“Eritrea Accuses Ethiopia of Planning a Full-scale War” and other Tweeted Links…
Eritrea Accuses Ethiopia of Planning a Full-scale War [voanews.com]
Why Great Entrepreneurs Are Older Than You Think (2014) [forbes.com]
Not Just the 1%: The Upper Middle Class Is Larger and Richer Than Ever [blogs.wsj.com]
This 14-year-old entrepreneur is building an empire, one lawn at a time [blavity.com]
For men, the importance of safe sex depends on how hot their partner is [arstechnica.com]
Rasta marijuana farmers being excluded from LEGAL industry in Jamaica? [youtube.com]
renouncing US citizenship “by living abroad, we are automatically suspected of breaking federal laws to avoid taxes” [medium.com]
7 Drugs That Big Pharma Withdrew and Hopes You’ve Forgotten About [alternet.org]
Cable company overcharges might be even worse than you realized [arstechnica.com]
“the Supreme Court ruled that evidence discovered in a search by police during unlawful stops can be used in court” [attn.com]
Politicians have a powerful new tool in Periscope, and democracy is better off for it [theverge.com]
The dirty secret of Airbnb is that it’s really, really white [qz.com]
Why does a Google search for unprofessional hair show images of black women? [iafrikan.com]
Fox News Caught Telling The Truth About The Black Founding Fathers [blackthen.com]
June 22, 1938: The Joe Louis – Max Schmeling Rematch [blackthen.com]
Happy Birthday, Katherine Dunham! [blackthen.com]
Has Germany's long love affair with diesels finally collapsed? [greencarreports.com]
German government agrees to ban fracking indefinitely [reuters.com]
Tesla buys SolarCity, 200-mile Nissan Leaf, replacing an old Toyota Prius: Today's Car News [greencarreports.com]
E-Waste Empire [theverge.com]
Memtype: open source USB password keeper [tindie.com]
Solar Impulse 2 completes world’s first solar-powered Atlantic flight [arstechnica.com]
Funeral business dissolves the dead, pours them into town sewers @tamtamsworld [cbc.ca]
Firm pays $950,000 penalty for using Wi-Fi signals to secretly track phone users [arstechnica.com]
Numerai, a hedge fund built by a community of anonymous data scientists [medium.com]
The current state of open data in the US government [lxer.com] @libertymadison #datanerd
The Beauty of Laplace’s Equation, Mathematical Key to … Everything [wired.com]
Urine (Not Chlorine) Causes Red Eyes in Pools [smithsonianmag.com]
A New Movie About Bob Kaufman, a Jewish African-American Street Poet Shrouded in Myth [tabletmag.com]
Homeless Next to Whole Foods: San Fran’s Progressive Predicament [wsj.com]
Raw Organic Apricot Kernels [and cyanide poisoning] @mindovermunch [earlpostsaboutwhatever.tumblr.com]
The Science Behind Honey’s Eternal Shelf Life [smithsonianmag.com]
Just enjoyed California Olive & Rosemary Crackers Alive! from @SkyIslandOrg -no flax! [twitter.com]
at the turn of the century I started on this music project called BLACKTRONIC BOLONGO @cdbaby > it's about time... [twitter.com]
James Earl Jones is back to voice Darth Vader in ‘Rogue One’ [blavity.com]
Surrealist Filmmaker Jan Švankmajer Is About to Make His Final Feature Film, and You Can Help Produce It [openculture.com]
The Director of Helvetica Is Making a Documentary On Dieter Rams [wired.com]
Crowdsourcing project to transcribe and decode U.S. Civil War telegrams [twin-cities.umn.edu]
Why Record Stores Mattered [newyorker.com] @mikemassenburg
why is booktube so white? [youtu.be] @mynameismarines
How to Paint like Gerhard Richter [youtube.com]
VTV classic: Gerhard Richter @vernissagetv 2008 [youtube.com]
.@amazon video: Gerhard Richter Painting [amazon.com] [twitter.com]
Gerhard Richter: Panorama: A Retrospective by Nicholas Serota [amazon.com] [twitter.com]
Sonia Delaunay by Anne Montfort [amazon.com] [twitter.com]
El Anatsui: A Sculpted History of Africa [amazon.com] [twitter.com]
Looking Up Tm: Yinka Shonibare, Mbe (Looking Up (5 Continents)) by Marie-Claude Beaud [amazon.com] [twitter.com]
Amazon’s new Kindle is only $80 and comes in white [arstechnica.com]