Casual reading for the intellectually curious.
Saturday, April 22, 2017
Terrorists are building drones. France is destroying them with eagles.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/02/21/terrorists-are-building-drones-france-is-destroying-them-with-eagles/
Thousands of tiny satellites are about to go into space and possibly ruin it forever
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2017/04/21/thousands-of-tiny-satellites-are-about-to-go-into-space-and-possibly-ruin-it-forever/
Icelandic language at risk; robots, computers can’t grasp it
http://www.seattletimes.com/business/icelandic-language-at-risk-robots-computers-cant-grasp-it/
How Airline Workers Learn to Deal With You
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/22/your-money/how-airline-workers-learn-to-deal-with-you.html
Friday, April 21, 2017
In Jail, Pads and Tampons as Bargaining Chips
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/20/nyregion/pads-tampons-new-york-womens-prisons.html
A New Parchment Declaration of Independence Surfaces. Head-Scratching Ensues.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/21/arts/a-new-parchment-declaration-of-independence-surfaces-head-scratching-ensues.html
Drones used for first time in major search at Grand Canyon
http://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/drones-used-for-first-time-in-major-search-at-grand-canyon/
Why do married people pay most of the taxes in the U.S.?
http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865677746/Why-do-married-people-pay-most-of-the-taxes-in-the-US.html
Thursday, April 20, 2017
How your selfie could affect your life insurance
http://www.seattletimes.com/business/how-your-selfie-could-affect-your-life-insurance/
Trillions of Plastic Bits, Swept Up by Current, Are Littering Arctic Waters
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/19/climate/arctic-plastics-pollution.html
How long should you keep your tax records?
http://www.csmonitor.com/Business/Saving-Money/2017/0420/How-long-should-you-keep-your-tax-records
‘Like someone stuck an ice pick in my collarbone’: Painful rat lungworm disease on upswing in Hawaii
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/04/20/like-someone-stuck-an-ice-pick-in-my-collarbone-painful-rat-lungworm-disease-on-upswing-in-hawaii/
Wednesday, April 19, 2017
34 problems with standardized tests
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/answer-sheet/wp/2017/04/19/34-problems-with-standardized-tests/
Universities redesign libraries for the 21st century: fewer books, more space
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-college-libraries-20170419-story.html
How climate change dried up a Canadian glacier river in a matter of days
http://www.csmonitor.com/Environment/2017/0418/How-climate-change-dried-up-a-Canadian-glacier-river-in-a-matter-of-days
Tuesday, April 18, 2017
Dinner With a Dung Beetle
https://www.nytimes.com/video/science/100000004858104/dung-beetle.html
The big hole in Trump’s wall
http://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/2017/04/fewer-hombres
Starbucks calls shifting-color drink a “Unicorn Frappuccino”
http://www.seattletimes.com/business/starbucks-calls-shifting-color-drink-a-unicorn-frappuccino/
Scientists find giant, elusive clam known as ‘the unicorn of mollusks’
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2017/04/17/scientists-find-giant-elusive-clam-known-as-the-unicorn-of-mollusks/
Monday, April 17, 2017
How the Airlines Became Abusive Cartels
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/17/opinion/how-the-airlines-became-abusive-cartels.html
The Love Lives of Bolsheviks
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/17/opinion/the-love-lives-of-bolsheviks.html
Sultan Qaboos has been everything for Oman. But has he secured its future?
http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle-East/2017/0417/Sultan-Qaboos-has-been-everything-for-Oman.-But-has-he-secured-its-future
Sunday, April 16, 2017
Stripped Village Homes Expose a Hollowing Out of France’s Heritage
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/16/world/europe/france-joinville-heritage.html
Anatomy of a Lynching
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/16/opinion/anatomy-of-a-lynching.html
Climate change, and common-sense politics
http://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/upfront-blog/2017/0416/Climate-change-and-common-sense-politics
The world's greenest island
http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Europe/2017/0416/The-world-s-greenest-island
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