“The Company Behind Many Surprise Emergency Room Bills” and other tweeted links…

The Company Behind Many Surprise Emergency Room Bills [nytimes.com]

Buying time promotes happiness [pnas.org] » @breakingbrown

How Fear and Outrage Are Sold for Profit [medium.com]

The quitting economy [aeon.co]

Al Gore: 'The rich have subverted all reason' [theguardian.com]

Unpaid Internships Lead To Lower-Paying Jobs, Study Finds [it.slashdot.org]

[]( "Parul Sehgal [parul_sehgal]") A black, working-class man would have to call 80 therapists to get an appointment. A middle-class white woman: 5 [theatlantic.com]

It’s so insane that Republicans call themselves the party for business but they don’t seem to realize that not bein… [twitter.com]

“There's really no such thing as the 'voiceless'. There are only the deliberately silenced, or the preferably unhea… [twitter.com]

Ten-year old Indian girl tracks down the hit-and-run driver who killed her brother. Seriously, how sad is that? [deccanchronicle.com]

Over and over, our kids study what’s easy to test, not what’s important to learn. Needs to change. Note that just… [twitter.com]

July 24, 1916, Garrett Augustus Morgan saved humanity [blackthen.com]

Forgotten Religions That Worshipped Electricity [ozy.com]

An American acquitted of spying for the Soviets–even after he confessed to it [longreads.com]

North Korea Learned from Libya War to Never Give Up Nukes [theintercept.com]

[]( "Aisha Alexander [AishaThinker]") Y’all. My mother @ViLyles made history tonight. She is the FIRST EVER Black woman elected Mayor of Charlotte, NC! [twitter.com]

[]( "Frank Deale [fdeale]") A fighter against oppression to his last breath @SocialistViews [socwrk.org]

Aaron Swartz Day is today, and for the first time, there's a webcast[boingboing.net] [twitter.com]

South Africa has tripled its black science PhD graduates over the last decade [qz.com] via @qzafrica

young bruh, you cannot be Afrocentric and patriarchal👸 at the same time -you can be an intellectual tourist/missionary👮 but not centered😷

Madagascar Plague - More than 2,000 cases confirmed in worst outbreak in decades [youtube.com] » @megafunkmega

I’ve Had a Cyberstalker Since I Was 12 (2016) [wired.com]

The Missing Advice I Needed When Starting My Career [smashingmagazine.com]

Incredible shrinking airline seat [theguardian.com]

Mexico City Is Killing Parking Spaces. Pay Attention, America [wired.com]

These Ingenious 2,500-Year-Old Chinese Wood Joints Make Buildings Earthquake-Proof [core77.com]

The Worst Internet in America [fivethirtyeight.com]

The scars left by electronic culture on indigenous lands [we-make-money-not-art.com]

In a Robot Economy, All Humans Will Be Marketers [bloomberg.com]

Why there’s no such thing as a gifted child [theguardian.com] » @breakingbrown

First Human Embryos Edited In US [science.slashdot.org]

Optical lens can transfer digital information without loss [phys.org]

Yes: “267 people died in LA last year just trying to get around, because the streets are designed to kill you unles… [twitter.com]

Sending our condolences to the family of artist and @SpelmanCollege art lecturer Tamara Natalie Madden (1975-2017).… [twitter.com]

Leonardo da Vinci’s Visionary Notebooks Now Online: Browse 570 Digitized Pages [openculture.com]

The death of reading is threatening the soul [washingtonpost.com] « @rowenamonde

.@questlove, cool job on the MR. DYNAMITE thang! -a great crash course into the real of "Black Capitalism" 👁️🧐👽😬 «… [twitter.com]

Walter Dean Myers: One of the Most Brilliant Writers of Juvenile Fiction [blackthen.com]

Reasons Your Creative Type Has Broken Up with You [newyorker.com]

Millennials are keeping libraries alive [qz.com]

The Most Anthologized Poems of the Last 25 Years [lithub.com]

Why I left Medium and moved back to my own domain [arslan.io]

[]( "Dolores🌞 [DoloresTheHuman]") GPU melts in the distance [twitter.com]

Harvest magic! Wild cancer fighting chaga tea, Hopi blue maize tortillas from scratch over wood fire, 3 gallons of… [twitter.com]

How the Black Panther Party and womens' organizations fueled American food policy. [bit.ly] via… [twitter.com]

How BuzzFeed’s Tasty Conquered Online Food [nytimes.com]

Cafeteria workers at Facebook struggle to make ends meet [theguardian.com] » @breakingbrown

A Guide to Intermittent Fasting [stedavies.com] » @mindovermunch

#Carrots used to be purple. In the 17th century the #Dutch bred them to be orange to reflect their national color [twitter.com]

Oh man, if you're upset about brown people in UK Christmas ads then I have some news about Jesus that you may want to sit down for.

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