Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Could this be the final nail in the coffin of Silicon Alley? Tech start-up bros are going to feel a little less secure in their morning commutes following a recent alarming report that hoverboards-that-don’t-actually-hover may actually be illegal in NYC. Good thing we found a way to fund that capital plan. After a string of…
Short answer? A few things. The motto of the state of Connecticut is “Qui transtulit sustinet” which means “”He who is transplanted still sustains.” Speaking of transplanting, where’d Connecticut go on this map? The official Ben Carson Twitter account also published the image. This is a very interesting interpretation of the United States? That’s not…
As the world continues to mourn terrorist attacks in Paris that left 129 dead and hundreds more injured, a number of U.S. politicians are beginning to question a planned move to accept up to 100,000 Syrian (and other) refugees into the United States by the end of 2017. The point: It is known that a passport…
Migrants wait to register at a refugee center in the southern Serbian town of Presevo on Monday. (Darko Vojinovic/AP) As the Syrian refugee crisis mutated from a regional problem to a global one, security concerns have increasingly been cited as a justification for keeping borders closed and refusing to resettle migrants. This argument has gathered momentum in the…
As authorities made sense of the aftermath from Friday’s Paris attacks and the death toll count began to stabilize, reports emerged over the weekend that a gunman involved with the coordinated bombings and shootings may have entered Europe, embedded in the scores of refugees fleeing Syria. By Monday afternoon, the number of American state governors,…
The so-called caliphate has a special hatred for ‘apostate’ Muslims who adopt Western ways—and declared them special targets of the Paris attacks. PARIS — Although officials have been slow to release the names of the victims of the Paris terror attacks, from those that are known a portrait is emerging of vibrant young people as…
The Taliban has a brutal reputation when it comes to women’s rights: The group made its name in part by banning Afghan women from going to school or work, or even leaving the house without a male chaperone. But a new faction of Taliban militants claimed on Sunday it would permit women to work and get an…
Like millions of people, I’ve been obsessively following the news from Paris, putting aside other things to focus on the horror. It’s the natural human reaction. But let’s be clear: it’s also the reaction the terrorists want. And that’s something not everyone seems to understand. Take, for example, Jeb Bush’s declaration that “this is an…
Japan is once again in recession. The situation isn’t dire, but weak corporate investment is an important warning sign that investors should heed. Japanese gross domestic product fell by an annualized 0.8% from a year earlier in the September quarter, the second straight decline. This may overstate the extent of weakness, as it was dragged down…
LONDON The Anonymous hackers collective is preparing to unleash waves of cyberattacks on Islamic State following the attacks in Paris last week that killed 129 people, it said in a video posted online. A man wearing a Guy Fawkes mask said the Islamic State militants who claimed responsibility for the Paris attacks were “vermin”…