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Police militarization gets the Onion treatment. Short and sweet.
White people think the investigation and police response to Mike Brown's shooting have been appropriate. Black people think differently.
We still have a big gap in lifespans across racial groups in the US. Black people die younger than anyone else.
In a revelation which should surprise no one, the firm administering Chicago's red light camera system (you know, the one that keeps issuing hundreds of false citations a day) paid for a Chicago transit official's car and condo, and probably hookers and blow too.
Someone at the Wall St. Journal finally notices that the common element in all these "skills gap" stories is corporations completely unwilling to invest in their employees.
The Forever Recession. Yes, welcome to the new normal. Also, let's check in on the mancession.
Even data scientists are going to have their jobs replaced by robots and smart software. Or at least that's how I read the article.
Does the gender of your child change your politics? I think it would be hard to control for variables in this study.
Oh good, I live in the least happy place in the country.
245,000 reasons not to have children. Also, obviously very few families have these kinds of resources available so what happens to those kids? Where's the longitudinal study of the outcomes of kids who only get $145,000 of pre-18 investment?
Bill Gates pens a piece about what he learned from Washington's state teacher of the year.
Another EdSurge piece about how to work with children of color during "difficult times."I also asked Katie about the Common Core State Standards, the academic milestones that have been the center of some controversy lately. She started by echoing something I’ve heard in every school I’ve visited: No teacher is opposed to high standards. As Katie said, “Everyone who has read the Common Core standards says, ‘I want my students to be able to do those things.’ ”The problem is that too few teachers get the support they need to implement the standards. Whether teachers are adopting the Common Core or something else, if they don’t get help implementing the change and the time to do it right, then they’re more likely to turn against it.
A Libertarian Case for Parental Licensing. I can not imagine something less libertarian than requiring a license to have children, yet there's apparently a case for it. I suppose this is part of my larger gripe against the "liberal-tarian" movement in general. It always collapses right back into a kind of liberal-utilitarian wold view where there's not much that separates it from, say, a fairly paternalistic New England democrat's world view. At that point, why be libertarian at all?
Collegiate sports is taking it's first steps toward being independent of the NCAA. Hopefully they'll just franchise out teams with college names and forget this whole college sports thing all together.
The Dish asks, How do you solve a problem like Vladimir? I suppose the other thing that drives us crazy about Putin is that he really exposes the messiness of our own foreign policy for the last 2 decades. His unilateral actions and meddling in other nations' affairs for his own interests are merely mirrors of our own unilateral acts and meddling.
US News notes polls showing a shift in US opinion about intervention in Iraq. Good news everyone, we're going to invade Iraq!
The Pope endorses military action against the Islamic State. I thought we were past the whole crusade thing.
The Mountain that Lives is now the strongest man in Europe.
Finally, a way for kids to learn coding that I support wholeheartedly.
New York Magazine publishes and excerpts of Randall Munroe's upcoming book, What If.
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