- An appeal to the Dutch to accept migrants, brown, black and white.
- How feminism made me a better scientist.
- Economists at the Federal Reserve Bank of SF estimate the financial crisis “cost every American $70,000.” This result is based on the permanent loss of production — roughly equivalent to the type of loss from war.
- LA’s palm trees are not native. They’re marketing.
- A Japanese working class woman writes about her life.
- US Wildfires are getting worse, on several dimensions
- I used to say that climate change would mean faster atmospheric circulation, as a means of distributing warmer air from the equator to the polls, but faster polar heating means that circulation is slowing down, bringing a different problem of stronger stationary weather. #cantwin!
- The US criminal “justice” system is awfully close to a mafia designed to rip off the poor. This article mistakes that system for “neoliberal capitalism” when it’s really just the State taking advantage of its citizens, i.e., corrupt politics.
- The legal case against advertising makes similar claims to my social case against it.
- Cool shit: Schrodinger’s hula hoop and the ultimate “interactive wall”