Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
When the faceless, unaccountable (and nearly exclusively male) editors of Wikipedia decide that an article is not fit for public consumption, it’s gone—disappeared into the site’s recesses, and only accessible to the most elite editors. These deleted articles have been a dark spot in Wikipedia’s otherwise laudable transparency. That is, until now. Wikipedia’s deletion rules…
SUBSCRIBE HERE: http://goo.gl/ITTCPW The Confederacy hasn’t existed for 150 years, and yet people still insist on waving its flag. Even though it’s the wrong one. CLICK HERE for more INTERNET PARTY – http://goo.gl/u7DWFM CLICK HERE for more ROM.COM SEASON 2 – http://goo.gl/hAi0RY CLICK HERE for more ROM.COM SEASON 1 – http://goo.gl/dWNuKx CLICK HERE For more…
(Tom Toles) In 1973 everything changed. The postwar boom went missing. Jobs were suddenly less plentiful. The 1970’s became a decade of inflation and foreign imports flooded in. In 1980 everything changed again. Supply-side economics looked like it might be the answer. Taxes were cut, we started running giant deficits, and capitalism was reinvigorated in…
Where are the creators in 2015? Berners-Lee is still as tightly involved with web as he ever was, directing the World Wide Web Consortium he helped create. In fact, he’s pushing hard to protect the open web against both government censorship and telecoms’ attempts to crush net neutrality. CERN’s role, however, has changed somewhat. While…
This last October marks the ninth anniversary of Peter Norman’s passing. Most people don’t know Norman. Pictured below, Norman is perhaps “the third hero of that night in 1968,” writes Italian writer Riccardo Gazzaniga. With permission from Gazzaniga and Griot Magazine, SF Globe reprints Gazzaniga’s essay on Norman here: Sometimes photographs deceive. Take this one,…
Recent calls for the removal of Woodrow Wilson’s name from Princeton University’s School of Public and International Affairs finds similitude, if not echoes, in University of Cape Town’s (UCT) Rhodes Must Fall movement which succeeded, as it were, in removing the statue of Cecil John Rhodes from where it had stood on the campus grounds…
Aviator Jerrie Cobb and a Mercury spacecraft. Photo from the public domain. Last month, an all-female Russian astronaut crew spent eight days together in a mock spaceship to determine how a group of women would interact during space travel as a test run for a 2029 mission to the moon. Sadly, at a press conference…
When James Kennicott, now 86, was young, he loved ice-skating on the river near his home in Waterloo, Iowa. One day, the ice cracked under his feet and he plunged into the water below. He didn’t have hot water at home. So he broke into his school to take a hot shower. “I think that…
The United States has debated immigration since the country’s founding, and the Statue of Liberty—a potent symbol for immigrants—is often invoked as an argument for why we should usher in those who seek safety and opportunity with open arms. A little-known fact about Lady Liberty adds an intriguing twist to today’s debate about refugees from the Muslim world: As pointed out by The Daily…
As we mentioned yesterday, Dawkins has been on a racist tear lately. One of his most batshit tweets fights the tyranny of cultural appropriation — meaning the people criticizing cultural appropriation are tyrannical, not the other way around. I know. Stay with me. The meme assumes that without Europeans, life would be a living…