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Stuff worth reading

Comment on Toxic academic mentors by GermanPostdoc
Bad supervisors have extraordinary power over people’s careers in academia

Frameworks for Understanding the Future of Work

Adobe’s e-book reader sends your reading logs back to Adobe—in plain text.
Considering how much of the ebook market is of the rather naughty variety, this is extra awful.

Step Inside the World’s Most Dangerous Garden (If You Dare).
Oooooh

The Ebola Patient Was Sent Home Because of Bad Software

How Do Your Drinking Habits Compare To The Rest Of The Country’s?
That’s a lot

Scenes from the New American Dustbowl.
The water isn’t coming back.

The Importance of Music to Girls. Trying to “protect” your favorite bands from t…

What’s Wrong With “America’s Ugliest Accent”
“Maybe it’s not always about class, but it’s never really about language. It’s about the kind of people who speak it.”

Let’s stop mixing up education and social capital
“It’s not what you learn at these expensive schools that matters, it’s the social capital that you accumulate”

Most People With Addiction Simply Grow Out of It

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