Sunday, February 3, 2019

Super Bowl Sunday Links

Stories from the last week for your reading pleasure:

Rural Communities Struggle to Adapt to Life Without Football - The Atlantic  

Tom Brady's roots run deep into 19th century Boston - Boston Globe

How an Olympic Hopeful Robbed 26 Banks on His Bike - Chicago Magazine (h/t my former boss).  For what it is worth, a guy robbed a bank in Piqua, Ohio and rode away on a bike, and I don't think he was ever caught.

US academics feel the invisible hand of politicians and big agriculture - The Guardian

Inside the Apollo Guidance Computer's core memory - Ken Shirriff's blog

St. Brigid and the Coming of Spring - RTE 

Sears Once Sold Heroin - The Atlantic  

Can China Turn the Middle of Nowhere Into the Center of the World Economy? – New York Times (also from my boss)

Coal Country Is Dying. All Trump Has Are Lies. – Washington Monthly

Snake-Oil Economics – Greg Mankiw

EPA’s chemical decision worries Republicans – Politico and Republicans Are Loud on Water, Silent on ClimateThe Atlantic  

Gone in a generation - Washington Post




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