BBC – Capital – What's really holding women back in the workplace?.
Arctic ice grows darker and less reflective – environment – 05 August 2013 – New Scientist.
Brazil uprising points to rise of leaderless networks – life – 26 June 2013 – New Scientist.
The Offline Wage Wars of Silicon Valley.
Higher social class predicts increased unethical behavior.
James Galbraith on Europe, Greece (and Syriza), Germany and America | Yanis Varoufakis.
Firefighter Handcuffed, Threatened with Taser After Waving at Cops.
Lean In hypocrisy: Sheryl Sandberg org is hiring an unpaid intern..
The ‘preserved mustard index’ ???? | Fuchsia Dunlop.
….ISPs often don’t say why a website is blocked and court orders are rarely voluntarily published. So when sites are blocked, it’s really hard to find out why….
Gmail promises “no reasonable expectation” of privacy – Salon.com.
Climate change may make trees grow faster – Salon.com.
Why Is Inequality So Much Higher in the U.S. Than in France? – Matthew O'Brien – The Atlantic.
Stop Thinking That Tech Hacks Will Fix Our Surveillance Problems | Wired Opinion | Wired.com.
Storefront Window Turns Office Workers Into Zoo Animals | Wired Design | Wired.com.
Debt Obligations and the Need for Regulation | New Economic Perspectives.
*Ninety Percent of Everything*.
A Black Hole Mystery Wrapped in a Firewall Paradox – NYTimes.com.
With So Many Job Openings, Why So Little Hiring? – Bloomberg.
Why is Obama So Keen to Appoint Larry Summers to the Fed? « naked capitalism.
The Real Foreclosure Scandal: Why Have Virtually No Lawyers Been Disbarred? « naked capitalism.
Gmail security: Google says users have "no legitimate expectation of privacy.".
The Business Habits of Highly Effective Terrorists | Foreign Affairs.
“I don’t normally do this kind of thing”: 45 small fates – The New Inquiry.
….new way of linking through annotation
Wonkbook: Is there a doom loop between economic and political inequality?.
Don’t take my pension!: The looming public worker nightmare – Salon.com.
How to be a pickup artist, Silicon Valley style | mathbabe.
Yet Another White House Obamacare Delay: Out-Of-Pocket Caps Waived Until 2015 – Forbes.
The Grand New Visualization That Represents Some Not All of the Web – Robinson Meyer – The Atlantic.
BBC News – Smart Water: Tech guarding our most precious resource.
Why the US is turning into a subscription-based economy – Quartz.
The Surveillance-Free Day Part III — Daily Intelligencer.
The Science Of Reddit: Why Some Ideas Dominate The Net | TechCrunch.
U.S. Companies Thrive as Workers Fall Behind – NYTimes.com.
'Paying Till It Hurts': Why American Health Care Is So Pricey : NPR.
What Causes Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD)? | MyFDL.
Pensions? Always someone else's problem | Money | theguardian.com.
Reuters Next — The crackdown on bank misbehavior masks a troubling reality.
The NSA-DEA police state tango – Salon.com.
This week’s DEA bombshell shows us how the drug war and the terror war have poisoned our justice system….
Look Who’s Locking Horns Over Retirement Accounts – MoneyBeat – WSJ.
BBC Science – How to: make a microscope from a webcam.
Man Fined $32K for Jamming Newark Airport’s Signals Because He Wanted to Avoid Work | Betabeat.
High-Profile Silicon Valley Exec GUILTY of Mass Lego Theft.
Las Vegas water chief seeks disaster aid for Colorado River drought | Las Vegas Review-Journal.
The Software That Builds Software : The New Yorker.
Testosterone Pit – Home – “Yes We Scan” (Everything).
Will Non-Profits Try To Stop Their Workers From Unionizing? | Alternet.
Secure alternatives to Facebook, Instagram and Twitter | Fox News.
The NSA Can Search Everybody's Email But Its Own.
The NSA Is Copying and Processing All Emails That Leave the U.S..
Bank Fails to Read Customer's Fine Print, Gets Sued for Violating TOS.
Autism, An Insider’s Guide | Andrew Solomon.
Smug About Suffering | Andrew Solomon.
Daily Kos: 15 things everyone would know if there were a liberal media.
Michael Klare, How to Fry a Planet | MyFDL.
Why It’s So Hard to Sue Wal-Mart for Gender Discrimination | MyFDL.
Surveillance questions snowball: 5 stories you may have missed – World – CBC News.
BBC – Capital – Turning water into gold.
The Bot Wars: why you can never buy concert tickets online.
Companies Need To Pay People More – Business Insider.
Children given lifelong ban on talking about fracking | Environment | The Guardian.
NSA files show privacy does not exist | Technology | theguardian.com.
401(k)s are a sham – Salon.com.
Science is not the Enemy of the Humanities | New Republic.
Wells Are Running Dry In Parts Of Kansas : NPR.
Water Wars: Who Controls The Flow? : NPR.
"Just Cause:" Isn't it Time for All Workers to Have More Job Security?.
How Payday Lenders Bounce Back When States Crack Down – Truthdig.
For Africa’s Solar Sisters, Off-Grid Electricity is Power by Diane Toomey: Yale Environment 360.
The Surprising Role of CO2 in Changes on the African Savanna by Adam Welz: Yale Environment 360.
With Tar Sands Development, Growing Concern on Water Use by Ed Struzik: Yale Environment 360.
Disability Is No Excuse to Deprive One of Civil Liberties | American Civil Liberties Union.
Cadmium-Tainted Rice Discovered in Southern China – NYTimes.com.
The Goodman Affair: Monsanto Targets the Heart of Science.
Militarized vision | geographical imaginations.
A Job of Work by Luc Sante | 50 Years | The New York Review of Books.
Whistleblower, Leaker, Traitor, Spy by Eyal Press | NYRblog | The New York Review of Books.
….The one thing that Snowden’s detractors have insisted he does not merit being called is a whistleblower….
Falkenblog: On the Inverse Correlation between Expected Risk and Return.
James Surowiecki: Why Do So Many Jobs Pay So Little? : The New Yorker.
Sarah Stillman: The Use and Abuse of Civil Forfeiture : The New Yorker.
Greenland soars to its highest temperature ever recorded, almost 80 degrees F..
Hacking the Internet of Everything: Scientific American.
OSC Defends Whistleblower Who Refused to Disclose Classified Information | MyFDL.
The End of the Web, Search, and Computer as We Know It | Wired Opinion | Wired.com.
Proof the Feds Are Tracking Your Car | Alternet.
The Sleeper in Health Care Payment Reform – NYTimes.com.
The legal jujitsu of Goldman Sachs | Felix Salmon.
Metadata is in the eye of the beholder :: Hacking, Distributed.
True Stories of Life as an Amazon Worker.
NSA’s Internet taps can find systems to hack, track VPNs and Word docs | Ars Technica.
Amazon Is Worse Than Walmart | Alternet.
Innovation: What are the best new products that people don't know about? – Quora.
State Investigators, Workers Cite Labor Abuses in Warehouse Empire | FairWarning.
Judicial Secrecy Turns Consumer Protection Case Into a Mystery | FairWarning.
….When the Consumer Product Safety Commission two years ago launched SaferProducts.gov, a database allowing consumers to report and learn about hazardous products, it was inevitable that some business would go to court to keep a customer’s complaint private….
Surveillance and the future: What sci-fi isn’t telling us. – Slate Magazine.
….The rebel who refuses to conform is a powerful democratic narrative, yet one whose plausibility seems to be under threat from the rapid advance of surveillance technology. How will our narratives of the future handle this change in today’s technological landscape? Bizarrely, what seems to be on display above all is a sort of denial of reality. A number of science fiction movies have actually had to “disinvent” existing technologies in order to retell the myth of how rebels against “the system” help preserve free and open societies….