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The most interesting overlooked spot of your local library? A tucked-away shelf labeled "Recently Returned."
↩︎ The New York Times Dec 5, 2018
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Sherlock Holmes views people as "objects to be studied, predicted and managed." To be less racist, be less like Holmes.
↩︎ Aeon 17h

Location establishing opener that lets human reader and Google Ad Sense know this is an op-ed about San Francisco, a city located on the west coast of the United States, but also in the imagination of the culture. 

If you’re tired of reading eulogies about San Francisco, try this: “In a Constantly Changing San Francisco, Change is Constant.”
↩︎ Hmm Daily
17h
San Franciscans lament the latest viral eulogy for their city while acknowledging that it's pretty much exactly right.
↩︎ SF Gate 17h
Nevada is poised to become the 15th state seeking to abolish the Electoral College in favor of a popular vote.
↩︎ CBS News 18h

He can’t get the GOP to do anything legislatively that is on his agenda but not theirs. He constantly complains about his own cabinet officials, who appear to ignore him regularly. When he finally puts the hammer down and fires them, they often don’t go quietly, and his supposed allies blast him.

A DC insider explains why Trump is ultimately a weak president who stands in danger of a failed one-term presidency.
↩︎ Five Points by Matt Glassman
18h
The median estimate is that we may see two hundred million climate refugees by 2050. The high estimate is a billion.
↩︎ Rolling Stone 18h

Denial, I think, is a sort of ongoing operative procedure—you try and proceed as if you’re capable, as if you weren’t ill. And then begin making concessions to the fact that you are.

A grim conversation with the great David Milch, creator of Deadwood, who’s now in the middle stage of Alzheimer’s.
↩︎ The New Yorker
18h
Women perform better at warmer temperatures, men at cooler. Who's in charge of your office's thermostat?
↩︎ The Atlantic 18h
"It took me five days to get through the first two pages." From a collection of one-star reviews of Mrs. Dalloway.
↩︎ Lit Hub 19h
No one likes the IRS. But the agency could be the answer for Democrats who are pushing to curtail wealth inequality.
↩︎ The New Republic 1d

And because it is not enough to activate the entrepreneurial mind-set—one must measure it, as well—all NFTE students are assessed, by the end of their programs, on “noncognitive skills” and on something called the Entrepreneurial Mind-set Index.

A summer camp that trains children to become capitalists doubles as a recruitment tool for prospective employers.
↩︎ The New York Times
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"People want us to starve to reduce carbon emissions." Carbon credits comfort the rich, but the real-world use is impractical.
↩︎ ProPublica 1d
As when "pro-life" was coined in the '60s, today's abortion battle employs language crafted to persuade—e.g., "fetal heartbeat."
↩︎ The New York Times 1d
Some European nations to the west produce 25 scientific papers per 10,000 people; to the east, it's fewer than one paper.
↩︎ Nature 1d
A Bay Area man repairing a '60s synthesizer late last year began tripping from LSD residue on the instrument.
↩︎ KPIX 1d
The June 5, 1939, issue of Life epitomized the white America today's GOP wants back—excepting praise of the public sector.
↩︎ The Washington Post 1d
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