“Perfect storms,” “black swans,” and “bubbles” galore — on Wall Street the market for clichesis booming Perfect Swans 🦢
Ride-Hailing Drivers Revolt Vietnam Weekly
Nursing home robots dance, sing and watch for signs of trouble MPR News
There Ain’t No Such Thing as a Free LunchQuoteInvestigator
Why Are We Still Talking About Black Mountain College? New York Times
Physician-Assisted Death for Patients With Dementia JAMA Psychiatry
Whatever Happened to the Satirical Novel?Counterpunch
Shareholder Power and the Decline of LaborNBER. From the Abstract: “Consistent with theory of the firm based on conflicts of interests between shareholders and stakeholders, we find that establishments of firms that experience an increase in ownership by larger and more concentrated institutional shareholders have lower employment and wages.”
How Foreign Private Equity Hooked New England’s Fishing Industry ProPublica
The Happiness Data That Wrecks a Freudian TheoryWSJ
These Photographs Capture the Indescribable Glory of Trains Smithsonian
Walking Venice Craig Mod
Journalists Prize Access To Sources. But Too Much
I’ve come to believe that one of most overrated aspirations in journalism is access. This is particularly true in any story involving people who are wealthy or powerful, and who have experience in dealing with the press. They know that journalists and editors prize access above all else. -LitHub
Meet Rufus, the hawk who keeps pigeons away from Wimbledon LA Times
Stunning new Webb images: baby stars, colliding galaxies and hot exoplanets Nature
Wall Street recession fears stoked by patchy US economic data FT