Luke Kemp / BBC Future
- Mar 17, 2019
- 1 min
Outside Sources / Are We on the Road to Civilization Collapse?
DEEP CIVILIZATION This article is part of a new BBC Future series about the long view of humanity, which aims to stand back from the...
Vice.com
- Mar 17, 2019
- 1 min
Outside Sources / How to Download the Books That Just Entered the Public Domain
Public Domain Day was yesterday (Jan. 1, 2019) but you were probably hungover, so here’s how to download the tens of thousands of books...
Pankaj Mishra / New York Times
- Mar 13, 2019
- 1 min
Outside Sources / The Malign Incompetence of the British Ruling Class
With Brexit, the chumocrats who drew borders from India to Ireland are getting a taste of their own medicine. Describing Britain’s...
Matt Levin / CALmatters.org
- Mar 13, 2019
- 1 min
Outside Sources / Does “upzoning”—allowing taller, denser housing to be built—actually work?
For most California housing experts, the solution to the state’s housing crisis is pretty intuitive: Build more housing. Study after...
Greg Jaffe & Jenna Johnson / Washington Post
- Mar 2, 2019
- 3 min
Outside Sources / In America, talk turns to something not spoken of for 150 years: Civil war
At a moment when the country has never seemed angrier, two political commentators from opposite sides of the divide concurred recently on...
Elizabeth Nelson, Oxford American magazine
- Feb 26, 2019
- 1 min
Outside Sources / A Night with Lou Reed
Part 1: Northport Forty-two minutes northeast of Lou Reed’s hometown of Freeport, New York, I am in my childhood bedroom, curiously...