pinboard March 28, 2017

• Scottish independence referendum: Lawmakers approve call for vote – CNN.com
• When Women Stopped Coding : Planet Money : NPR
• This object has been sprayed with the world’s blackest material, and it’s freaking us out – ScienceAlert
• Republicans’ dangerous health-care delusions – The Washington Post
• Trump Takes Aim At A Centerpiece Of Obama’s Environmental Legacy : The Two-Way : NPR
• Trump to Sign Order Sweeping Away Obama-Era Climate Policies – Scientific American
• Paul Manafort’s Puzzling New York Real Estate Purchases – WNYC

  Speculative but very interesting. http://www.wnyc.org/story/paul-manaforts-puzzling-new-york-real-estate-purchases/?hootPostID=68d0368e695f8240d409a77429f3b175

• A Clever App for Calling Congress Keeps Dialing Until Your Message Gets Through | WIRED
• Trump’s big new executive order to tear up Obama’s climate policies, explained – Vox
• Trump administration sought to block Sally Yates from testifying to Congress on Russia – The Washington Post
• Climate Change Denialists in Charge – The New York Times
• 2016 was year of extreme warming; 2017 shows no signs of easing
• Amazon Connect – Customer Contact Center in the Cloud | AWS Blog

  Amazon Connect, a Customer Contact Center in the Cloud – based on the same technology Amazon Customer Service uses – https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-connect-customer-contact-center-in-the-cloud/ https://twitter.com/Werner/status/846730439154917376/photo/1

• 5 Reasons Trump’s Promised Tax Overhaul Won’t Be So Easy – NYTimes.com
• Gina Trapani ✊🏻 on Twitter: "Great thread on how "I treat everyone equally" isn’t enough. https://t.co/IV6GvLBUjv"
• Modern JavaScript for Ancient Web Developers – Track Changes
• Trump administration sought to block Sally Yates from testifying to Congress on Russia – The Washington Post
• Intel Dem on Nunes: ‘This is what a cover-up to a crime looks like’ | TheHill
• Shrinking Arctic sea ice threatens the majestic Beluga whale | Environment | The Guardian

  Melting sea ice is putting the beluga whale at risk.
  One species of many feeling the impact of climate change!
  http://ow.ly/k3pn30akpTZ https://twitter.com/ErikSolheim/status/846708187025850371/photo/1

• Why the Father of Modern Neuroscience Was Obsessed with Fiction
• A deadly superbug is silently spreading through UK hospitals — The Bureau of Investigative Journalism

  A deadly superbug is silently spreading through UK hospitals – https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2017-03-23/an-antibiotic-resistant-superbug-is-silently-spreading-through-uk-hospitals this is really serious: we must act

• Glyn Moody on Twitter: "’Sightings’ of extinct Tasmanian tiger prompt search in Queensland – https://t.co/xMScp6hnGl be so great if this were true…"
• 19 impossible views of Earth from space at night | Business Insider

  #Cartography at its best: digitally created “satellite” view of #Europe at night. Wonderful work! http://ow.ly/sKc230aaUV7 https://twitter.com/simongerman600/status/846643069814554624/photo/1

• White House refuses to condemn murder of black man by white supremacist
• Attorney General Jeff Sessions repeats Trump threat that ‘sanctuary cities’ could lose Justice Department grants – The Washington Post
• Map: Sanctuary Cities, Counties, and States | Center for Immigration Studies
• If It’s Easy to Reach Lawmakers, They’ll Ignore You – Bloomberg View
• Deciphering a well-told data story, cars are good for kids edition | Family Inequality
• Climate change: ‘human fingerprint’ found on global extreme weather | Environment | The Guardian

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