Entries from November 2017 ↓

• Dorsal Backpack – Designed by Crumpler
• The 10 Best Books of 2017 – The New York Times
• A Republican Tax Proposal Would Make Academia Even Whiter – The New York Times
• New York Times’s Nazi Profile Was Better In Original German | Wonkette
• Afghan Girls’ Robotics Team Overcomes Setbacks to Win Contest in Europe – The New York Times
• Jerry Moran: Don’t take failed Kansas tax plan nationwide | The Kansas City Star
• HINTERGRUND-Warum auch die Wirtschaft über den Kohleausstieg streitet | Reuters
• Journalism Is Imploding Just When We Need It Most – Mother Jones
• Michigan Candidate Has An Idea How To End Harassment: Vote For Someone Without A Penis | HuffPost
• Twitter
  RT @thinkprogress: Monster heat wave reaches Greenland, bringing rain and melting its ice sheet
• Monster heat wave reaches Greenland, bringing rain and melting its ice sheet – ThinkProgress
• Iddo Friedberg on Twitter: "I am the very model of a prof bioinformatical, I’ve databases eukaryal, archaeal & bacterial I know the proteins in Pfam’s orders familial F… https://t.co/PaLSAZmpRu"
• Preservation of three-dimensional spatial structure in the gut microbiome
• Twitter
  RT @WorldAndScience: Curiosity took another picture of the Martian sunset a few days ago
• Stephanie Hurlburt on Twitter: "This is an important paper. It basically states that the human brain, our visual system, doesn’t pick up as much detail as we like to think… https://t.co/gpzZSNVUTG"
• How the Netherlands Feeds the World

  It is so easy to think that Silicon Valley’s digital technologies are the only world-changing technologies. This is true “work on stuff that matters!” Even if overhyped, as it likely is, this breathless article is utterly fascinating. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2017/09/holland-agriculture-sustainable-farming/

• Twitter
  RT @CharlotteAlter: What if male analysis of powerful women was presumed to be inherently biased, subjective, opinionated the way femal…
• Twitter
  RT @AstroKomrade: Spectacle of lightning strikes followed by alluring city lights and fishing boats around the Sea of Japan in this…
• Twitter
  RT @TheOnion: Alex DeLarge Forced To Step Down As Leader Of Droogs Amidst Allegations Of Sexual Misconduct
• Untitled (https://www.theonion.com/alex-delarge-forced-to-step-down-as-leader-of-droogs-am-1820854092?utm_content=Main&utm_campaign=SF&utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=SocialMarketing)
  RT @TheOnion: Alex DeLarge Forced To Step Down As Leader Of Droogs Amidst Allegations Of Sexual Misconduct
• It Started as a Tax Cut. Now It Could Change American Life. – The New York Times
• Twitter
  RT @Travon: Actual headline on November 29th 2017 2:26pm EST.
• Republicans are about to repeat Kansas’ tax cut disaster.
• Android’s Andy Rubin Left Google After Inquiry Found Inappropriate Relationship — The Information
• Twitter
  RT @theinformation: Android creator Andy Rubin left Google after an internal investigation found he had an inappropriate relationship w…
• Twitter
  RT @michikokakutani: Hannah Arendt: “The moment we no longer have a free press,
  anything can happen. What makes it possible
  for a tota…
• Twitter
  RT @GatelyMark: Chinese customs have announced the seizure 11.9 tonnes of #pangolin scales, from a ship near Hong Kong back in July…
• Twitter
  RT @planetepics: Storm captured over The Netherlands by Michiel Buijse
• Twitter
  RT @Fahrenthold: This is a really well-written explanation of the far-reaching changes in the Senate tax bill.

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• Equality of Opportunity in Supervised Learning
• What Do We Do with the Art of Monstrous Men?
• A Portrait of the Artist as a Monster
• Most Anticipated: The Great Second-Half 2017 Book Preview – The Millions
• Milk and dairy consumption and risk of cardiovascular diseases and all-cause mortality: dose–response meta-analysis of prospective cohort studies | SpringerLink
• Steve Stewart-Williams on Twitter: "Meta-Analysis: Full-fat cheese doesn’t increase the risk of heart attack or stroke (N = 938,465) https://t.co/Cvi4Gr50Jg https://t.co/mGGEMlSTvO"
• juan on Twitter: "can someone explain why japanese game show ‘slippery stairs’ hasn’t made its way to our part of the world yet https://t.co/cd1BHvvoKl"
• Twitter
  haha… This sort of defies description.
• The impossibility of intelligence explosion – François Chollet – Medium
• Twitter
  RT @michikokakutani: Hilary Mantel, Lionel Shriver, William Dalrymple, Curtis Sittenfeld, Tom Holland, Mark Haddon and more authors on t…
• Lemi Orhan Ergin on Twitter: "Dear @AppleSupport, we noticed a *HUGE* security issue at MacOS High Sierra. Anyone can login as "root" with empty password after clicking o… https://t.co/2il11lEgj9"
• Twitter
  RT @kmbannerman: Heading to @s1p next week? Meaghan & I are gearing up for our Demo Keynote on Day 2.

  Looking forward to seeing al…

• Twitter
  "…when exposed to economic inequity, prosocials have strong activation of the amygdala"
• Twitter
  RT @AndyRichter: It’s not just that none of the morons on his WH staff knew to say “not in front of the Jackson portrait” or the way…
• Untitled (https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/11/28/16705420/senate-tax-bill-donald-trump)
  RT @mattyglesias: Brilliant from @dylanlscott — the tax bill is the ultimate proof that Trump’s populism is a fraud.
• Vietnamese Blogger Gets 7 Years in Jail for Reporting on Toxic Spill – The New York Times
  RT @nytimes: A Vietnamese blogger gets 7 years in jail for reporting on a toxic spill

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• Humans Made the Banana Perfect—But Soon, It’ll Be Gone | WIRED
• Researchers create a light-based key distribution system for quantum encryption | TechCrunch
• Ignored By Big Telecom, Detroit’s Marginalized Communities Are Building Their Own Internet – Motherboard
• Best books of 2017 – part two | Books | The Guardian
• Nice Brains Finish Last – Scientific American

  when exposed to economic inequity, prosocials have strong activation of the amygdala

• States prepare to shut down children’s health programs if Congress doesn’t act – The Washington Post
• How Peter Thiel and the Stanford Review Built a Silicon Valley Empire | Stanford Politics

  This is the most revealing piece on Peter Thiel I’ve read in a long time https://stanfordpolitics.org/2017/11/27/peter-thiel-cover-story/

• Sex, Consent, and the Dangers of “Misplaced Scale” | The New Yorker
• Twitter
  RT @RepSwalwell: There was an ethics lawyer?
• Twitter
  RT @AlishaRai: If you’re pondering why Americans are so delighted by this Megan and Harry news, some possible reasons:
  1) she’s a…
• Clive Thompson on Twitter: "Here’s @doctorow on the *very* clever strategy he (and other free-and-open-Net folks) used when arguing against web DRM:… https://t.co/jOXTbUdABI"
• The Great American Poet of Daily Chores | The New Yorker
• Untitled (http://www.economist.com/news/briefing/21721364-commercial-opportunities-are-vastly-outweighed-damage-climate-thawing-arctic?fsrc=scn/tw/te/bl/ed/skatingonthinicethethawingarcticthreatensanenvironmentalcatastrophe)
  RT @TheEconomist: The great thaw of the Arctic is happening far faster than once expected
• Twitter
  RT @MarkWarner: This crisis was 100% avoidable, and now kids are starting to pay the price for Congress’ failure. We must renew…
• kubernetes/charts: Curated applications for Kubernetes
  Curated applications for Kubernetes
  Use this repository to submit official Charts for Kubernetes Helm. Charts are curated application definitions for Kubernetes Helm. For more information about installing and using Helm, see its README.md. To get a quick introduction to Charts see this chart document.
• tf.estimator.EvalSpec  |  TensorFlow
• tf.estimator.train_and_evaluate  |  TensorFlow
• tensorflow/k8s: Tools for ML/Tensorflow on Kubernetes.
  Tools for ML/Tensorflow on Kubernetes.
• defmethodinc/just-not-sorry: Gmail Plug-in that warns you when you write emails using words which undermine your message
  Gmail Plug-in that warns you when you write emails using words which undermine your message http://www.justnotsorry.com/
• Twitter
  RT @LibrariandyW: This is awesome – a 12% increase in reading fluency by kids who read to the library dog!
• Twitter
  RT @sarahkendzior: How the GOP is laying the groundwork for permanent rule by a tyrannical minority
• Gutting net neutrality is a death knell for the resistance – The Globe and Mail
  RT @sarahkendzior: How the GOP is laying the groundwork for permanent rule by a tyrannical minority
• Twitter
  RT @RonaldKlain: This 👇isn’t the outrage. The outrage is that the previously-understood level of hurting the poor — to give the we…
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  RT @lak_gcp: "a majority of white voters backed a candidate who assured them that they will never have to share this country wit…
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  RT @AoDespair: This. Metaphor of the week, and it’s only Sunday.
• Twitter
  @UpspinProject very nice work on the web ui, btw. (this was about my only tech-related activity during the holiday,…
• Twitter
  RT @DickKingSmith: Germans call them ‘flughund’, meaning flying dog.

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• Gutting net neutrality is a death knell for the resistance – The Globe and Mail
• Senate GOP tax bill hurts the poor more than originally thought, CBO finds – The Washington Post
• Lost Bitcoins: 4 Million Bitcoins Gone Forever Study Says | Fortune
• A Vociferous Kookaburra Lets Out an Impressive Call
• Twitter
  RT @dhh: Sad to see Chicago embarrass itself by proposing Amazon HQ2 workers should kick back their taxes to the company, no…
• ESRL Global Monitoring Division – South Pole Observatory
• David Hockney’s Life in Painting: Spare, Exuberant, Full – NYTimes.com
• Drawing from noise, and then making animated loopy GIFs from there. – necessary-disorder tutorials
• Twitter
  RT @davidfrum: Important & ominous story
• Who Goes Nazi? | Harper’s Magazine
• Culling Voter Rolls: Battling Over Who Even Gets to Go to the Polls – The New York Times

  There is an increasingly bitter argument brewing over the seemingly mundane task of keeping accurate lists of U.S. voters http://nyti.ms/2jXcagH

• Twitter
  RT @thehill: Tillerson’s State Department has fired or demoted most African American and Latino diplomats: report…
• 4 times Google Translate totally dropped the ball – Business Insider
• Twitter
  RT @michikokakutani: George Saunders, Jennifer Egan, William Boyd, John Banville, Pankaj Mishra, Ali Smith and more on their favorite bo…
• Building Your First Agent  |  Dialogflow
• bitcoin-info
• Ten Long Years of Trying to Make Armie Hammer Happen
• This is why Apple got rid of the headphone jack on the iPhone 7 | New Scientist
• Why Businesses Misunderstand Old People – The Atlantic
• Twitter
  RT @AndyGilder: "Not here Satan, people are watching"
• Twitter
  RT @espiers: This is horrifying on many levels. The damage Sessions is doing is serious and it will be very difficult to repair.
• Twitter
  RT @HWarlow: A dress used in a Klimt painting. They were real and created by Emilie Flöge, a name forgotten in the shadows of ti…
• Twitter
  RT @AlexEmmons: This is an $80 billion increase in US military spending. That’s enough to make public college free and still have b…
• Twitter
  RT @associatesmind: This is an under appreciated bit of interaction that is only possible on Twitter.
• Untitled (https://www.theverge.com/2017/3/29/15100620/congress-fcc-isp-web-browsing-privacy-fire-sale)
  "The 265 members of Congress who sold you out to ISPs, and how much it cost to buy them" (not much)
• Twitter
  RT @lincolnablades: In my latest for @TeenVogue I argue that our national focus on sexual assault must include abuse by cops. Not only…
• Twitter
  RT @astroehlein: As the NY Times writes about "the Nazi sympathizer next door, polite and low-key," it’s worth remembering other "Na…
• Twitter
  RT @pomeranian99: An intense but powerful thread here
• Best books of 2017 – part one | Books | The Guardian

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• Setting up upspinserver · Upspin
• ‘I thought I’d put in a protest vote’: the people who regret voting leave | Politics | The Guardian
• Historian Timothy Snyder: “It’s pretty much inevitable” that Trump will try to stage a coup and overthrow democracy – Salon.com

  Historian Timothy Snyder: “It’s pretty much inevitable” that Trump will try to stage a coup and overthrow democracy
  Yale historian and author of the new book “On Tyranny” says we may have one year left to save American democracy

• The Crisis by M John Harrison | From You Should Come with Me Now
• Diplomats Sound the Alarm as They Are Pushed Out in Droves – The New York Times
• Environment Secretary confirms sentience of animals will continue to be recognised and protections strengthened when we leave the EU – GOV.UK
• Twitter
  RT @kylegriffin1: An all-volunteer group of activists has defied the odds by collecting hundreds of thousands of voter signatures for…
• Best books of 2017 – part one | Books | The Guardian
• Galapagos finches caught in act of becoming new species – BBC News
• A Wave of New Fiction From Nigeria, as Young Writers Experiment With New Genres – The New York Times
• Margaret E. Atwood on Twitter: "Hidden Gem in #Vancouver: Amici Mei, 1114 Denman, lovely small Italian restaurant."
• Ask Andrew W.K.: How to Cope With the Death of a Friend | Village Voice
• Film Expression: Feed the Kitty (1952)
• Adorable Lynx Family Caught On Video Revisiting Alaska Man’s Porch – The Dodo
• Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: Hollywood, Sports and Learning From a Culture of Ingrained Sexism (Guest Column) | Hollywood Reporter
• US Census: The US may abandon a key global advantage—honest data about itself — Quartz
• Here’s How Far the World Is From Meeting Its Climate Goals – The New York Times
• How dinosaur scales became bird feathers – BBC News
• How to Switch from iPhone’s iMessage to Android Texting | WIRED
• The religious right’s scary, judgmental old men – The Washington Post
• Twitter
  RT @ruthbenghiat: Yet another sign that the GOP is an subversive institution that needs monitoring like other global forces against…
• Twitter
  RT @audubonsociety: Congress has snuck Arctic Refuge oil drilling into the tax reform process. Take action against this back door effor…
• Containerum | Cloud Docker Hosting for Fast Deploy
• 100 Notable Books of 2017 – The New York Times
• BlinkNow
• Stop Congress from Opening the Arctic Refuge to Oil Drilling
• Twitter
  RT @lak_gcp: Clear evidence that women are judged more harshly than men for the same mistake and rewarded less for the same acco…
• ActBlue — The Great Slate
  RT @Pinboard: Thumb your nose at Black Friday by donating to the Tech Solidarity “Great Slate” of 5 rural Congressional campaigns!
• [1506.00553] Bootstrap Bias Corrections for Ensemble Methods
  This paper examines the use of a residual bootstrap for bias correction in machine learning regression methods. Accounting for bias is an important obstacle in recent efforts to develop statistical inference for machine learning methods. We demonstrate empirically that the proposed bootstrap bias correction can lead to substantial improvements in both bias and predictive accuracy. In the context of ensembles of trees, we show that this correction can be approximated at only double the cost of training the original ensemble without introducing additional variance. Our method is shown to improve test-set accuracy over random forests by up to 70\% on example problems from the UCI repository.

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• Even Whales Have to Exfoliate – NYTimes.com
• My Instagram Hacker Changed My Life | WIRED
• Judges admit this year’s Bad sex award entries are ‘quite good’ | Books | The Guardian
• Robots Deliver Takeout Orders On The Streets Of Washington, D.C. : All Tech Considered : NPR
• The incredible inventiveness of Hedy Lamarr – Glamour and glass ceilings
• Bad Sex in Fiction: extracts from the 2017 shortlist | nothingintherulebook
• The Oldest Unopened Bottle of Wine in the World (Circa 350 AD) | Open Culture
• Twitter
  RT @RealSardonicus: Woman Leaving the Psychoanalyst.
  Remedios Varo
• Twitter
  RT @harikunzru: All this roti learning has left some people naan the wiser
• Instagram
  RT @JarettSays: Uma Thurman’s Thanksgiving message is 🔥
• Twitter
  RT @JarettSays: Uma Thurman’s Thanksgiving message is 🔥
• Twitter
  RT @JulieRasmussen: #HappyThanksgiving!
• Bad sex award 2017 shortlist: the contenders in quotes | Books | The Guardian
  "She moans in colours." Yes, it’s the Bad Sex Writing Awards:
• Twitter
  RT @michikokakutani: 3 of my favorite novels from 2017:
  "Lincoln in the Bardo" by George Saunders:
  "Exit West" b…
• Review: ‘Lincoln in the Bardo’ Shows a President Haunted by Grief – The New York Times
  RT @michikokakutani: 3 of my favorite novels from 2017:
  "Lincoln in the Bardo" by George Saunders:
  "Exit West" b…
• Twitter
  RT @astroehlein: In case anyone is still somehow wondering what Trump’s "Make America Great Again" is code for, he’s just explained…
• Michiko Kakutani on Twitter: "3 of my favorite novels from 2017: "Lincoln in the Bardo" by George Saunders: https://t.co/MgHLfydbEg "Exit West" by Mohsin Hamid:… https://t.co/Gp5drDfSya"
• Annealing (glass) – Wikipedia
• 22 Famous Writers Told Us About The Book They’re Most Thankful For
  RT @michikokakutani: 22 Famous Writers Told Us About The Book They’re Most Thankful For via @jarry @buzzfeed
• 22 Famous Writers Told Us About The Book They’re Most Thankful For
• Giving Thanks is a Political Act | Literary Hub
• I just don’t want to be a software developer anymore
• Twitter
  RT @ClintSmithIII: I know the news cycle moves on quickly, but I just can’t get over the fact that on the week of a holiday where we’r…
• Twitter
  RT @joshtpm: Good Lord, Trump is rage tweeting in the thread of Greg Sargent’s thread about Trump’s Racist Rage Tweeting. Holy F…

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• West Africa steams over jollof rice war – BBC News
• We’ll Be Paying For Mark Halperin’s Sins For Years To Come
• Update On Stock Options/RSUs Issue – AVC
• UW Grand Challenges Impact Lab
• Woman raises more than $60K for homeless man who helped her
• Paramedics fulfil dying woman’s final wish to see ocean one last time
• Who We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About Weinstein – The New York Times
• King Kortney👑 on Twitter: "appolition.us is now live and accepting users ::black fist emoji:: https://t.co/h2IcVlKoY5"
• Appolition ~ Saving for Freedom
• As Malaria Resists Treatment, Experts Warn of Global Crisis – The New York Times
• Twitter
  RT @WAWilsonIV: Future historians will not believe that so much of the vast wealth created by the third industrial revolution was c…
• Bradley Farias on Twitter: "Tic Tac Toe in 280 chars https://t.co/9IU8kOX11C https://t.co/5S4ngE91gm"
• Flickr
  RT @kevinmgill: Cloud structure on Jupiter, @NASAJuno Perijove 8, September 1 2017 -
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  RT @kevinmgill: Cloud structure on Jupiter, @NASAJuno Perijove 8, September 1 2017 -
• Ray Dalio on Twitter: "We’re looking for talented software engineers to help us build management tools like the ones I referred to in my @TEDTalks. If interested… https://t.co/5u2SxgF1jh"
• Benjamin Haibe-Kains on Twitter: "Montréal is 2nd global artificial intelligence hub @Montreal_AI @IVADO_Qc . And Toronto 4th (for now) @VectorInst. Way to go Canada!… https://t.co/jjzcrT8hxh"
• NVIDIA AI Developer on Twitter: "Check out this #AI mobile app called @MugLifeApp trained on #GPUs that lets you bring photos to life with 3D animation.… https://t.co/Oj8feyBsGg"
• 100 Notable Books of 2017
• Twitter
  RT @qjurecic: this always makes me think of the great Stephen Jay Gould quote: "I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and…
• Bitcoin Mining Now Consuming More Electricity Than 159 Countries Including Ireland & Most Countries In Africa
• Twitter
  RT @jonathanalter: This is an utterly terrifying column from former top official. It suggests that next month the GOP may try to sneak…
• Aisling Bea: ‘My father’s death has given me a love of men, of their vulnerability and tenderness’ | Life and style | The Guardian
• Twitter
  RT @RVAwonk: A child is sexually assaulted every 8 minutes in America.

  Today, every single one of them heard their president s…

• Keep Birth Control Copay Free
• Sade’s Eternal Cool
• Twitter
  RT @tomgara: This is the beating heart of YouTube’s weirdness: it’s dishing out TV-style ad $$$ with absolutely none of the resp…
• Peter Thiel May Be Looking To Buy Gawker.com
• Twitter
  RT @BeschlossDC: These are JFK’s last words, written for end of speech he planned to give at Austin, Texas, banquet tonight 1963:
• Twitter
  RT @NewYorker: There’s perhaps never been a more apt object lesson than a President growling about his underestimated power in all…

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• David Cassidy: Naked Lunch Box – Rolling Stone
• Anil Dash on Twitter: "I’m saying it flat out, as the CEO of an independent small business with a long track record of tech innovation, @AjitPaiFCC is proposing po… https://t.co/0UWZeT4d47"
• Twitter
  RT @kylegriffin1: Crazy report from New York’s AG. Schneiderman says his office "has been investigating who perpetrated a massive sch…
• An Open Letter to the FCC: – Eric Schneiderman – Medium
• Twitter
  RT @cindygallop: TWENTY. FUCKING. YEARS. @DisneyPixar’s John Lasseter Was The Subject Of A ‘Whisper Network’ For More Than Two Decad…
• Pixar’s John Lasseter Was the Subject of a ‘Whisper Network’ for More Than Two Decades – Variety
• Twitter
  RT @EARTH3R: In the last 40 years, 95% of the world’s rhinos have been lost.

  Since 2013, 1,000 were killed for their horns.

• Twitter
  RT @MarinaHyde: This story hasn’t had anything close to enough attention – an absolute horror
• Twitter
  RT @Pinboard: I’ve set up an ActBlue link for people who want to donate to all five Congressional campaigns Tech Solidarity endor…
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  RT @Pinboard: I realize I’ve fundraising a lot lately. But this early money is magic. It’s not like any other kind of money. Prog…
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  RT @andrewperezdc: @MapLight A single, anonymous donor, who gave $28.5 million, basically underwrote Gorsuch’s Supreme Court seat…
• Twitter
  quelle surprise
• Twitter
  RT @carlzimmer: Pixar head issues cryptic apology, takes a leave of absence. “Missteps” = ?
• Twitter
  RT @otraletra: Last week, ProPublica bought dozens of rental housing ads on Facebook, but asked that *they not be shown to* certai…
• Prevent scheduling deadlocks · Issue #165 · tensorflow/k8s · GitHub
• Twitter
  RT @sfiegerman: Pretty brutal statement from Democratic commissioner on FCC chairman’s decision to release net neutrality proposal…
• Twitter
  RT @aral: Why should I care about #NetNeutrality?

  Because without it, the Internet would turn into cable television.

  (It’s…

• Twitter
  (why do I feel unconvinced that this data was "deleted"?)
• Twitter
  Uber covered up massive hack that exposed data of 57m users and drivers
  Firm reportedly pai…
• Uber covered up massive hack that exposed data of 57m users and drivers | Technology | The Guardian
  Uber covered up massive hack that exposed data of 57m users and drivers
  Firm reportedly pai…
• Pontus Skoglund Lab

  What would you do if you could travel back in time? In the field of human population genomics, that is the question we are now asking ourselves, since ancient DNA technology has made it possible to trace evolution—genetic change through time—directly. This starting to bring about a new era of genomics that promises to revolutionize our view of many species, and as we are usually prone to, we have started with ourselves. Pontus Skoglund’s laboratory at the Francis Crick Institute is committed to applying and developing ancient genomics to understand past human diversity, focusing on central evolutionary episodes and their impact on human societies and health.

• S0002-9297(17)30379-8

  Janet Kelso (@jfkelso) dissects impact of Neandertal ancestry in the British UK Biobank database. Striking effects on both skin/hair- and behavioral phenotypes associated with sunlight exposure. What does it tell us about Neandertals? [PDF: http://www.cell.com/ajhg/pdfExtended/S0002-9297(17)30379-8] #HumanEvol17

• ActBlue — The Great Slate
  Tech Solidarity is endorsing five candidates for Congress. Each of them is a first-time progressive candidate with a day job, an excellent campaign team, and a clear path to victory in a poor, rural district that is being ignored by the national Democratic Party:

  Marge Doyle, CA-8 (Mojave Desert)
  Mad Hildebrandt, NM-2 (New Mexico)
  Jessica Holcombe, CA-1 (Northeast California)
  Jess King, PA-16 (Lancaster)
  Paul Spencer, AR-2 (Little Rock)

• A PISA assessment in 52 countries finds girls are better than boys at solving problems together — Quartz

  A massive global study finds girls are comprehensively better than boys at solving problems together http://bit.ly/2mNGsUo

• China’s Race to Find Aliens First – The Atlantic
• New Gene Treatment Effective for Some Leukemia Patients – The New York Times
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  current status
• Twitter
  RT @sadydoyle: I would just like to affirm how exceptionally painful it was to, like, SMELL the violent misogyny coming off certai…
• Twitter
  RT @rebel19: Here’s my concern: there will be an aggressive re-up on normalization of this behavior bc so pervasive. Look how qu…

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• Ice Apocalypse | Grist
• Single Motherhood and Life Satisfaction in Comparative Perspective: Do Institutional and Cultural Contexts Explain the Life Satisfaction Penalty for Single Mothers?Journal of Family Issues – Matthias Pollmann-Schult, 2017

  Single mothers are just as happy as others in places with generous family benefits, childcare, and gender equality http://bit.ly/2z8r0nb

• Android devices seen covertly sending location data to Google – TechCrunch
• Ancient data, modern math and the hunt for 11 lost cities of the Bronze Age – The Washington Post
• ‘Rolling Stone’ Founder Jann Wenner On 50 Years Of Rock And Roll History : NPR
• Nina Simone: Her Art and Life in 33 Songs | Pitchfork
• Carly Simon Was Afraid of the Spotlight – and Still Is – Here’s The Thing – WNYC Studios
• Twitter
  RT @emilybell: This + the abandonment of net neutrality – Trump era FCC is the wrecking ball for a balanced media environment
• Twitter
  RT @MJB_SF: The HR team, unbeknownst to me, conducts “an investigation.” Well, they found nothing.

  But they tried to get me t…

• Twitter
  RT @LibyaLiberty: Every Libyan chat group I’m in is talking about this – the horror, the shame, and the feeling of futility in undoin…
• Twitter
  RT @rekha6: I wonder what the women who’ve recently been on Charlie Rose thi… oh never mind
• Congress Just Made It Officially Legal To Kill Hibernating Bears | HuffPost
  RT @triketora: Congress just made it officially legal to kill hibernating bears are they just competing on how to be most cruel?
• Congress Just Made It Officially Legal To Kill Hibernating Bears | HuffPost
• Twitter
  RT @TheOnion: Man’s Garbage To Have Much More Significant Effect On Planet Than He Will
• Untitled (https://www.theonion.com/man-s-garbage-to-have-much-more-significant-effect-on-p-1819578908?utm_content=Main&utm_campaign=SF&utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=SocialMarketing)
  RT @TheOnion: Man’s Garbage To Have Much More Significant Effect On Planet Than He Will
• Donald Trump’s national security adviser calls him a ‘kindergartner’
• Twitter
  RT @CalebJHull: I have now been contacted by over 100 people who were messaged inappropriately by Rep. Wes Goodman.

  Absolutely unr…

• FBI, Justice Department to investigate St. Louis-area police
  FBI, Justice Department to investigate St. Louis-area police
• Twitter
  RT @CalebJHull: As promised:

  I interviewed over 30 sources who told me their stories of unwanted sexual advances by anti-LGBT "fam…

• Twitter
  RT @mauddromgoole: Man in pub who has been mansplaining sexual harassment to me. Tells me me necklace gives me a certain Je ne sais qu…
• The Great Kansas Tax Cut Experiment Crashes And Burns
• Twitter
  RT @marsrader: Flame Nebula and stars of Orion’s Belt (ESO).
• The New York Times on Twitter: "Updated: We’re tracking the men who have been accused of sexual misconduct since the Weinstein scandal broke. Our list:… https://t.co/JMK23gv5KI"
• After Weinstein: A List of Men Accused of Sexual Misconduct and the Fallout for Each – The New York Times
• Born in Boston, buried in a ‘foreign devil’ graveyard in China – The Boston Globe
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• Can Carbon-Dioxide Removal Save the World? | The New Yorker
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