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Quick Links for February 2016

A complete history of the Millennium Falcon, from conception to finished product
Worth watching: the last three minutes of this TED talk featuring a swarm of microdrones
The NY Times editorial board: shut down NYC's notorious Rikers Island jail
Obama shares his insights into how he will choose the next Supreme Court justice "in the weeks ahead"
Global sea levels are rising at fastest rate in 28 centuries
The making of Homer at Bat, one of the best Simpsons episodes of all time
Harper Lee, Author of 'To Kill a Mockingbird,' Dies at 89
"I dare you to read this and still feel good about tipping"
Winners of the 2016 World Press Photo Contest. Some powerful stuff here.
Yes: Amazon is ordering a pilot for I Love Dick by Jill Soloway (creator of the excellent Transparent)
Nation's Huggers Announce Plans For You To Get Over Here
Clay Shirky: Social media has turned Republican & Democratic Parties into host bodies for 3rd party candidates
Birds who guide humans to honey, mutalism, and naturefaking
The US government is forcing Apple to backdoor encryption on the iPhone. They're fighting it.
Hey, your Parmesan cheese might contain a surprising amount of wood pulp
How BuzzFeed's Jonah Peretti Is Building A 100-Year Media Company
How to Survive Falling Through the Ice; "You have more time than you think."
"Sine Cosine Tangent". New fiction by Don DeLillo in The New Yorker this week.
The best wine pairings for Girl Scout Cookies
Xochitl tortilla chips are the worst. (I reluctantly agree. A+ in taste, D- in picking up guac.)
Seriously, though: What's so great about monogamy?
According to Tesla, their Model S now makes up 25% of large luxury car sales in the US
Ayn Rand Once Cursed A Guy's Dick So Bad He Moved Across The Country
Hmm, things aren't looking so good for Soundcloud
Can you find all the magic words?
Beyonce's "I got hot sauce in my bag", Jim Crow, and the Great Migration
Quartz: How American tipping grew out of racism and slavery
Heather Havrilesky has a book coming out; it's a collection of her excellent Ask Polly columns
The problems with food media that nobody wants to talk about
Serious Eats investigates: Can you overcook the meat in your beef stew?
I Miss Barack Obama
Operator, a new monospace typeface from Hoefler&Co, has a bit more flair than your usual fixed-width face
Paul Ford: Twitter is a free hotel
Football's toll on Joe Montana's body: "I can't really run or do much"
The list of top grossing movies that never hit #1 is interesting
TIL that three-parent human embryos are a thing
Soylent Dick. This is totally inappropriate genius.
According to this NYC food test, I am a real New Yorker
Crackpot Making a Murderer theory: Halbach killed by Zodiac Killer, who also did JonBenét, Chandra Levy, etc.
Fonts from old school PCs (IBM, Tandy, Phoenix BIOS)
I rolled my eyes so hard reading this, they rolled right out of my head. Now they're blocks away. Bye, eyes!
From Campaign Zero, 10 steps to end police violence in the US
On Assange: "for my money he looks more and more like just another guy failing to face up to a rape allegation"
Not surprising: "the #1 selling English Bible, the NIV, is owned by Rupert Murdoch and News Corp."
Awesome, they're putting in a protected bike lane on 6th Ave in NYC. Now do 5th Ave (which is where I got hit).
This list of most popular restaurants to take an Uber to really says something about Uber
NFL Great Ken Stabler Had Brain Disease CTE
Dinner for two at NYC's Masa now costs more than a Macbook
The Fermi Paradox is neither Fermi nor paradox. Discuss.
Magic Leap is going to be an astounding flop
There were very probably no blue-eyed people before ~10,000 years ago
Why are low oil prices dragging the stock market down even though they're good for the overall economy?
Prepare to spend some time with this: 100 jokes that shaped modern comedy
Sesame Workshop (producer of Sesame Street) is launching a VC arm to fund kid-focused tech companies
Surprise! A new show by Louis CK (he stars w/ Steve Buscemi) called Horace and Pete, available only on his website
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