“Offshore finance: more than £12tn siphoned out of emerging countries” and other Tweeted Links…
Offshore finance: more than £12tn siphoned out of emerging countries [theguardian.com]
First Click: Robots will make it even harder for poor countries to get rich [theverge.com]
The seeds of the next housing crisis have been planted [marketwatch.com]
NYC airports will 'no longer tolerate' TSA screening inadequacies [theverge.com]
Prisons Moving To All-Video Visitation [yro.slashdot.org]
Not So Sweet After All: Modern Day Slavery And The Dark Side of Chocolate [bit.ly] via @4BlackThen
This video shows why the startling cost of child care has to change [blavity.com]
American Beach: Only Beach in Florida to Welcome Blacks During Jim Crow [blackthen.com]
Nasa Releases Dozens of Patents into the Public Domain [technology.nasa.gov]
Average new-car fuel economy keeps falling as SUVs surge [greencarreports.com]
Location Trackers Reveal Where Your E-Junk Really Ends Up [wired.com]
Hacker pleads guilty to stealing unpublished scripts and explicit videos from celebrities [theverge.com]
iTunes Has Slowly Destroyed My Will to Collect Music @megafunkmega [slate.com]
Cheddar, the ‘CNBC for Millennials,’ Goes Behind a Paywall [wsj.com]
How the Jeans Capital of the World Moved from Texas to China [atlasobscura.com]
Junius G. Groves: Gilded Age Business Magnate [VIDEO] [blackthen.com]
The Hidden Messages of Colonial Handwriting [atlasobscura.com]
James “Yank” Rachell: Known as the “Elder Statesman of the Blues” [blackthen.com]
“Why do all old statues have such small penises?” @tamtamsworld [howtotalkaboutarthistory.wordpress.com]
They Don’t Call Colorado the Mother of Rivers for Nothin’, Folks [wired.com]
California Braces for Unending Drought [nytimes.com]
Transit of Mercury: what you need to know and how to watch... [guardian.tumblr.com]
What the new science of touch says about ourselves [newyorker.com]
Why Ego is the Nemesis of Good Design (And What to Do About It) [blogs.adobe.com]
10 Influential People of Color Throughout Art History [design.tutsplus.com]
Strange seaweed rewrites history of green plants [nature.com] @mindovermunch
An Exhibit of African Photography That Spans the Continent and the Globe [newyorker.com]
Eight Things You Probably Didn't Know About Ray Eames [core77.com]
Conversations with Octavia Butler (Literary Conversations Series) edited by Conseula Francis [amazon.com] [twitter.com]
The Critical Reception of James Baldwin, 1963-2010 by Conseula Francis [amazon.com] @JulieDash [twitter.com]
This Brooklyn writer is leading the movement to keep reading in style with #LiterarySwag [blavity.com]
Comedian Lil Rel from ‘The Carmichael Show’ discusses his RELevant rise [blavity.com]
Samuel Jackson’s Rise to Being the Highest Grossing Actor in the History of Hollywood [blackthen.com]
Stair-Climbing Wheel Design for Handtrucks [core77.com]
Silver-threaded underwear fights junk funk even after a week of wear [arstechnica.com]
The Silk Road Ensemble: Ascending Bird [youtu.be] via
Ascending Bird by Kayhan Kalhor and Brooklyn Rider [amazon.com] [twitter.com]