Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Every year, tens of millions of experiments are performed on living mice, rats, birds, fish, frogs, or invertebrates. Usually, when the test is finished, the animal is killed. Recently, I was allowed into a secure animal-testing facility on the condition that I not reveal its name or location—the testing is highly controversial—and I witnessed an experiment on…
Farm to Fable STEVE MADDEN | Times At Tampa Bay farm-to-table restaurants, you’re being fed fiction First in a series | April 13, 2016 By LAURA REILEY Times Food Critic The restaurant’s chalkboard makes claims as you enter from the valet parking lot. At the hostess stand, a cheery board reads, “Welcome to local, farm-fresh…
This post was updated on Tuesday when Facebook confirmed it took the page down for “IP violations” but didn’t cite go into specifics. On Monday, Facebook took down the Facebook page for celebrity news and gossip site The Shade Room. The page, which was verified, has (had?) more than 4.4 million likes. The Shade Room’s…
Michelle Rempel, National Post Monday, Apr. 18, 2016 “I couldn’t believe he said that to you!” Last week I found myself, once again, telling one of the young women on my staff that, “It’s important to address sexism in the moment it happens.” Earlier, she witnessed another member of Parliament suggesting to me that we should…
TAMPA, Fla. — The U.S. military is pouring money into hypersonic research, and it’s making China and Russia —which have their own similar programs — nervous. But the accelerating effort to build missiles that fly at speeds between Mach 5 to Mach 19 is also alarming some in the nonproliferation community. Despite Pentagon officials’ assurances that superfast weapons will…
People march through the city taking part in a “Slut Walk” on October 6, 2012 in Aix-en-Provence, southern France. I like Ken Kurson, the editor-in-chief of The New York Observer. I admire many of the current and former staffers at the Observer. I have written here in some capacity for the past four years, and…
Rape and other sexual harassment on college campuses is a genuine problem, but the Obama administration is making a mockery of justice with its ham-handed policing. A male student scored a major victory in his lawsuit against the University of Southern California, which kicked him off campus for a remarkable non-crime: failing to de-escalate an…
On Monday, April 18, a man sued Kanye West and TIDAL for “duping” fans into having to pay for a subscription to the music streaming service. A story, originally reported by the AP, and then by Pitchfork, states that Justin Baker-Rhett has filed a class-action lawsuit against the pop-culture icon and the struggling streaming company. According…
On Monday, Facebook took down the Facebook page for celebrity news and gossip site The Shade Room. The page, which was verified, has (had?) more than 4.4 million likes. The Shade Room’s 25-year-old founder, Angie Nwandu — who made Forbes’ 30 Under 30 in Media list this year — told me on Monday that she…
Image: Jim Cooke/Gawker, Photo: Getty As of this Thursday morning, there were 112,096 members of “Donald Trump For President 2016!!!!!!,” a Facebook group that functions as a forum for white grief and racially charged meme pics. You’d better hope they don’t ever find a reason to dislike you, because they will make your life very…