NCAA Tournament Opening Weekend Links

In between basketball games, you can check out these stories:

Are the 2016 Browns the Least Talented Team in Modern History? - Bleacher Report

The Complicated Politics of Hating Duke - Wall Street Journal.  Not complicated for me.

The Farm Bill Drove Me Insane - Politico  

Low oil prices drying up ethanol producers’ profits - Des Moines Register 

Who’s watching the chickens?- Politico

Gigi The Cow Broke The Milk Production Record. Is That Bad For Cows? - The Salt  

These artisans specialize in the dwindling craft of saintly repairs - Washington Post  

Inside the Billion-Dollar Dig to America’s Biggest Copper Deposit - Bloomberg. Crazy. 

A sinking jail: The environmental disaster that is Rikers Island - Grist

Story of cities #4: Beijing and the earliest planning document in history - Guardian

  

The Hoaxster Who Revealed Sad Truths About America - Priceonomics

How We Learned (Almost) Everything That's Wrong With U.S. Census Data - Harvard Business Review

Crowdfunding for the Public Good is Evil - Wired

Free Lunch - Texas Observer 

The Role of Highways in American Poverty - The Atlantic  

The Huge Cultural Shift That's Helping Trump Win Evangelicals - Politico

The great unsettling - Washington Post

Extraordinary Raw Materials in a Tesla Model S - Visual Capitalist