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Newly released documents appear to show New York officials misleading the public on air quality dangers in the months following the Sept. 11 attacks. / The New York Times [$]
Americans without college degrees are having one of the best hiring streaks in decades, while the opposite seems to be true for their degreed counterparts. / The Wall Street Journal [$]
Corporate profits in the United States are at record-breaking highs, yet workers’ share of that income has now reached a historic low. / Yahoo! Finance
Laid-off tech workers build an open-source AI replacement for CEOs and other C-level executives. / TechRadar
Unrelated: “Man Pretends to Hallucinate in Job Interview With an AI Bot, Causing It to Go Haywire.” / Futurism
Mindfulness is now a multibillion-dollar industry, yet some people find too much meditation can have deleterious psychological effects, including “delusion-like ideation.” / The Atlantic [$]
Spend 10 minutes staring at Angel Oak, a centuries-old tree in Charleston, SC. “Zoom in and that bark can envelop you.” / The New York Times [$]
Individual traders who once looked to crypto for quick wins are increasingly flocking to the “calm” of prediction markets. / The Wall Street Journal [$]
An African Union-driven movement to replace the Mercator projection succeeds at the United Nations. / BBC News
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West Permian fracking rigs are running out of places to put toxic wastewater, so they're asking Texas if it's OK to dump it in rivers and farms. / Heated
Today’s long read: The war over water at the Rio Grande has already begun, imperiling people and businesses on both sides of the border. / Texas Monthly
Watch Los Angeles grow in a timelapse animation from 1880 to the present day. / Parcelscope
See also: Skateboarder Jerry Hsu’s view of Los Angeles. “He finds a lot of his subjects by using Citizen, the incident-reporting app, to see if anything intriguing is happening nearby.” / The New Yorker
How a guitar fretboard can be used to multiply fractions as long as it’s the right guitar, and as long as you saw it in half. / Charles Petzold
Illegal Trump coin aside, the US Mint has been issuing some truly unhinged coins lately, such as “hockey goon” Thomas Jefferson. / Indignity
Influencers infiltrate the “untapped buzzworthy market” that is the Minnesota State Fair. / The Minnesota Star Tribune
Sixty-three years after it first aired, the innovative Seven Up television series will conclude next year, as its participants turn 70. / The Guardian