The Case for Reparations - Ta-Nehisi Coates. In case you hear somebody say something ridiculous like that black people are advantaged because of affirmative action.
Science Standards Divide a State Built on Oil and Coal - New York Times
The Dos Equis Guy Has Nothing on the Inventor of the Banana Slicer - Slate
Gaius Publius: "Erring on the Side of Least Drama" - Why Climate Scientists are Inherently Conservative - naked capitalism. Uh oh.
California's Drought Isn't Making Food Cost More. Here's Why - NPR. Irrigation. A real race to the bottom.
They're Here: Lake Flies Have Emerged - Wired. Gross.
Nazi pork and popularity: How Hitler's roads won German hearts and minds - VoxEU. Infrastructure investment leads to the Holocaust?
'Pink Slime' Makes Comeback as Beef Prices Spike - Wall Street Journal. Ok in my book. See also, 5 food additives more disgusting than 'pink slime' - Marketwatch. Google Castoreum.
This Happened Twice Before, and Each Time Stocks Crashed - Wolf Richter. The chart is disconcerting.
A libertarian utopia - Aeon. Isn't libertarian society an oxymoronic concept?
The Effluent Society - Texas Monthly. I was well into the civil engineering program in college before I realized that city water wasn't recycled waste water. I still drank city water, and I assumed that's why they added the chlorine. As far as I was concerned (and it is true), well water on the farm was recycled waste water (well-diluted), since the leach field lets it percolate down to the aquifer. Recycled waste water, meeting SDWA requirements, doesn't bother me a bit.
Everything is broken - Medium. "It’s hard to explain to regular people how much technology barely works, how much the infrastructure of our lives is held together by the IT equivalent of baling wire.
I didn't realize that for more than two years I've been in the older half of the country's population:
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