9 Best Articles in 2022
mississippitoday.org
Inside Mississippi's only class on critical race theory
mississippitoday.org
~18 min read · Feb 3rd · As Republican lawmakers push to ban critical race theory, here’s how the class changed the mind of one conservative Mississippian.
Reader View · Shared by 74, including Judd Legum, Martin Stabe
Guardian Books
Thirty books to help us understand the world in 2020
Guardian Books
20+ min read · 2020-10-18 · The climate crisis, gender, populism, big tech, pandemics, race… our experts recommend titles to illuminate the issues of the day
Reader View · Shared by 626, including ΛLΞX TRΞJʘ, Caden Jiang, Katja Evertz, Evan Selinger, Kevin Roberts, Jacob Jarnvall, George Shiber, Nigel Warburton 🧡 #RejoinEU 🇺🇦, Ines Bieler, Stephanie A Kowalski, Juan Cole, Tauno, Gregor B. Rosenauer, Anita Leirfall, Ceferino Díaz, Prof Michael E. Mann, rogerverhoeven, MIT Press
Works in Progress
THE MAINTENANCE RACE
Works in Progress
20+ min read · Jul 22nd · The world’s first round-the-world solo yacht race was a thrilling and, for some, deadly contest. How its participants maintained their vessels can help us understand just how fundamental maintenance…
Reader View · Shared by 163, including Brian LeRoux, John Hagel, David Wallace-Wells, Patrick Collison
nonprofitquarterly.org
Goodbye “Race Neutrality”—The Case for Race-Conscious Economic Policy
nonprofitquarterly.org
4 min read · Feb 9th · For too long, economic policy has been “race neutral.” But only by adopting race-conscious policy can the reality of racial economic inequality be effectively addressed.
Reader View · Shared by 69
Education Week
What Is Culturally Responsive Teaching?
Education Week
~13 min read · Apr 18th · Here's what it means to be a culturally responsive teacher and where critical race theory ties in—or not.
Reader View · Shared by 280, including Lee Keyes, Philanthropy News Digest
BBC Future
The race to reclaim the dark
BBC Future
~11 min read · Jun 15th · Some 200 places around the world have now achieved Dark Sky status. Frankie Adkins explores the benefits nights with out light pollution can bring.
Reader View · Shared by 642, including Jeff Keni Pulver 🌻, Evan Kirstel the $B2B Techfluencer, Berci Meskó, MD, PhD
Baremetrics
Getting out of the startup rat race
Baremetrics
7 min read · From 2017 · I’m done. I’m tapping out. I’m bowing out of the startup rat race. No, we’re not shutting down Baremetrics. Very much the opposite. I’m…
Reader View · Shared by 117, including 🎆 🌸 Samuel Hulick 🌸 🌄, Carlo Badini, Thomas Eichmann, blinch, Ethan Anderson, Nick Persico, Andrei Luca, Sérgio Vieira, Jacob Jarnvall, Mark Kaigwa, Dez S. Papp, Startupxplore, Malik El Bay 🕊, Luis Roig, Rand Fishkin, Veronika Lampion, Ben Tossell, Alexandru Rosianu
The New Yorker
How the Internet Turned Us Into Content Machines
The New Yorker
6 min read · Jun 4th · Two new books examine how social media traps users in a brutal race to the bottom.
Reader View · Shared by 405, including Charles Duhigg, Jane, Kyle Chayka, Claudia Sommer, Lelio Simi, Maneet S, Mathew Ingram, Merkstatt, Stephanie A Kowalski, Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols, Tactical Tech, Mark Kaigwa, Evan Kirstel the $B2B Techfluencer, Gerd Leonhard, Ines Bieler
National Geographic
There's No Scientific Basis for Race—It's a Made-Up Label
National Geographic
~15 min read · From 2018 · It's been used to define and separate people for millennia. But the concept of race is not grounded in genetics.
Reader View · Shared by 45, including Mathew Ingram, Ayala Sherbow, Henning von Vogelsang, Howard Getson, Hrag
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Works in Progress
THE MAINTENANCE RACE
Works in Progress
20+ min read · Jul 22nd · The world’s first round-the-world solo yacht race was a thrilling and, for some, deadly contest. How its participants maintained their vessels can help us understand just how fundamental maintenance…
Reader View · Shared by 163, including Brian LeRoux, John Hagel, David Wallace-Wells, Patrick Collison
BBC Future
The race to reclaim the dark
BBC Future
~11 min read · Jun 15th · Some 200 places around the world have now achieved Dark Sky status. Frankie Adkins explores the benefits nights with out light pollution can bring.
Reader View · Shared by 642, including Jeff Keni Pulver 🌻, Evan Kirstel the $B2B Techfluencer, Berci Meskó, MD, PhD
The Guardian
The Barkley Marathons: the hellish 100-mile race with 15 finishers in 36 years
The Guardian
5 min read · Jun 28th · Participants in the Tennessee race must negotiate extreme temperatures, wild terrain and more than 50,000 feet of accumulated ascent
Reader View · Shared by 90
vladmihalcea.com
The race condition that led to bankruptcy
vladmihalcea.com
10 min read · Jun 14th · Learn how a race condition led to the bankruptcy of Flexcoin in 2014 after hackers stole all the available funds.
Reader View · Shared by 85, including yeon
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NBC News
Is critical race theory taking over your school board? A national organization could be why
NBC News
~13 min read · 2021-06-15 · In towns nationwide, well-connected conservative activists, and Fox News, have ramped up the tension in fights over race and equity in schools.
Reader View · Shared by 80, including Jamil Smith جميل كريم, Dan Gillmor, Larry Ferlazzo, Mathew Ingram, Lee Keyes, Sarah E. Frostenson, Trey Tweets Into the Void, Jay Rosen
NBC News
Florida school district cancels professor’s civil rights lecture over critical race theory concerns
NBC News
5 min read · Jan 24th · Critical race theory concerns played a role in a Florida school district cancelling a civil rights lecture.
Reader View · Shared by 74, including Brad Brooks, Jason Stanley, Cleavon MD 💉 💉 💉, Larry Sabato, Jeff Jarvis, Adrien Salazar, Joshua Benton, Steve Silberman, Larry Ferlazzo, Be A King, Ida Bae Wells
DW News
Germany warns: AI arms race already underway
DW News
8 min read · 2021-06-07 · An AI arms race is already underway. That's the blunt warning from Germany's foreign minister, Heiko Maas. "We're right in the middle of it. That's the reality we have to deal with," Maas told DW,…
Reader View · Shared by 90, including Thomas Power, Iain Brown, PhD, Thomas Pleil, Gabriele, Nige Willson, Wilko S. Wolters 🇩🇪🇪🇺
The Guardian
The unwelcome revival of ‘race science’
The Guardian
~16 min read · From 2018 · The long read: Its defenders claim to be standing up for uncomfortable truths, but race science is still as bogus as ever
Reader View · Shared by 95, including Neil Lee, Nils Hitze, J. P. Gownder (கவுண்டர்), Mathew Ingram, Jason Stanley, John Keefe, Manos Hatzimalonas, Damon Young, Timnit Gebru, ❤️ Umair, Tauno, ɐpuɐʎᴉW ᴉʇɐʍɥǝN
Players' Tribune Football
Privileged | By Kyle Korver
Players' Tribune Football
10 min read · From 2019 · There’s an elephant in the room that I’ve been thinking about a lot over these last few weeks.
Reader View · Shared by 364, including Jeff Raikes, Liliane Ferrari ™, Trey Tweets Into the Void, David Smooke, Robin Sloan, Mark Kaigwa, Loubna Rais, Nils Hitze, ɐpuɐʎᴉW ᴉʇɐʍɥǝN, Stephen C Sanders, Rand Fishkin, Howard Getson, M.G. Siegler
The Guardian
The Barkley Marathons: the hellish 100-mile race with 15 finishers in 36 years
The Guardian
5 min read · Jun 28th · Participants in the Tennessee race must negotiate extreme temperatures, wild terrain and more than 50,000 feet of accumulated ascent
Reader View · Shared by 90
vladmihalcea.com
The race condition that led to bankruptcy
vladmihalcea.com
10 min read · Jun 14th · Learn how a race condition led to the bankruptcy of Flexcoin in 2014 after hackers stole all the available funds.
Reader View · Shared by 85, including yeon
POLITICO
Mystery solved? Florida reveals why it rejected math books over critical race theory
POLITICO
3 min read · May 25th · The records, nearly 6,000 pages of book examinations, show that state reviewers flagged several traces of critical race theory and inklings of “social emotional learning” in proposed texts.
Reader View · Shared by 64
FiveThirtyEight
2020 Election: Live Coverage
FiveThirtyEight
2020-11-03 · Live election results and coverage of the 2020 presidential election between Donald Trump and Joe Biden, and the race for the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives.
Shared by 173, including Mathew Ingram, Pippa Norris, zeynep tufekci, Joe Chernov, Joshua Benton, Maggie Koerth, Prof Michael E. Mann, Maryn McKenna, Brendan Nyhan, Nate Silver, David Weigel, Julia Wolfe, Elizabeth Picciuto, Rand Fishkin, Nathaniel Rakich, Real Pedro 🏴☠️, Kai Kupferschmidt, Santiago Ortiz, Brian Stelter, Sarah E. Frostenson