The Rooster Summer Reading Challenge: Week 11
We enter the home stretch of the 2017 Rooster Summer Reading Challenge with the brief, surreal Fever Dream, our final book of the season.
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Tuesday Headlines: A heritage of hate.
Last night, protesters tore down a Confederate statue in Durham, NC (video here). "The president is being advised by people who don't know what's going on." Emboldened by Charlottesville, white supremacists plan more marches. A reminder: Why it's the duty of every
Saturday Headlines: Insert ‘80s horror synth here
Ahead of today's white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Va., torch-carrying marchers clashed with counter-protesters last night on the UVA campus. Trump's pugilism feeds North Korea's ongoing narrative that, as the victim of American bullying, it needs a nuclear program. “If Trump or
Friday Headlines: The worst two weeks for music ever recorded
Google cancelled an all-hands meant to address the controversial diversity memo, after employees voiced concerns they might be harassed online for asking questions during the meeting. Long before CRISPR gives your descendants superhuman abilities, it could be used to edit pigs' DNA to grow human-ready replacement organs.
What if there is no tomorrow? There wasn't one today.
Pyongyang says its attack plan, still awaiting Kim Jong-un’s approval, involves four missiles that will fly over Japan and land 17 miles from Guam. (1/15) US officials say key to a pre-emptive attack is bombing North Korea’s missile-launch sites, which the military has been
Rise up! Women in Technology
Their accomplishments may be seldom recognized, and throughout history, they have had to fight for their achievements in the first place. Even today, their prominence in tech is not what it should be. Yet there are many women in technology who have changed the world. We think these women deserve
The Rooster Summer Reading Challenge: Week 10
This week we're again joined by Rachel Khong as we discuss Temporary People's second half, which took this already unusual set of stories to some unexpected places.
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The draft of the latest National Climate Assessment, a quadrennial report, is currently under review by the White House. The New York Times has obtained a copy of the report, which forecasts average US temperatures will increase by 5.0 to 7.5 degrees Fahrenheit by the end of the
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We're very excited to announce that you're going to see some changes in this feed over the next few days. Most significantly, posts will increase dramatically—to around 15 or 20 a day, as opposed to one or so a week. This is because we'
The Rooster Summer Reading Challenge: Week Nine
The final month of the 2017 Rooster Summer Reading Challenge kicks off with the first book in our August matchup, Temporary People. All month long we'll be joined by Rachel Khong, in conversation with Nozlee Samadzadeh.