Recall of Brock Turner judge succeeds: Voters oust Aaron Persky for sentence in sexual assault case
The judge whose ruling sparked national outrage is the first to be ousted in nearly a century.
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Posted on 2018-06-06T14:31:22+0000
San Francisco, please, get your priorities straight.
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Nearly half of Bay Area residents say they want to leave
“They couldn’t be more clear what the big problems are,” says an exec at the Bay Area Council, which commissioned the new poll.
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Posted on 2018-06-04T05:34:08+0000
How a Hacker Proved Cops Used a Secret Government Phone Tracker to Find Him
And how it might change what cops can do with our smartphones.
Hasnain says:
“What these judges have realized is that there is now a turning point with respect to smartphones: We carry them with us and they hold all of our secrets. No wonder the police find them valuable during an investigation. But should the police need to get a warrant to find our phones? And what other opportunities for high-tech, low-oversight surveillance might they offer in the future?”
Posted on 2018-06-03T21:24:38+0000
Tales from the far-flung Faroes
The people who live on remote rocks in the North Atlantic
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Such an interesting human interest story, about small islands and how people are adapting as the newer generations move away
Posted on 2018-06-03T20:51:29+0000
Opinion | Nature Is Risky. That’s Why Students Need It.
Some hate the jungle, but most find hidden strength and unanticipated freedom.
Hasnain says:
“But it turns out that risk and potential go hand in hand. We need to let children, including college students, risk getting hurt. Protection from pain guarantees weakness, fragility and greater suffering in the future. The discomfort may be physical, emotional or intellectual — My ankle! My feelings! My worldview! — and all need to be experienced to learn and grow.”
Posted on 2018-06-03T20:31:01+0000
Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire Coding Site GitHub
Microsoft Corp. has agreed to acquire GitHub Inc., the code repository company popular with many software developers, and could announce the deal as soon as Monday, according to people familiar with the matter.
The Largest Health Disparity We Don’t Talk About
Americans with serious mental illnesses die 15 to 30 years earlier than those without.
Hasnain says:
"In a recent article in The New England Journal of Medicine, Dr. Brendan Reilly, a physician at Dartmouth, describes his late brother’s devastating story. Over the course of months, he wrote, countless physicians, hospitals and rehab facilities missed the spinal cord damage that left him quadriplegic — instead variously ascribing his inability to move to his mental illness, his medications or his will.
“Once they find out you have a mental illness,” Dr. Reilly quoted his brother as saying, “it’s like the lights go out.”"
Posted on 2018-06-03T17:02:03+0000
Asian Americans Are the Least Likely Group in the U.S. to Be Promoted to Management
It’s a problem in a number of sectors, from tech and finance to law and government.
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Posted on 2018-06-03T07:17:27+0000
Why Rich Kids Are So Good at the Marshmallow Test
Affluence—not willpower—seems to be what’s behind some kids' capacity to delay gratification.
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Posted on 2018-06-03T07:13:10+0000