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October 11, 2015

Fed officials seem ready to deploy negative rates in next crisis.

The Virtues of Dumbness.

Call for Submissions: Not That Bad: Dispatches From Rape Culture.

Chrysler Turbine Car.

The Untold Story Of The Woman Who Broke The News Of WW2.

October 10, 2015

Men dominate news coverage in the US by a factor of 5 to 1 over women.

How small is the smallest? New record of the tiniest free-living insect provides precision.

London Police ‘Super Recognizer’ Walks Beat With a Facebook of the Mind.

The Final Leaked TPP Text is All That We Feared.

During WWII, Mariya Oktyabrskaya sold all her stuff so she could peronally buy a tank and kill Nazis.

The “Gig Economy” Is Mostly Just Silicon Valley Hype.

The Color of Debt: How Collection Suits Squeeze Black Neighborhoods.

Who Controls Diet Guidelines? Industry.

October 9, 2015

Net neutrality on chopping block as Democrats fight to save FCC’s rules. Net neutrality was bound to have a very short life; way, way too much $ fighting it.

Who invented Surfing the Internet?

There is no such thing as a city that has run out of room.

The downside risk of owning is much higher than with renting. (Mercury Spill.)

How Poker Player Annie Duke Used Gender Stereotypes To Win Matches.

Welcome to the Future: Downward Mobility and Social Depression. And just wait till climate change really kicks in.

October 8, 2015

Parts of Mars used to be Earth-like.

Power decreases trust in social exchange.

October 7, 2015

Bureau of Sex Slavery.

Five charts that show why it’s time to worry about world economy again.

What’s wrong with this picture?

What do descendants of wrongdoers owe to the descendants of the wronged?

Americans Opposed to Being Shot Seek Representation in Washington.

Approximately 62% of Americans have less than $1,000 in their savings accounts and 21% don’t even have a savings account, according to a new survey of more than 5,000 adults conducted this month by Google Consumer Survey.

Mars Is Pretty Clean. Her Job at NASA Is to Keep It That Way. Planetary Protection Officer! Best. Title. Ever.

The issue isn’t mental illness, it’s too-easy access to firearms.

October 6, 2015

The World Has Gone Crazy Over Ad Blocking. I’ve been using some form of ad blocking since 1996 or so.

Pre-emption: How and Why Rail Companies Are Above The Law.

The Trans-Pacific Trade Agreement Is A Disaster For Climate Change. Poorly-written headline, but the TPP is just outright disastrous in every way.

Fish Can Recognize Faces, a Surprisingly Human Skill.

The Era Of Automatic Facial Recognition And Surveillance Is Here.

Study Finds Humans Are Worse Than Radiation For Chernobyl Animals.

Elon Musk’s sleight of hand. People criticize Musk, but his company is doing the coolest things in the world right now.

Denier vs Skeptic.

The Most Important Thing, and It’s Almost a Secret. Climate change will make this quite temporary, alas.

October 5, 2015

Blue whales eat up to around 3628 kg (4 tons) of krill daily.

Our Right to an Attorney Is in Jeopardy.

Utility-scale solar costs down by half in last five years alone.

Scientists to nudge asteroid off course as practice for protecting the Earth.

October 4, 2015

Island boulders reveal ancient mega-tsunami.

Rise of the Synthesizer: How an Electronics Whiz Kid Gave the 1980s Its Signature Sound.

Why is it so hard to convince people to care about privacy? Because humanity is too dumb to survive long-term, mainly.

The hidden inequality of who dies in car crashes.

Another brick in the wall.

Of all the major conservative parties in the democratic world, the Republican Party stands alone in its denial of the legitimacy of climate science. Good ol’ American exceptionalism.

Comcast’s brilliant plan to make you accept data caps: Refuse to admit they’re data caps.

October 3, 2015

Cogent CEO: After Net Neutrality Rules, Interconnection Congestion Has Magically Disappeared.

All about -ass.

Population genetic differentiation of height and body mass index across Europe.

People talk about an individual’s genome as if it was a single consistent entity—but it isn’t. Every one of us actually contains a cosmopolitan melting pot of different genomes.

Eric Schmidt of Google suggests…never do anything that you don’t want made public. But sometimes there’s no way to know ahead of time what is going to be bad.

For Corporations, Sticks, Not Carrots.

October 2, 2015

Share of Americans in labor force shrinks to 38-year low. Not just retirements, either. Not by far.

A refugee riot puts a German town on edge.

New ‘Anti-Abortion Pill’ Kills Mother, Leaves Fetus Alive.

Gun violence in America, in 17 maps and charts.

People’s ability to recognize faces is genetically distinct.

Could “Probiotic Epidemics” Influence Evolution?

October 1, 2015

Effectiveness of Talk Therapy Is Overstated, a Study Says. AKA “paying for a friend.”

A major advance in computational complexity reveals deep connections between the classes of problems that computers can — and can’t — possibly do.

Indiana GOP’s House Leader resigns after texting sexually explicit video of himself cheating on wife to everyone on his “Contacts” list.

A Linguist Explains the Grammar of Shipping.

Interview with Amy Finkelstein.

Dormant Virus Wakes Up In Some Patients With Lou Gehrig’s Disease.

Organizing Principles. Cliff A’s comment is also great, and answers something I’d been trying to figure out.

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