“Death by gentrification: the killing that shamed San Francisco” and other Tweeted Links…

Death by gentrification: the killing that shamed San Francisco [theguardian.com]

Why Are Educators Learning How to Interrogate Their Students? [newyorker.com]

Why BART Is Falling Apart [tech.slashdot.org]

"125,000 people in California have already turned in their ballots without voting for president" [owl.li]

The Immobile Masses: Why Traffic Is Awful and Public Transit Is Worse [motherboard.vice.com]

The Toyota Prius Prime’s high-tech interior has a ‘budget Tesla’ feel [theverge.com]

“I’m thankful I dated a racist — here’s why” @blavity [blavity.com]

Oregon militia standoff price tag = $6 million in US tax... [guardian.tumblr.com]

Outrageous. Canada's First Nations subject to water 'advisories' - 36% last for 10+ years! [bit.ly] [twitter.com]

Why We Think We’re Better Investors Than We Are [nytimes.com]

Have a Political Bumper Sticker? The FBI Might Be Snapping Photos of You [politics.slashdot.org]

Buying groceries for rich people, I realized upward mobility is largely a myth [buzzfeed.com]

Old Spice deodorant causes painful rashes, burns, lawsuit claims [abc7.com]

Research suggests elite scientists impede progress in their field until they die [pdf] @tamtamsworld [econ.upf.edu]

How Scandinavian design took over the world [curbed.com]

every self-described “black artist” should at least once go through the gedanken of an ancient African transported to the present

Environmental art is on the rise – with a little help from... [guardian.tumblr.com]

The Mystery of the Minimal Cell, Craig Venter’s New Synthetic Life Form [wired.com]

The Newfound Popularity of Sci-Fi Books Has a Dark Side [wired.com]

The Most Mesmerizing Video on the Internet: "The Art of the Marbler" [core77.com]

download for your kids; find filmmakers and show support [youtube.com] @floydwebb

UW Professor’s Website Becomes Go-To Resource For African-American History [tinyurl.com]

The Black Past: Remembered and Reclaimed [blackpast.org]

Powhatan Beaty: Actor & Soldier Decorated with United States Medal of Honor [blackthen.com]

Dr. Lena Edwards: One of the First African-American Board-Certified Obstetricians-Gynecologist [blackthen.com]

Jeremiah G. Hamilton – Dark Prince of Wall Street [VIDEO] [blackthen.com]

Cambridge professor on how to stop being manipulated by misleading statistics [qz.com]

How the Rosie the Riveter era changed America an African-American woman's story [pri.org] @floydwebb [twitter.com]

back in the day, Columbian futbol referees used to get shot for making the wrong call [amazon.com] [twitter.com]

TWO ESCOBARS: Expose of Narco-Soccer; Interview w/directors Jeff & Micha... [youtu.be]

Frederick M. Roberts: First African-American to Hold a High Political Office in California’s State Assembly [blackthen.com]

Faubourg Treme: Oldest Black Neighborhood in America and Birthplace of Jazz [Must See Video] [blackthen.com]

Leusden Slave Ship: Remembered as the “Largest Single Tragedy” of the Atlantic Slave Trade [blackthen.com]

Carol Marie Jenkins: 21-Year-Old Murdered While Selling Encyclopedias Door-to-Door [blackthen.com]

African Blood Brotherhood: Radical Black Liberation Society [blackthen.com]

Kelly Miller: Founded First Organization for Black Intellectuals, The American Negro Academy [blackthen.com]

Writing Women Back into the History of Science [nautil.us]

What constitutes your writer's debris? -Patti Smith, M Train [twitter.com]

@RowenaMonde almost all of my Internet activity is a kind writer's refuse... research flotsam... ^_~

@KinteSpace lol, that's a good one!

Are You More Likely to Be a Baker If You’re Named “Baker”? [nautil.us]

we make too many assumptions about concepts that seem “obvious” or “intelligent” that had no use in ancient civilization -e.g. “love”

Company apologizes for tearing down wrong building because of Google Maps error [wfaa.com]

true: but, Brittany, this describes entire lives of “beautiful” people [insert Prince lyrics here] [twitter.com]