Your face may become your iPhone password WaPo
Why laptops don’t belong in the classroom Treehugger
HALLELUJAH! A BRIEF HISTORY OF BOMBING PEOPLE Granta
Atomic City Longreads. The deck: “On January 3, 1961, a nuclear reactor the size of a small grain silo exploded in the Idaho desert, causing the only recorded nuclear fatalities on U.S. soil.”
Boston Red Sox Used Apple Watches to Steal Signs Against Yankees NYT. Shame!
Where Corn Pollutes America Most, and Who’s Responsible Bloomberg
Why Chinese children born in years of the dragon are more successful The Economist
Superhuman ‘night’ vision during the total eclipse? Research offers a biological explanation Phis.org (Chuck L)
Trump Transition
Trump ends DACA — and pressures Congress to pass immigration reform Politico
Obama calls Trump’s DACA decision cruel, self-defeating and wrong The Hill
Congress Probably Has The Votes To Make DACA Law. But That Doesn’t Mean It Will. FiveThirtyEight
Microsoft says it will defend its 39 ‘dreamers’ in court if the government tries to deport them WaPo
Business voices outrage at Trump immigration move FT
Franken opposes Trump judicial nominee, setting up procedural clash Politico
The Golden Age of Private Prisons Der Spiegel
Senate Democrats fight FCC plan to lower America’s broadband standards Ars Technica
Kill Me Now
New Clinton book blasts Sanders for ‘lasting damage’ in 2016 race CNN.
THE EMPIRE DOESN’T CARE WHO IS PRESIDENT The Outline
Reject the International “Fake News” Attack on Venezuela! Venezuela Analysis (Micael)
Big Brother IS Watching You Watch
Europe rights court restricts employer ability to monitor employee communication Jurist
North Korea
China
China’s ‘sponge cities’ aim to re-use 70% of rainwater – here’s how The Conversation
Imperial Collapse Watch
The real BRICS bombshell Asia Times. Pepe Escobar. The deck: “Putin reveals ‘fair multipolar world’ concept in which oil contracts could bypass the US dollar and be traded with oil, yuan and gold.”
Hurricane Irma
Hurricane Irma churns through Caribbean islands, possibly en route to Florida Reuters.
Category 5 Irma the 5th Strongest Atlantic Hurricane on Record Weather Underground
Dangerous Hurricane Nears Florida, State Led By Climate-Change Deniers International Business Times
Pentagon diverts 2 warships, Marine expeditionary unit for Hurricane Irma relief Miami Herald
d is for disaster Contexts (Micael)
Coal Giant Says Bankruptcy Shields It From California Climate Suit Climate Liability News
Hurricane Harvey
After the rain, eviction notices for many Houston Chronicle
Politicize Hurricane Harvey Jacobin
What victims of Hurricane Harvey can learn from Katrina as rebuilding begins The Conversation
Adding Up the Price of Tragedy in Storm-Ravaged Texas Bloomberg
The Coming Storm Jacobin
Health Care
Novartis charged much more in the U.S. for some drugs than in other countries Stat
Cancer’s Invasion Equation New Yorker. The deck: “We can detect tumors earlier than ever before. Can we predict whether they’re going to be dangerous?” Siddhartha Mukherjee.
Wells Fargo
Wells Fargo Should Focus on Its Actual Misbehavior, Not on Perceptions NYT
Brexit
David Davis to negotiate Brexit by pretending to be deaf Daily Mash
Leaked document reveals UK Brexit plan to deter EU immigrants Guardian
Syraqistan
New UN report urges investigation into human rights violations in Yemen Jurist
The Taliban: Undefeated, and possibly undefeatable Al Jazeera (Micael)
Syrian army breaks Isis’ three-year-long siege of Deir Ezzor Independent
What is fuelling Yemen’s cholera epidemic? Al Jazeera
Wasted time and money on undergraduate classes Hechinger Report (Micael)
Class Warfare
Diseases of Despair Truthdig
Silicon Valley Is Harming Workers And Creating More Economic Inequality, Says Expert International Business Times
These Labor Laws Are Suppressing Black Workers Fortune (Sid S)
Ivy League Endowments Under Fire Washington Monthly (Micael)
India
Is the Narendra Modi Bubble About to Burst? The Wire
Lessons from Assam: India’s flood control policy must go beyond embankments Scroll,in
Seven Little Lies the Government is Still Peddling About Demonetisation The Wire
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