“The most disturbing lesson about this election is that the United States is a good deal less open to women in positions of power than it would like to pretend that it is.” Malcom Gladwell tells fellow Canadians about sexism and elitism in America. / The National “While everyone I met
How to make the Nasty Woman: An election night cocktail. See also: Life lessons from Sasha Petraske’s posthumously released book Regarding Cocktails. ↩︎ posted Nov. 8, 2016 At this, point there are five equally-likely outcomes in this election: 1) Your candidate wins. 2)You take up smoking again. 3)
Mats Valk of the Netherlands sets a new world record for solving a Rubik's Cube: 4.74 seconds
Facebook needs to embrace its status as a major media company and find ways to improve the average quality of the news stories it recommends to its users. Facebook is bad for politics and for readers. It provides journalists with perverse incentives and readers with an inferior product. It should
All this frivolous debate underscores the ouroborosian nature of web discourse in 2016. Because who cares, really? How often do you even need to say “read receipts” aloud? Adrienne LaFrance on the state of language and pronunciation on the internet. ↩︎ The Atlantic, posted Nov. 8, 2016 How do you translate
Hong Kong may cool off after record highs, but temperatures are going to be higher than ever after China flexes unprecedented power over the island, claiming ability to remove insubordinate lawmakers. / scmp.com Saudi Arabia is obviously a theocracy. South Korea, more so than you may know: an investigation is
An ode to being unsatisfied.
Approaching America’s abysmal voter turnout as a user-experience challenge led a Y-Combinator-backed nonprofit to a simple solution: to text unregistered voters. / Backchannel RJ Reynolds is spending $12 million in Arkansas to support a ballot initiative to raise the cigarette tax. / NPR A frightening new statistic: as
A postcard from Iceland, by Travlr.photography.
Zuma is on the outs South African President Robert Zuma is placed at the scene of the crime several times in a report on statewide corruption. His fate as President hangs with the opinion the African National Congress has of him, but their opinion may be forced: Pretoria shut down
