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Saturday 8 October 2016

No More Years! No More Years!

It is the journalist's job to be an instant historian, to make sense of cultural shifts and political surges in real time. So two editors from New York Magazine compiled what they consider to be some of the most astute, insightful, and prescient political journalism from the past year.
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The Election Is Month Away, Here's What You Should Read
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It is the journalist's job to be an instant historian, to make sense of cultural shifts and political surges in real time. So two editors from New York Magazine compiled what they consider to be some of the most astute, insightful, and prescient political journalism from the past year.
THE STATE OF THE UNION
THE BIG PICTURE
Eight Years In America: Hope And What Came After
nymag.com
An epic chronology of the political, cultural, and technological trends of the Obama era, including interviews with the President, Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders, and other protagonists.
ALARMS
America Is A Breeding Ground For Tyranny
nymag.com
The clearest warning about how a Trump presidency could change America. Democracy, according to Sullivan, is like an ouroboros: Left to its own devices, it has a tendency to consume itself.
TRAUMA
The Grief That White Americans Can't Share
nytimes.com
A powerful, emotional, visceral response to the Alton Sterling shooting—a pain that even Hannah-Jones's well-meaning white friends could never understand.
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PLANET TRUMP
RALLY MONSTERS
Lost In Trumplandia
newrepublic.com
Reporter-goes-to-Trump-rallies practically became its own subgenre of journalism this year; but Lockwood has a poet's eye for the surreal quality of it all.
THE CARNIVAL
WATCH: Unfiltered Voices From Donald Trump's Crowds
nytimes.com
A sampling of the raw, aggressive atmosphere at Trump rallies.
AT TRUMP TOWER
Operation Trump: Inside The Most Unorthodox Campaign In Political History
nymag.com
Trump's campaign has flouted every norm in the political playbook. This is one of the first looks inside what was essentially a one-man show.
MEANWHILE IN CLINTON LAND
HER STRUGGLE
Hillary Vs Herself
nymag.com
A portrait of Clinton that wrestles with her inability to translate her on-the-ground presence, and yes even likability, to a national audience. "It's worth asking to what degree charisma, as we have defined it, is a masculine trait…"
THE ISSUES
The Future of America Is Being Written in This Tiny Office: Hillary Clinton's Policy Team
highline.huffingtonpost.com
Oh, yeah. There are actual policy issues at stake here!
PERCEPTION VS. REALITY
The Hillary Haters
slate.com
One interesting finding in this look at Hillary animus over the decades: Clinton is most hated when she's running for something; when she's actually doing a job, people like her.
ONE LAST THING...
ROAD TRIPS
The Open Road
digg.com
Remember John Boehner? The former Speaker posted this 6-second video of himself driving an RV to Youtube. He's probably happier than his successor Paul Ryan.
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Friday 7 October 2016

When The Ragweed Is Too Dank

​Welcome to What We Learned This Week, a digest of the most curiously important facts from the past few days. This week: Why McMansions are bad, what would happen if no one voted and how capitalism creates pointless jobs.
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McMansions Are Spooky As Heck And Other Facts
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​Welcome to What We Learned This Week, a digest of the most curiously important facts from the past few days. This week: Why McMansions are bad, what would happen if no one voted and how capitalism creates pointless jobs.
TECH BROS HAVE HEAVY WALLETS
San Francisco's Biggest Residential Tower Is Sinking — Who's To Blame?
theguardian.com
The city's tallest residential building is sinking, and has been compared to the Leaning Tower of Pisa. Now the blame game is coming swift and furious.
IN A HARD PLACE UNDER A ROCK
Inside Budapest's Former Top-Secret Cave Hospital
mentalfloss.com
As the icy grasp of the Cold War began to tighten, new wards were built, new equipment was installed, and the hospital was designated top-secret by the Soviets, referred to only by its official codename LOSK 0101/1.
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It's A Bird! It's A Plane! It's A... Drone
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A pretty remarkable piece of engineering, the Bionic Bird undergoes such strict quality controls that each bird is built like a prototype and controlled straight from your smartphone.
WE NEED A TISSUE
HOW TO BE AN ADULT
A Guide To Making Fall Allergies Suck Less
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It might be a cold, but fall allergies can easily sneak up on people who assume pollen season stops at Labor Day. A little grown-up knowledge and preparedness can help cut down on your Kleenex consumption this year.
A LIVER DEATH ISSUE
The Silent Epidemic No One's Talking About
scientificamerican.com
As nonalcoholic steatohepatitis, or NASH, stealthily becomes a leading cause of transplants, drug companies race to develop treatments.
CREATURE FEATURES
WHAT DOES 4:20 SMELL LIKE
Apparently Dogs Can Tell Time With Their Noses
nymag.com
As each day wears a new smell, its hours mark changes in odors that your dog can notice. Dogs smell time.
WE'RE NOT SO SPECIAL
Chimps May Be Capable Of Comprehending The Minds Of Others
scientificamerican.com
The ability to understand that others have mental states and perspectives different than our own has long been considered unique to humans.
BITING THE BULLET
Turning Invasive Species Into Sushi
popularmechanics.com
An environmentally conscious chef eschews conventional sushi in favor of the undiscovered pleasures of strange, invasive species. A man who lost his eyesight refuses to pity himself and instead becomes, of all things, a travel writer. Together, they dig their hands into the dark ocean mud in search of enlightenment.
VIDEO OF THE DAY
OH HELL YEAH
So This Guy Definitely Invented A Working Jetpack
digg.com
Remember that video that emerged last year that appeared to show a dude flying a jetpack around the Statue of Liberty? Yeah, it was legit. This thing is legit.
IN THE NEWS
Hurricane Matthew Lashes Florida Amid Dire Warnings, 300,000 Lose Power
Colombia's President, Juan Manuel Santos, Is Awarded Nobel Peace Prize
Hurricane Matthew Kills Hundreds In Haiti
Russia Issues Stern Warning To US Against Striking Syrian Army
Fall allergies got you down? Don't give up! It's Friday. You can do it, friend.