Weekly Filet #47: A Year of Protest. And more.
Weekly Filet #47 is out now. You can view it in your browser or right below.
This week's top recommendation
This week, TIME has declared "The Protester" its Person of the Year. Two weeks ago, Foreign Policy had put "The arab revolutionaries" on top of their Global Thinkers list. Occupy has become a global call for action. Indeed, this has been a year of protest. Anthony De Rosa, social media editor at Reuters, has done a great job collecting the bits and pieces and forming them to a narrative. It's a very anecdotic narrative - probably the most adequate way to review 2011 just now.
→ 2011 Timeline of Protest, Revolution and Uprising (Storify)
Further recommendations
A talk showcasing stunning underwater photography that goes beyond beauty to preserve the beauty.
→ Brian Skerry reveals ocean's glory - and horror (TED)
In the year that will go down as the one when IKEA changed Billy's size to hold things rather than books, this is pure gold.
→ Bookshelf Porn
It’s important not to fall into the “not as bad as” trap, writes Paul Krugman in this noteworthy comment. We're in a depression.
→ Democracy and Depressions (New York Times)
This is the story of the youngest prisoner held at Guantanamo, Mohammed el Gorani, born in 1986. I think you should read it.
→ Mohammed el Gorani and Jérôme Tubiana (London Review of Books)
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