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One highly endangered European wolf was fitted with a tracking collar. He ended up going on a 2000km journey over the Alps.
An elephant finds a novel use for a Volkswagen.
Apparently having faith in scientific progress makes you behave in less eco-friendly ways. Because you believe that science will solve everything in the long run, you devalue your short run actions and don't recycle or whatever. By this logic, the ones most likely to recycle etc. are the ones least likely to believe recycling etc. will make a meaningful difference.
EdSurge's Arthur Vanderveen examines ways teachers and schools can learn form research about tutoring. I wish more education writing was like this. Hey, we recognize that one on one tutoring is super effective. How can we do our best to replicate its advantages in a classroom setting?
It looks like this ebola outbreak's patient zero was a 2 year old boy. It's hard to get good details because the western media is both hyperbolic and intensely focused on westerners but the recent hop to Lagos, Nigeria is troubling. You don't want this plague to move from region to region and spreading to a large city like Lagos is an easy way fro that to happen.
Is ebola this decade's Black Swan? Well, it's not exactly unforeseen, one key attribute of a black swan, but the economic impacts could be dire if the disease were to keep spreading.
If the whole world is on edge, why are stocks doing well? Because nobody is bombing anything or anyone valuable to those buying stocks.
Time runs an article saying financial reform is working. I wonder if this is sponsored content from the banks.
Guitar Center as a case study for the entire Private Equity industry.
The only way you can justify large amounts of debt is the notion that it will be used to fuel growth. Otherwise, all that debt and complexity are nothing but a parasite on your operations, on the whole economy.Over at Cato Unbound, Matt Zwolinski argues in favor of guaranteed basic income instead of the various anti-poverty welfare programs we have now in the US. Matt made a name for himself in recent years (well, okay, we is a philosophy professor but I mean a more popular kind of renown) by pointing out that caring about people and having some kind of liberal leaning is compatible with libertarian thought. He founded the Bleed Heart Libertarian blog.
However, at the Roosevelt Institute, Mike Konczal thinks the libertarian case for a universal basic income doesn't add up.
An MIT researcher takes Uber somewhere and comes to the conclusion that secure employment is a thing of the past. I agree. In the private sector, you are expected to constantly retrain in a new skill set every few years. Employers basically look at their employees and ask, 'but what have you done for me lately'?
Reexamining pregnancy through the lens of game theory and evolution. This is probably a good read for a pregnancy obsessive culture:
You might suppose such ruthlessness to be unheard-of among mammalian children. You would be wrong. It isn’t that our babies are less ruthless than Diaea ergandros, but that our mothers are less generous. The mammal mother works hard to stop her children from taking more than she is willing to give. The children fight back with manipulation, blackmail and violence. Their ferocity is nowhere more evident than in the womb.The analyst who correctly called the housing crash is optimistic about our demographics in the coming decades.
Good news white people, a new app, Sketch Factor, will let you navigate around minorities and pesky poors! See, this is only the beginning. Soon, it will actively identify black people at a distance so you can cross to the other side of the street.
Shut up Devil!
More gender sad from tech conferences:
I handed out about 50 business cards at OSCON. The people who I gave them to seem interested in learning more about what I do or what my company does. None of them were used to actually contact me for professional reasons. In fact, about 1/3 of them were only used to ask me out.Women in tech know that naming their harassers, especially among potential VC funders, is an easy way to get blacklisted forever. So, yeah, that's exactly what we mean when we say sexism hurts the economy.
Was Shakespeare a conservative? Does it matter?
A good rundown of the three recent volcanic eruptions on Io and some cool information about Jupiter's 'lil planetary system.
And, XKCD helps me get one step closer to creating a Mac and Carlie type wikipedia of misinformation that sounds credible but isn't.
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