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101 Books to Dive Into This Summer: A Massive Reading List
101 Books to Dive Into This Summer: A Massive Reading List
Rebekah Barnett & Chelsea Catlett, TED
Here’s a huge list of TED speaker-recommended books, with all the diversity of titles and topics you might expect. No matter your mood, preference or occasion, we’ve got you covered.
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What Amazon’s Purchase of Whole Foods Really Means
What Amazon’s Purchase of Whole Foods Really Means
Joshua Rothman, The New Yorker
Behind the scenes, Amazon has been using technology to vertically integrate nearly the entire process of consumption.
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Amazon's Is Trying to Control the Underlying Infrastructure of Our Economy
Amazon’s Is Trying to Control the Underlying Infrastructure of Our Economy
Stacy Mitchell, Motherboard
With commerce rapidly moving online, Amazon has positioned itself as lord of the realm, which means that online commerce is no longer a market in any meaningful sense of the word. It’s now a privately controlled arena where a single company sets the terms by which we may exchange goods with one another and decides which products—which new authors, which new innovations—get to find an audience.
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This High-School Dropout Who Invested in Bitcoin at $12 Is Now a Millionaire at 18
This High-School Dropout Who Invested in Bitcoin at $12 Is Now a Millionaire at 18
Michelle Castillo, CNBC
Erik Finman made a bet with his parents that if he turned 18 and was a millionaire, they wouldn’t force him to go to college. Thanks to his savvy investments in bitcoin and the current all-time high valuation, he won’t have to get his degree.
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The Most Forward-Thinking, Future-Proof College in America Teaches Every Student the Exact Same Stuff
The Most Forward-Thinking, Future-Proof College in America Teaches Every Student the Exact Same Stuff
Peter Marber, Quartz
We live in an age when 2.5 quintillion bytes of data are created every day, with much being intentionally misleading, “fake” or just plain wrong. What could be more valuable than developing an intellectual filter, cultivating the capacity to know what is important to know, distilling enormous amounts of information to form a rational position, or knowing how to listen and respond to—or perhaps integrate—someone else’s point of view?
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Great News: There’s Another Recession Coming
Great News: There’s Another Recession Coming
Mr. Money Mustache
I can say this with confidence because there’s always a recession coming – we just never know exactly when. About the only thing I can guarantee is that we are about four years closer to the next recession than we were when I wrote that optimistic earlier article.
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What Is Space?
What Is Space?
Jorge Cham & Daniel Whiteson, Nautilus
Like many deep questions, the question of what space is sounds like a simple one at first. But if you challenge your intuition and reexamine the question, you discover that a clear answer is hard to find.
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Men Don’t Want to Be Nurses. Their Wives Agree.
Men Don’t Want to Be Nurses. Their Wives Agree.
Susan Chira, The New York Times
It seems like an easy fix. Traditionally male factory work is drying up. The fastest-growing jobs in the American economy are those that are often held by women. Why not get men to do them?
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In Towns Already Hit by Steel Mill Closings, a New Casualty: Retail Jobs
In Towns Already Hit by Steel Mill Closings, a New Casualty: Retail Jobs
Rachel Abrams and Robert Gebeloff, The New York Times
Thousands of workers face unemployment as retailers struggle to adapt to online shopping. But even as e-commerce grows, it isn’t absorbing these workers.
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Surprising Ways to Beat Anxiety and Become Mentally Strong – According to Science
Surprising Ways to Beat Anxiety and Become Mentally Strong – According to Science
Olivia Remes, The Conversation
The way you cope or handle things in life has a direct impact on how much anxiety you experience – tweak the way you’re coping, therefore, and you can lower your anxiety levels.
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