This week’s Klawchat transcript is up, and I also reviewed Broom Service, a fun family-strategy boardgame that’s been nominated for the Spiel des Jahres award, for Paste.
And now, this week’s links…
- Why one independent bookstore is offering refunds to customers who bought Go Set a Watchman. Read his reasons, because he’s right – and that’s why I won’t read the book.
- Maybe the best way to convince vaccine-deniers to vaccinate is to explain how scary those diseases can be for children.
- One tweet shows how hopelessly out of touch the privileged can be. In this case, a Google program manager responded to the observation that laundromats were being priced out of San Francisco neighborhoods by calling it “the cost of disruption.” But “disruption” isn’t the same as Schumpeter’s creative destruction; disruption merely skims off the top of the market, the way direct-streaming services are skimming off the best cable/satellite subscribers or Uber and its ilk are skimming off taxi drivers’ businesses. These market changes are complicated and can’t be dismissed as good (or bad) in a few words.
- Gravity Payments announced earlier this year that they were raising their company’s minimum salary to $70,000. Since then, they’ve had to cope with the backlash.
- Another good post on dealing with anxiety, this time from a pseudonymous writer who works for a minor league club.
- A scary medical-mystery story involving a superbug in the UCLA hospital.
- Great piece from Grantland looking at Big Daddy Kane and Rakim and hip-hop nostalgia.
- An interesting theory (in Scientific American) on how Homo sapiens spread throughout the world.
- Jeb Bush isn’t sure if we need to spend $500 million on “women’s health issues,” and The Atlantic has a piece on what that phrase actually means.