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December 12, 2014

Social Choice and Social Welfare.

The Historical Cooking Project: Ancient Egyptian Bread.

December 11, 2014

You know anti-intellectualism has triumphed when….

Sea swallows the last house in doomed Virginia beach town.

Citigroup Wrote the Wall Street Giveaway Congress Just Snuck Into a Must-Pass Spending Bill: would allow banks to do more high-risk trading with taxpayer-backed money.

In real terms income inequality has gone up much more than most of our numbers indicate.

Prozac, used by 40m people, does not work say scientists. Just to reiterate.

Barnacle goose freefall.

The rise and fall of the great sabercats.

Most snakes aren’t very crappy.

One of the most important things that science fiction can do as a genre is to show how scientific breakthroughs and changes might actually change the way we live as humans, and that includes issues to do with sex, family, and love.

December 10, 2014

America has really expensive internet, and it’s getting worse.

CA Cop is Being Fired for NOT Using Violence to Resolve a Situation.

One in every five species of mammal is a bat.

Instead of prosecuting torturers, Obama prosecuted the guy who revealed the program.

What Silicon Valley actually is: a sexist and racist wealth distribution mechanism that relies on cronyism, corruption, and exclusion to function.

Flying with Machine Guns?

The Congressional proposal to deal with a supposed crisis in worker pensions by allowing trustees to slash the benefits of already-retired workers to shreds is heading toward enactment.

Two Futures Can Explain Time’s Mysterious Past.

Congress gives Native American lands to foreign mining company with new NDAA.

Trans-Pacific Trade Talks Resume With Almost No Media Coverage.

Best Way for Professors to Get Good Student Evaluations? Be Male.

Simulating Wealth and Poverty in Junior High.

December 9, 2014

#PantsUPDontLOOT. What in the hell.

‘Hands up, don’t shoot’ is the stiff middle finger that America deserves.

KKK crucial to building the South’s enduring Republican majority.

Ancient worms may have saved Earth.

Ebola In The Air: What Science Says About How The Virus Spreads.

Chris Rock, Ezra Klein, and the Second Great Depression Myth.

Superior Economists.

Comcast Really, Really Doesn’t Like Netflix.

The economics profession is like a priesthood. It’s primary interest is in the purity of its models.

December 8, 2014

Displaced IT workers are being silenced.

Wall Street to Workers: Give Us Your Retirement Savings and Stop Asking Questions.

Linda Tirado on the realities of living in bootstrap America: daily annoyances for most people are catastrophic for poor people.

“Everything is problematic.”

Every Which Way but Regulated: The “Free Market” Trucking Industry.

No Equality of Opportunity in Education.

Visible Girls: London’s lost female subcultures.

A Short and Incomplete Story of Gendered Clothing.

Sony Pictures hack reveals gender pay gap at the entertainment company and Deloitte. Just like everywhere else.

KKK membership sinks 2 Florida cops.

That’s right: people are so enraged by the idea of welfare fraud that they literally treat it like it’s more offensive than murder.

December 7, 2014

Darren Wilson, after all, is an instrument. In the moment of the encounter, he did exactly what he was built to do.

The World Cracks Down on the Internet.

Capitalism is officially broken: Even doggy day care workers have non-competes now.

We Don’t Just Need Nicer Cops. We Need Fewer Cops.

New paper: bacterial phylogenetic inference is robust to recombination but demographic inference is not.

Back in the US, Back in the US, Back in the USSR?

Greatest threat to peace.

New methods for examining expertise in burglars in natural and simulated environments: preliminary findings.

December 6, 2014

Obama says he willing to defy Democrats on his support of Trans-Pacific Partnership. Pure evil.

▶ Crossing the Street to Avoid Someone.

England abolished grand juries decades ago because they didn’t work.

Best photos of the year 2014.

You can’t detox your body. It’s a myth.

Black Market for Stolen Baby Formula Hits Billions of Dollars.

Say Their Names: Remembering the Montreal Massacre.

Trains may soon come equipped with debris-zapping lasers. Choo choo pew pew pew!

Black poverty is state violence, too: Why struggles for criminal justice and living wage are uniting.

Watch An Artist Control Pools of Water With Her Brainwaves.

In Light of Eric Garner: Being a thug; having social sanction to be a thug, is enjoyable to a lot of people.

December 5, 2014

Study: California drought is the most severe in at least 1,200 years.

Subclinical Primary Psychopathy, but Not Physical Formidability or Attractiveness, Predicts Conversational Dominance in a Zero-Acquaintance Situation.

Mexico, according to a local mall.

When Police Wear Military Uniforms, It Changes Their Psychology.

This Is What “One Size Fits All” Actually Looks Like On All Body Types.

Unlike Diamonds, E-Books Are Not Forever.

#AliveWhileBlack Exposes Ugly Truths About Everyday Police Racism.

Kurt Cobain and Masculinity.

AT&T still throttles “unlimited data”—even when network not congested.

The Motions of Kayaking and Canoeing Recorded through Light Painting on Canadian Waterways.

December 4, 2014

It’s repetitive for some to hear, but important for everybody to know: You can’t explain Millennial economic behavior without explaining that real wages for young Americans have collapsed.

AT&T wants to know why a town is building a 1Gbps network when it already offers 6Mbps DSL. Not The Onion.

Cleveland officer who shot Tamir Rice had ‘dismal’ letter personnel file from the Independence Police Department says that during firearms qualification training he was “distracted” and “weepy.” Weepy?

Thanks to rising costs and stagnant wage growth, nearly 40 million Americans are spending more than 30% of their income on housing payments, property taxes and other home expenses.

Another Reason Cops are Terrible.

Eric Garner, grand jury: How would we cover the decision not to indict a police officer if it happened in another country?

What Canada can teach the U.S. about net neutrality.

FYI, I Cannot “Demand” Respect From Men so Stop Telling Me That!

The same people who tell us that our minor federal budget deficit is destroying our children’s future, are mostly silent about the unpaid cost of changes to the climate system.

America’s Police Killing Problem Is Worse Than You Probably Imagined.

How racial discrimination in law enforcement actually works.

Daisy’s Dead Air: Surfwise.

December 3, 2014

The female Indian muntjac deer is the mammal with the lowest recorded diploid number of chromosomes, where 2n = 6. The male has a diploid number of 7 chromosomes. The similar Reeves’s Muntjac (Muntiacus reevesi), in comparison, has a diploid number of 46 chromosomes.

America has no higher rate of social mobility than medieval England or pre-industrial Sweden.

The Current Education Reform Wave is driven by a joining of two major impulses in the US. Neither of them are new, but over the past decade they have come together in ways that are proving powerful.

Chart of the Day: White vs. Black on Ferguson.

The fracking ban that comes into effect on Tuesday in the heart of Texas may never have happened at all, if industry had not insisted on fracking beside a local hospital, a children’s playground, and the 100-year-old farmhouse that was Cathy McMullen’s retirement dream.

Chris Rock on Ferguson, Cosby, and Obama.

Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database.

How Police Unions and Arbitrators Keep Abusive Cops on the Street.

▶ ‘TNT’ Maddox (the only current female member of the Harlem Globetrotters) Puts On A Trick Clinic.

Leonardo Da Vinci’s To Do List (circa 1490) Is Much Cooler Than Yours.

24/192 Music Downloads are Very Silly Indeed.

December 2, 2014

Data caps, limited competition a recipe for trouble in home Internet service.

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