“Poaching behind worst African elephant losses in 25 years” and other Tweeted Links…
Poaching behind worst African elephant losses in 25 years [sciencebulletin.org]
Everybody Thinks They're Middle-Class [bloomberg.com]
700,000 companies not paying Nigerian taxes? [youtube.com]
Digital Content Is Fundamentally Altering Afrika's Entertainment And Media Landscape [iafrikan.com]
murderous Brazilian police still murderous [youtube.com]
The New Star of Germany’s Far Right [newyorker.com]
Ava DuVernay’s new Netflix documentary confronts mass incarceration [blavity.com]
“There's really no such thing as the 'voiceless'. There are only the deliberately silenced, or the preferably unhea… [twitter.com]
America Is Not the Greatest Country on Earth. It’s No. 28 [bloomberg.com]
Pharma company boosts the price of a old acne cream 3,900% [arstechnica.com]
Why companies make their products worse [1843magazine.com]
Sweden Wants to Fight Disposable Culture with Tax Breaks for Repairing Old Stuff [fastcoexist.com]
International Day For The Total Elimination Of Nuclear Weapons: September 26, 2016 [kathmanduk2.wordpress.com]
New record extends global temperatures back two million years [arstechnica.com]
High Hitler: how Nazi drug abuse steered the course of history [theguardian.com]
Scientists Study How Non-Scientists Deny Climate Change [science.slashdot.org]
Rural Indian Girls Chase Big-City Dreams [nytimes.com]
Riots Erupt in Tampa, Florida, After Police Shoot Unarmed Black Teen in the Back (1967) [blackthen.com]
Space Art Propelled Scientific Exploration of the Cosmos, But Its Star Is Fading [atlasobscura.com]
NASA changed all the astrological signs and I’m a crab now [arstechnica.com]
Social Security denied to Whittier widow because husband died 6 hours before legal threshold [abc7.com]
Amazon’s algorithms are misleading customers [qz.com]
TV makers are the new VW cheats, says environmental group [theverge.com]
According To The Numbers, 1 Civilian Is Killed Every 2 Months By the Cha... [youtu.be] via @drboycewatkins1 => @ZaZaAli_7
How to Grow Objects With Mushroom Mycelium [core77.com]
Why Canadians Are Being Offered Cash to Abandon Their Homes [bloomberg.com]
U.S. Department of Labor sues Palantir for racial discrimination [tcrn.ch] via @techcrunch
In South Africa, indie games really are punk rock [arstechnica.com]
What the F? What swearing reveals about language and ourselves [arstechnica.com]
Why $14.5B-worth of goods are stuck at sea [economist.com]
Some developers dropping Oculus support to protest founder’s politics [arstechnica.com]
a short history of the black upper class on the internet: NetNoir (under AOL), whatever Omar Wasow did, @Bossip and @Blavity
Tulsa, 1921: the white riot that destroyed Black Wall Street [youtube.com]
8 Important Facts and Accomplishments About Inventor and Draftsman Lewis H. Latimer [blackthen.com]
Ruby Ruffin Hurley: Referred to as the “Queen of Civil Rights” [blackthen.com]
Mychal Denzel Smith’s “Invisible Man…” asks all the hard but important questions. [blavity.com]
Learn the history of how Black Soldiers won WW1 [blackthen.com]
Phoebe Snow: Bluesy Growl Singer, Songwriter, Guitarist Extraordinaire [VIDEO] [blackthen.com]
Year Two: Annual NOW AFRICA Playwrights Festival at NYU [blackstarnews.com]
on Kindle, a @squibblesreads pick: Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue [amazon.com] YT:… [twitter.com]
a @marcmaron via @geofftate96 pick: The Narcissist Next Door [amazon.com] ep. 743:… [twitter.com]