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Tuesday, December 13, 2011

The Browser daily newsletter [13 Dec 2011]

13 December 2011

 Best of the Moment

Inside Newt's Stunning Comeback

Peter Boyer | Newsweek | 12 December 2011

Just a few months ago, Gingrich looked like a defeated man, his presidential ambitions in tatters. But now he finds himself as Republican favourite, with a substantial lead in the polls. Here's the story of his remarkable comeback Comments

Britain Is Ruled By The Banks, For The Banks

Aditya Chakrabortty | Guardian | 12 December 2011

Devastating on Britain's metamorphosis to a "bankocracy". Banks contribute far less in taxes, jobs than manufacturing. And their lending was never that widespread. Why then are they suddenly so vital to the "national interest"? Comments

Kyoto Withdrawal Shames Us All

John Ibbitson | Globe & Mail | 13 December 2011

"It isn’t easy for a country to descend, in the space of a single decade, from crusader to pariah, as Canada has done on the environment. But our political leaders were up to the task." And voters don't appear to care Comments

Bank Says No? Ditch The Bank – Borrow From The Crowd

MacGregor Campbell | New Scientist | 12 December 2011

Everyone's fed up with banks not lending. But is there a better way to organise financing? How about direct person-to-person lending? It has a long history of false-starts, failures. But the Internet could yet make it a viable model Comments

The New Science Of Our Cross-Wired Senses

Courtney Humphries | Boston Globe | 11 December 2011

You might reasonably assume that our five core senses – touch, sight, hearing, taste and smell – operate independently. But researchers have shown that they actually enhance, compete, even alter one another in many surprising ways Comments

Of Hume And Bondage

Simon Blackburn | NYT | 11 December 2011

"Among philosophers it is not uncommon to find Hume patronised as a slightly dim, inaccurate or naïve analytical philosopher." But that's misleading. Here's a fine defence of Hume from one of UK's most admired academic philosophers Comments

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