https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/31/books/review-long-haul-trucker-memoir-finn-murphy.html
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Thursday, August 31, 2017
HuffPost: Google Just Proved That Monopolies Imperil Democracy, Not Just The Economy
Google Just Proved That Monopolies Imperil Democracy, Not Just The Economy
HuffPost
WASHINGTON ― For the past decade, former business journalist Barry Lynn has used his perch at the New America Foundation to warn politicians and the public that a new era of corporate monopolies threatened not only American workers, but also democracy itself. ... Read the full story
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Sunday, August 27, 2017
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Friday, August 18, 2017
Interesting quote from "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test"
Hi - I'm reading "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test" by Tom Wolfe and wanted to share this quote with you.
"that's the cry of this rally! … Me! Me! Me! Me! … And that's why wars get fought … ego … because enough people want to scream Pay attention to Me … Yep, you're playing their game …"
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"that's the cry of this rally! … Me! Me! Me! Me! … And that's why wars get fought … ego … because enough people want to scream Pay attention to Me … Yep, you're playing their game …"
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Interesting quote from "The Vital Question: Energy, Evolution, and the Origins of Complex Life"
Hi - I'm reading "The Vital Question: Energy, Evolution, and the Origins of Complex Life" by Nick Lane and wanted to share this quote with you.
"The ancient covenant is in pieces; man knows at last that he is alone in the universe's unfeeling immensity, out of which he emerged only by chance. His destiny is nowhere spelled out, nor is his duty. The kingdom above or the darkness below: it is for him to choose."
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"The ancient covenant is in pieces; man knows at last that he is alone in the universe's unfeeling immensity, out of which he emerged only by chance. His destiny is nowhere spelled out, nor is his duty. The kingdom above or the darkness below: it is for him to choose."
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The Atlantic: Tumplines and the Benefits of Carrying Weight on Your Head
Tumplines and the Benefits of Carrying Weight on Your Head
The Atlantic
People have done it for centuries. Maybe everyone still should. An Object Lesson. Read the full story
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Thursday, August 17, 2017
Fewer people paid Obamacare tax penalties, as more got Obamacare aid
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/01/11/fewer-people-paid-obamacare-tax-penalties-as-more-got-obamacare-aid.html
Koskinen wrote that about 6.5 million taxpayers last tax season reported owing a total of $3 billion in such tax penalties for failing to have coverage in 2015.
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Koskinen wrote that about 6.5 million taxpayers last tax season reported owing a total of $3 billion in such tax penalties for failing to have coverage in 2015.
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What's Happened To The ACA Penalty Tax?
https://www.forbes.com/sites/beltway/2017/04/10/whats-happened-to-the-aca-penalty-tax/#4a2302bc98e4
About 6.5 million returns (5 percent) reported and paid an average penalty tax of $470, more than double the $210 average paid on 2014 returns
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About 6.5 million returns (5 percent) reported and paid an average penalty tax of $470, more than double the $210 average paid on 2014 returns
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Wednesday, August 16, 2017
Tuesday, August 15, 2017
Los Angeles Times: Who was responsible for the violence in Charlottesville? Here's what witnesses say
Who was responsible for the violence in Charlottesville? Here's what witnesses say
Los Angeles Times
The clashes that broke out over the weekend at a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Va. Read the full story
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Monday, August 14, 2017
Confederate Monuments and Their Complicated Legacy - The Atlantic
A timeline of the genesis of the Confederate sites shows two notable spikes. One comes around the turn of the 20th century, just after Plessy v. Ferguson, and just as many Southern states were establishing repressive race laws. The second runs from the mid-1950s to the mid-1960s—the peak of the civil-rights movement. In other words, the erection of Confederate monuments has been a way to perform cultural resistance to black equality.
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Sunday, August 13, 2017
The Wall Street Journal: What the Google Controversy Misses: The Business Case for Diversity
What the Google Controversy Misses: The Business Case for Diversity
The Wall Street Journal
The memo written by a Google employee about gender diversity hit a raw nerve in an industry already beset by accusations of sexism and discrimination. Research, meanwhile, has established the business case for diversity. Read the full story
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Saturday, August 12, 2017
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Thursday, August 10, 2017
Federal Laws Prohibiting Job Discrimination: Questions And Answers
Discriminatory practices under these laws also include:
- harassment on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, genetic information, or age;
- retaliation against an individual for filing a charge of discrimination, participating in an investigation, or opposing discriminatory practices;
- employment decisions based on stereotypes or assumptions about the abilities, traits, or performance of individuals of a certain sex, race, age, religion, or ethnic group, or individuals with disabilities, or based on myths or assumptions about an individual's genetic information; and
- denying employment opportunities to a person because of marriage to, or association with, an individual of a particular race, religion, national origin, or an individual with a disability. Title VII also prohibits discrimination because of participation in schools or places of worship associated with a particular racial, ethnic, or religious group.
deepmind.com: DeepMind and Blizzard open StarCraft II as an AI research environment | DeepMind
DeepMind and Blizzard open StarCraft II as an AI research environment | DeepMind
deepmind.com
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The Google memo and Trump’s DOJ prove that diversity is not enough.
Kennedy argues, "It is not unfair to enlist, to some extent, all Americans in that large, complex, and costly effort, including those who have had no hand in perpetrating racial wrongs. Membership in a polity entails contributing to the alleviation of its woes, just as it means sharing in the riches of its benefits." In short, there is no a la carte patriotism.
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The Washington Post: The true story of two fatal grizzly bear attacks that changed our relationship with wildlife
The true story of two fatal grizzly bear attacks that changed our relationship with wildlife
The Washington Post
Fifty years ago this month, bears killed two young campers. But it soon became clear that the animals weren't to blame. Read the full story
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Wednesday, August 09, 2017
Interesting quote from "The Angry Chef: Bad Science and the Truth About Healthy Eating"
Hi - I'm reading "The Angry Chef: Bad Science and the Truth About Healthy Eating" by Anthony Warner and wanted to share this quote with you.
"science doesn't work when you only pick the evidence that confirms what you already believed."
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"science doesn't work when you only pick the evidence that confirms what you already believed."
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The Register: Intel Pumageddon: Broadband chip bug haunts Chipzilla's past, present and future
Intel Pumageddon: Broadband chip bug haunts Chipzilla's past, present and future
The Register
You can trivially DoS Puma 5 and 7-powered boxes, too Intel says the performance issues that have dogged its Puma 6 gigabit broadband modem chipset also affect the Puma 5 and Puma 7 family.… A Chipzilla spokesperson confirmed to The Register on Tuesday that a TCP/UDP latency issue that makes home and business gateways powered by Puma 6 processors trivial to knock offline is also present in the Puma 5 and Puma 7 lines. This means swapping a Puma 6-based box – such as a Virgin Media Super Hub 3 – Read the full story
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Tuesday, August 08, 2017
What’s in your winch bag? The basic gear you should be carrying
What's in your winch bag? The basic gear you should be carrying
From Best of Exploration, a Flipboard magazine by Expedition Portal
The other day I ran into the proud owner of a well built four-wheel drive. Eager to talk shop, he began to list a few of the numerous…
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Axios: Intel enters self-driving car race with Mobileye acquisition
Intel enters self-driving car race with Mobileye acquisition
Axios
Mobileye brings close relationships with more than two dozen car manufacturers Read the full story
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Monday, August 07, 2017
Defeating The ZIP Code Health Paradigm: Data, Technology, And Collaboration Are Key
a person's ZIP code is a stronger predictor of his or her overall health than other factors, including race and genetics.
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Saturday, August 05, 2017
How a 9.2 earthquake in Alaska in 1964 changed our understanding is explained in 'The Great Quake'
How a 9.2 earthquake in Alaska in 1964 changed our understanding is explained in 'The Great Quake'
From Los Angeles Times, a Flipboard magazine by Los Angeles Times
Geological tumult is all around us in the American West, in our vertiginous topography and in our…
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The Motley Fool: 3 Things Intel Corp. Earnings Told Us About Its Memory Business
3 Things Intel Corp. Earnings Told Us About Its Memory Business
The Motley Fool
Intel provided insights into its production ramp-up of 3D NAND, its timetable for 3D XPoint product releases, and overall memory business profitability on its most recent earnings call. Read the full story
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Friday, August 04, 2017
Thursday, August 03, 2017
Affirm action in colleges
What people get wrong about affirmative action
http://www.cnn.com/2017/08/02/us/affirmative-action-misconception-trnd/index.html
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http://www.cnn.com/2017/08/02/us/affirmative-action-misconception-trnd/index.html
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Wednesday, August 02, 2017
Tuesday, August 01, 2017
My Buddy: Patti Smith Remembers Sam Shepard
He would call me late in the night from somewhere on the road, a ghost town in Texas, a rest stop near Pittsburgh, or from Santa Fe, where he was parked in the desert, listening to the coyotes howling. But most often he would call from his place in Kentucky, on a cold, still night, when one could hear the stars breathing. Just a late-night phone call out of a blue, as startling as a canvas by Yves Klein; a blue to get lost in, a blue that might lead anywhere. I'd happily awake, stir up some Nescafé and we'd talk about anything. About the emeralds of Cortez, or the white crosses in Flanders Fields, about our kids, or the history of the Kentucky Derby. But mostly we talked about writers and their books. Latin writers. Rudy Wurlitzer. Nabokov. Bruno Schulz.
"Gogol was Ukrainian," he once said, seemingly out of nowhere. Only not just any nowhere, but a sliver of a many-faceted nowhere that, when lifted in a certain light, became a somewhere. I'd pick up the thread, and we'd improvise into dawn, like two beat-up tenor saxophones, exchanging riffs.
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The Relationship Between Gun Ownership and Firearm Homicide Rates in the United States, 1981–2010
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3828709/
We found a robust relationship between higher levels of gun ownershi
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We found a robust relationship between higher levels of gun ownershi
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