“There’s a Huge New Corporate Corruption Scandal. Here’s Why Everyone Should Care” and other Tweeted Links…

There’s a Huge New Corporate Corruption Scandal. Here’s Why Everyone Should Care [huffingtonpost.com.au]

Fracking contaminated underground water in Wyoming [theverge.com]

The “Pacific Extreme Pattern” predicts heat waves up to 50 days in advance [arstechnica.com]

The dark side of digital finance: Financial machines vs. financial robots [suitpossum.blogspot.com]

“We are giving up far more than we realise and becoming increasingly ensnared by mega-content providers.” [lxer.com]

The End of Sex and the Future of Human Reproduction [hup.harvard.edu]

What we know about the people who clean the floors in Silicon Valley [washingtonpost.com]

Man moves to SF, pays $400/m to sleep in wooden box in friends’ living room [washingtonpost.com]

LA residents need to make $33 an hour to afford the average apartment [scpr.org]

Homeless people in Atlanta plant organic garden, feed shelter residents [huffingtonpost.com] via @HuffPostImpact @OvercookedVegan

Half of the students at this Academy are homeless, but 82% go off to college [blavity.com]

Why startups get rejected by VCs (and why Warren Buffett is involved) [davidventzel.com]

Chamath Palihapitiya says most of the things VCs have funded are "mostly crap" [vanityfair.com]

Late sleepers are tired of discrimination. And science has their back [vox.com]

Schools Are Slow to Learn That Sleep Deprivation Hits Teenagers Hardest [nytimes.com]

Bulging babies: 3 or more antibiotics before age 2 may spur obesity [arstechnica.com]

Eat Your Heart Out: Chef Creates Series Of Beautiful Stop-Motion Animations For New Cookbook [layersmagazine.wpengine.com] @mindovermunch

How bacteria, fungi, and mold are finding a home in high-end kitchens @overcookedvegan @mindovermunch [theverge.com]

Everything you learned about the shape of DNA is wrong – Carl Zimmer [statnews.com]

Anxiety and Depression Are Symptoms, Not Diseases [psychologytoday.com]

History Didn't Begin Yesterday: Who Will Mourn for Leopold's Victims? [blackstarnews.com]

“Alprentice ‘Bunchy’ Carter: Murdered To Dismantle the Black Panther Party” and other Tweeted Links…: Alprentice “Bun... [bit.ly]

The Future of Academic Style: Why Citations Still Matter in the Age of Google [lareviewofbooks.org]

Eliza Simmons Bryant: Founded The Cleveland Home for Aged Colored People [blackthen.com]

Ruth Janetta Temple: Opened the First Community Heath Clinic in Los Angeles, California [blackthen.com]

Did You Know That A Black Man Was The Chief Designer Of The Original Architectural Drawings For Duke University? [blackthen.com]

After Violent Attack, India Must Address Anti-Black Racism [theroot.com] [twitter.com]

Sail across the Indian Ocean in this stunning online exhibit of earliest photographic history of the Swahili Coast [washingtonpost.com]

"Dalit movements and Dalit literature were highly influenced by Black history." [routesblog.com] [twitter.com]

Fueling Fascism: The Secret History of How Texaco Supplied Oil to Fascists in Spain [democracynow.org]

"Spain in Our Hearts": Adam Hochschild's New Book Gives Life to the Americans Who Fought Fascism [democracynow.org]

“The people who write..about college, who make movies about college, represent a tiny minority of the reality” [fivethirtyeight.com]

I Slay: 11 Women Artists Writers To Get Us Into Formation [theoffingmag.com] via @TheOffingMag [twitter.com]

How Germany is Able to Produce Such Talented Designer/Builders at Such a Young Age [core77.com]

Q. "What is your experience being a POC in Tech?" [@Brianjgerrard] CEO of @bae_app [buff.ly] [twitter.com]

Tech entrepreneur Anthony Frasier shares the keys to success in 1st book “Don’t Dumb Down Your Greatness” [blavity.com]

A Year After the Ellen Pao Verdict, Tech Still Gets Diversity Wrong [wired.com]

Study: Poor Writing Skills Are Costing Businesses Billions @kaleighf [inc.com] via @Inc

How black writers helped me unlearn my internalized anti-blackness [blavity.com]

when a child is formed in household without reverence for personal family history, why should they have respect for academic history?

i spent maybe the first 10 years of my life with this painting in our kitchen #SouthCentralLA @ForColoredNerds [twitter.com]

Why the psychology of ‘train people how to treat you’ is actually damaging [blavity.com]

lowering self-esteem, raising individualistic narcissism and retarding education leaves racist tradition in place and profits high

too much anti-racist activism is based on conscious, premeditated evil instead of the passive subconscious

@JustMuteMeNow in BELOVED, Toni Morrison been done telling you that “zombie apocalypse” in FULL effect -you touch it on the inside part...

Is the crowd’s wisdom biased: A quant assessment of 3 online communities (2009) [arxiv.org]

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