truth-about-violence
[17]The Bible Of King James
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17. http://b.rw/sXFl9p
Adam Nicholson | National Gegraphic | 15 November 2011
"No other book has given more to the English-speaking world. You don't have
to be a Christian to hear the power of those words—simple in vocabulary,
cosmic in scale, stately in their rhythms, deeply emotional in their impact"
[18]Comments
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/articles/bible-king-james
[19]The Food At Our Feet
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19. http://b.rw/uX3aDh
Jane Kramer | New Yorker | 14 November 2011
Pursuit of wild food has become fashionable. But wrap up, and take care.
Writer goes foraging with the experts for wild asparagus, beach horseradish,
orchid roots with more protein than _filet de boeuf_. And much, much more
[20]Comments
Links:
20. http://thebrowser.com/articles/food-our-feet
FiveBooks Interview
[21]May Berenbaum on Bugs
Links:
21. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/may-berenbaum-on-bugs
Insects outnumber us, outweigh us, and without them ecosystems would
collapse. In short, we live on their planet. The entomologist explains why
we should value bugs more – even, or especially, the carrion beetles and
dung feeders [22]Read on
Links:
22. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/may-berenbaum-on-bugs
Featured Topic
[23]Syria Revolts
Links:
23. http://thebrowser.com/reports/syria-revolts
Months of anti-government protests; a brutal response by the authorities.
But what's really going on in Syria? Read on to find out [24]Read on
Links:
24. http://thebrowser.com/reports/syria-revolts
Reader Recommendations
_@nuzav_ Timothy Geithner's Best Asset: Everybody Hates Him - The Atlantic
[25]t.co/9rdVmd4S via [26]#browsings [27]More like this
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25. http://t.co/9rdVmd4S
26. https://twitter.com/search?q=#browsings
27. http://thebrowser.com/browsings
Book of the Week
[28]Book of the Day
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28. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/letters-young-contrarian-by-christopher-hitchens
[29]Letters to a Young Contrarian by Christopher Hitchens
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29. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/letters-young-contrarian-by-christopher-hitchens
[30]Carne Ross says: “This is a wonderful book about the transformative
power of argument and it deserves to be a classic” [31]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
30. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/carne-ross-on-leaderless-revolution
31. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks
Video of the Week
[32]Leonardo da Vinci - Painter At The Court of Milan
Links:
32. http://thebrowser.com/videos/leonardo-da-vinci-painter-court-milan
Tour around the truly incredible Leonardo exhibition at the National Gallery
in London, with curator Luke Syson
[33]More videos
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33. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Week
[34]Jean-Claude Juncker, on the euro crisis
Links:
34. http://www.spectator.co.uk/essays/all/7378428/europes-hit-squad.thtml
"We all know what to do, but we don’t know how to get re-elected once we
have done it"
[35]More quotes
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35. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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