Wednesday, November 30, 2016

PRIVATE PRISONS AND TRUMP

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/12/05/trump-sets-private-prisons-free?mbid=rss

HOW MANY HOUSEHOLDS ARE HOME TO THE DISABLED? LOTS

http://demomemo.blogspot.com/2016/11/how-many-households-are-home-to-disabled.html?m=1

WHAT TO DO ABOUT FAKE NEWS

http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/solving-the-problem-of-fake-news?mbid=rss

Tuesday, November 29, 2016

CHANGING MULTIPLE HABITS AT ONCE

http://mobile.nytimes.com/blogs/well/2016/05/12/out-with-the-old/?utm_source=pocket&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=pockethits&referer=https://getpocket.com/

ROOTS OF CONFLICT IN THE MIDDLE EAST

http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21698652-europe-and-america-made-mistakes-misery-arab-world-caused-mainly-its-own?utm_source=pocket&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=pockethits

WHY IS PRODUCTIVITY SO WEAK?

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/04/29/upshot/why-is-productivity-so-weak-three-theories.html?utm_source=pocket&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=pockethits&_r=0&referer=https://getpocket.com/

PORTION CONTROL

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/apr/25/problem-portions-eating-too-much-food-control-cutting-down?utm_source=pocket&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=pockethits

NET ENERGY METERING SUBSIDIZES SOLAR

https://www.brookings.edu/opinions/why-net-energy-metering-results-in-a-subsidy-the-elephant-in-the-room/

POVERTY AND HYPERBOLIC DISCOUNTING

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/06/08/the-problem-with-one-of-the-most-popular-assumptions-about-the-poor/

MAKING STOP AND FRISK MORE EFFECTIVE

http://conversableeconomist.blogspot.com/2016/06/some-economics-of-stop-and-frisk.html?m=1

WHY AMERICANS ARE MOVING LESS

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/05/how-america-lost-its-mojo/484655/

AVERTING AN ANTIBIOTIC DISASTER

http://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/05/the-ten-part-plan-to-avert-our-post-antibiotic-apocalypse/483360/?utm_source=pocket&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=pockethits

SOCIAL MEDIA ADDICTION

https://www.google.com/amp/www.theatlantic.com/amp/article/501122/?client=ms-android-verizon

HOW SOCIAL MEDIA GOT WEAPONIZED

https://www.google.com/amp/www.theatlantic.com/amp/article/503630/?client=ms-android-verizon

WHY KIDS NEED RECESS

https://www.google.com/amp/www.theatlantic.com/amp/article/505850/?client=ms-android-verizon

BABY MONITORING

https://www.google.com/amp/www.theatlantic.com/amp/article/505841/?client=ms-android-verizon

WHAT OBAMA GOT RIGHT AS PRESIDENT

https://www.google.com/amp/www.theatlantic.com/amp/article/505856/?client=ms-android-verizon

CHINA'S GREAT LEAP BACKWARD

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/12/chinas-great-leap-backward/505817/

HOW CASINOS ENABLE GAMBLING ADDICTS

https://www.google.com/amp/www.theatlantic.com/amp/article/505814/

THE CASE AGAINST CATS

https://www.google.com/amp/www.theatlantic.com/amp/article/505838/

Monday, November 28, 2016

CRIMINALIZING SCHOOL MISBEHAVIOR

http://www.theatlantic.com/amp/article/501149/

THE END OF WALKING

https://aeon.co/essays/step-by-step-americans-are-sacrificing-the-right-to-walk

Sunday, November 27, 2016

THE BIG SORT IS GETTING BIGGER

http://www.citylab.com/amp/article/504830/

Saturday, November 26, 2016

UTILITY SUBSIDIZES FOR SPRAWL

http://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2016/10/25/how-we-subsidize-spread-out-places-via-utilities

RURAL WALKABILITY

http://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2016/10/27/walkability-rural-neighborhoods

THE PURPOSE OF REGRET

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/11/13/opinion/whats-the-use-of-regret.html?_r=0&referer=

THE WAR ON STUPID PEOPLE

https://www.google.com/amp/www.theatlantic.com/amp/article/485618/?client=ms-android-verizon

TRUMPTOWN

https://www.google.com/amp/www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/10/10/in-the-heart-of-trump-country/amp?client=ms-android-verizon

DO WE NEED PAPER MONEY?

https://www.google.com/amp/www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/10/10/imagining-a-cashless-world/amp?client=ms-android-verizon

INFLAMMATION AND HEALTH

https://www.google.com/amp/www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/11/30/inflamed/amp?client=ms-android-verizon

Friday, November 25, 2016

BOOK: FINNISH LESSONS

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0807752576/ref=mp_s_a_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1480100368&sr=8-2&pi=SY200_QL40&keywords=finnish+lessons&dpPl=1&dpID=51X3vUSa1FL&ref=plSrch

BOOK: HUNGER

https://www.amazon.com/Hunger-Unnatural-Sharman-Apt-Russell/dp/0465071651

WE ARE ALL RELATED

http://www.bradford-delong.com/2016/11/on-a-thousand-year-timescale-the-human-race-really-is-just-one-big-unhappy-family.html

Thursday, November 24, 2016

ABORTION OBSTACLES IN SOUTH DAKOTA

http://harpers.org/archive/2016/12/with-child/?single=1

WHY TRUMP VOTERS ARE ANGRY

http://nymag.com/scienceofus/2016/11/sociology-of-trump-country.html

MONEY AND MOTIVATION

https://blog.longreads.com/2016/11/17/a-conversation-with-dan-ariely-on-what-shapes-our-motivations/amp/

SUBSTANDARD PRIVATE PRISONS

https://www.google.com/amp/amp.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2016/08/18/federal_government_disassociates_with_private_prisons.html?client=ms-android-verizon

CHARTER SCHOOL PROBLEMS

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2016/12/08/when-public-goes-private-as-trump-wants-what-happens/

HARSH WORK CONDITIONS IN POULTRY PLANTS

http://www.slate.com/articles/business/the_grind/2016/11/turkey_plants_are_harsh_on_workers_in_the_weeks_before_thanksgiving.html

Tuesday, November 22, 2016

CITY VS RURAL ECONOMIES

http://harvestpublicmedia.org/content/while-cities-recover-rural-economy-still-struggles-shake-great-recession#.WDRYbsuIbqA

Monday, November 21, 2016

100 MILLION DEAD TREES IN CALIFORNIA DUE TO DROUGHT

http://inhabitat.com/more-than-100-million-california-trees-dead-due-to-drought/

BOOK : WAIT, THE ART AND SCIENCE OF DELAY

https://www.amazon.com/Wait-Science-Delay-Frank-Partnoy/dp/1610392477

DEEP STORIES, THE TEA PARTY, AND TRUMP

https://www.thenation.com/article/deep-stories/

Friday, November 18, 2016

DEATH VALLEY IS ALIVE

https://www.google.com/amp/www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/11/14/death-valley-is-alive/amp?client=ms-android-verizon

VENEZUELA, A FAILING STATE

https://www.google.com/amp/www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/11/14/venezuela-a-failing-state/amp?client=ms-android-verizon

BOOK : OIL AND HONEY

https://www.amazon.com/Oil-Honey-Education-Unlikely-Activist/dp/0805092846

Thursday, November 17, 2016

OVERCROWDED HOUSING IN CALIFORNIA

http://www.newgeography.com/content/005452-overcrowded-california

Sunday, November 13, 2016

BOOK : BLACK FLAGS

https://www.amazon.com/Black-Flags-Rise-Joby-Warrick/dp/0804168938

Saturday, November 12, 2016

HEALTH CARE INSURANCE AND PRE-EXISTING CONDITIONS

https://www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/news/wonk/wp/2016/11/12/donald-trump-is-beginning-to-face-a-rude-awakening-over-obamacare/

Friday, November 11, 2016

THE OBAMA DOCTRINE

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/04/the-obama-doctrine/471525/

THE DOWNSIDE OF RESILIENCE

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/11/30/opinion/sunday/the-downside-of-resilience.html

Sunday, November 6, 2016

THE FASTEST SUPERMARKET LINE

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/09/08/business/how-to-pick-the-fastest-line-at-the-supermarket.html?_r=0&referer=http://lifehacker.com/pick-the-fastest-lane-at-the-supermarket-by-getting-beh-1788300140

Friday, November 4, 2016

CENTER LINE STRIPING DOES NOT MAKE STREETS SAFER

http://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2016/10/31/ask-r-moses-does-center-line-striping-make-streets-safer

BOOK : THE NORDIC THEORY OF EVERYTHING

https://www.amazon.com/Nordic-Theory-Everything-Search-Better/dp/0062316540