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Saturday, February 25, 2012

The Browser daily newsletter [25 Feb 2012]

25 February 2012

 Best of the Moment

The Decline And Fall Of Parental Authority

Ron Taffel | AlterNet | 22 February 2012

"I’m seeing mothers and fathers challenge the entire social, educational, professional, and economic context of childrearing—a system, they increasingly believe, that’s made effective parenting almost unachievable" Comments

Teller Reveals His Secrets

Teller | Smithsonian | 22 February 2012

"Neuroscientists are novices at deception. Magicians have done controlled testing in human perception for thousands of years." So says Teller, silent half of Penn and Teller. And this is what he's learned about manipulating the mind Comments

A Case For Workfare

Chris Dillow | Stumbling And Mumbling | 20 February 2012

As the crisis rumbles into its fourth year, the real costs are ever-more apparent. Unemployment is the biggest scourge, and I have a lot of sympathy with this suggestion for a modern version of the Works Progress Administration Comments

That Time We Beat The Americans

Stephen Marche | Walrus | 20 February 2012

Why does Canada exist at all? You have to be a Canadian to ask that question politely. Here it is, asked and answered. A citizen's guide to the War of 1812, when the United States tried to take the rest of the continent and lost Comments

Bioconservatives Vs Bioprogressives

Ronald Bailey | Reason | 17 February 2012

Fine essay-review of new book on the politics of bioethics: "Neoconservative worries that alienation and commodification are caused by technology stem from a worldview that mixes Marxism with the philosophy of Martin Heidegger" Comments

Obituary: Anwar Kamal

Anonymous | Economist | 24 February 2012

Pakistani politician, tribal chieftain, country gentleman. "Epitome of the swashbuckling Frontier rogue." Kept a rocket-propelled grenade-launcher by the door and a murderer as bodyguard. Led occasional small wars, reprisals Comments

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