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Monday, December 12, 2011

The Browser daily newsletter [12 Dec 2011]

12 December 2011

 Best of the Moment

The Civil Archipelago

David Remnick | New Yorker | 12 December 2011

Superb, and superbly readable, account of Russia under Putin. Captures cynicism, corruption and violence of the state; its historical underpinnings; and growing discontent following latest parliamentary elections Comments

Could This Be The End Of Cancer?

Sharon Begley | Newsweek | 12 December 2011

"After four decades of largely unfulfilled hopes, scientists have hit on a potential cure that few thought possible a few years ago: Vaccines." Much still to prove but early clinical trials show promising, if variable, results Comments

The Book Of Jobs

Joseph Stiglitz | Vanity Fair | 11 December 2011

"Even when we repair the banking system, we’ll still be in deep trouble—because we were already in deep trouble. That seeming golden age of 2007 was far from a paradise." Here's why, and what we can learn from the Great Depression Comments

Unraveling An Epidemic

Alan Zarembo | LA Times | 11 December 2011

Rate of autism diagnosis among children has risen 20-fold in 20 years. But it's not a surge in disease, it's a surge in diagnosis. The "spectrum" is wide, and being somewhere on it opens the way to publicly funded healthcare Comments

Interview With David Graeber

Ellen Evans and Jon Moses | White Review | 1 December 2011

Anthropologist, inspiration for OWS, on anarchy, direct action. "The only plausible scenario for revolution is when the forces of order refuse to shoot. For most revolutions in world history, that is what ultimately happens" Comments

The Mystery Of Carole Myers

Will Storr | Observer | 11 December 2011

She claimed that her parents abused her in satanic rituals, forced her to kill her six children, put an implant in her eye that would explode if she spoke of her ordeal. None true. But she had seen therapists. Were they to blame? Comments

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