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Weekend Reading 4/8/16

Keiko Is there lead exposure risk in your community? Find out here. Ta Nehisi-Coates is now writing comic books?! Black Panther features the first black superhero in mainstream American comics. Ta Nehisi-Coates gives you a behind-the-scenes look at this new Marvel comic book. Anna You knew this already, but here are more damning details: Fossil fuel giants and … Read more

Weekend Reading 4/1/16

Serena “It’s like a modern art installation. So fabulous—the people and machines and objects of our lives all working together.” That was Italian consul general Mauro Battocchi speaking about (wait for it…) a recycling facility. The “trash tourism” circuit, with little to no marketing, has apparently taken off, with officials from around the world visiting … Read more

Weekend Reading: 3/18/16

Eric Are some babies just easier than others? I wish we could all acknowledge that the answer is yes: Within the range of developmentally normal children, some parents have a much, much harder job than others: more drudge work, less gratification, more public shaming. It sometimes feels like the great undiscussed secret of pediatrics—and of … Read more

Weekend Reading: 3/11/16

Alan Gary Braasch: Brother, it’s been years since we schemed of a photo book to lay bare the consequences of American consumerism and since you donated a cover photo for the first-ever book on climate change in Cascadia. Now, before we could scheme and collaborate again, you’re gone. Gary, your deep passion for this planet … Read more

Weekend Reading 3/4/16

Kristin Nick Hanauer gives us a 21st century view of the economy: a healthy economy is one that is creating new solutions to human problems. To solve problems, we need a diversity of ideas and approaches. To foster more ideas, we need to give more people the opportunity to participate. Bill Gates had a good … Read more

Weekend Reading 2/26/16

Kristin Funny-shaped districts aren’t the problem with American voting. Electing one representative per district (funny-shaped or otherwise) is the problem. We can solve it with multi-member districts that ensure minority views get represented and it doesn’t matter who draws then district lines. Yes, yes, and more yes. The Brennan Center’s Democracy agenda: Voting rights, money in … Read more

Weekend Reading 2/12/16

Anna One appeal for voters (albeit different voters) that Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders seem to share is that they don’t (or claim not to) have pollsters. The idea is: You get what you get (or in Trump’s case, “No one tells me what to say”). The idea is that poll numbers aren’t going to … Read more

Weekend Reading 2/5/16

Anna From Intellectual Take Out, via my old year-of-nothing-new gurus, the Minimalists, 15 stats that show Americans are drowning in stuff. (Can you guess how many households rent storage units or how many actually have room to park a car in their garage?) Rural Studio architecture students are perfecting the $20K house so they are … Read more

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