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Why Are So Many American Pedestrians Dying at Night? Nothing resembling this pattern has occurred in other comparably wealthy countries. #Cars #Poverty 2023-12-11T00:00:01-0800 The New York Times Emily Badger, Ben Blatt, Josh Katz ($) 3,000 words Rated 2023-12-12T08:09:34-0800 - sethherr
Who owes the most in student loans: New data from the Fed #Student Loan Forgiveness Brookings Rated 2023-04-01T19:11:01-0700 - sethherr
We Know Where New Weight Loss Drugs Came From, but Not Why They Work The empty auditoriums, Gila monsters, resistant pharmaceutical executives and enigmas that led to Ozempic and other drugs that may change how society thinks about obesity. #Diabetes #Obesity 2023-08-17T02:01:00-0700 The New York Times Gina Kolata ($) 3,000 words Rated 2023-08-27T15:05:55-0700 - sethherr
Where Harris’ campaign went wrong It was supposed to be everything short of a free ad – a panel of women not containing their excitement to welcome Kamala Harris, ready to introduce her to their committed daytime audience of exactly the type of women the vice president’s campaign always hoped were going to be critical to her base. 2024-11-06T03:10:46-0800 lite.cnn.com Edward-Isaac Dovere ($) 2,000 words Rated 2024-11-06T15:03:51-0800 - sethherr
Where does my computer get the time from? – Tony Finch dotat.at Rated 2023-10-05T22:25:08-0700 - sethherr
When tech says ‘no’ The tech industry always has a reason why any new laws or regulations are bad - indeed, so does any industry. They always say that! The trouble is, sometimes it’s true, and some laws are (or would be) disasters. So which is it? Well, there are three ways that people say ‘NO!’ Benedict Evans 1,000 words Rated 2023-09-04T15:24:55-0700 - sethherr
When Private Equity Firms Bankrupt Their Own Companies Private equity firms can succeed when their companies, customers, and employees fail. It’s a broken system. 2023-05-01T04:00:00-0700 The Atlantic Brendan Ballou ($) 3,000 words Rated 2023-05-02T23:35:44-0700 - sethherr
When It Comes to Packaging, What’s Actually Sustainable? An expert unpacks the paper versus plastic debate, concerns about forever chemicals, and Tim Hortons’ pulp fibre lids 2023-08-24T06:30:17-0700 The Walrus Nicole Schmidt 2,000 words Rated 2023-08-27T19:41:57-0700 - elll
When half a million Americans died and nobody noticed Was the US drug Vioxx responsible for far more deaths than has been acknowledged so far? 2012-04-27T02:04:52-0700 The Week Alexander Cockburn 1,000 words Rated 2023-09-22T15:37:50-0700 - sethherr
'There's No Such Thing As Cold, Hard Reality': Meet The Hyperloop's Truest Believers GOLDEN, Colo.—Shortly after arriving at the Global Hyperloop Conference, Brad Swartzwelter looked me in the eye and issued himself a challenge. “If I haven’t convinced you by the end of this conference that Hyperloop is the most glorious transportation opportunity of our time, then I’ve failed.” 2019-09-09T08:55:00-0700 Jalopnik Aaron Gordon 4,000 words Rated 2023-07-07T20:13:06-0700 - elll
What’s on the Menu When Your Cat Goes Out? Probably More Than You Think. Free-ranging cats hunt or scavenge more than 2,000 species, some of them imperiled, according to a new study. #Birds #Endangered Species 2023-12-12T08:03:28-0800 The New York Times Catrin Einhorn ($) 1,000 words Rated 2023-12-12T20:52:14-0800 - sethherr
What the lack of premium grocery stores says about disinvestment in Black neighborhoods Brookings Rated 2023-04-17T12:34:35-0700 - cindy
What the Amish Can Teach America About Economic Mobility - WSJ The Wall Street Journal Rated 2024-10-21T15:22:06-0700 - sethherr
What Should America Do With Its Nuclear Waste? Currently there are about 80 locations in 35 states where spent fuel is being stored, with no long-term plans for disposal. 2022-04-11T06:00:00-0700 The Washington Post Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow ($) 5,000 words Rated 2023-05-04T06:08:32-0700 - cindy
The Insidious Habit That Can Hurt Your Relationship Ignoring a partner in favor of your phone, or “phubbing,” can lead to feelings of distrust and ostracism. Here’s how to stop. #Dating #Marriage 2023-07-27T02:00:22-0700 The New York Times Catherine Pearson ($) 1,000 words Rated 2023-07-28T10:00:56-0700 - alexandradancing
What Is Solar Geoengineering? \| Union of Concerned Scientists ucsusa.org Rated 2023-04-03T06:06:02-0700 - cindy
What is Solar Geoengineering - Solar Geoengineering Non-Use Agreement solargeoeng.org Rated 2023-04-03T06:45:40-0700 - cindy
What if Unhoused People Designed Their Own Homes? #Homelessness Mother Jones Rated 2023-04-14T09:42:26-0700 - alexandradancing
What I Learned Reading 1,000 Investor Reports · Collab Fund collabfund.com Rated 2023-03-05T17:59:18-0800 - sethherr
What history's hidden grandmother of climate science teaches us today : Short Wave NPR Rated 2023-03-31T05:29:09-0700 - Jaog
What Have Fourteen Years of Conservative Rule Done to Britain? Sam Knight on the Tory U.K. Prime Ministers David Cameron, Theresa May, Boris Johnson, Liz Truss, and Rishi Sunak, and issues including Brexit, the N.H.S., inflation, housing, and the economy. 2024-03-25T03:00:00-0700 The New Yorker Sam Knight 8,000 words Rated 2024-04-06T07:06:14-0700 - sethherr
What Happens When Private Equity Takes Over a Hospital New analysis shows alarming increase in patient complications 2023-12-26T00:00:00-0800 hms.harvard.edu 1,000 words Rated 2024-10-31T15:57:50-0700 - sethherr
What Happens to All the Stuff We Return? Online merchants changed the way we shop—and made “reverse logistics” into a booming new industry, David Owen writes. 2023-08-14T03:00:00-0700 The New Yorker David Owen 5,000 words Rated 2023-08-27T07:39:20-0700 - sethherr
What Happened When Oregon Decriminalized Hard Drugs A bold reform effort hasn’t gone as planned. #Criminal Justice System #Law Enforcement #Oregon 2023-07-19T07:30:00-0700 The Atlantic Jim Hinch ($) 3,000 words Rated 2023-08-01T19:06:40-0700 - sethherr Rated 2023-08-30T15:28:31-0700 - Jaog
What Happened to San Francisco, Really? Nathan Heller on the fate of America’s most enterprising downtown and the debates over housing, homelessness, and public safety that have engulfed the city since the pandemic. 2023-10-16T03:00:00-0700 The New Yorker Nathan Heller 8,000 words Rated 2023-10-18T22:05:43-0700 - sethherr
What happened to GE? Bill Gates shares his review of “Lights Out: Pride, Delusion, and the Fall of General Electric” by Thomas Gryta and Ted Mann 2021-06-14T00:00:00-0700 gatesnotes.com Bill Gates 2,000 words Rated 2024-01-16T08:29:56-0800 - sethherr
What Does ‘Buying American’ Even Mean? In a globalized economy, the definition of “buying American” is becoming quite cloudy—and so are the consequences of policies designed to encourage it. #Buy American 2019-07-03T00:00:00-0700 The New York Times Tim Heffernan 2,000 words Rated 2023-06-11T10:03:39-0700 - Jaog
What Does an "Analyst" Do? Capital Gains Rated 2024-06-14T17:30:17-0700 - sethherr
We’re going teetotal: It’s goodbye to The Daily Swig \| The Daily Swig portswigger.net Rated 2023-03-19T11:09:37-0700 - sethherr
Weike Wang on Citizenship and Belonging Deborah Treisman interviews the author Weike Wang about “Status in Flux,” her story from the June 26, 2023, issue of The New Yorker. #Fiction 2023-06-19T03:00:00-0700 The New Yorker Deborah Treisman 1,000 words Rated 2023-06-19T06:02:09-0700 - Jaog
We’ve Had a Cheaper, More Potent Ozempic Alternative for Decades New weight-loss drugs are getting all the hype, but bariatric surgery is still the “gold standard” for treating obesity. #Individual People #Obesity #Surgery 2023-04-25T14:21:00-0700 The Atlantic Yasmin Tayag ($) 2,000 words Rated 2023-05-09T07:29:05-0700 - sethherr
We're sorry we created the Torment Nexus - Charlie's Diary antipope.org 6,000 words Rated 2023-11-10T15:41:05-0800 - sethherr
We Need To Decommodify Mental Health Care noemamag.com Rated 2023-04-26T22:22:32-0700 - sethherr
Wagner mercenary admits ‘tossing grenades’ at injured Ukrainian PoWs \| Ukraine The Guardian Rated 2023-04-18T23:07:05-0700 - jmjmh
Virginia Norwood, who mapped the Earth as 'mother of Landsat,' dies at 96 The Washington Post Rated 2023-04-01T09:07:27-0700 - Jaog
Venezuela’s Maduro clings to power. Opposition hopes this time it ends differently. Venezuelan President Maduro has claimed – without evidence – that he won the presidential election. Despite high levels of repression, the opposition is leaning into their hope for change. 2024-08-05T13:26:53-0700 The Christian Science Monitor Mie Hoejris Dahl ($) 2,000 words Rated 2024-08-05T15:20:22-0700 - sethherr
Vaclav Smil and the Value of Doubt David Owen interviews the author and scientist Vaclav Smil, whose books on environmental issues include “Size: How It Explains the World” and “How the World Really Works.” #Climate Change #Environmentalism #Renewable energy #Science 2024-02-20T03:00:00-0800 The New Yorker David Owen 4,000 words Rated 2024-03-19T22:44:49-0700 - sethherr
UUID Benchmark War This month's PGSQL Phriday #015 topic is about UUIDs, hosted by Lætitia Avrot. Lætitia has called for a debate. No, no, no. I say let's have an all-out war. A benchmark war. I have decided to orchestrate a benchmark war between four different methods of storing a primary key: use a text field to store… 2024-02-03T15:54:01-0800 Ardent Performance Computing 3,000 words Rated 2024-06-24T19:55:31-0700 - sethherr
Using axis lines for good or evil add them only if they mean something 2024-02-29T09:00:41-0800 Dynomight Internet Newsletter dynomight 1,000 words Rated 2024-03-19T23:20:50-0700 - sethherr
US teens say they have new proof for 2,000-year-old mathematical theorem \| New Orleans The Guardian Rated 2023-03-26T07:29:22-0700 - Jaog
United States of America This is Earth.Org's profile of the climate change vulnerabilities, updated emissions pledges and environmental policies by sector of the United States. Earth.Org 2,000 words Rated 2023-05-04T06:22:29-0700 - cindy Rated 2023-05-04T23:27:36-0700 - sethherr
Undoing bikeshare’s original sin Bikeshare has been a godsend. Why not subsidize it? 2023-04-18T00:00:00-0700 Fast Company Aimee Rawlins 3,000 words Rated 2023-05-30T19:54:00-0700 - sethherr
Understanding how Facebook disappeared from the Internet Today at 1651 UTC, we opened an internal incident entitled "Facebook DNS lookup returning SERVFAIL" because we were worried that something was wrong with our DNS resolver 1.1.1.1. But as we were about to post on our public status page we realized something else more serious was going on. #Facebook 2021-10-04T14:08:52-0700 The Cloudflare Blog Celso Martinho 2,000 words Rated 2023-08-25T15:57:29-0700 - &e
Typical mind and gender identity Ozy Frantz introduced zirself to me by saying that “I major in gender studies, but I am not that kind of gender studies student. Promise.” So far this claim has been entirely borne out … 2013-02-18T14:27:48-0800 Slate Star Codex 15,000 words Rated 2023-09-11T18:56:36-0700 - sethherr
Twitter, Elon and the Indigo Blob The line between expertise and politics has become increasingly blurry. The demise of "Old Twitter" could help to reverse that. 2023-07-31T07:51:48-0700 Silver Bulletin Nate Silver 3,000 words Rated 2023-10-20T14:58:06-0700 - sethherr
Fox News Is Bigger Than Any Host The Atlantic Rated 2023-04-24T22:16:52-0700 - sethherr Rated 2023-04-24T11:30:24-0700 - Jaog
Tucker Carlson and the Right The New Yorker Rated 2023-05-02T12:35:45-0700 - jmjmh
Analysis \| Trump supporters are neither underrecognized nor half the country Of all the excuses for airing Trump's unfiltered commentary on a news channel, the idea that his views are otherwise unheard is among the worst. 2023-05-12T07:40:43-0700 The Washington Post Philip Bump ($) 1,000 words Rated 2023-05-13T08:25:04-0700 - cindy