BREAKING NEWS: Break-dancing will debut at the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris.
Swalwell Refuses To Disclose Whether He Had A Sexual Relationship With A Suspect Chinese Spy.
How Japanese People Stay Fit for Life, Without Ever Visiting a Gym. "The first thing we wanted was just to get people walking. Everyone can do that. You walk, you talk, you get exercise and that helps build up a sense of community."
Combat at the Movies. "In each game you will encounter a classic film as acted out by one or more tanks from the game Combat by Atari." Movies include Citizen Kane, 2001, and Tokyo Story.
"When a high school student invents the 1st DNA tricorder"
This Unusual Bird Superpower Goes Back to the Dinosaur Extinction NYT
Plenty of fish in the sea? Scientists can now count them using DNA ABC
Water Futures to Start Trading Amid Growing Fears of Scarcity Bloomberg
Foggy metrics obscure value of cloud companies FT
Housing booms, reallocation and productivity(PDF) Sebastian Doerr, Bank for International Settlements. From the Abstract: “I establish that US public firms holding real estate have persistently lower levels of productivity than non-holders. Rising real estate values relax collateral constraints for companies that own real estate and allow them to expand production. Consequently, an increase in house prices reallocates capital and labor towards inefficient firms, with negative consequences for aggregate industry productivity.”
An Economy of Godzillas: Salesforce, Slack, and Microsoft Matt Stoller, BIG
Tipped Service Workers Are More Vulnerable Amid Pandemic Harassment Spike: Study NPR
Separated by Design: How Some of America’s Richest Towns Fight Affordable Housing Pro Publica
I’ll Tell You Why the 99% Isn’t In Revolt We Do the Work (the author). From January, still germane.
Luxury Sneaker Markets Are a Preview of Capitalist Dystopia Jacobin
“Almost the Complete Opposite of Fascism” (interview) Corey Robin, Jewish Currents. Today’s must-read.