Saturday, November 1, 2014

Halloween / All Saints Weekend Reads

Some interesting stories to browse:

No Guarantee of Safety: Inside the Belgrade Derby - SBNation

Horned and Dangerous: How Defensive Guru Gary Patterson Built College Football's Most Prolific Offense at TCU - Grantland

Candy Corn Is Garbage - Deadspin.  Haters gonna hate.  I disagree.  Some candy corn history here.

A Rare Peek Inside the Factory Where Ferraris are Born - Wired. See also, Amazing Things Happen When Texans Get Their Hands On Ferraris - Business Insider

The Biggest Ship in the World (Though It Isn't Exactly a Ship) - New York Times

It's Not Just Tang: NASA's widespread influence on everyday design - Medium

The little-know Soviet space mission to rescue a dead space station - Ars Technica

The Great Paper Caper - GQ.  The greatest counterfeiter ever?

One of Us - Boston Magazine. Growing up black in Southie.

The Lowe's Robot and the Future of Service Work - The New Yorker.  Sure this won't eliminate jobs.  Tell me another one.

John Maynard Keynes is the Economist the World Needs Now - Businessweek.  Germans and Republicans disagree, to the detriment of all.

How Dark Money Got a Mining Company Everything It Wanted - Pacific Standard

Even Israel's Best Friends Understand That It Is Disconnecting From Reality - Jeffrey Goldberg

Mississippi's Race to the Bottom - Slate

Democrats Lose Their Grip on Voters With Keys to the House - Wall Street Journal.  It's always about the welfare and the brown people when it comes to rural whites.  The chart tells me that it probably won't matter much in the not-too-distant future.  It still depresses the hell out of me that so many decent, rural folks are so virulently racist.



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