- What GitHub did to kill its trolls - see, it is possible to deal with trolls! You just need the will to do so...

- Prince’s Closest Friends Share Their Best Prince Stories - these are pretty good. If you haven't seen it, his part in the performance of "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is pretty amazing (and here' ( Read more... )

- That viral graph about millennials’ declining support for democracy? It’s very misleading. - wow, I saw the original article and it was incredibly misleading, like How to Lie With Statistics bad. Boo!

- Random Access Fhqwhgads - if you like Strongbad (and especially if you also like Daft Punk!) stop what you're doing and take a listen! So good ( Read more... )

- The controversy behind Disney's groundbreaking new princess (Moana) - the "controversy" here is that one woman thinks that Moana is fat (she is not - look at the pictures!) and:I think it tells girls that they don’t have to be fit. I think it’s setting up girls for unhealthy lives in the future and also for disappointing romantic lives.
which is ( Read more... )

- It seems like there's evidence that some charter schools can work. (although the ballot measure described in the article was defeated by a wide margin...)

- If Prisoners Ran Prisons: Five Texas inmates say what they’d do differently - good idea, and ones pulled out in the article all seem pretty reasonable to me!

- Grover from Sesame Street ( Read more... )

My gift to you - links that are not election-related. (but don't forget to vote!)

- The Impact of Obamacare, in Four Maps - a reminder that although there are some growing pains with Obamacare, it has dramatically lowered the number of people that don't have health insurance.

(hey, I said "election-related", not "politics-related"!)

- Workers ( Read more... )

- We’re All a Little Biased, Even if We Don’t Know It - implicit bias is a thing, but being aware of it can help you counter it (although more research is needed).

- How Did Walmart Get Cleaner Stores and Higher Sales? It Paid Its People More - nice to see that doing the right thing can pay off...

- “A Honeypot For Assholes”: Inside Twitter’s 10- ( Read more... )

- This Algorithm Accidentally Predicted Which Hospital Patients Were Most Likely To Die - neat! (thanks Dan!)

- To reduce recidivism rates, give prisoners more books - win-win!

- The Economics of Dining as a Couple - funny, and the best part is the standard disclaimer at the bottom: "This column does not necessarily reflect the opinion of the ( Read more... )

- Framed: A Mystery in Six Parts - this is excellent investigative work by the LA Times and one heck of a story! Straight out of a Lifetime original movie or something...

- When tech firms judge on skills alone, women land more job interviews - blind auditions are a great idea. The fact that that changed the number of women selected for an ( Read more... )

We had a baby! Check Facebook for details and pictures.

(from this point on the links are non-baby related)

- How Uber’s Failure in Japan Can Help Startups Everywhere - interesting look at the cultural differences in Japan that sunk Uber there.

- A Cheaper Airbag, and Takata’s Road to a Deadly Crisis - sigh. Also, sounds like there may have ( Read more... )

- So I guess we have to talk about this Clinton Foundation stuff. The best two articles I've seen about this are Vox's The AP’s big exposé on Hillary meeting with Clinton Foundation donors is a mess and how media approaches the Clinton Foundation story through a politics lens. This is the kind of "scandal" that was extremely common under Bill ( Read more... )