“My Struggle with American Small Talk” and other Tweeted Links…

My Struggle with American Small Talk [newyorker.com]

I’m a black woman in corporate America, and it’s difficult to concentrate today [blavity.com]

The Rise of the Lawnmower Parent [pittsburgh.citymomsblog.com]

Murderers With Badges, Licensed to Kill: Nation Reels from Alton Sterling's Death at Hands of Police [democracynow.org]

Facebook ‘glitch’ that deleted the Castile shooting video: It was the police [theregister.co.uk]

“Not only was this excessive, it was tactically asinine if Brelo believed they were armed and firing.” [vox.com] @voxdotcom

Recent Hampton grad released from jail after being stopped 3 times in 30 minutes [blavity.com]

When Music is Violence [newyorker.com]

“stock options as used today are not a practical or reliable way of compensating employees of fast growing startups” [gist.github.com]

Autopsy reveals Debian founder committed suicide [theregister.co.uk]

David Oyelowo Creates Scholarship for Female Victims of Terror & Gender Inequality in Nigeria [shadowandact.com]

GM Global Design Chief Ed Welburn discuss his career in cars and corporate America [youtube.com] @blavity

Nigeria: New Documentary Will Chronicle Trials and Triumphs of Women Directors in Male-Dominated Nollywood [shadowandact.com]

Jonathan Ruffle: Creator, Co-Producer & Writer of TOMMIES for the BBC [gbfilms.com]

A Regular Dude Watches ‘Chameleon Street’ for the First Time and Shares His Thoughts [shadowandact.com]

Bloomberg features Abdulaye Konate [youtube.com] @another_africa

Dox Thrash: American Artist Widely Known for Work on Federal Art Project [blackthen.com]

Shakespeare: Actor, Playwright, Social Climber [nytimes.com]

Rev. Stephen G. Spottswood: Delivered Controversial Keynote Address Against Nixon Administration [blackthen.com]

July 4, 2016: Still Waiting, Because America Never Was And Still Is Not A True Democracy [kathmanduk2.wordpress.com]

Henry T. Sampson: First African-American to Earn Ph.D. in Nuclear Engineering in the U.S. [blackthen.com]

No One Nerds Out Over Space Science Quite Like NASA Astronaut Kate Rubins [wired.com]

Rising sea temperatures are destroying Australian kelp forests at a 'rapid' pace [theverge.com]

“hunter-gathers belonged to ‘the original affluent society’” [theatlantic.com]

African wildlife officials appalled as EU opposes a total ban on ivory trade [theguardian.com]

Data Mining Novels Reveals the Six Basic Emotional Arcs of Storytelling [technologyreview.com] @RowenaMonde @rinceya

The Great Debate: Is Data Killing Creativity? [blogs.adobe.com] @libertymadison

The 1970s “gay-cure” experiments written out of scientific history [mosaicscience.com]

Helpless to Prevent Cancer? Actually, Quite a Bit Is in Your Control [nytimes.com]

Why Rio's Water Is Filthy [theglobeandmail.com]

To compete in sewage water, Rio Olympians turn to antimicrobial clothes [arstechnica.com]

How frigatebirds cross entire oceans without ever needing to rest [washingtonpost.com]

What’s Inside Sunscreen? The Same Stuff That’s in Silly Putty [wired.com]

[]( "Tiffany Rae [mycognizantflow]") MILLIONS of bees died this week bc ignorant South Carolina "sprayed for Zika" Soooo tired of fucking humans

I’ve Been to the Future. It Tastes Like Crickets [wired.com] @mindovermunch

Are we getting enough sulfur in our diet? (2007) @mindovermunch @sweetpotatosoul [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Running Is Always Blind: How your brain keeps you from falling on your face [nautil.us]

“two hours of silence per day prompted cell development in the hippocampus” @RowenaMonde [nautil.us]

Introducing OpenCellular: An open source wireless access platform [code.facebook.com]

Samsung unveils world's first UFS memory cards — the successor to microSD [theverge.com]

This web instrument will compose your next low-budget sci-fi movie score @megafunkmega [theverge.com]