Links for you. Science:
The world’s best animal architecture – in pictures
Journalists are suckers for anything that looks like science. And selection bias makes it even worse.
Nine years of censorship: Canadian scientists are now allowed to speak out about their work — and the government policy that had restricted communications.
“Everyone” Downloads Research Papers Illegally: Science magazine just published a great piece on the utility of Sci-Hub. Unfortunately, its defense of its own business model is flawed.
Large Swaths Of The Pacific Ocean May Actually Suffocate In Just 15 Years
Other:
De Blasio Team Violated Campaign Finance Laws, Report Says (worth noting this is the same thing that Clinton is accused of doing with the donations to state parties)
The End of Bernie Sanders: The system was designed to stop a campaign like his. This should be the last election where it’s in place
The Economy Is Great. The Economy Is Terrible.
Bernie Sanders’s Gift to His Party
Why So Many Political Journalists Don’t Get Politics: The media’s third-party delusion stems from an intentional refusal to grapple with the country’s ideological traditions
NTSB report on fatal 2015 Metro smoke incident is said to criticize Metro, first-responders and others
Politico Does the Reporting Job on the Hillary Victory Fund That Rachel Maddow Wouldn’t Do
Does It Matter That Blacks Oppose Marriage Equality?
Holding Back to Get Ahead: Researcher Joanne Golann says that no-excuses charters are teaching low-income students to defer to authority and hold back their opinions—the opposite of what they’ll need to succeed in college and life. (again, white kids aren’t taught like this)
MA: How To Gut Schools, Boston Edition
How Washingtonians like me became emotionally attached to the Secret Safeway (I have an emotional attachment to the Soviet Safeway of Dupont Circle. I hate it)
Behold, a legal brief written in Klingon
Boston: McKinsey Recommends Closing 40% of Public Schools to Save Money
Why Do Progressives Cling to Hillary?
Uber for MBAs is a worrying sign (I’m sure there will be job retraining programs for them. Heh)
BPS review suggested massive school closures
