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Saturday, January 21, 2012

The Browser daily newsletter [21 Jan 2012]

21 January 2012

 Best of the Moment

Iraq: Under Worse Management

Elliott Woods | Businessweek | 18 January 2012

Security has improved, the economy is picking up, Iraq is open for business. Well, that's the Iraqi prime minister's message. But what do Iraqis themselves feel about Nouri al-Maliki and the future of their country? Good sit-rep Comments

Tracking The Tell-Tale Signs Of Pure Genius

VS Ramachandran | Telegraph | 18 January 2012

Leading neuroscientist explains some of the strange case studies that reveal just how adaptive and miraculous the brain really is. From phantom limbs, to a man who exits a coma only to become convinced his parents are imposters Comments

Selling Votes

John Holbo | Crooked Timber | 19 January 2012

It's probably a bad idea to let people sell their votes. On the other hand, it could make for more creative politics. "People could donate to candidates, to help them buy votes. You could have eminently populist vote-buying drives" Comments

Writing Adrift In The World

Tim Parks | NYRB | 19 January 2012

There is a problem with the novel. Parks's diagnosis is that fiction is being internationalised and universalised. Writers are no longer anchored in a literary canon or national tradition. Here's the case for why it matters Comments

The Nazi Leader Who Became The Oskar Schindler Of China

Iris Chang | Atlantic | 18 January 2012

"Dark times paralyze most people, but some very few, for reasons most of us will never understand, are able to set aside all caution and do things even they could not imagine themselves doing in ordinary times" Comments

Lechery, Immodesty And The Talmud

Dov Linzer | NYT | 19 January 2012

Rabbi responds to ultra-Orthodox attempts to send women to the back of the bus in Israel. Talmud's message to men: Problem is not with women in public; it's with the sexualised way you choose to look at them (h/t Stuart Bailey) Comments

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