Links for you. Science:
Imagine a dog. Got it? I don’t. Here’s what it’s like to be unable to visualize anything.
Cod almighty: the secret of Norway’s monster fish bonanza
Instantaneous, Electrifying, Excruciating Pain: The life history of the tarantula hawk is similar to that of many other solitary wasps. Its sting, however, is not
Deadly Brain Disease Is Driving Swamp Birds Insane
Retractions aren’t enough: Why science has bigger problems
Other:
Chris Arnade: Another tiny rant (sorry!) on politics, inequality, and identity (excellent)
Why Hillary Clinton’s 90s nostalgia is so dangerous
‘Infrastructure Week’ focuses on decaying roads, bridges—but transportation needs a green makeover
Untold Damage: America’s Overlooked Gun Violence
First, Do Some Harm: How to Smear a Disfavored Candidate on NYT’s Front Page
Primed to fight the government: A fast-growing U.S. movement armed with guns and the Constitution sees a dire threat to liberty
The college debt crisis is even worse than you think
Frustrated, talented teachers leave Florida classrooms in droves
Pro-Bernie Trolls on Why They Harassed Nevada’s Democratic Chair
How the “Maximize Shareholder Value” Myth Weakens Companies and Economic Systems (I’m very nervous about this biology-as-explanatory-metaphor for biology; economists need to know more about the natural history of the systems they discuss)
LOUD, RACIST, AND SIGNIFYING NOTHING
Why Do Men Take So Long to Put on Their Shoes?
Why Work for Welfare Doesn’t Work
How to Kill a Three-Year-Old in NYC Without Getting Arrested
Saving Clintonism? How About an Honest Discussion?
When It Comes to Losing Ugly, Bernie Has Nothing on Hillary
mikethemadbiologist
“Sure Bernie is horrible but Hillary was worse” is a pathetic loser excuse in its own right, especially so given the Jesus Bernie Witch Clinton narratives you guys have been pushing for the past year.
The narrative we’ve been pushing is that Bernie is the better candidate. Stronger against trump, less hawkish, less beholden to wallstreet, less ideologically compromised by DLC-style liberal politics, etc. Not perfect by any means, but better. This ‘narrative’ has the virtue of being true. I don’t know where this lionizing/demonizing you’re imaging is coming from. Does CR stand for Correct the Record by any chance?
About that Rolling Stone article on Bernie’s “trolls”:
So — yet another article criticizing Sanders leads with a flat-out lie in the very first sentence —
“Democrats have been in a froth this week in the aftermath of Saturday’s contentious, and at times violent, Nevada state convention.”
There was no violence at the Nevada convention. Period. No chairs were thrown, no stages rushed, no arrests made and no injuries treated. In a middling space with at least a couple of thousand smart phones and several live streams, there were zero recorded instances of violence, or even any credible personal testimonies about such.
And this deliberate spreading of falsehoods by the Democratic leadership and effectively all corporate media has been going on for over a week now, with pretty much zero retractions or apologies. Tell me again about “trolls”…