Hawaii's Tragedy, UK Beer, Floreda Psychology, and 50 Years of Hip-Hop
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First Things
- Hello, Floreda!
- Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands
- Impossible People: A Completely Average Recovery Story
Current Events
- Hawaii and climate change
- Biden administration announces $1.2B in funding for projects to pull carbon from the air
- IEA flags risk of higher oil prices, cuts 2024 demand view
- The 2024 US Presidential Election
- Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro is barred from running for office until 2030
- Coup in Niger
- Operation Lone Star
- Article 14 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights says: "Everyone has the right to seek and to enjoy in other countries asylum from persecution."
- It is not illegal to seek asylum in the US
Economics
- UK alcohol tax changes
- Linda Yaccarino says brands are coming back to "X"
Education
- Florida now says AP Psychology allowed in schools
- DeSantis and New College
Killer Robots, etc
- Robotaxis in San Francisco
- SEIU Local 87 President Olga Miranda in favor, most other labor leaders against
- War in the Age of Intelligent Machines
- The Smart Wife
Hip-Hop
- Kool Herc’s first block party was 11 August 1973
- Call of Duty “celebrates” 50 years of hip-hop