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Monday, January 23, 2012

The Browser daily newsletter [23 Jan 2012]

23 January 2012

 Best of the Moment

The Obama Memos

Ryan Lizza | New Yorker | 23 January 2012

Reflections on Obama's first term, "based on a review of hundreds of pages of internal White House documents". Inside stuff confirms outside impressions. Obama underestimated recession, misread Republican mood, lost his edge Comments

Staring Into The Abyss

John Maudlin | Business Insider | 21 January 2012

Fine, if grim, analysis of Greek crisis, and possible ways forward for eurozone. "For country after country, this is the Endgame. It is the end of the Debt Supercycle. Debt has grown to the size that it cannot be sustained" Comments

The Smart Way To Play God With Earth's Limited Land

Mark Lynas | Scientific American | 20 January 2012

Clever, thought-provoking piece on sustainability. Suggests that "the most positive trend of all in allowing us to minimise our impact on the planet's surface is one more often bemoaned than celebrated: Urbanisation". Here's why Comments

How US Lost Out On iPhone Work

Charles Duhigg and Keith Bradsher | NYT | 21 January 2012

Why Chinese factories make everything Apple. "You need a thousand rubber gaskets? That's the factory next door. A million screws? That factory is a block away. You need that screw made a little bit different? Three hours" Comments

Newt Heads For Florida

John Cassidy | New Yorker | 22 January 2012

One thinks of Cassidy as a business writer, but he's flourishing on the Republican campaign trail. This piece on the second resurrection of Newt Gingrich will demand a place in any serious anthology of 2012 political journalism Comments

The Mechanics Of Choice

Anonymous | APS Observer | 12 January 2012

Background paper on the basics of behavioural psychology. Takes in Kahneman and Tversky's work on irrational choices; and Stanovich and West's model of two rival decision-making systems, one instinctive and one reflective Comments

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