• ABC reports on the Sudanese-Australian basketball players who are transforming the game in Australia.
• Bloomberg reports on the potentially transformative scope of China's New Silk Road project.
• Bloomberg View likes the new Star Trek movie's shift beyond speciesism.
• CBC reports on the strength of pro-Trump support among non-voting Amish in Pennsylvania ( Read more... )

The Globe and Mail's Oliver Moore reports on the infuriatingly complex role of subjectivity in gauging transit crowding.

There’s crowded and then there’s crowded ( Read more... )

pompe's speculations on whether or not technology is enabling pack attacks reminds me, worryingly, of David Grossman's thesis in his On Killing that games technology and modern films are helping to desensitize people to violence.