This Is Katie F---ing Ledecky: A Thesis About Kicking Ass - Grantland
Grandmaster Clash: One of the most amazing feats in chess history just happened, and nobody noticed - Slate
A Coming-Out Party For The Humble Pawpaw, Native Fruit Darling - The Salt. Quite a few of these grow on the farm I live on.
Farmaceuticals: the drugs fed to farm animals and the risks posed to humans - Reuters
Keeping Heirloom Apples Alive Is 'Like A Chain Letter' Over Many Centuries - All Things Considered, and The Comeback Of The Endangered Colorado Orange, An Apple -The Salt
California town faces life without water - Financial Times. In the Central Valley. My guess is that agricultural irrigation wells lowered the aquifer below residents' well depths.
What next for the United Kingdom? - Pieria
How to Defeat ISIS, According to Ted Cruz - The Atlantic. What an asshat douchebag. Cruz panders to the biggest idiots in the Republican party.
World Should Prepare for 11 Billion or More People - Scientific American. I don't think that will work out well.
How Gary Hart's Downfall Forever Changed American Politics - New York Times
Boeing Faces a Future Without Fighter Jets - Wall Street Journal. The slideshow is worth checking out, even though it is of B-17s and not fighters. The article also features a photo of a P-51, which was manufactured by North American, which was later purchased by Rockwell, and finally by Boeing, in 1996. I don't understand why the P-51 would be featured in a story about declining F-15 and F/A-18 sales, but World War II planes are cool.
Why is the USDA Buying Submachine Guns? - Modern Farmer. Yikes.
Crossing the Line - Texas Observer and A fracking story too good to be true - Bloomberg. Also, The Great Frack Forward - Mother Jones. The fracking boom hits China.
Bees and Ants on How to Make Decisions - Wall Street Journal, but see Ants Are Cool but Teach Us Nothing - Bloomberg
Alibaba Debut Makes a Splash - Wall Street Journal. Crazy.
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