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Quick Links for January 2017

"I am (was) the only out transgender reporter at Marketplace or, that I know of, at any national radio outlet"
Terrific interview with @manjulamartin, editor @WhoPaysWriters and new book "Scratch," on writing and money
Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, Travis Kalanick and others are learning: selling Trump's politics in tech is hard
Four US federal courts have ruled against a new travel ban, but visa and green card holders are still being detained
This is slick — NASA has directly visualized a distant solar system with four giant exoplanets, and their orbits
.@Stl_Manifest is tweeting photos/info about refugee Jews turned away by US in 1939 who later died in the Holocaust.
Three actresses from the original cast of "Hamilton" will sing "America the Beautiful" at the Super Bowl
The new Missy Elliott video for "I'm Better" is (as always) fantastic
"You'd have one two-fingered hand swinging from your face...but which could smash a wall or pick a cherry"
"This program generates progress bars made of Unicode symbols." Yes it does.
There are now only 19 "full democracies" in the world because the US got downgraded in 2016 to "flawed democracy"
Trying To Protect My Son From The Anxiety I've Passed On To Him
A 1927 map of Chicago's gang territories and hide-outs
A Twitter stream based entirely on your replies, likes, RTs, and mentions (great idea)
An unlikely compelling activity: watch random YouTube videos with almost no views
On punching Nazis
The Silicon Valley elite get a lot of shit these days...but maybe we should be giving them way more?
Reckoning with the post-antibiotic era. "We will miss antibiotics when they're gone."
Episode VIII will be called Star Wars: The Last Jedi
Why is drug-resistant tuberculosis on the rise? Because it's spreading through the air. (This is bad news.)
There's a book about the Maine hermit coming out in March
Photos of NYC's Women's March by Scott Lynch
NY Times: Pictures From Women's Marches on Every Continent (even Antarctica)
Photos of the Women's March in NYC by Joe Holmes
Photos of the Women's Marches Around the World
US Dept of Transportation report: Tesla's Autopilot feature decreases crashes by 40%
In Iceland, teenage smoking, drinking and drug use have been radically cut in the past 20 years. Here's how.
New site: Speeches of Note
Fast food chicken nuggets, ranked
Prediction: SV-types will love this game and actual companies will result from it
"Side Hustle" as a Sign of the Apocalypse; Uber and Seamless ads reveal how Silicon Valley is screwing us
NASA & NOAA: 2016 was the hottest year on record. Previous record was 2015. Before that, 2014.
Jerry Seinfeld's Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee is moving to Netflix
Obama Commutes Bulk of Chelsea Manning's Sentence (she'll be released in May)
Smash Mouth's "All Star" but all the notes are in C. This sounds amazing actually.
"La Medea is a musical re-imagining of Euripides' violent tragedy into a...Latin-disco-pop variety show"
Civil Rights Photography from Atlanta's High Museum of Art
The site is off today in remembrance of Martin Luther King Jr. Take some time to watch his I Have A Dream speech.
Syllabus for a class called "Calling Bullshit in the Age of Big Data"
"There are a thousand beautiful ways to start the day that don't begin with looking at your phone."
20 life-changing habits: baking bread, yoga, cold swims, drinking more water, no coffee, biking to work
Scientists are zeroing in on the mass of the Milky Way (it's 100s of billions times the mass of the Sun)
Looks like all of American Apparel's stores and LA factory will be closing
There is now an International David Foster Wallace Society
App[dot]net is shutting down. The Twitter killer that wasn't.
Come for the lost footage of Marilyn Monroe, stay for the interesting story of the man who filmed it
JetBlue is now offering free wifi on all their flights
Gah, how did I not know the new season of Sherlock had started?!
I hated hated *hated* the term "Obamacare". I always tried to use "Affordable Care Act" instead. Words matter.
This is one of several reasons I have conflicting feelings about Obama and his legacy
Get Health Insurance Through Your Employer? ACA Repeal Will Affect You, Too
One day only: get your official Buzzfeed "Failing Pile of Garbage" merch (integrated media af)
Astronomers predict a star will explode in 2022 and we'll all be able to see it with the naked eye
"it was quite normal to send a 10-year-old-girl downtown by herself to have her portrait painted by Andy Warhol"
Charles Feeney has quietly given $8 billion away to charities (that's 99.98% of his fortune)
International visits to the Louvre way down in 2016, museum blames French terror attacks
A short ode to the simplicity of Ikea assembly instructions and the power of putting together your own furniture
A big list of good news from 2016 (always look for the helpers...)
"Have you tried to make new friends recently? It's terrifying..." +1 to that.
I'd thought Hidden Figures was going to flop, but v pleasantly surprised to be wrong. Gonna try to see this week.
ER notes of things stuck inside people in 2016; "SAT ON THE TOP OF A DOLL HOUSE AND THERE WAS A SPIKED ROOF"
William Steig, author of Sylvester and the Magic Pebble, wrote Shrek? How did I not know this?
The Calm Company. "Work claws away at life. Life has become work's leftovers. The doggy bag."
The real reason my startup was successful: privilege.
List of inventors killed by their own inventions
Are the KLF back after a 23-year absence? (I would settle for their back catalog on Spotify.)
New American citizens, photographed at their naturalization ceremonies
What Steven Soderberg saw and read in 2016
When Ayn Rand Collected Social Security & Medicare, After Years of Opposing Benefit Programs
A collection of notable satellite imagery from 2016
From Tape Drives to Memory Orbs, the Data Formats of Star Wars Suck
You shouldn't need a prescription to get birth control pills
Chief White House Photographer Pete Souza shares his fave 2016 photos of the Obamas. All the feels here.
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