Links for you. Science:
The disturbing thing scientists learned when they bribed babies with graham crackers
The tuna that ate a seagull, and other bird swallowing marine megafauna
How humanity first killed the dodo, then lost it as well: After the dodos were wiped out, almost all the specimens were lost – mostly due to outright carelessness
The Built Environment Is a Microbial Wasteland
Open Grantsmanship
Other:
Here’s the Thing So Many Americans Can’t Grasp About Bernie Sanders: The U.S. likes to brand itself ‘the land of opportunity’—yet our poster boys for innovation go to Harvard
“Clinton embodies a neoliberal kind of feminism which mostly benefits privileged women” (if you can slice through the TheorySpeak, there are some very good points here)
African-Americans and the 1994 Crime Bill
What your city looks like when nearly every store is mapped (related links here and here)
Andrew Bacevich and America’s Long Misguided War to Control the Greater Middle East
My Frustrating Primary Day as a New York Poll Worker
What Are the Dreams of the Blind Really Like?
The feds aren’t helping on Metro safety, says DC transportation chief
How to Save a Dying Language: Geoffrey Khan is racing to document Aramaic, the language of Jesus, before its native speakers vanish
Lemonade Is the Opiate of the Masses
Public school watch: Factors which undermine low-income kids!
So, Jonathan Chait is claiming that the term “neoliberal” is propagandistic
Don’t Blame Silicon Valley for Theranos
Clinton Won Big Tuesday Night. But Sanders Has Won Something Too.
Hard to Kick the Habit
Gutless Democrats Fear Fights: Why Triangulating Neoliberal Clintonites Back Big Business Over People
mikethemadbiologist
No one has called the GOP on the cognitive dissonance between their faith in Creationism and their simultaneous Social Darwinism when it comes to entitlements.
Meanwhile, on the Left; the push is for Socialism; a system that ensures that heroism is a thing of the past, the struggle, the leap over obstacles vestigial; a more subtle dissonance to be sure; but nevertheless; the aim is for a system that would immerse the spirit of the people who created it, in a wash of mediocrity.