Links for you. Science:

Dining At Work May Cause You To Call in Sick
In which Hermitage is a pissy black person
Deep-sea fish in deep trouble: Scientists find nearly all deep-sea fisheries unsustainable, call for stopping unsustainable fisheries and government subsidies that support them
The disposable academic: Why doing a PhD is often a waste of time (nothing I haven’t written about before, but very well summarized)

Other:

Regulations, taxes aren’t killing small business, owners say
The Wrong Problem
Back to the Big School (“the more my students listen to the Serious People chatter and ignore the evidence they might discern by using their eyes, the more likely they are to be misled”)
‘People Don’t Realize How Fragile Democracy Really Is’
‘People Are Close to Revolt’
Stuff I will miss when I’m poor
USA: The Great Prosperity / The Great Regression : 5 charts (actually, I think it’s three charts, but it’s still very good)
Matt Stoller: The Corrupt Establishment Begins Smearing Eric Schneiderman