Entries from February 2019 ↓

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• Michael Cohen’s Uncontradicted Testimony to Congress – The Atlantic
• The Woman Who Cared for Hundreds of Abandoned Gay Men Dying of AIDS
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  RT @mattmfm: This is a jaw-dropping thread.
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  RT @nxthompson: All the plastic, paper, and glass that we neatly set aside for recycling used to go to China. Now, much of it is be…
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  RT @LeaKissner: Defaults *matter*.
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  RT @kbeninato: Cohen reveals another life rights purchase: An elevator operator who heard a conversation about Trump’s child with…
• Michael Cohen on Trump: ‘A Racist. A Con Man. A Cheat.’ – The Atlantic
• Six Takeaways From Cohen’s Testimony to Congress – The New York Times
• Horseshoe crabs are spider relatives, genes reveal

  The primordial ocean dwellers are squarely situated in the arachnid family tree, scientists claim in a new study

• Since China’s Ban, Recycling in the US Has Gone Up in Flames | WIRED
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  RT @djolder: This moment really stood out. I’m not singing Cohen’s praises here, I’m just saying I’ve never heard anything quite…
• New Yorker Reporter Jane Mayer on Kavanaugh, the Koch Brothers, and Trump
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  RT @DannyEFreeman: While Michael Cohen is testifying and President Trump is in Vietnam, those border wall prototypes in San Diego are…

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  RT @edyong209: The Mariana Trench is the deepest part of the ocean, 1.2 miles deeper than Everest is tall.

  The animals living at…

• In the Deepest Ocean Trenches, Animals Eat Plastic – The Atlantic
• ‘It keeps you nice and disposable’: The plight of adjunct professors – The Washington Post
• The Supreme Court is about to hear the biggest threat to separation of church and state in decades – ThinkProgress
• Medicare-for-all: Rep. Pramila Jayapal’s new bill, explained – Vox
• Tell Your Member of Congress to Support Medicare for All | Indivisible
• Harvard study shows parrots can pass classic test of intelligence – Harvard Gazette
  RT @HarvardResearch: A new study shows that parrots can perform some cognitive tasks at levels beyond that of 5-year-old humans
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  RT @nytopinion: The Trump administration has issued potentially devastating changes to the nation’s nearly 50-year-old family plann…
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  RT @MoiraDonegan: "Women are asked to submit, again, to the authority of men who hate them. It makes the notion of our equal protecti…
• In Bladensburg Peace Cross case, Supreme Court’s Elena Kagan could have pivotal role – The Washington Post
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  RT @PAYOLETTER: Truth Coming Out of Her Well to Shame Mankind (1896)
• Harvard study shows parrots can pass classic test of intelligence – Harvard Gazette
• Trump’s new rule to defund family planning hits the most vulnerable | Moira Donegan | Opinion | The Guardian
• Trump’s new rule to defund family planning hits the most vulnerable | Moira Donegan | Opinion | The Guardian
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  RT @egavactip: Just came across something interesting, sad and scary on a conspiracy video website: a banner advertisement for a…
• We analyzed 16,625 papers to figure out where AI is headed next – MIT Technology Review
• How AlphaZero has rewritten the rules of game play on its own – MIT Technology Review

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  RT @EricHolthaus: In today’s "totally normal" climate news:

  Parts of the Arctic north of Alaska are currently 50°F warmer than "norm…

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  RT @eilperin: New research finds that when it comes to our perspective on a changing climate, "humans may in fact be strikingly…
• For a Black Mathematician, What It’s Like to Be the ‘Only One’ – The New York Times
• Trump-Russia Axis Scores Major Victory in Battle over European Energy Autonomy – Byline Times
• Social Media Spreads Rage, But Kindness Can Stop It In Its Tracks : Shots – Health News : NPR
• Science: You’re Definitely Worrying About the Wrong Things | Literary Hub
• DARPA wants to build a bullshit detector for psychology’s “replication crisis” – Vox
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  RT @soledadobrien: Even the Dalai Lama thinks ‘thoughts and prayers’ is absurd.
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  RT @nattyover: For a year I’ve been reporting this story about major climate news, finally breaking today: A new simulation finds…
• The data is in. Frogs don’t boil. But we might. – The Washington Post
• Opinion | The Republicans of Gilead – The New York Times
• Living Off the Grid in New Mexico – Vogue
• Apollo 11 review – eye-opening documentary is a five-star triumph | Film | The Guardian
• SF district attorney to wipe out 9,000-plus pot cases going back to 1975 – SFChronicle.com
• Why Marketing Matters
• Mike Rosenberg on Twitter: "This sucks. The Seattle Weekly is ceasing publication after 43 years, and the future of its website is unclear. The latest in a long line of Seattle-area media cuts. https://t.co/A8U7qrWo94"
• Cloud Loss Could Add 8 Degrees to Global Warming | Quanta Magazine
• Machine learning financial risk management | McKinsey
• Scientists Crack A 50-Year-Old Mystery About The Measles Vaccine : Goats and Soda : NPR
• Green New Deal critics are missing the bigger picture – Vox
• Oscars 2019: ‘Green Book’ is the worst best picture winner since ‘Crash’ – Los Angeles Times

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  "White House to set up panel to counter climate change consensus"
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  RT @danblackroyd: A law had to be passed in order for Black people to be able to wear their hair as it naturally grows out of their s…
• Opinion | The Green Book’s Black History – The New York Times
• Wilbur Ross’ financial disclosure rejected by federal ethics agency – CNNPolitics
• Earth — A Photo-Essay
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  RT @AOC: “20 years from now and after all coral reefs could be gone in this country.

  This is an emergency for our country.…

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  RT @iskandrah: A few days ago, in Indiana, the man on the right, Dustin Passarelli, 33, chased down the man on the left in his car…
• GiftRocket Prepaid Gift Agreement | GiftRocket
• All Shoes – SUAVS
• The Shutdown Made Sara Nelson Into America’s Most Powerful Flight Attendant – The New York Times
• Uluburun Late Bronze Age Shipwreck Excavation

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• The Hard Lessons of Dianne Feinstein’s Encounter with the Young Green New Deal Activists | The New Yorker
• Terms and Conditions | Hue Pro
• Storage: Expose preconditions via the google-cloud-storage API · Issue #4490 · googleapis/google-cloud-python
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• The 100 Best Movies on Netflix (February 2019) :: Movies :: Lists :: Netflix :: Page 1 :: Paste
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  RT @shannonrwatts: Sophie Scholl, 21, was executed 76 years ago today in Germany for leading a student resistance against Hitler. Thes…
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  RT @OctopusCaveman: Dinosaurs, consider yourselves avenged
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  World’s food supply under ‘severe threat’ from loss of biodiversity
• World’s food supply under ‘severe threat’ from loss of biodiversity | Global development | The Guardian
  World’s food supply under ‘severe threat’ from loss of biodiversity
• Earth’s Atmosphere Stretches Far Beyond the Moon, Scientists Find – Motherboard
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• Why Oxford Comma Enthusiasts Are All Over Tinder | GQ

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  RT @kaylatausche: There are only two women at the table for US-China trade talks. They are the interpreters.
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  RT @RonWyden: 🚨There are more than 100,000 missing votes from the November Lt. Governor’s race in Georgia.🚨 The state used insecu…
• Cinema’s greatest scene: ‘Casablanca’ and ‘La Marseillaise’ – Seven Inches of Your Time
• The Trump administration keeps breaking up migrant families. Here’s how it does it

  Customs and Border Patrol agents are still ripping children away from their parents at the border, even though the Trump administration has been ordered to stop doing it in court. No child welfare specialists. No judges. No tracking. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/the-trump-administration-keeps-breaking-up-migrant-families-heres-how-they-do-it/ar-BBTTtSm

• Dan McCready for NC on Twitter: "BREAKING: The Board of Elections just declared a NEW ELECTION in our district. It’s important that we start strong. Make a donation to help us get started: https://t.co/qFDLSA4wy4"
• The Limitations of Deep Learning for Vision and How We Might Fix Them
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  The Gradient is a digital magazine that aims to democratize research in artificial intelligence and machine learning. We provide accessible and technically informed coverage of the most important new papers, as well as a platform for perspectives on recent developments and long-term trends in the area. In short, The Gradient points in the direction of the field

• Will Karl Marx Allee Spark Berlin’s Housing Revolution? – CityLab

  Berlin is re-nationalising private rental housing, planning a referendum on banning mega-landlords, and considering a 5-year rent freeze.

  Calling all this a revolution is not hyperbole. It could completely transform an increasingly unaffordable city. https://www.citylab.com/equity/2019/02/berlin-germany-housing-rent-how-much-price-landlord-policies/582898/

• Georgia voting irregularities raise more troubling questions about the state’s elections – POLITICO
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  RT @carlzimmer: Scientists have doubled DNA’s alphabet. And our understanding of what form life can take has expanded as a result.…
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  RT @antoniogm: I can’t get this chart out of my head. We’ve engineered a world where essentials like education and healthcare far…
• Opinion | The Mueller Report Is Coming. Here’s What to Expect. – The New York Times
• What You Should Know About Richard Sackler’s… — ProPublica
• ‘I can’t afford to live here’: Oakland teachers strike in city changed by tech wealth | Education | The Guardian
• Julianne Moore, Beauty and a Beast
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  RT @nhannahjones: When the Univ of Oklahoma was ordered to admit teacher George McLaurin to its graduate school it complied by forcin…
• Gender, Sexual Orientation, and Behavioral Norms in the Labor Market – Marina Mileo Gorsuch, 2019

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  RT @oneunderscore__: Along with an enormous cache of weapons, white supremacist Christopher Hasson googled "best place in dc to (sic) se…
• Wait Times for Citizenship Have Doubled in the Last Two Years – The New York Times
• Coast Guard lieutenant who is white nationalist, planned mass terrorist attack against politicians and journalists, prosecutors allege – The Washington Post
• Google Admits It Messed Up By Not Disclosing Built-in Nest Mic
• Moontanning, A Report | Plenitude Magazine
• ‘Sustained and ongoing’ disinformation assault targets Dem presidential candidates – POLITICO
• Attention, animal lovers: There is now a care home for ageing sloths | Metro News
• A complete oral history of the Sea Ranch – Curbed
• Cyberattacks: China and Russia can disrupt US power networks warns intelligence report | ZDNet
• Matthew Whitaker’s testimony about Trump trying to influence the Cohen inquiry was cagey. Now we might know why. – The Washington Post
• UW Medicine mistakenly exposed information on nearly 1 million patients | The Seattle Times
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  RT @NatStClair: The U.S. Environmental PROTECTION Agency reported last week that in 2018 it issued so-called "emergency" approvals…

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• Trump EPA OKs ‘Emergency’ to Dump Bee-Killing Pesticide on 16 Million Acres – EcoWatch
• “Asleep at the Wheel,” by T. Coraghessan Boyle | The New Yorker
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  RT @CT_Bergstrom: My PhD advisor told me to put a ten dollar bill between the pages of my thesis in the university library.

  "So I ca…

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  RT @nytimes: The New York Times uncovered new details in President Trump’s 2-year campaign of pressure and intimidation against…
• Historian Richard Evans says Trump’s America isn’t exactly like the Third Reich—but it’s too close for comfort.
• Intimidation, Pressure and Humiliation: Inside Trump’s Two-Year War on the Investigations Encircling Him – The New York Times
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  RT @shannonmstirone: Please enjoy this gorgeous photo taken from the surface of the moon during the Apollo 15 mission.
• Will AI Achieve Consciousness? Wrong Question | WIRED
• Intimidation, Pressure and Humiliation: Inside Trump’s Two-Year War on the Investigations Encircling Him – The New York Times
• New York City Trees
• Ayelet Waldman on Twitter: "This is a BIG FUCKING DEAL. Intimidation, Pressure and Humiliation: Inside Trump’s Two-Year War on the Investigations Encircling Him https://t.co/4zDh3jJPUX But like all BFDs in this Crazy-Trump-Time, it will end up resulting
• Kathryn Schulz on Twitter: "Huge congrats to @bentaub91 for this — very deserved recognition for an exceptional and devastating piece. Do read it: https://t.co/keNvcRLfgb… https://t.co/zUPd0h3pDq"
• 10 Books That Kept Us Up at Night (pg. 7) | Kirkus Reviews

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  RT @nhannahjones: He legit called for lynching and didn’t blink.
  America 2019.
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  RT @Tim_Beshara: Buried in this media release from Melissa Price is Australia’s official acknowledgement of the extinction of anothe…
• Paul Kedrosky on Twitter: "tl;dr: Local water reservoirs increase water usage by creating a false sense of security, which, in turn, makes communities more fragile. Applies to far more things than water, obv. Water shortages worsened by reservoir effects
• Scientists finally explain why microwaved grapes emit glorious bursts of plasma / Boing Boing
• 16 States Sue to Stop Trump’s Use of Emergency Powers to Build Border Wall
• iPad Diaries: Using a Mac from iOS, Part 1 – Finder Folders, Siri Shortcuts, and App Windows with Keyboard Maestro – MacStories
• Neuroscientists Say They’ve Found an Entirely New Form of Neural Communication

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