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The Browser daily newsletter [29 Jan 2012]

29 January 2012

 Best of the Moment

Banks Weren't Meant To Be Like This

Michael Hudson | Naked Capitalism | 27 January 2012

"Banking has moved so far away from funding industrial growth and economic development that it now benefits at the economy’s expense in a predatory and extractive way, not by making productive loans." Something has to change Comments

The Ethics Of Brain Boosting

Jonathan Wood | Oxford Science Blog | 26 January 2012

If there was a cheap device that improved your language skills, maths, memory, general reasoning, would you buy it? Hope you never have to answer that? Well, now you might. Looks like "transcranial direct current stimulation" works Comments

In Mekong, Chinese Murders, Bloody Diplomacy

Andrew Marshall | Reuters | 27 January 2012

Reporting from the Golden Triangle. Heroin still the main business, but challenged by methamphetamine. Other contraband includes wild animals, weaponry, North Korean refugees. Not to mention the gambling, warfare, murder Comments

What's Wrong With The Teenage Mind?

Alison Gopnik | WSJ | 28 January 2012

Children are reaching puberty earlier and earlier in life. And yet these same children are adopting adult roles later and later. Which makes for "a good deal of teenage weirdness". Fine essay explains what's really going on Comments

The Best Madam In America

Ron Chepesiuk | Crime | 16 January 2012

On the making of a New York brothel keeper. Started career in 1920 almost accidentally. Clients soon stretched from gangsters and politicians to intellectual elite. At one time, head waiters all over Manhattan were on her payroll Comments

Burgled In Philly

John Davidson | Bygone Bureau | 18 January 2012

In which the author learns, after having two automatic rifles stolen from his apartment, that the easiest way to get his stuff back is to have one drug dealer lie to another drug dealer while he lies to the police Comments

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