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Tuesday, January 24, 2012

The Browser daily newsletter [24 Jan 2012]

24 January 2012

 Best of the Moment

The Caging Of America

Adam Gopnik | New Yorker | 23 January 2012

More than six million people are under "correctional supervision" in the US – more than were in Stalin's Gulags. Why so many? This superb account suggests there's been a serious failure of common sense and humanity Comments

The New French Hacker-Artist Underground

Jon Lackman | Wired | 23 January 2012

Story of UX, hacker-artists who protect, restore unloved French artefacts. Turning the whole city, above and below ground into a canvas, "its members say they can access every last government building, every narrow telecom tunnel" Comments

A New Generation Of Political Islamists Steps Forward

Olivier Roy | Washington Post | 21 January 2012

Islamists in the Arab world are benefiting from a democratisation they didn't trigger. Ghost of Islamic totalitarian state is raised, but is unlikely prospect. Islamists have changed. Political realism rules; Turkey's AKP inspires Comments

Italy’s Schettino Complex

Ingrid Rowland | NYRB | 23 January 2012

Sunk ship a metaphor for Italy—or a Greek tragedy. "A man, no better or worse than most of us, makes a mistake and thereby unleashes a cataclysm, and we look on the resultant disaster with a cathartic mix of pity and fear" Comments

The New Decembrists

Michael Idov | New York | 22 January 2012

Inside Russia's anti-Putin protest movement. Its leadership apparently drawn exclusively from the editorial staff of glossy magazines. Hipsters, in short. Plotting against the Kremlin in chic little French restaurants Comments

The Looming Threat Of A Solar Superstorm

Lee Billings | Popular Mechanics | 23 January 2012

In 1859 a major solar storm, the "Carrington Event", hit Earth. Another came in 1921. What if one struck tomorrow? "If a Carrington Event happened right now it probably wouldn’t be a wake-up alarm—it would be a goodnight call" Comments

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