- Scientists Slowly Reintroducing Small Group Of Normal, Well-Adjusted Humans Into Society (The Onion) It’s nice that an endangered species is given another chance.
- F%$# Nuance (Kieran Healey) “We are glutted with nuance. I say, f%$# it.”
- Sherpa: Norbu Tenzing on the Everest ‘circus’ and the inevitability of another disaster (The Guardian) Tenzing Norgay’s son talks about how the Everest climbing industry is a disaster waiting to happen (again).
- Welcome to Iceland, Where Bad Bankers Go to Prison (Bloomberg) We should do the same.
- 33 state Democratic parties launder $26M from millionaires for Hillary (Boing Boing) Why the party establishment is in the tank for Clinton
- A spiritual successor to Aaron Swartz is angering publishers all over again (Ars Technica) Alexandra Elbakyan runs Sci-Hub, which makes research papers freely available, which has led to much litigation, primarily from Elsevier, the evil empire of scientific publications. See also the wiki.
- STUDY: Nation’s Largest Public Schools Have More Police Than Counselors (Colorlines) The school to prison pipeline appears to be a feature, not a bug.
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