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Friday, December 16, 2011

The Browser daily newsletter [16 Dec 2011]

16 December 2011

 Best of the Moment

The Overjustification Effect

Anonymous | You Are Not So Smart | 14 December 2011

Superb essay on money, happiness. "No matter how you turn it, the science says once your basic needs are taken care of, money and other rewards don't make you happier." If you think differently, you're deluding yourself. Here's why Comments

Postscript: Christopher Hitchens, 1949-2011

Christopher Buckley | New Yorker | 16 December 2011

Personal recollections of the brilliant essayist and debater by one of his best friends. "Lunch began at 1pm and ended at 11.30pm. At about nine o'clock, he said, 'Should we order more food?'" Comments

How Does The Brain Perceive Art?

Jonah Lehrer | Frontal Cortex | 14 December 2011

Recent research throws some light on how the brain makes aesthetic judgements, on art or even wine. We presume our appreciation of an object is determined by its innate qualities. But in reality there are many more factors at play Comments

Person Of The Year: The Protester

Kurt Andersen et al | Time | 14 December 2011

It began in Tunisia in December 2010. "My son set himself on fire for dignity," says Mannoubia Bouazizi. If only that frustrated and despairing young man, Mohamed Bouazizi, knew what his action had helped inspire Comments

Indie Rock Virtues

Richard Marshall | 3AM Magazine | 12 December 2011

Interview with philosopher Josh Knobe: "I don't see experimental philosophy as a break from philosophical tradition; it's rather that recent philosophy has been untypical of what philosophy has been like for most of its history" Comments

The Secret City

Tony Perrottet | Slate | 11 December 2011

Writer blags entry to Vatican's pornographic bathroom, La Stufetta del cardinal Bibbiena. Decorated in 1516 by Raphael with series of erotic frescos, including a "randy goat-god Pan leaping from the bushes with a monstrous erection" Comments

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