Links for you. Science:
How Economists Can Be Just as Irrational as the Rest of Us
Backstabber? Really?
Wisconsin set to ban use of fetal tissue in research
Stonehenge II: Archaeologists uncover true scale of ‘superhenge’ – discovered just a few miles from famous prehistoric monument
Want To Save Coral Reefs? First, Save The Fish
Other:
Even Millionaire Workers Like Tom Brady Need Solidarity
As the Florida Avenue Market’s neighborhood becomes hip, longtime merchants are squeezed out
23 Things Only People Who Love Spending Time Alone Will Understand
Thanks for the holiday, America. Now how about a raise?
Sherman Alexie Speaks Out on The Best American Poetry 2015 (backstory here)
Left Door Cocktail Bar: “We do not want to be held hostage by a vocal minority with unreasonable demands” (the weird thing is that the back of the bar doesn’t directly face any residences)
Ardbeg’s space whisky tastes “noticeably different” from Earth-matured whisky
What Does Sarah Palin Have Against the Department of Energy? (this is why Trump is no less ‘serious’ than any other Republican)
Bill de Blasio’s Battle to Save New York—and Himself
Martin O’Malley Is Right: America Should Be Taking More Syrian Refugees
Teachers Aren’t Dumb
In Which David Brooks Sets A World Record For Long Jump Over A Shark*
Bombshell ESPN Report: The Patriots Were Huge Cheaters And Roger Goodell Covered It Up
Spygate to Deflategate: Inside what split the NFL and Patriots apart
When education becomes a business
mikethemadbiologist
You posted a Salon link yesterday about American billionaires influencing politics, with the implication that it is a corruption of progressive, liberal democracy, but here is a (left-wing) non-liberal perspective on it.
https://gowans.wordpress.com/2015/08/18/the-dung-heap-of-procedural-democracy/