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Monday, October 29, 2012

The Browser daily newsletter [29 Oct 2012]

29 October 2012
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 Best of the Moment

Proust Wasn’t A Neuroscientist. Neither Was Jonah Lehrer

Boris Kachka | New York | 28 October 2012

Ouch. "Neuroscience, evolutionary biology, behavioral economics are fashionable because of their newness. In these fields, in which shiny new insights so rarely pan out, every populariser must be, almost by definition, a huckster" Comments

Skyfall's Leaner, Meaner James Bond

Simon Schama | Newsweek | 29 October 2012

On 50 years of Bond, and what it says about Britain. Placebo for disappearing empire, fantasy of manly British style, exploration of British impotence. In "Skyfall", it's "Freud rather than Blofeld lurking in the dystopian darkness" Comments

Gaza: A Way Out?

Nicholas Pelham | NYRB | 26 October 2012

Economy grew 27% last year thanks to smuggling through the tunnels and to a "geyser of aid money" from Turkey, Saudi, Gulf states going into construction. Hamas dials down the radicalism, invests in hotels, reaches out to Egypt Comments

There Is No Nobel Prize In Economics

Yasha Levine | Exiled | 12 October 2012

You knew that, of course. You knew it was endowed by the Swedish central bank, "in memory of Alfred Nobel", in 1969. Since when it has played a invaluable part in accrediting neoclassical economics as mainstream economics Comments

The Mass Media Has Lost Its Perspective

David Hockney | FT | 26 October 2012

Discursive short essay on images as products of technology. For example: "The smallness of new video cameras makes it possible to pack several together, generating different lines of vision and creating a new kind of cubist camera" Comments

Light Entertainment

Andrew O'Hagan | LRB | 27 October 2012

On Jimmy Savile, sexual abuse, and the BBC's institutional culture. "Why is British light entertainment so often based on the sexualisation of people too young to cope? And why is it that we have a press so keen to feed off it?" Comments

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