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

LAW FIRM FAILURE

http://m.newyorker.com/reporting/2013/10/14/131014fa_fact_stewart?currentPage=all

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

BOOK TEMPTATION: FINDING SELF CONTROL IN AN AGE OF EXCESS

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

OPEN OFFICES ARE BAD

http://m.newyorker.com/online/blogs/currency/2014/01/the-open-office-trap.html

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

LIGHT POLLUTION

http://m.nautil.us/issue/11/light/drowning-in-light?utm_medium=referral

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

USING LOGARITHMS

http://econbrowser.com/archives/2014/02/use-of-logarithms-in-economics

THE STRUCTURE OF STORIES

http://www.farnamstreetblog.com/2014/02/the-structure-of-a-story/

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/

SURVEILLANCE BY ALGORITHM

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2014/03/surveillance_by.html

SAN FRANCISCO'S TENDERLOIN

http://www.modernluxury.com/san-francisco/story/arise-tenderloin?page=2

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

AN OVERVIEW OF SELF REGULATION

http://www.athleticinsight.com/Vol4Iss1/SelfRegulation.htm

Saturday, March 1, 2014

FAILURE TO TRUST

http://mobile.nytimes.com/blogs/opinionator/2013/12/21/in-no-one-we-trust/?_r=0

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