The links:
How America learned to stop worrying and loved bombing. Bombing Iraq is basically the only thing we do anymore.
Russia Today, Russia's state controlled media outlet, has a new advertising campaign which is edgy, to say the least.
The US had become a leader in oil and gas production. That's right, just because we're curbing emissions here doesn't mean we can't export those fossil fuels somewhere else. Suck it greens!
Sarah Kliff wants to solve the mystery of falling teen birth rates. Obviously a decade of abstinence only education had finally paid off.
Are we facing another foreclosure crisis? Hard to tell. I seems to me that we're looking at a different future where home ownership is limited to wealthy professionals.
Harold Pollack interviews Sendhil Mullainathan and Eldar Shafir about their research on economic behaviors. One major thing they talk about is how being poor changes the way people think.
Another tragic example concerns lonely people. The lonely are interesting because it’s so tempting to say: "Oh, lonely people. Yeah, those are just losers, or whatever. Those are people who can't make friends." Actually, the data suggests that the vast majority of lonely people don't lack any social skills at all. It's just they found themselves in lonely situations.
You move to a new town and you don't really know anybody. How do you meet people? It's hard to meet people. The longer that persists, now the longer you've been lonely, and then ‑‑ this is the key part with the lonely and the busy and the money and the poor ‑‑ now that you're in that state, your behavior changes, and the way your behavior changes seems to keep you in that state.
Humans Need not Apply. Watch and feel terrible about our future.
Did workers in England see a decrease in skills as a result of the industrial revolution? Yes, depending on how you define and categorize "skill."
Barely half of workers are able to take a week long vacation. Well, that's not exactly what the post says but I think that taking a week off is basically grounds for getting fired these days.
On The Media, a public radio program and, apparently, podcast decided to see what it would be like if a black woman pretended to be a white male online.
Paul Krugman, commenting on a recent piece about election ad buys, notes that the persistent lies about Obamacare are failing to gain traction among likely voters.
John Oliver does what John Oliver does:
It looks like at least 13 journalists have bee arrested since the start of the protests on Ferguson. Here's what one of those journalists experienced.
Jeff Smith writes that Ferguson and many other municipalities depend on traffic citations and numerous small fines to fund their police departments. It makes these numbers even a more outrageous:
In Ferguson last year, 86 percent of stops, 92 percent of searches and 93 percent of arrests were of black people — despite the fact that police officers were far less likely to find contraband on black drivers (22 percent versus 34 percent of whites). This worsens inequality, as struggling blacks do more to fund local government than relatively affluent whites.Jason Jones pens a few remarks about Ferguson. Notably, he points out that the news hasn't made it into his classroom yet. As much as we all live online, it's very possible that we can live online in completely separate universes.
The Economist reports that American police are excessively trigger happy.
Last year, in total, British police officers actually fired their weapons three times. The number of people fatally shot was zero.Sadly, Americans eat most of their meals alone. I encourage people to eat more socially. Perhaps in long wooden halls with a fire pit in the middle.
Readers remember less when they read on a Kindle, the closest digital alternative to a paper book. You know, I was staring at my bookshelf the other day and I really wished I was back in school reading awesome stuff again. If nothing else, getting a degree in English was a great way to have various smart people curate my reading for 4 years.
The Great Stagnation in Westeros. If you're not familiar with the term "great stagnation," it comes form economist Tyler Cowen and describes a general slowdown in innovation and technological productivity improvements since the late 1970s. This post argues the same thing happened in Westeros.
Lego updates it's Minecraft set with better pieces. This is awesome. Getting kids off the computer by having legos that mimic their games is probably good every once and a while. Also, I dislike the recent Lego trend in creating very specific themed buildings etc. This kind of returns to the old way of just getting a ton of blocks and making whatever your mind comes up with.
Jimmy Fallon plays Goldeneye against Pierce Bronsnan. Oh man, that game really takes me back...
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