mental health Ramaswamy says colleges should require physical fitness test for admission Mark Frauenfelder
academia Study shows extent of hiring bias in academia: 20% of schools produce 80% of tenure-track profs Elías Villoro
Games Indie game bundle for Racial Justice and Equality comes with more than 740 titles Rob Beschizza
corruption How the "Varsity Blues" admissions scam punished deserving, hard working kids so that mediocre kids of the super-rich could prosper Cory Doctorow
happy mutants Thomas Piketty's new book uses data to trace how inequality changes ideology Cory Doctorow
late stage capitalism Thomas Piketty explains how Elizabeth Warren's wealth tax is American as apple pie Cory Doctorow
religion LA's teachers are ready to strike on Tuesday, rejecting privatization of public education Cory Doctorow
economics Nobel-winning economist Joe Stiglitz on how the US economy became a "rigged, inherited plutocracy" and how to fix it Cory Doctorow
late stage capitalism The paradox of good government: the best stuff works well and is thus unnoticeable (and therefore easy to sell off) Cory Doctorow
late stage capitalism Seasteading meets the shock doctrine in Puerto Rico, where ethnic cleansing precedes Going Galt Cory Doctorow
class war Better education doesn't correlate strongly to economic mobility (but union membership does) Cory Doctorow
Science Income inequality turns "neglected tropic diseases" into American diseases of "the poor living among the wealthy" Cory Doctorow
President Obama's tech-centered State of the Union: full text, and digital rights concerns Xeni Jardin
