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Colorado Becomes First State To Cap Insulin Costs.

Residents of a Philadelphia apartment building are being forced to move so the landlord can convert the entire property into AirBnb quick-stay units. This is happening all over as the rich seize most of the assets in the economy.

Preindustrial workers worked fewer hours than today’s.

Why India wants to break its decades-old nuclear pledge.

How Amazon and Silicon Valley Seduced the Pentagon. Tech moguls like Jeff Bezos and Eric Schmidt have gotten unprecedented access to the Pentagon. And one whistleblower who raised flags has paid the price.

Pentagon cancels billion-dollar missile defense project.

A Supernova Was Hiding in Antarctica’s Snow.

Identical photons generated 150 million kilometers apart.

We found that greater three-month cumulative exposure to testosterone predicted better response inhibition but was unassociated with risky decision-making, whereas greater three-month cumulative exposure to cortisol predicted less risky decision-making but was unassociated with response inhibition.

“Dangerous Instrumentality”: The Bystander as Subject in Automobility.

Hundreds of people mysteriously died over a millennium at “Skeleton Lake” in the Himalayas according to a new study, making the creepy location even more mysterious.

Mission Jurassic: Searching for dinosaur bones.

I miss Microsoft Encarta. I used to love Microsoft Encarta so much.

Poor People Are Financially Literate. They Just Need More Money.

It is as if huge swaths of the world live in cities where their public streets and squares disappear, rearrange, grow, and shrink at the whim of corporate owners and with no real ability by normal people to understand how much has changed at any given time.

How Negative Interest Rates Screw Up the Economy.

Kamala Harris, Who Just Clarified Her Rejection of Real Medicare for All, to Snub Climate Forum in Favor of Big Donors. Just what I expected to see.

Leaked Audio Shows Oil Lobbyist Bragging About Success in Criminalizing Pipeline Protests.

NYU professor calls WeWork ‘WeWTF’ and slams the bankers. WeWork is a classic real estate scam of a type that has been practiced since at least the 1700s.

nobody ever fucking talks about how the reason tons of people aren’t hardasses with their bosses about time off, wage theft etc. is that you only survive at most jobs through your boss covering for you. they have a way to fire you at any second and you serve at their pleasure.

The Living World Is Not Amenable to Precision-nested Scales.

Super contributors and power laws.

What Myspace Lost.

The Collapse Of A Hospital Empire — And Towns Left In The Wreckage.

Boundaries and Computational Irreducibility.

YouTube Removes Fighting Robot Videos Stating They Are ‘Animal Cruelty’.

Predatory precarity.

Earth’s inner core is doing something weird.

World Bank Report: TPP Will Bring Negligible Economic Benefit To US, Canada And Australia.

Meritocracy has created a competition that, even when everyone plays by the rules, only the rich can win.

The Case For Publishing The Names Of Mass Shooters. News outlets are starting to erase perpetrators from the story. That may backfire.

A Brief History of Slavery That You Didn’t Learn in School.

The 1619 Project and the far-right fear of history.

The Power of Touch.

There’s fair critiques to make of ruminant agriculture about how it can improve on the margins (as with all ag), but so much of the public conversation seems to be focused on elimination or dramatically reducing ruminant ag, based on misunderstandings of how it currently works.

VBScript is gone. Once a scripting language to compete with JavaScript in web browsers, VBScript is now disabled by default on all supported versions of Windows after a recent Windows update.

Super-Earth at a nearby star is a Mercury-like hunk of rock. Consistent with the idea that small stars may burn off nearby atmospheres.

Arizona Legislature could make cities pay for raising the minimum wage.

The dubious logic of commodification.

NASA confirms mission to Jupiter’s moon Europa.

The Corporate Debt Bubble.

No, Productivity Does Not Explain Income. Marginal productivity is a thought virus that is sabotaging the scientific study of income.

Individuals who post a lot of selfies are almost uniformly viewed as less likeable, less successful, more insecure and less open to new experiences than individuals who share a greater number of posed photos taken by someone else. Basically, selfie versus posie.

Big Brands Are Using Amazon’s Anticounterfeiting Measures to Crush Small Businesses.

sex, lies, and videotape at 30: how Steven Soderbergh changed independent cinema.

Are Attitudes Contagious? Exposure to Biased Nonverbal Signals Can Create Novel Social Attitudes.

Europe has the capacity to produce more than 100 times the amount of energy it currently produces through onshore windfarms, new analysis from the University of Sussex and Aarhus University has revealed.

The Most Dangerous Man in the World.

New model agrees with old: Nuclear war between US and Russia would result in nuclear winter.

A Cycle of Renewal, Broken: How Big Tech and Big Media Abuse Copyright Law to Slay Competition.

The Age of Media Corporation Mega-Mergers Is Robbing Us of Bolder, Fresher Storytelling.

What if aging weren’t inevitable, but a curable disease?

Absolute scale corrupts absolutely.

2009 satellite collision.

The quiet death of the “white Bernie Bro” attack.

Media companies run by the country’s richest people can’t help but project the mindset of their owners.

The Antarctic ice sheet is melting and, yeah, it’s probably our fault.

We Have Ruined Childhood. For youngsters these days, an hour of free play is like a drop of water in the desert. Of course they’re miserable.

The US has been getting ‘its ass handed to it’ in war games simulating fights against Russia and China.

I think a mistake that some on the left make is not thinking deeply enough about how agencies run, and how to make them run better.

America’s mega-emitters are starting to close.

NOAA Data Confirms July Was Hottest Month Ever Recorded.

A Brief Introduction to Sarah Tolmie’s Speculative Fiction.

New study uncovers how berberine combats diabetes and obesity.

Genetic study suggests humans, not Ice Age, killed off European cave bears.

Sitting there, feeling self-righteous and microaggressed against by life is neither ethnic nor studies. It’s a very American pastime that interests a small group of wealthy people and wannabes.

To the Chinese state, the “engagement” and “responsible stakeholder” strategies were an existential threat to their regime, and they were not shy about telling us this. Our problem: we did not listen.

A Major Proof Shows How to Approximate Numbers Like Pi.

Tumblr’s adult-content ban came at a great cost to a community who depended on the social network to be a forum where issues related to body image, identity and sexuality could be discussed and expressed in a healthy manner.

The Machine’s Scar on Humanity and the History of Life.

It’s 2016 All Over Again. Joe Biden is pitching himself as an electable moderate who can beat Donald Trump. We’ve seen this movie before — and we know exactly how it ends.

The Street Within: Big Mama and her neighbors face homelessness in L.A.

Europe faces security threat from the rise in Chinese military power.

David Keith’s Carbon Removal Moonshot.

Youth sports in the U.S. are diverging according to income — more middle- and lower-income students quitting athletics while participation among wealthier children is rising.

How Life Sciences Actually Work: Findings of a Year-Long Investigation.

Liberals Beware: Repealing a Law That Protects Free Speech Online Will Only Help Trump. But using the right magic words and banning the wrong magic words is the solution to everything!

The world’s most-surveilled cities.

Insurance Companies Are Paying Cops To Investigate Their Own Customers.

Data Errors Plague Stock Traders in Volatile Week.

Zeroing In On Earth-like Planets.

Earth Stopped Getting Greener 20 Years Ago. Declining plant growth is linked toward decreasing air moisture tied to global warming.

Here’s What Fruits And Vegetables Looked Like Before We Domesticated Them.

Creatures of the Deep Karst.

How an Online Mob Created a Playbook for a Culture War.

Saturn Behind the Moon.

What Would Our Cities Look like If We Took Our Climate Change Values Seriously?

Companies are increasingly insisting their ads do not appear near articles or videos that contain any of a long list of words.

Sexism in the Academy.

In California, the 2020 elections will feature an epic battle to allow cities to reinstate property taxes.

NYC Restaurants ‘Thriving’ While Paying $15 Minimum Wage, Study Finds.

Where Did ‘Jazz,’ the Word, Come From?

Scientists Discover New Cure for the Deadliest Strain of Tuberculosis.

‘Climate change contrarians’ receive 49 per cent more media coverage than scientists, US study finds.

The Sinister Brutality of Shipping Container Architecture. It’s become a mark of hipster modernity everywhere from Amsterdam to Beijing. It’s also utterly ill-suited for human life. But all hail the liberal utopia!

In Hilarious IPO Filing, WeWork Dreams of $3 Trillion in Revenue But Has Billions in Losses. Red-Ink Massacre to Come in 2nd Half.

Uwe Reinhardt on High US Health Care Costs. Most of the centrist explanations are very wrong, turns out.

The Next Recession Is Going to Be Brutal.

How Segregation Caused Your Traffic Jam.

Apple’s bulbous, colorful iMac went on sale 21 years ago today.

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