warzel.substack.com
How To Have Difficult Conversations
9 min · · Hint: Not on Twitter! · Shared by 106, including Anne Helen Petersen, Jay Rosen, Gabriele, Carly, Mathew Ingram
BBC News (World)
The animals changed by proximity to humans
6 min · · It's not just domestication that has changed animals – simply sharing their environment with humans has radically altered the behaviour of some species. · Shared by 102, including Thomas Power, Krishna
Vox
Homeownership can bring out the worst in you
8 min · · It’s the biggest thing you might ever buy. And it could be turning you into a bad person. · Shared by 115, including Anne Helen Petersen, Carly
The Atlantic
The Time Tax
Summary · 15+ min · · A six-month wait for unemployment insurance. A paperwork nightmare over an insurance reimbursement. Drug tests for cash benefits. Why is there so much red tape in American life? · Shared by 440, including Kelsey D. Atherton, now available on Bluesky, Jessica Valenti, douglass CLT (cross-laminated timber), Clint Smith, Nir Eyal, Paul Graham, Scott Galloway, Ezra Klein, Gregg Gonsalves, Jon Keegan 🇺🇦, Jake Wojtowicz, Steve Faktor, Allison Arieff, Kevin M. Kruse, Annie Lowrey, Antonio Vieira Santos, Scott Santens, Jason Stanley, David Frum, Neil Lewis, Jr., PhD
Aeon+Psyche
The inheritance of crime
10 min · · Eugenic ideas about criminal genes have been repudiated for decades, but a new biological approach to crime is emerging · Shared by 6, including Carly
Quartz
This new government data show US parents didn’t do more parenting in 2020
2 min · · The pandemic changed and didn't change parenting in surprising ways, according to the American Time Use Survey · Shared by 20, including David Yanofsky, Carly
The New York Times
The Battle Over State Voting Rights Is About the Future of Texas
6 min · · The current skirmish is the latest in a tug of war being waged between the state’s increasingly Democratic cities and its deeply conservative rural areas. · Shared by 9, including Carly
The Washington Post
How Tucker Carlson became the voice of White grievance
· With the defeat of former president Donald Trump and the death of Rush Limbaugh, the Fox News host has emerged as a dominant force shaping a Republican Party energized by racial resentment. · Shared by 82, including Scott McLeod, Karen K. Ho, Brian Stelter, Margaret Sullivan, Mathew Ingram, Amy Siskind 🏳️🌈, Kevin M. Kruse, Carly, Kara Swisher, Sarah E. Frostenson, Jamil Smith جميل كريم, Diane Ravitch 🇺🇸🇺🇦🌈🗽🌹, Garance Franke-Ruta, Trey Tweets Into the Void, Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis
bizjournals.com
A gender gap has resulted in fewer women’s health inventions, but it’s narrowing
· Fewer women inventors = fewer inventions addressing women’s health, researchers say. · Shared by 5, including Carly
National Review
Convincing the Skeptics
5 min · · Vaccine resisters can’t be persuaded if they feel disrespected. · Shared by 15, including Glenn Greenwald, Carly, MΛRC VIDΛL
The Washington Post
Vaccine hesitancy morphs into hostility, as opposition to shots hardens
8 min · · The notion of coronavirus vaccines as unnecessary or harmful — or a government plot — is increasingly embraced by Trump supporters, complicating Biden’s push to boost the public’s immunity before autumn. · Shared by 31, including Deborah Blum, David CisMan, Timothy Caulfield, Céline Gounder, MD, ScM, FIDSA 🇺🇦, Carly
Insider Business
Meet the typical 40-year-old millennial, who has $128,000 in debt, is not nearly as wealthy as their parents were, and…
5 min · · The oldest millennials enter middle age this year. Many don't identify with the rest of their generation and are financially behind older generations. · Shared by 26, including Carly, Lee Keyes, John Nosta, Matteo Carbone, Jeremiah Owyang
The Washington Post
Opinion | American democracy survived its Reichstag fire on Jan. 6. But the threat has not subsided.
· Republicans have become an authoritarian faction fighting democracy. · Shared by 29, including Alfie Kohn, Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis, Carly, Kevin M. Kruse
VICE
MIT Predicted in 1972 That Society Will Collapse This Century. New Research Shows We're on Schedule
5 min · · A 1972 MIT study predicted that rapid economic growth would lead to societal collapse in the mid 21st century. A new paper shows we're unfortunately right on schedule. · Shared by 956, including Arin Basu, Chris {he, they} , Oliver Raduner, Yann “不停” Heurtaux ⏚ @shalf@mastodon.social, Jonathan Kogan, Marvin “Polymath but really Just Generalist” Liao, Marsha Collier, David Wallace-Wells, Martin Ford, Stever Robbins @stever@newsie.social, Gabriele, Gerd Leonhard, Dirk Spannaus, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Tactical Tech, Pat Kua, Prof Steve Keen, Brian Laung Aoaeh, CFA, Stowe Boyd
The New Statesman
Do gender norms enforce a divide between literature and philosophy?
6 min · · It’s 1978, and Iris Murdoch is appearing on a BBC television show called Men of Ideas. Nobody mentions the irony. She’s telling the host, Bryan Magee, she “feel[s] very strongly” that philosophy and… · Shared by 99, including Anita Leirfall, Carly, Emily Thomas, Jason Stanley
Anne Helen Petersen
Who’s Afraid of the Four Day Work Week?
11+ min · · This is the weekend edition of Culture Study — the newsletter from Anne Helen Petersen, which you can read about here. If you like it and want more like it in your inbox, consider subscribing. If… · Shared by 62, including Hailley Griffis, Neil Lee, hakan, Lucas Foster, Carly