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Sunday, March 30, 2014
JUDICIAL EXTORTION OF THE POOR: COURT FINES
http://www.thenation.com/article/178845/town-turned-poverty-prison-sentence
PUBLIC ACCESS TO CALIFORNIA BEACHES
http://www.modernluxury.com/san-francisco/story/bummer-beach?page=2
Saturday, March 29, 2014
VIRAL NEWS: UPWORTHY
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2014/03/upworthy-team-explains-its-success.html?mid=longreads
BOOK THE AGE OF AGING
http://www.amazon.com/Age-Aging-Demographics-Changing-Economy/dp/0470822910/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1396158646&sr=1-1&keywords=the+age+of+aging
OVERPROTECTED KIDS
http://www.theatlantic.com/features/archive/2014/03/hey-parents-leave-those-kids-alone/358631/
CALIFORNIA'S SHIFT FROM CARS
http://grist.org/news/meet-the-new-california-where-paris-hilton-isnt-cool-but-walking-biking-and-transit-are/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=Daily%2520March%252026&utm_campaign=daily
Thursday, March 27, 2014
STUCK IN POVERTY
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/17/business/economy/low-wage-workers-finding-its-easier-to-fall-into-poverty-and-harder-to-get-out.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&_r=1
WHEN TO ACT ON CORRELATION
http://blogs.hbr.org/2014/03/when-to-act-on-a-correlation-and-when-not-to/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+harvardbusiness+%28HBR.org%29
Tuesday, March 25, 2014
DC'S KINDERGARTEN LOTTERY
http://www.washingtonian.com/articles/work-education/education/how-not-to-get-your-kid-into-kindergarten/?Src=longreads
Monday, March 17, 2014
RETAIL SALES WORK
http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/03/my-life-as-a-retail-worker-nasty-brutish-and-poor/284332/?Src=longreads
Sunday, March 16, 2014
BETTER THAN ADDRESSES
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/plan-replace-geographic-coordinates-earth-unique-strings-three-words-180949946/?no-ist
GRADING AND MASTERY
http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2014/03/letter-grades-deserve-an-f/284372/
BICYCLING DEATHS
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/10/opinion/sunday/is-it-ok-to-kill-cyclists.html?_r=1&adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1384475682-0l2hJugSRh9AXFfXNBZgXw&&pagewanted=all
OVERESTIMATING RISK
http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2014/03/14/why-were-awful-at-assessing-risk.aspx
PROBLEMS WITH GRADING
http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2013/01/why-teachers-secretly-hate-grading-papers/266931/?utm_source=pulsenews
THE BARISTA CLASS
http://www.theawl.com/2014/03/the-service-economy-trap-inside-brooklyns-barista-class?src=longreads
WAREHOUSE EMPLOYMENT
http://m.motherjones.com/politics/2012/02/mac-mcclelland-free-online-shipping-warehouses-labor
PRISONS IN SMALL TOWNS
http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?cc=mqr;c=mqr;c=mqrarchive;idno=act2080.0039.415;view=text;rgn=main;xc=1;g=mqrg
THE FEYNMAN TECHNIQUE FOR LEARNING
http://www.farnamstreetblog.com/2012/04/learn-anything-faster-with-the-feynman-technique/
RELATIONSHIPS ARE MORE IMPORTANT THAN AMBITION
http://m.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/04/relationships-are-more-important-than-ambition/275025/
Wednesday, March 12, 2014
JOB POLARIZATION
http://economistsview.typepad.com/economistsview/2014/02/job-polarization-and-middle-class-workers-wages.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+EconomistsView+%28Economist%27s+View%29
Sunday, March 9, 2014
Wednesday, March 5, 2014
PROBLEMS AT WIKIPEDIA
http://www.technologyreview.com/featuredstory/520446/the-decline-of-wikipedia/?src=longreads
VITAMINS CAN BE BAD FOR YOU
http://m.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/07/the-vitamin-myth-why-we-think-we-need-supplements/277947/
SELF REGULATION AND DISORDER
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2014-02-20/site/sc-cons-0220-karpspend-20140220_1_self-control-maureen-morrin-consumers
Sunday, March 2, 2014
Saturday, March 1, 2014
TAXATION OF ALCOHOL
http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21591871-raising-price-booze-saves-lives-and-money-scotland-right-try-it-we-wish-you?frsc=dg%7Cd
THE EFFECT OF TECHNOLOGY ON JOBS
http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21594298-effect-todays-technology-tomorrows-jobs-will-be-immenseand-no-country-ready?frsc=dg%7Cd
FALSIFICATION AND THE CONFIRMATION BIAS
http://www.farnamstreetblog.com/2014/02/peter-cathcart-wason-falsification/
AMERICAN DAY CARE IS BAD
http://www.newrepublic.com/article/112892/hell-american-day-care?src=longreads
MODERN MARRIAGE
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/15/opinion/sunday/the-all-or-nothing-marriage.html?_r=0
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