Week of January 15, 2018 Archives
RCI -
Other Investigations
Monday, January 15
A Child Abuse Prediction Model Fails Poor Families
Virginia Eubanks
,
Wired
Can Your Hip Replacement Kill You?
Jeanne Lenzer
,
New York Times
Many Immigrants Admitted Only After Long Waits in Jail
Paul Moses
,
Daily Beast
Big Brother on Wheels: Your Car Company
Peter Holley
,
Washington Post
Hidden Video: Twitter Employees Admit Archiving Users' Sex Pics
Project Veritas
When the Nuclear Push Alert Is Not a Mistake
Garrett M. Graff
,
Esquire
Your Boots Were Made for Tracking: Retail Floor Sensors
Associated Press
Tuesday, January 16
America Could Stop Almost Half of Train Crashes
Winston Ross
,
Daily Beast
Bringing Skin Lightening Out of the Dark
Sheila Mulrooney Eldred
,
Stat
Kids Today: Less Sex, Drugs, Booze, More Smartphones
The Economist
Meet Antifa's Secret Weapon Against Far-Right Extremists
Doug Bock Clark
,
Wired
What Being a Bike Courier Taught Me
Sam Riches
,
The Walrus
How DNA Testing Botched My Family's Heritage
Kristen V. Brown
,
Gizmodo
The Encyclopedia of the Missing
Jeremy Lybarger
,
Longreads
Wednesday, January 17
How China Infiltrated U.S. Classrooms
Ethan Epstein
,
Politico Magazine
The Antitrust Case Against Facebook, Google and Amazon
Greg Ip
,
Wall St. Journal
Finding Steve McQueen's Lost 'Bullitt' Mustang
Brett Berk
,
Vanity Fair
What It's Like to Be the Parent of a Social-Media Star
Taylor Lorenz
,
Atlantic
Goldman Aide Accused of Stealing $1.2M of Boss's Rare Wines
Matthew Haag,
NYT
Why Bitcoin Could Transcend Wealth
Steven Johnson
,
NYT Magazine
The Marriott Family's Civil War
Marisa M. Kashino
,
Washingtonian
Thursday, January 18
New AI Predicts How Long Patients Will Live
George Dvorsky
,
Gizmodo
Having Child Out-of-Wedlock Is Norm for Women 40 to 44
Gretchen Livingston,
Pew
Craft Beer: Strangest, Happiest Economic Story in America
Derek Thompson
,
Atlantic
Fall of Uber CEO Kalanick Was Weird and Dark
Eric Newcomer
&
Brad Stone
,
Bloomberg
Friday, January 19
The Mystery of 'Jesus,' the Naked Hippie Dancer
J.P. Robinson
,
Medium
Science Is Giving the Pro-Life Movement a Boost
Emma Green
,
Atlantic