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Suggested Reading of 2016

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December 2016:

A Summary of Russia's privatization program under Yeltsin (Facts and Details)
Richard Heede has shown that just 90 companies are responsible for most of climate change (and has been persecuted for this by Texas fascist Lamar Smith) (Science Magazine)
The case against sugar (Aeon)
China's strategy (Business Insider)
False news from US politicians about science (Scientific American)
The risk of a nuclear catastrophe is greater today than ever (New Yorker)
More than 1,000 Russian athletes doped in a state-sponsored doping program (BBC News)
Globalization of people is pushing people to the right (Washington Post)

November 2016:

A great example of scientific disinformation: John Tierney's "The Real War on Science" (City Journal, See my comments here)
Renaissance/Medallion's hedge fund, a moneymaking machine like no other (Bloomberg)
Most jobs aren't created by private, corporate investment, so raising taxes on corporate income won't affect employment (Aeon)
>>> China's Great Leap Backward: China has become repressive in a way that it has not been since the Cultural Revolution (Atlantic)
The lengthy right-wing campaign to demonize Hillary Clinton (Guardian)
Marijuana users age faster (University of Western Australia)
Marijuana user causes gene mutation (University of Western Australia)
Donald Trump's ties to Russia (NPR)

October 2016:

Damage caused by marijuana to bones (Genetic Engineering News)
Boris Johnson's unpublished article on why Britain should STAY in the European Union (BBC)

September 2016:

Murders up 10.8% in biggest percentage increase since 1971 (FBI)
Smoke from Indonesian fires causes 100,000 premature deaths (Harvard Univ)
>>>Putin (New York Review of Books)
US economy: The median household income grew by 5.2% in 2015, inflation was only 0.1% in 2015, income of the 5% poorest population grew by over 6%, the poverty rate fell from 14.8% to 13.5% (the largest annual percentage-point drop in poverty since 1999) (Economist)
The "alt-right" and Donald Trump (Economist)
Daniel Ortega's dictatorship in Nicaragua (Economist)
Nicholas Carr on the Internet (Aeon)
After spending one trillion dollars is the USA safer than it was in 2001? (The Atlantic)
North Korea's fifth nuclear test (The Atlantic)
The Saddam factor in North Korea's nuclear strategy (BBC)

August 2016:

North Korea's dictator Jong-un Kim (New York Review of Books)
>>>The drone presidency (New York Review of Books)
The pace of innovation has slowed since 1970 (New York Review of Books)
How US politics went insane (The Atlantic)

July 2016:

>>>Industrial farming is one of the worst crimes in history (Guardian)

June 2016:

The globalization of people (CNN)
Brexit chaos (Guardian)
>>> Medical error is the 3rd leading cause of death in the USA (British Medical Journal)
Permanent damage caused by chronic marijuana use to the brain (Center for Brain Health at the University of Texas at Dallas) (Neuroscience News)
Understanding media addiction to Donald Trump (BBC)

May 2016:

>>>50th anniversary of Mao's Cultural Revolution (NBC)
Are we alone in the universe? Updating the Drake equation (Adam Frank)
Chinese economy in trouble? (Wall Street Journal)
Word processing (New Republic)
Who is president Xi? (New York Review of Books)
China's debt (CNBC)

April 2016:

March 2016:

The second worst thing that can happen to the USA (National Review)
Repression of political dissidents in Israel (New York Review of Books)
The future of hardware (slide presentation) (HAX)

February 2016:

China controls the Indus, Ganges, Brahmaputra, Irrawaddy, Salween and Mekong rivers (Future Directions)
Washington hypocrisy in choosing the next judge of the Supreme Court (Fox News)
Long-term effects of the use of marijuana (Neurosciences News)
The use of marijuana impacts memory (Huffington Post)
Long-term marijuana use associated with worse verbal memory in middle age (Science Daily)

January 2016:

>>>Erdogan's economy (Economist)
Kadyrov, Putin's enforcer in Chechnya (Economist)
Conservative media created the Trump and Cruz extremism (CNN)
Innovation in China (McKinsey)
Russian air strikes have killed more than 1,000 Syria civilians (VDC)
Who profits from the conflict in Congo (Al Jazeera)
The oceans will have more plastic than fish by 2050 (World Economic Forum)

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