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Thursday, June 21, 2012

The Browser daily newsletter [21 June 2012]

21 June 2012
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 Best of the Moment

Why Women Still Can't Have It All

Anne-Marie Slaughter | Atlantic | 21 June 2012

"Women of my generation have clung to the feminist credo we were raised with, that we can 'have it all'. But my experience has forced me to confront some uncomfortable facts that need to be widely acknowledged—and quickly changed" Comments

Can The Rest Of Europe Stand Up To Germany?

Anatole Kaletsky | Reuters | 20 June 2012

"Germany is too big and powerful to coexist comfortably with its European neighbours in any political structure ruled purely by national interests. Yet it isn’t big and powerful enough to dominate its neighbours decisively" Comments

Peak Planet: Are We Starting To Consume Less?

Fred Pearce | New Scientist | 20 June 2012

Sooner or later, most argue, our relentless extraction of natural resources, coupled with a steadily increasing population, will damage our planet irreparably. But is this view misguided? Here are the arguments, for and against Comments

Could The Euro Destroy The EU?

Kemal Dervis & Javier Solana | Europe's World | 20 June 2012

Expert analysis of eurozone woes. And threat crisis poses to whole European Union. Immediate future looks bleak. "Europe is at the crossroads: Either it moves ahead with greater sharing of sovereignty, or it may well collapse" Comments

What Happens When We Turn The World's Most Famous Robot Test On Ourselves?

Evan Selinger | Atlantic | 20 June 2012

Moving the goalposts of the Turing Test. Could you pass muster as an authority in a specialist field? Convince an expert that you're the real deal? The skill's called "interactional expertise". Here's what we know about it Comments

My Father's Voice

Taylor Plimpton | New Yorker | 17 June 2012

"If George Plimpton wasn’t my father and I’d never met him, and I heard that voice emerge from his lips and matched it with his severe Roman features and his usual blue blazer, I might have assumed that he was a little pompous" Comments

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