- Facebook and Instagram Scatter Your Brain so You'll Buy Stuff file under, "Well, duh"
- Population Decline Will Change the World for the Better (Scientific American) The economists, tools of capital, call a population decline, with the associated increase in labor power, a catastrophe. Sci Am runs the numbers, and not so much.
- Want More Jobs? Raise the Minimum Wage (The Big Picture) A study shows that raising the minimum wage increases employment.
- Researchers craft a fully edible battery (Ars Technica) From the department of WAY too much free time.
- Russia and the emergence of the post-Western world (Canadian Dimension) Observations on why the West has not been able to engender much support in Africa, Asia, or Latin America. Short version, former colonies see the war as an extension of colonialism by the West.
- Film looks at satanic panic and the book that helped fuel the fire (Vancouver Sun) A review of the movie Satan Wants You, a take down of the Satanic cult panic of the 1990s. The whole panic is even more twisted than you could imagine.
- The Ugly Truth Behind “We Buy Ugly Houses” (ProPublica) It's a scam, kind of like every other "Innovation" in real estate in the past 50 years. (ATMs in the US date from 54 years ago)
I particularly liked his making the rivets:
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