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Sunday, April 28, 2019
AUTOMATING YOUR COWORKERS OUT OF A JOB
https://gizmodo.com/so-you-automated-your-coworkers-out-of-a-job-1831584839
MATERIALISM AND MINIMALISM
https://newrepublic.com/article/152878/exhausting-minimalism-tidying-up-netflix-marie-kondo
Saturday, April 27, 2019
ASSISTED PLANT MIGRATION
The Difficult Case for Assisted Plant Migration https://longreads.com/2019/04/22/the-difficult-case-for-assisted-plant-migration/
HAS THE US ECONOMY STAGNATED BECAUSE THE WORKFORCE HAS AGED?
https://www.minneapolisfed.org/publications/the-region/has-the-us-economy-stagnated-because-its-work-force-aged
WHERE DO GOOD JOBS COME FROM?
https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/automation-vs-job-creation-by-daron-acemoglu-2019-04
ESCAPING SUBSTANDARD AFFORDABLE HOUSING
Low-income housing in flood zones traps families in harms way https://inhabitat.com/low-income-housing-in-flood-zones-traps-families-in-harms-way
Friday, April 26, 2019
WHEN SHOULD PARKING REQUIREMENTS BE WAIVED?
Parking is Important and Not Important https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2019/4/25/parking-is-important-and-not-important
DOES CLOSING STREETS IMPROVE NEIGHBORHOODS?
The Curious Tale of the St. Louis Street Barriers https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2019/04/car-free-safe-streets-st-louis-map-vehicle-barriers-traffic/586501/?utm_source=feed
WHAT MAKES EMPLOYEES HAPPY AT WORK?
This is what makes employees happy at work | Michael C. Bush https://www.ted.com/talks/michael_c_bush_this_is_what_makes_employees_happy_at_work?rss=172BB350-0205
HOW TO CREATE A CONVERSATION AMONG PEOPLE WHO DISAGREE
https://www.ted.com/talks/eve_pearlman_how_to_lead_a_conversation_between_people_who_disagree/up-next?rss=172BB350-0205#t-537537
Wednesday, April 24, 2019
IMPROVING THE BUILDING PERMIT PROCESS
A Permit Process Should Never Take a Year. Here's a Different Way. https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2019/4/22/a-permit-process-should-never-take-a-year-heres-a-different-way
HOUSING THE HOMELESS CHALLENGES
https://www.npr.org/2019/04/24/716743009/rental-vouchers-for-las-homeless-provide-short-term-fix-for-long-term-problem?utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=news
SAVING THE NEIGHBORHOOD GROCERY STORE
The Man Who’s Going to Save Your Neighborhood Grocery Store https://longreads.com/2019/04/23/the-man-whos-going-to-save-your-grocery-store/
GREENLAND IS FALLING APART
Greenland Is Falling Apart https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/04/how-much-ice-has-greenland-lost-climate-change/587431/?utm_source=feed
HIGH END CATERING
A Dispatch From the Fast-Paced, Makeshift World of High-End Catering https://longreads.com/2019/04/24/a-dispatch-from-the-fast-paced-makeshift-world-of-high-end-catering/
WHY COMPASSION FADES
Why compassion fades https://bigthink.com/sex-relationships/why-compassion-fades
WHY DOES IT ALWAYS TAKE A CRISIS TO GET SOMETHING FIXED?
https://slate.com/business/2019/04/why-didnt-anyone-want-to-repair-notre-dame-before-the-fire.html
Tuesday, April 23, 2019
AFE OF THE CHICKEN
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/12/how-chickens-became-the-ultimate-symbol-of-the-anthropocene/
Saturday, April 20, 2019
TENNESSEE'S FREE COMMUNITY COLLEGE PROGRAM
The red state that loves free college https://www.politico.com/agenda/story/2019/01/16/tennessee-free-college-000867
THE COUNTRY IS NOT FULL
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/09/upshot/trump-america-full-or-emptying.html
PUBLIC HOUSING ON POLLUTED SITES
https://thebaffler.com/salvos/on-poisoned-ground-burns?src=longreads
Friday, April 19, 2019
SAN FRANCISCO'S COMING HOUSING ARMAGEDDON
The City That Apps Built, or Destroyed https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/04/san-francisco-city-apps-built-or-destroyed/587389/?utm_source=feed
Thursday, April 18, 2019
Tuesday, April 16, 2019
GETTING OUT OF NATURE'S WAY
https://www.hcn.org/issues/50.17/climate-change-can-a-california-town-move-back-from-the-sea-imperial-beach?src=longreads
THE POWER OF STREET GRIDS
The Neighborhood Traffic Trade-Off https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2019/1/30/the-neighborhood-traffic-trade-off
Monday, April 15, 2019
THE US ASYLUM PROCESS
https://www.realclearpolicy.com/articles/2019/02/08/five_facts_the_us_immigration_asylum_process_111036.html
WHY WE WON'T ALL BE HAPPY
https://awealthofcommonsense.com/2019/04/why-well-never-all-be-happy-again/
ARE PLASTIC BAGS SO BAD?
Organic cotton shopping bags have to be used 20,000 times before they're better for the Earth than plastic disposables https://boingboing.net/2019/04/15/organic-cotton-shopping-bags-h.html
CHILD CARE POLICIES DRAG ON THE ECONOMY
https://slate.com/business/2019/02/child-care-day-care-policies-paid-family-maternity-leave-gdp.html
REVERSING THE RURAL BRAIN DRAIN WITH REMOTE WORKING
Reversing the rural brain drain with remote working https://www.curbed.com/2019/2/12/18221421/startup-remote-working-rural-coworking
Sunday, April 14, 2019
THE PROBLEM WITH A SMART BORDER WALL
The Problem With a ‘Smart’ Border Wall https://www.citylab.com/equity/2019/02/smart-wall-border-surveillance-tech-security-deal-trump-data/582589/?utm_source=feed
COUNTRIES WITH MORE BUTTER ARE HAPPIER
Countries with more butter have happier citizens https://bigthink.com/strange-maps/butter-and-happiness
THE MAN WHO ROBBED A BANK TO GET HEALTH CARE
https://magazine.atavist.com/the-desperado-ed-averill-bank-robbery-austin-texas
SCHOOL AUTONOMY
Chicago’s mayor sees through the fog on school autonomy https://www.brookings.edu/blog/brown-center-chalkboard/2019/02/15/chicagos-mayor-sees-through-the-fog-on-school-autonomy/
FOUR PROPOSALS FOR IMPROVING WORK WAGES
Some Proposals for Improving Work, Wages, and Skills for Americans http://conversableeconomist.blogspot.com/2019/02/some-proposals-for-improving-work-wages.html
HOW TO GRANT YOUR CHILD AN INNER LIFE
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/how-to-grant-your-child-an-inner-life?src=longreads
Saturday, April 13, 2019
Friday, April 12, 2019
THE TOWN WHERE RETIREES CAN'T RETIRE
The Town Where Retirees Can’t Retire https://www.citylab.com/life/2019/02/rural-aging-demographics-jobs-places-to-retire/582862/?utm_source=feed
HOW NEIGHBORHOODS ARE SHOWN ON GOOGLE
https://onezero.medium.com/how-googles-bad-data-wiped-a-neighborhood-off-the-map-80c4c13f1c2b?src=longreads
LOUISIANA'S DISAPPEARING COAST
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/04/01/louisianas-disappearing-coast
THE UNFAIRNESS OF MONEY BAIL
The Unfairness of Money Bail https://conversableeconomist.blogspot.com/2019/04/the-unfairness-of-money-bail.html
Wednesday, April 10, 2019
THE SERVANT ECONOMY
The Servant Economy https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/03/what-happened-uber-x-companies/584236/?utm_source=feed
THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN RENT AND QUALITY OF LIFE
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-03-26/if-you-can-t-afford-the-rent-it-s-my-problem-too?srnd=opinion&fbclid=IwAR3qQU-4WDHYCsH8xYuaxRno3qZWekoWSA2vsjRnAuV1Wkmm03ZMwEjzTbQ
Sunday, April 7, 2019
PROPERTY TAX DOWNWARD SPIRAL
Rewarding Neglect and Punishing Investment in Struggling Neighborhoods https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2019/3/7/rewarding-neglect-and-punishing-investment-in-struggling-neighborhoods
EMPLOYMENT DECLINE AMONG MEN WITHOUT COLLEGE DEGREES
Where Have All the Men Without College Degrees Gone? https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2019/03/decline-men-without-degrees-labor-market/584479/?utm_source=feed
THE CASE AGAINST LAWNS
The case against lawns https://www.curbed.com/2019/3/13/18262285/mcmansion-hell-kate-wagner-lawn-care-mowing
CAUSES OF THE DECLINE IN HAPPINESS
The Happiness Recession https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/04/happiness-recession-causing-sex-depression/586405/?utm_source=feed
THE DEBATE OVER RACE AND IQ
https://everythingstudies.com/2018/04/26/a-deep-dive-into-the-harris-klein-controversy/
ARGUING CONSTRUCTIVELY
The New Science of How to Argue—Constructively https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/04/erisology-the-science-of-arguing-about-everything/586534/?utm_source=feed
HOSPITAL CLOSURES HIT SMALL TOWNS HARD
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/04/07/703932131/economic-ripples-hospital-closure-hurts-a-towns-ability-to-attract-retirees?utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=news
Saturday, April 6, 2019
IMPLICATIONS OF CALIFORNIA'S EARTHQUAKE HIATUS
https://mashable.com/article/earthquake-california-hiatus/#GI3NRH0qDPqm
ECONOMIC THEORY OF RENT
https://stumblingandmumbling.typepad.com/stumbling_and_mumbling/2019/04/why-rent-matters.html
Friday, April 5, 2019
THE BARABOO PHOTO AND SOCIAL MEDIA
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/josephbernstein/baraboo-nazi-prom-photo?src=longreads
BIAS AND NOISE
"Bias Has Been Overestimated at the Expense of Noise:" Daniel Kahneman http://conversableeconomist.blogspot.com/2019/04/bias-has-been-overestimated-at-expense.html
GUN CONTROL WORKS
More Research Indicates That Gun Control Works https://www.citylab.com/life/2019/04/gun-control-firearms-law-deaths-shooting-state-data-research/586363/?utm_source=feed
FACTORS DRIVING MIGRANTS FROM CENTRAL AMERICA
Trump’s right: Border arrests are surging. Here’s why. https://www.politico.com/story/2019/04/05/trump-border-arrest-1325186
Thursday, April 4, 2019
BEHIND THE HIGH COST OF ACADEMIC JOURNALS
The Real Cost of Knowledge https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/03/uc-elsevier-publisher/583909/?utm_source=feed
SENIORS ON THE INTERNET
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/craigsilverman/old-and-online-fake-news-aging-population
Wednesday, April 3, 2019
CITY GROWTH
How Density Can Deter Growth in America’s Largest Metros https://www.citylab.com/life/2019/03/density-population-growth-cities-why-mid-size-fast/584890/?utm_source=feed
ACTIVE VERSUS PASSIVE MINDSET
Yes, It’s All Your Fault: Active vs. Passive Mindsets https://fs.blog/2019/03/active-mindset/
FIVE ANIMALS BEING CONSUMED INTO EXTINCTION
These 5 animals are being consumed into extinction https://inhabitat.com/these-5-animals-are-being-consumed-into-extinction
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