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Sunday, February 19, 2012

The Browser daily newsletter [19 Feb 2012]

19 February 2012

 Best of the Moment

The Sense Of An Ending

Stephen Holmes & Ivan Krastev | Transit / Eurozine | 17 February 2012

"By engineering rigged elections that nobody bothered or dared to protest, Putin managed to conceal his regime's deepest secret, namely that Russia, rather than being misgoverned, is governed very laxly if at all" Comments

Struggling Greeks Losing Belief In The State

Paul Mason | BBC | 17 February 2012

"It looks like something changed, tangibly, in the past 10 days. The established parties lost belief in what the EU is forcing them to do; parts of the EU lost belief in it too; and the people lost belief in the political class" Comments

A Brief History Of Drones

John Sifton | Nation | 7 February 2012

Why do drones disturb us? It's to do with the distance between killer and killed, the asymmetry. Also, the prospect of automation. "Drones foreshadow the idea that brutality could become detached from humanity" Comments

Consciousness Emerges

Laura Sanders | ScienceNews | 11 February 2012

"If you really want to understand consciousness, then you need to separate the effects of attention." This is how scientists have begun to do so, and what the results of their experiments suggest about the human brain Comments

Quadzilla

Hampton Sides | Outside | 24 January 2012

"He was traveling 72 mph—flying, but not in the right way." For he was on skis, not in a plane. Even so Svindal soared 197 feet through the sky before landing. His injuries were severe. But the champion would return to compete again Comments

Nanosecond Trading Could Make Markets Go Haywire

Brandon Keim | Wired | 16 February 2012

“There’s this whole world below 650 milliseconds. It’s like landing on another planet. It’s an enormous part of the market which is out of human reach." Only dimly understood, this is the home of flash crashes and black swan events Comments

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