Linkage

• 3.7-billion-year-old fossil makes life on Mars less of a long shot (USA Today) Space geek time.
• Vice shows how not to treat freelancers (Columbia Journalism Review) Even by the standard of how stringers are treated, it's pretty bleak.
• In 1975, a cat co-authored a physics paper (ScienceAlert) Physics and cats, what's not to love.
• Memory and attention are affected by much lower levels of dehydration than previously thought (The Conversation) Drink up.
• Excess Management Is Costing the U.S. $3 Trillion Per Year (Harvard Business Review2) As an aside, these people, whether in government, academe or business, raise the cost of college, finance, and generally doing business. It is a parasitic class.
• Austerity and the rise of populism (Coppola Comment) The belief in the myth of the "Confidence Fairy", which posits that reducing spending leads to more academic activity, doesn't work, and leads to a nasty turn in politics.
• Exclusive: How Elizabeth Holmes’s House of Cards Came Tumbling Down (Vanity Fair) Theranos appears to have been an exercise in self-delusion and fraud from the beginning.
• Apple introduces iPhone 7 ($649), iPhone 7 Plus ($769), and wireless earbuds (Ars Technica) Apple just disposed of the 3.5mm ear phone jack, they have an adapter, but you cannot charge the phone and use it at the same time, and it's yet another thing that you have to charge. BTW, the new wireless earphone is $150, yet another tax on your Apple fetish.
• Spoof an Ethernet adapter on USB, and you can sniff credentials from locked laptops (The Register) The computer is your friend.

H/T DC at the Stellar Parthenon BBS for this hilarious take-down of hipsters: