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Locally Run ISPs Offer the Fastest Broadband in America. Six out of the 10 fastest ISPs are either community-run or public/private partnerships. Shocking no one.

Trump’s Electoral College Edge Could Grow in 2020, Rewarding Polarizing Campaign. Re-election looks plausible even with a bigger loss in the national popular vote.

The Weekly Design Roast, #8.

The Disturbing Sound of a Human Voice. Hearing people talk can terrify even top predators such as mountain lions, with consequences that ripple through entire ecosystems.

The Underappreciated Power of the Apollo Computer.

Washington Supreme Court Says Obesity Is a Disability. Is a voluntary and self-imposed disability a disability?

Social Security Is A Good Litmus Test For Candidates.

Foreign purchases of American homes plunge 36% as Chinese buyers flee. Good.

The lesson from the ruins of Notre Dame: don’t rely on billionaires.

87 Percent of Americans Unaware There’s Scientific Consensus on Climate Change.

Fewer Inspections for Aging Nuclear Plants, Regulators Propose. I’m all for more nuclear, but this is a terrible idea.

Women now seen as equally as or more competent than men. Polling data suggest stereotypes have significantly changed since 1940s.

It’s not just paychecks: The surprising society-wide benefits of raising the minimum wage. Surprising to whom?

Illegal immigration from Mexico: What we know.

Don’t Regulate Facial Recognition. Ban It. We are on the verge of a nightmare era of mass surveillance by the state and private companies. It’s not too late to stop it.

Girls’ superb verbal skills may contribute to the gender gap in math.

Out of Africa and into an archaic human melting pot.

How to Understand the Universe When You’re Stuck Inside of It.

Which countries have the most immigrants?

Five Basic Facts About Boeing Missing From Coverage Of the 737 MAX Story.

The climate change policy with the most potential is the most neglected. Public clean energy R&D is overlooked and underfunded.

DEA tracked every opioid pill sold in the US. The data is out—and it’s horrific. Just three drug makers and six distributors were behind the flood.

Rising health insurance deductibles fuel middle-class anger and resentment.

Dr Emma Hilton reviews the science supporting the IOC decision to let male-born transgender athletes into female competition. Terrible and evil decision.

The Status Quo is a Choice, Too.

TurboTax Started Charging the Disabled, Unemployed and Students To Make Up For Trump Tax Law.

Killer Heat in the United States: The Future of Dangerously Hot Days.

Instacart Hounds Workers to Take Jobs That Aren’t Worth It.

President Obama was elected on the platform of hope and change. He promised big, sweeping changes, and, at the end of eight years, had continued and expanded all the most depraved foreign and domestic policies of his predecessor while killing the push for universal healthcare and creating a climate initiative which was the equivalent of a band-aid on a sucking chest wound.

Boeing 737 Max ordered by Ryanair undergoes name change. Decision fuels speculation that troubled plane will be rebranded once it is given all clear to fly.

Environmentalism’s Next Frontier: Giving Nature Legal Rights.

Free trade doesn’t just lead to job loss. It means more deaths from drug overdoses and increased military recruitment.

In New Climate, California’s Wildfires Are 500 Percent Larger. But some moron on another site told me that it’s all fake climate science.

Out with pesticides, in with wildflowers.

Why Closing Ohio’s Nuke Plants Will End Up Killing More Ohioans.

The 5G Health Hazard That Isn’t. How one scientist and his inaccurate chart led to unwarranted fears of wireless technology.

Tens of Thousands Flee Extreme Heatwave in India as Temperatures Topping 120°F Kill Dozens Across Country.

Improving fruit and vegetable intake attenuates the genetic association with long-term weight gain.

Why Does The American Media Only Care About Dead Migrant Kids Under Trump?

The current crisis of knowledge, I believe, is largely a crisis of trust.

Congress’ awful anti-sex-trafficking law has only put sex workers in danger and wasted taxpayer money. And has greatly increased internet censorship.

Healthy lifestyle ‘helps offset genetic risk of dementia’ amid calls for over-50s to exercise. Risk of dementia 32 per cent lower in people with a high genetic risk if they enjoy a healthy lifestyle, compared to those do not.

A Mallard Duckling Is Thriving—and Maybe Diving—Under the Care of Loon Parents.

Radiation in parts of the Marshall Islands is far higher than Chernobyl, study says.

Office 365 declared illegal in German schools due to privacy risks.

Trump administration moves to end asylum protections for most Central American migrants. The new rule says applicants who pass through another country and do not seek protection there will not be eligible for asylum in the United States.

How ‘Woke’ Liberals Convince Themselves That Gentrifying Is Okay.

Panicked Tree Freezes In Headlights As Car Barrels Toward It.

Putting a price on our data won’t make the platforms stop abusing our privacy.

The Essay to Read If You Even Think About Wearing Clothes.

Imaging Bell-type nonlocal behavior.

Corporate team of rivals: Harris now in top tier with Biden to prevent a progressive nominee. Nailed it.

Here’s why busy-ness is so damaging.

Beyond architectural style, what makes for a more attractive, higher value neighborhood? Let’s have a look at some of the things that we have known for decades, centuries, yet still chose to ignore.

Interstellar Probe, a mission concept for NASA, aims to travel 93 billion miles past the sun.

Given medicine’s poor record, physicians should prescribe and patients consume far fewer medications, a new book argues.

What you think about landfill and recycling is probably totally wrong.

A Separate Kind of Intelligence.

Your attention, please: The goats have taken flight.

Death and surrender to power in the clothing of men.

Today’s Deep Learning Is Like Magic – In All The Wrong Ways.

The absurdity of an eightysomething president.

Love Thy Neighbor: The Bible Belt Is Becoming a Dumping Ground.

Clueless about Central America.

Computer Love.

Nancy Pelosi Has Chosen Her War, and It’s With Her Own Party’s Future.

More Bad News For Vitamin Pushers.

Republican: Sick People Don’t Deserve Affordable Care.

How the discovery of extraterrestrial life would change morality.

Finding the Future in Radical Rural America. The problem is not capitalism; it is our markets. Markets that Obama screwed up.

“Where the American Dream Goes to Die”: Changes in House Prices, Rents, and Incomes since 1960 by Region & Metro.

What Happens When Landlords Can Get Cheap Surveillance Software? Looks like we might have to buy a house sooner rather than later.

When Environmentalism Meets Xenophobia. Suspect ecofascism is the most likely option going forward.

There Are Too Few Companies and Their Profits Are Too High.

The Democrats Are Not an Opposition Party.

With all this Money Printing, Where’s the Huge Inflation? Oh, it’s here alright. But we’re a little squeamish about calling it out.

Following the Money That Undermines Climate Science.

Google’s Dead Wrong If It Thinks Broadband Caps Won’t Hurt Game Streaming.

Abolish the Billionaires! The cost to our democracy of billionaires with enough wealth and power to dictate the rules of capitalism for their own benefit is incalculable.

We Have a Dental Care Crisis. Medicare for All Could Solve It.

Study suggests standard personality tests may not work well outside of WEIRD cultures.

The empirical data and theoretical literature is both overwhelmingly clear and sobering: there is no evidence supporting the existence of a decoupling of economic growth from environmental pressures on anywhere near the scale needed to deal with environmental breakdown.

Climate change is devastating Central America, driving migrants to the U.S. border.

A New Study Uses Camera Footage To Track the Frequency of Bystander Intervention.

Cities are punishing tenants with disabilities and domestic violence survivors for calling for help.

Fuggerei.

The Latest Study on Trigger Warnings Finally Convinced Me They’re Not Worth It. All the evidence suggests they don’t help and might actually hurt, which means we need to devote more attention to better forms of mental health care. Always were performative nonsense.

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