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- Brian Eno’s Music for Anxious Times
- by Lindsay Zoladz; New York Times, Nov. 6, 2020
- Why voting should be treated like jury duty
- by Danielle Allen; Washington Post, Oct. 28, 2020
- The Problem of Free Speech in an Age of Disinformation
- by Emily Bazelon; New York Times, Oct. 13, 2020
- Dying in a Leadership Vacuum
- by Editors of New England Journal of Medicine; Oct. 8, 2020
- Three Scenarios for the Future of Climate Change
- by Elizabeth Kolbert; The New Yorker, Oct. 5, 2020
- Every Place Has Its Own Climate Risk. What Is It Where You Live?
- New York Times, Sep. 18, 2020
- How Climate Migration Will Reshape America
- by Abrahm Lustgarten; New York Times, Sep. 2020
- Screen-based online learning will change kids' brains. Are we ready for that?
- by Maryanne Wolf; The Guardian, Aug. 24, 2020
- A Warning for the United States from the Author of ‘The Great Influenza’
- by John M. Barry; New York Times, Aug. 18, 2020
- Mozilla's failures and a path to profitability
- Andrew Gioia, Aug. 14, 2020
- Mozilla’s uncertain future
- by Frank Hecker; Civility and Truth, Aug. 13, 2020
- Mozilla: The Greatest Tech Company Left Behind
- by Matthew MacDonald; Medium, Aug. 13, 2020
- The Unique U.S. Failure to Control the Virus
- by David Leonhardt; New York Times, Aug. 6, 2020
- Why the Pandemic Is So Bad in America
- by Ed Yong; The Atlantic, Sep. 2020 Issue
- The Death of the Photo Studio. How GPT-3, your smartphone and…
- by Sai Krishna V. K; Medium, Jul. 28, 2020
- How one hour of slow breathing changed my life | Health & wellbeing
- by James Nestor; The Guardian, Jul. 26, 2020
- How to fix the Covid-19 dumpster fire in the U.S.
- by Helen Branswell; Stat, Jul. 14, 2020
- A Shutdown May Be Needed to Stop the Coronavirus
- by John M. Barry; New York Times, Jul. 14, 2020
- 5 Rules to Live By During a Pandemic - The New York Times
- Colleges Are Reopening in Fall, But Many Professors Won’t Be Present
- by Anemona Hartocollis; New York Times, Jul. 3, 2020
- The latest figures are a wake-up call: the global Covid-19 crisis isn't close to over
- by Adam Tooze; The Guardian, Jun. 30, 2020
- The App Store is a monopoly: Here's why the EU is correct to investigate Apple
- ProtonMail, Jun. 22, 2020
- CDC coronavirus risk guidance: Why surfaces are less of a risk than close contact
- by Brian Resnick; Vox, May 22, 2020
- The key tool to a safe opening is not social distancing
- by Lyman Stone; Washington Post, May 18, 2020
- Coronavirus will end the golden age for college towns
- Chicago Business, May 17, 2020
- Electrons May Very Well Be Conscious
- by Tam Hunt; Nautilus, May 14, 2020
- 60 days in, Trump still doesn’t have a coronavirus plan
- by Ezra Klein; Vox, May 13, 2020
- Quarantine Fatigue Is Real. Shaming People Won't Help.
- by Julia Marcus; The Atlantic, May 11, 2020
- Age Reduction Breakthrough
- Josh Mitteldorf; May 11, 2020
- Potentially fatal bouts of heat and humidity on the rise, study finds
- by Nina Lakhani; The Guardian, May 8, 2020
- What anti-lockdown protestors don't get about freedom and liberty.
- by Dahlia Lithwick; Slate, May 7, 2020
- Experts Knew a Pandemic Was Coming. Here’s What They’re Worried About Next.
- by Garrett M. Graff; Politico, May 7, 2020
- The Risks - Know Them - Avoid Them
- Erin Bromage, May 6, 2020
- Coronavirus: Why do people seem to feel groggy and tired during lockdown?
- by Sabrina Barr; The Independent, May 3, 2020
- We need the real CDC back, and we need it now
- by Ashish K. Jha; STAT News, Apr. 29, 2020
- Joseph Stiglitz: US coronavirus response is like third world country
- by Larry Elliott; The Guardian, Apr. 22, 2020
- Coronavirus: How to get a better night's sleep if you're feeling anxious during the pandemic
- by Sarah Young; The Independent, Apr. 17, 2020
- Why This Recession Will Be Different (and How to Keep It Mild)
- Campbell Harvey, interviewed by Joseph Guinto; Politico, Apr. 13, 2020
- US's global reputation hits rock-bottom over Trump's coronavirus response
- by Simon Tisdall; The Guardian, Apr. 12, 2020
- The race to find a coronavirus treatment has one major obstacle: big pharma
- by Ara Darzi; The Guardian, Apr. 2, 2020
- Jobs Aren’t Being Destroyed This Fast Elsewhere. Why Is That?
- by Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman; New York Times, Mar. 30, 2020
- $2 Trillion Coronavirus Stimulus Nullifies “How Will You Pay for It?” Question
- by Stephanie Kelton; The Intercept, Mar. 27, 2020
- Congress Must Move to Rapidly Increase Our Coronavirus Testing Capacity
- by Elizabeth Warren; Medium, Mar. 26, 2020
- Thomas Piketty Takes On the Ideology of Inequality
- by Marshall Steinbaum; Boston Review, Mar. 25, 2020
- Covid-19 is nature's wake-up call to complacent civilisation
- by George Monbiot; The Guardian, Mar. 25, 2020
- How Will the Coronavirus End?
- by Ed Yong; The Atlantic, Mar. 25, 2020
- Coronavirus Will Change the World Permanently
- Politico, Mar. 19, 2020
- The Cost of Thriving
- by Oren Cass; American Affairs, Spring 2020
- Almonds are out. Dairy is a disaster. So what milk should we drink?
- by Annette McGivney; The Guardian, Jan. 28, 2020
- Life Lessons from Goethe
- by Adam Kirsch; The New Yorker, Jan. 25, 2020
- Why Standard Time is better
- by Michael Herf; Medium
- 25 Ideas That Will Shape the 2020s: Economy, Markets, Tech, Health, A.I., Work, Society and More
- by Fortune Editors, Dec. 19, 2019
- The American Health Care Industry Is Killing People
- by Farhad Manjoo; New York Times, Dec. 4, 2019
- How Small Habits Can Lead to Big Changes
- by Arianna Huffington; New York Times, Nov. 13, 2019
- How Scientists Got Climate Change So Wrong
- by Eugene Linden; New York Times, Nov. 8, 2019
- How key Republicans inside Facebook are shifting its politics to the right
- by David Smith; The Guardian, Nov. 3, 2019
- Early to Bed, Early to Rise Makes Me Exhausted, Depressed and Sick
- by Vanessa Barbara; New York Times, Oct. 28, 2019
- Make no mistake: Medicare for All would cut taxes for most Americans
- by Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman; The Guardian, Oct. 25, 2019
- Tech Companies Are Destroying Democracy and the Free Press
- by Matt Stoller; New York Times, Oct. 17, 2019
- Breaking up with my Juul: Why quitting vaping is harder than quitting cigarettes
- by Kari Paul; The Guardian, Oct. 10, 2019
- How to Win Republican Support for Impeachment
- by Elizabeth Drew; New York Times, Sep. 30, 2019
- The House must flex its constitutional muscles to get to Trump
- by Laurence H. Tribe; The Guardian, Sep. 30, 2019
- 'We have a once-in-century chance': Naomi Klein on how we can fight the climate crisis
- The Guardian, Sep. 14, 2019
- What it will take to actually fight climate change
- by Ryan Cooper; The Week, Sep. 10, 2019
- Meritocracy Harms Everyone
- by Daniel Markovits; The Atlantic, Sep. 2019
- Let us now stop praising famous men (and women)
- by David V. Johnson; Aeon Ideas, Aug. 23, 2019
- Bernie Sanders's Climate Plan More Radical Than Opponents'
- by Kate Aronoff; The Intercept, Aug. 22, 2019
- Preindustrial workers worked fewer hours than today's
- by Juliet B. Schor; from The Overworked American: The Unexpected Decline of Leisure
- How the world’s dirtiest industries have learned to pollute our politics
- by George Monbiot; The Guardian, Aug. 7, 2019
- What Is the Human Microbiome, Exactly?
- by Margaret E. Farrell; Nautilus, June 27, 2019
- ‘Call their bluff’: Shut down social media platforms, ex-Facebook adviser urges
- by Catharine Tunney, Peter Zimonjic; CBC News, May 28, 2019
- Can We Live Longer But Stay Younger?
- by Adam Gopnik; The New Yorker, May 13, 2019
- It's not enough to break up Big Tech. We need to imagine a better alternative
- by Evgeny Morozov; The Guardian, May 11, 2019
- I led a platoon in Iraq. Trump is wrong to pardon war criminals.
- by Waitman Wade Beorn; Washington Post, May 9, 2019
- Apple Cracks Down on Apps That Fight iPhone Addiction
- by Jack Nicas; New York Times, Apr. 27, 2019
- Climate change is pushing Central American migrants to the US
- by Lauren Markham; The Guardian, Apr. 6, 2019
- Software Won't Fix Boeing's ‘Faulty’ Airframe
- by George Leopold; EE Times, Mar. 27, 2019
- A belief in meritocracy is not only false: it’s bad for you
- by Clifton Mark; Aeon, Mar. 8, 2019
- Do Not Disturb: How I Ditched My Phone and Unbroke My Brain
- by Kevin Roose; New York Times, Feb. 23, 2019
- Why the “Anthropocene” Is Not “Climate Change”
- by Julia Adeney Thomas; Common Dreams, Feb. 28, 2019
- Our Five Biggest Delusions about Climate Change
- by David Wallace-Wells; Common Dreams, Feb. 27, 2019
- A World Without Clouds
- by Natalie Wolchover; Quanta Magazine, Feb. 25, 2019
- The sixth mass extinction, explained
- The Week, Feb. 17, 2019
- Meet the Guardian of Grammar Who Wants to Help You Be a Better Writer
- by Sarah Lyall; New York Times, Feb. 1, 2019
- How Tech Companies Manipulate Our Personal Data
- by Jacob Silverman; New York Times, Jan. 18, 2019
- 7 things health experts said were good for you in 2018
- The Week, Dec. 30, 2018
- Sugar’s Sick Secrets: How Industry Forces Have Manipulated Science to Downplay the Harm
- by Anne Kavanaugh; UC San Francisco, Dec. 26, 2018
- Jeff Tweedy’s 6 favorite books
- The Week, Nov. 11, 2018
- The Art Institute of Chicago Has Put 50,000 High-Res Images from Their Collection Online
- by Jason Kottke; Kottke.org, Nov. 9, 2018
- The making of an opioid epidemic
- by Chris McGreal; The Guardian, Nov. 8, 2018
- Joseph Stiglitz: ‘America should be a warning to other countries’
- by Gareth Hutchens; The Guardian, Nov. 5, 2018
- Billionaires Chase ‘SpaceX Moment’ for the Holy Grail of Energy
- by Jonathan Tirone; Bloomberg, Oct. 29, 2018
- Why Technology Favors Tyranny
- by Yuval Noah Harari; The Atlantic, Oct. 2018 issue
- The Plot to Subvert an Election
- by Scott Shane and Mark Mazzetti; New York Times, Sep. 20, 2018
- If you want to save the world, veganism isn’t the answer
- by Isabella Tree; The Guardian, Aug. 25, 2018
- When We Eat, or Don’t Eat, May Be Critical for Health
- by Anahad O’Connor; New York Times, Jul. 24, 2018
- Rising seas: ‘Florida is about to be wiped off the map’
- by Elizabeth Rush; The Guardian, Jun. 26, 2018
- ‘CEOs don't want this released’: US study lays bare extreme pay-ratio problem
- by Edward Helmore; The Guardian, May 16, 2018
- Healthy America, a big new plan to combine Medicaid and Obamacare, explained
- by Dylan Scott; Vox, May 14, 2018
- How a Special Diet Kept the Knights Templar Fighting Fit
- by Natasha Frost; Atlas Obscura, May 8, 2018
- The United States of Japan
- by Matt Alt; The New Yorker, May 4, 2018
- A Hawaiian island got about 50 inches of rain in 24 hours. Scientists warn it's a sign of the future
- by Heidi Chang; L.A. Times, Apr. 28, 2018
- ‘We're doomed’: Mayer Hillman on the climate reality no one else will dare mention
- by Patrick Barkham; The Guardian, Apr. 26, 2018
- 9 essential lessons from psychology to understand the Trump era
- by Brian Resnick; Vox, Apr. 15, 2018
- The Mind-Expanding Ideas of Andy Clark
- by Larissa MacFarquhar; The New Yorker, Apr. 2, 2018
- People are Suing Equifax in Small Claims Court. It's Totally Brilliant. Heres Why.
- by Bill Murphy, Jr.; Inc. Magazine, Mar. 13, 2018
- Most images of black holes are illustrations. Here’s what our telescopes actually capture.
- by Brian Resnick; Vox, Jan. 8, 2018
- Donald Trump Is a Consequential President. Just Not in the Ways You Think.
- by Michael Grunwald; Politico, Dec. 30, 2017
- Will Trump’s lows ever hit rock bottom?
- USA Today, Dec. 12, 2017
- Insectageddon: farming is more catastrophic than climate breakdown
- by George Monbiot; The Guardian, Oct. 20, 2017
- Seeing the light of neutron star collisions
- by Andrea Elyse Messer; Penn State News, Oct. 16, 2017
- The shorter your sleep, the shorter your life: the new sleep science
- by Rachel Cook; The Guardian, Sep. 24, 2017
- Modern Media Is a DoS Attack on Your Free Will
- by Brian Gallagher; Nautilus, Sep. 21, 2017
- The Madness of Donald Trump
- by Matt Taibbi; Rolling Stone, Sep. 19, 2017
- What really happened in 2016, in 7 charts
- by Matthew Yglesias; Vox, Sep. 18, 2017
- What Rep. John Conyers’s sweeping single-payer health care bill would actually do
- by Jeff Stein; Vox, Aug. 28, 2017
- Impeach Him Now
- by Robert Reich; Jun. 7, 2017
- How Trump Used Facebook to Win
- by Sue Halpern; New York Review of Books, June 8, 2017 Issue
- Policymakers around the world are embracing behavioural science
- The Economist, May 18, 2017
- Want to rescue rural America? Bust monopolies.
- by Lillian Salerno; Washington Post, Apr. 20, 2017
- Investing in America’s next energy bonanza
- by Norm Augustine & Chad Holliday; The Hill, Apr. 5, 2017
- The Best Exercise for Aging Muscles
- by Gretchen Reynolds; New York Times, Mar. 23, 2017
- Spiders eat astronomical numbers of insects
- Springer Nature, Mar. 14, 2017
- Trump’s Appeal: What Psychology Tells Us
- by Stephen D. Reicher & S. Alexander Haslam; SA Mind, March 2017 Issue
- Impeachment or Impairment — the Inevitability of Trump’s Removal
- by Robert Kuttner; The American Prospect, Jan. 30, 2017
- Impeach Trump Now
- Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington
- ‘I’m Nobody’? Not a Chance, Emily Dickinson
- by Holland Cotter; New York Times, Jan. 19, 2017
- Bill Perry Is Terrified. Why Aren’t You?
- by John F. Harris and Bryan Bender; Politico, Jan. 6, 2017
- Universal basic income trials being considered in Scotland
- by Libby Brooks; The Guardian, Jan. 1, 2017
- The Quiet War on Medicaid
- by Gene B. Sperling; New York Times, Dec. 25, 2016
- Arctic ice melt ‘already affecting weather patterns where you live right now’
- by Damian Carrington; The Guardian, Dec. 19, 2016
- Parkinson's disease ‘may start in gut’
- by James Gallagher; BBC News, Dec. 2, 2016
- Why We're Living in the Age of Fear
- by Neil Strauss; Rolling Stone, Oct. 6, 2016
- New theory on how insulin resistance, metabolic disease begin
- Medical Xpress, Sep. 26, 2016
- How the Sugar Industry Shifted Blame to Fat
- by Anahad O'Connor; New York Times, Sep. 12, 2016
- Before You Spend $26,000 on Weight-Loss Surgery, Do This
- New York Times, Sep. 10, 2016
- Born to Rest
- by Jonathan Shaw; Harvard Magazine, September-October 2016
- Eleven Reasons to Be Excited about the Future of Technology
- by Chris Dixon; Medium, Aug. 18, 2016
- Climate science: revolution is here
- by Paul Rogers; openDemocracy, Aug. 11, 206
- Humpback whales around the globe are mysteriously rescuing animals from orcas
- MNN, July 30, 2016
- All the lonely people
- by André Picard; UC Observer, June 2016
- To Beat the Blues, Visits Must Be Real, Not Virtual
- By Susan Pinker; Wall Street Journal, June 2, 2016
- Higher Education in Illinois is Dying
- by Amy Hassinger; New York Times, June 4, 2016
- Finding Better Ideas to Rebuild America
- by Noah Smith; Bloomberg View, May 26, 2016
- Why the Very Poor Have Become Poorer
- by Christopher Jencks; NY Review of Books, June 9, 2016
- SSRN sold to Elsevier: From open access to the worst legacy publisher
- Steven Bainbridge blog, May 17, 2016
- The secret history of the potato
- Washington Post, Apr. 25, 2016
- Why you shouldn't exercise to lose weight
- by Julia Belluz and Javier Zarracina; Vox, Apr. 28, 2016
- They'll Have to Rewrite the Textbooks
- by Josh Barney; Univ. of Virginia, Mar. 21, 2016
- The Sugar Conspiracy
- by Ian Leslie; The Guardian, Apr. 7, 2016
- The Seas Will Save Us: How an Army of Ocean Farmers are Starting an Economic Revolution
- by Bren Smith; Medium, Mar. 25, 2016
- Structure of protein that forms fibrils in Parkinson's patients
- Too much of a good thing: Profits are too high. America needs a giant dose of competition
- The Economist, Mar. 26, 2016
- Global Warming’s Terrifying New Chemistry
- by Bill McKibbon; The Nation, Mar. 23, 2016
- Why Anti-Authoritarians are Diagnosed as Mentally Ill
- by Bruce Levine, PhD
- Nothing Like This Has Ever Happened Before
- by Kim-Mai Cutler; Tech Crunch, Jan. 29. 2016
- What Google Learned From Its Quest to Build the Perfect Team
- New York Times Magazine, Feb. 25, 2016
- Paul Krugman Reviews ‘The Rise and Fall of American Growth’ by Robert J. Gordon
- New York Times, Jan. 25, 2016
Articles of Note
Technology: Of Interest
- The world’s first electric vertical take-off and landing jet
- Lilium
- Meet the Math Professor Who’s Fighting Gerrymandering With Geometry
- Chronicle of Higher Education
- John Maeda: If you want to survive in design, you better learn to code
- Wired, Mar. 15, 2017
- Elementary, My Dear Siri!
- by Rui Carmo, Oct. 29, 2016
- With Windows 10, Microsoft Blatantly Disregards User Choice and Privacy
- EFF, Aug. 17, 2016
- SolarCity to develop roofs made of solar cells
- Computerworld, Aug. 15, 2016
- Breakthrough solar cell captures CO2 and sunlight, produces burnable fuel
- UIC News Center, July 28, 2016
- Alan Kay, Q&A, June 21, 2016
- Being privacy-aware in 2016
- Vox.Space, Apr. 30, 2016
- How to Write 225 Words Per Minute With a Pen
- by Dennis Hollier; The Atlantic, June 24, 2014
- Why Scientists Need to Fail Better
- by Stuart Firestein; Nautilus, Nov. 5, 2015
- How to Memorize a Random 60-Bit String
- by Marjan Ghazvininejad & Kevin Knight
- Compile to JavaScript
- The 10 Best JavaScript Alternative Languages
- Locking the Web Open: A Call for a Distributed Web
- by Brewster Kahle
- Fighting spam with Haskell
- Announcing GitTorrent: A Decentralized GitHub
- by Chris Ball
- Web vs. native: let's concede defeat
- by Peter-Paul Koch; quirksmode.org
- USB-C and Modular Smartphones are the Endgame for Convergence
- by Matt Mastracci; Grack.com, Jan. 16, 2015
- Why Libraries are Better Than Frameworks
- by Tom Lokhorst
- Paperspace
- Ten Simple Rules for Lifelong Learning
- 7GUIs: A Notational Usability Benchmark for GUI Programming
- Shipping Culture is Hurting Us
- by Matt Kline; Feb. 16, 2015
- Why not accept pull requests
- The State of Go: Feb. 2015
- Ember.js 1.10.0 Released
- Circles bouncing off lines
- Mary Rose Cook: Annotated Code
- A Software Engineer's Adventures In Learning Mathematics
- Medium, Jan. 27, 2015
- Coding is not the new literacy
- by Chris Grainger; Jan. 26, 2015
- Do Apple's software quality problems signal management issues?
- Quartz, Jan. 18, 2015
- The Problem with Angular
- by Peter-Paul Koch; Quirksmode, Jan. 14, 2015
- The Software and Services Apple Needs to Fix
- by Glenn Fleishmann; Jan. 7, 2015
- Apps Everywhere, but No Unifying Link
- by Conor Dougherty; New York Times, Jan. 5, 2015
- Useful old technologies: ASN.1
- Apple has lost the functional high ground
- by Marco Arment; Jan. 4, 2015
- Facebook is the new AOL
- by Nilay Patel; The Verge, Jan. 4, 2015
- The Rapidly Disappearing Business of Design
- by Robert Fabricant; Wired, Dec. 29, 2014
- The State of JavaScript in 2015
- by Jimmy Breck-McKye; Dec. 1, 2014
- The best things and stuff of 2014
- by Michael Fogus
- The Three Breakthroughs That Have Finally Unleashed AI on the World
- by Kevin Kelly; Wired, Oct. 27, 2014
- Goodbye MongoDB, Hello PostgreSQL
- by Yorick Peterse; Mar. 10, 2015
- Broken by Design: MongoDB Fault Tolerance
- by Emin Gün Sirer; Jan. 29, 2013
