Interesting reads
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Not sure if this is the right thread, this book looks like a good read though.
Yikes! New Behind-the-Scenes Book Brutalizes the Clinton Campaign
'Shattered,' a campaign tell-all fueled by anonymous sources, outlines a generational political disaster.
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Ever wondered what happened to national lampoon?
Can Anyone Repair National Lampoon’s Devastated Brand?
Over the past 15 years, three devotees of the comedy institution have attempted to restore the humor brand to its former glory. What happened instead was direct-to-video movies, lawsuits, crippling debt, and two prison sentences.
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Interesting discussion about the future for football (as in NFL), which also has implications for rugby (which is also discussed):
Football 3.0 is coming. This is what it will look like
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A modest proposal to change everything about football so it can survive.
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http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20170516-when-wolves-return-to-the-wild-everything-changes
And a video that goes a bit further explaining an aspect of the article.
http://www.filmsforaction.org/watch/how-wolves-change-rivers/
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Chemtrails & organic farming
My month with chemtrails conspiracy theorists
Tammi Riedl and her partner believe ‘chemtrails’ are damaging our health. They prove conspiracies have gone mainstream – and aren’t just for the right wing
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What its like to be struck by lightning
https://mosaicscience.com/story/what-its-be-struck-lightning
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Want to know how you get third in your class in the rally of Mexico with a car you bought for $500 of Craigslist?
How A $500 Craigslist Car Beat $400K Rally Racers - Jalopnik
Professional motorsport is a cold, hard place. If you want to run with the big dogs, you can't just build a car in your mom's garage and show up, right? Wrong. One guy did just that. Here's his amazing story.
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What our Google searches reveal: Everybody Lies
Data scientist and economist Seth Stephens-Davidowitz, formerly of Google, has pored over the unfathomably large body of data concerning when, where and what people search on Google around the world. In his book Everybody Lies, he reports insights about what people are really thinking and feeling.
An interesting excerpt that ties in with what I tell people why I don't care about certain events or things:
What are you looking for in the data now?
I’m researching anxiety. I’ve become obsessed with it, because there are lot of things in the data that are really, really surprising. I’ll give you one example: When Trump was running for president, he was saying a lot of scary things. Pretty much all my friends and family members and liberal people said they’re terrified. Now, if you look at the data in parts of the United States that are really liberal, you don’t see an uptick in searches for panic attacks or anxiety or anything like that.
(Maybe) people don’t Google anxiety about Trump, even if they’re really anxious. I’d be really surprised by that. The second possibility is people have a fixed amount of anxiety — they would have been anxious about their jobs or their kids, but now they’re anxious about Trump. That would be a revolutionary change in how we think about anxiety. The third possibility is that people exaggerate how anxious they are about Trump because it’s politically correct, when they tend to actually be much more anxious about their own personal situation. But you don’t bother your friends with that. You sound like a good person if you’re anxious about Trump. -
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The story of when we were soldiers with the horrible ending that wasn't in the film
https://www.usnews.com/news/national/articles/2008/05/16/vietnam-story
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Why do so many scientists misunderstand the Central Dogma of Molecular Biology?
Scientists are careful people who do not make statements without knowing the facts. They try hard to get things right. So we think; hope. But there is a very curious case where intelligent, knowled…
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@Stockcar86 said in Interesting reads:
Scientists are careful people who do not make statements without knowing the facts. They try hard to get things right. So we think; hope. But there is a very curious case where intelligent, knowled…
I struggled with that one , was interesting though.
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@jegga said in Interesting reads:
@Stockcar86 said in Interesting reads:
Scientists are careful people who do not make statements without knowing the facts. They try hard to get things right. So we think; hope. But there is a very curious case where intelligent, knowled…
I struggled with that one , was interesting though.
I'm a bit of a part time biology nerd due to some mates from Uni, but was still a bit heavy going
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@jegga said in Interesting reads:
The story of when we were soldiers with the horrible ending that wasn't in the film
https://www.usnews.com/news/national/articles/2008/05/16/vietnam-story
That's a fucking good read.
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@NTA said in Interesting reads:
@jegga said in Interesting reads:
The story of when we were soldiers with the horrible ending that wasn't in the film
https://www.usnews.com/news/national/articles/2008/05/16/vietnam-story
That's a fucking good read.
The book is excellent ,particularly the part about the horrible ending. I sent my copy to TR. This guy is on the cover. https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/2001/10/28/a-tower-of-courage/c53e8244-3754-440f-84f8-51f841aff6c8/?utm_term=.c423241d84f6
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@Tim said in Interesting reads:
Operation Car Wash: Is this the biggest corruption scandal in history?
We'll know Renewable Energy has made it when they've got corruption like that
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I find Karl DuFresne a bit hit and miss, sometimes I read his pieces and know he's capable of better because I've seen him do some great stuff but I thought this one was quite good.
I wrote this 11 years ago, and it's pretty much all still true