I share a lot of links on Twitter and Facebook that I don’t blog about because I don’t have much to add. The reading list is a periodic feature where I share those links with my blog audience too. Of course, you’re still welcome to follow me on Twitter.
- “10 Defensive Reactions to White Privilege That Make No Damn Sense – But Are Super Common“–“Can you imagine telling Rosa Parks that she’ll eventually get to the front of the bus if she just shuts up about being forced to sit in the back?“
- “Low fiber diets make gut microbes poop out“–“The results suggest that when we pass our genes on to our children, we also pass on a gut ecosystem that reflects our previous dietary choices. (No pressure.)”
- “Free Books on race, gender, sexuality, and class that are bound to get you woke!“–“In need of some new reading to spur your mind? Here is a great list of FREE BOOKS in PDF form to educate oneself on race, gender, sexuality, class, and culture!”
- “Iran nuclear deal: International sanctions lifted“–“Speaking in Vienna where he had been holding talks with his Iranian counterpart, Mr Kerry said Iran had ‘undertaken significant steps’ which many people ‘doubted would ever come to pass’.”
- “Bial’s Clinicial Trial in France Ends In Disaster. What Went Wrong?“–“One healthy volunteer is brain-dead and others are seriously—and perhaps permanently—left with serious neurologic damage, according to Dr. Pierre-Gilles Edan, head of the neurology department at the hospital in Rennes where the volunteers were taken, and France Health Minister Marisol Touraine.”
- “The Green Lantern Theory of the Presidency, explained“–“Belief in the presidency seems to be entirely robust to the inability of any particular president to make good on their promises. And so the criticism is always the same: why can’t the president be more like the Green Lantern?”
- “Why humans are fundamentally home-bodies“–“To understand what makes a home, we must look also at the flip side, Allen argues: how we experience being without one.”
- “Put Up Your Organs or Shut Up“–“If you’re going to propose pregnant people be forced to give birth no matter the circumstances, if you’re going to claim that ‘all lives matter,’ and that includes little blobs of brainless fetal tissue (but obviously not the living, breathing, brain-possessing person they’re riding in, because if that life mattered to you, we wouldn’t even be discussing this), then here’s the deal”
- “Bernie Sanders’s single-payer plan isn’t a plan at all“–“To be less generous — but perhaps more accurate — this is a document that lets Sanders say he has a plan, but doesn’t answer the most important questions about how his plan would work or what it would mean for most Americans.”
- “Commentary on Commentary on Sanders’s Single Payer National Health Insurance Proposal“–“Klein presents no historical evidence supporting his claim that the taxes Sanders proposed would have real economic drawbacks. The reason is that there is no such evidence.”
- “Schools Need To Recognize Girls’ Leadership“–“Ask anyone if they support girls’ leadership and they say yes, but without meaning to, too many schools are actively doing the exact opposite. When it comes to hot button issues that girls are increasingly taking up—dress codes, rape on campus, racial inequities, media representations, mass incarceration—school administrators frequently take issue with what girls are saying to them.”
- “People of Colo(u)r Destroy Science Fiction!“–These Kickstarted special issues of Lightspeed Magazine have collected many of the best F&SF of the past few years. This is a chance for you to get in on some great fiction.
- “‘A Riot Is the Language of the Unheard’: 9 MLK Quotes the Mainstream Media Won’t Cite“–“In real, big-picture life, MLK was far more radical than the cherry-picked lines from his speeches and books would suggest, a man who moved further left over the course of his long and weary fight for African-American civil rights.”
- “A Reminder: Martin Luther King Jr. Didn’t Die Protecting White Feelings“–“Once upon a time, back when oppressed people didn’t have the full equality that they do now, there was one man who was a very nice man and wanted everyone to be nice and happy together, unlike another mean man who scared the oppressors and didn’t be nice to them.”
- “The Bizarre Legal Theories of ‘Sovereign Citizens’“–“I’ve written a lot about self-declared ‘sovereign citizens’ over the years, but even I didn’t know exactly how bizarre their ideas about the law are.”
- “When women earn less than men they are far more likely to get depressed“–“The risk of women who make less money than men developing an anxiety disorder is more than four times higher, said the study by researchers at New York’s Columbia University who compared women and men with matching education and work experiences.”
This is ancient history to you, but Hambone Productions has been uploading the Skepticon 8 videos. Finally we can hear what YouTube commenters think!
Seriously though, I hope Rob doesn’t get disheartened by that bullshit: His hard work is greatly appreciated by those of us who can’t make it to these things.