Archive for 2013
What you really mean to your employer
“You go out and buy a bag of screws, you’re confident they’re all going to work with very little exceptions,” he said. “People on the other hand… they are all over the map.” via No, manufacturing jobs won’t revive the economy – Salon.com.
Double bind
Young women in traditional colleges are responding to the need to be better educated than their male counterparts, even if that means working for less money. The women I interview are earning the most expensive, most contested of all college credentials not to be competitive but to survive. via Gender, Race, And Going To Class: […]
Tuesday Shoesday
The electrified brain: the power and promise of neural implants | The Verge
“I forgot what normal was,” she says with a smile. “I don’t even remember it.” via The electrified brain: the power and promise of neural implants | The Verge.
Don’t blame expensive end of life care on atheists
Not talking about death only makes it more lonely and frightening | Giles Fraser | Comment is free | The Guardian. People are trying to have better conversations about death rather than resorting to platitudes or avoidance. This is good. But Fraser is a bit misleading when he talks about cost as motivation for these […]
What to watch when you don’t feel motivated to work on projects you care about
While you’re waiting for the bus
Stuff worth reading In Broad Win, Small Business Gets Preliminary Injunction Against Required ACA Emergency Contraception Coverage Now all we need to do is call the market “god” and we can bring back to slavery. Wailing Justice and the law aren’t the same thing. Origin Stories I didn’t expect this to make me cry, but […]