Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
The City College of New York, one of the City University of New York’s senior colleges, is facing a $14.6 million budget gap. “There’s no other way to say this: Students are doomed,” argues Tammie David, a City College junior who serves as the Vice-President of Public Affairs for the Undergraduate Student Government. “There are…
The so-called “Safe Campus Act,” a nonsense bill that would keep colleges from punishing rapists unless victims agree to go to the police, had seemingly unanimous support from national fraternity and sorority organizations—until today. Alpha Phi has become the first sorority to come out against the bill in a statement made “at the request of…
On a bright day in the flats of San Gabriel Valley in Los Angeles, the busiest restaurant around is a Panda Express tucked into a shopping center dominated by a Walmart. Running a fast-food operation isn’t like other restaurants — here, we dive into the big picture, the tiny systems, and the daily struggles of…
First and foremost, the latest unscientific poll out of Western Illinois University has Bernie Sanders winning the presidency. Therefore, if polls are gospel, we’ll have a Democrat in the White House who plans on fixing the structural issues plaguing Wall Street and the U.S. economy. With Sanders, we’ll have an honest attempt at breaking up…
New Line Cinema/youTubeOrcs.Albert Edwards has central banks in his sights again. Societe Generale’s bearish strategist wrote a note to clients Thursday going back to what he calls, “my favorite pastime — kicking the Fed.” This time Edwards said that the Fed and other central banks have waited too long to raise interest rates, allowing companies to…
As much as I’ve always wanted to be the subject of someone’s missed connection, I doubt I’m suited to it. Aboard public transport, my go-to facial expression is a stern, furrowed brow. “Solving the crisis in the Middle East, no doubt,” my fellow passengers probably sympathize, contemplating the task of fixing the world’s thorniest geopolitical dilemma…
“Never mind the mess/we’re going to Mars next.” – B. Dolan The vast expanses of space, the fate of humans in a dystopian world, the ramifications of technology, the limits of the human body, the people trying to break them. These are the bread and butter of science fiction. But as much as people might…
Updated Nov. 11, 2015 7:31 p.m. ET Facebook FB -0.44 % is experimenting with new advertising approaches for its Instant Articles platform after publishers encountered challenges generating ad revenue because of restrictions imposed by the social network. Instant Articles, which Facebook rolled out to all iPhone users last month, allows media companies to publish content…
Congratulations, you’ve set up a Jekyll site. You may even be, like me, taking advantage of the free hosting provided by GitHub. You’ve written your first post, you’ve set up all the options. But when you go to share it on Facebook, Tumblr, LinkedIn or Twitter, that share may not look so pretty. Here’s how…
Sometime in the past 20 years, people soured on email. Culturally, it went from delightful to burdensome, a shift that’s reflected in the very language of the inbox. In the 1990s, AOL would gleefully announce, “You’ve got mail!” Today, Gmail celebrates the opposite: “No new mail!” So what happened to email? What happened to us?…