Recently returned books are fun to browse.

Innovative, tiny drawings made using ink stamps, by Baku Maeda.

↩︎ Booooooom 1h

The emergence of acute flaccid myelitis offers an example for how the CDC will address the next global epidemic.

↩︎ WIRED 1h

A map detailing the 150,000 shootings have occurred over the past five years in America.

↩︎ The Trace 1h

A speech pathologist in Texas lost her job over state legislation requiring her to pledge she wouldn't boycott Israel.

↩︎ The Intercept 1h

As Georgia secretary of state, Brian Kemp weaponized his office's ineptitude in order to accuse his Democrat opponents of hacking.

↩︎ The Atlanta Journal-Constitution 2h

"People’s worldviews remain pretty stable over time. That being said, we find that the fluid become 'situationally fixed' in their political preferences when they are frightened."

America isn’t a nation of two parties, but rather of “fixed” versus “fluid” worldviews.

↩︎ Vox

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↩︎ TMN Store 2h

News outlets undermine the Trump-Russia investigations when they use the Steele dossier as a measure of possible conspiracy.

↩︎ Empty Wheel 2h

Though authoritarianism was on the rise in 2018, democracy made a comeback in Ethiopia, Armenia, and Peru.

↩︎ The Washington Post 3h

The condition has been identified as resulting from brain tumors, strokes, infections, and other lesions involving the frontal lobe, particularly the right orbitofrontal region, which previous research has indicated plays an important role in humor appreciation.

It’s not so easy to tell whether someone has a neurological condition or they’re just good at puns.

↩︎ Literary Hub

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Civil rights groups want Zuckerberg and Sandberg to leave Facebook's board over Russian targeting of black Americans.

↩︎ Bloomberg 3h

An easy-to-understand explanation of how neural networks are able to recognize what's in an image.

↩︎ Ars Technica 3h

From attorneys general to van der Zwaan: a complete guide to the 17 known investigations into Trump and Russia.

↩︎ WIRED 4h

Headline of the week and it's only Monday: "Would Human Extinction Be a Tragedy?"

↩︎ The New York Times 22h

President Donald Trump seems to have both increased the audience for partisan media and polarized partisan views about the media’s value and credibility—turning Republicans further against the media and rallying Democrats to its defense.

People actually aren’t trapped in filter bubbles. But they like to believe they are—or least that everybody else is.

↩︎ Trust, Media & Democracy

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A new report on Russian election-meddling finds a big emphasis on Instagram, with twice the audience engagement found on Facebook.

↩︎ National Public Radio 1d

"None of this means Trump will lose in 2020." A guide to the remarkably large field of Democrats planning to run for president.

↩︎ Vox 1d

From Dec. 12, 1986: The Smiths play their final show as a band.

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Between 2012 and 2017, the number of male domestic-abuse victims recorded by British police each year more than doubled.

↩︎ The Economist 1d

"I was just sitting at the bar," Barkley said. "And me and your dad were the only two people in there. And we just sit down and started talking."

A wonderful story by reporter Shirley Wang about how her family became friends with Charles Barkley.

↩︎ WBUR

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