Week of August 13, 2018 Archives
RCI -
Other Investigations
Monday, August 13
Companies Needing Skilled Workers Look to High Schools
Michelle Hackman
, WSJ
How Cities Trick You Into Better Behaviour
Nikhil Hemrajani
,
BBC
Actually, Hacking the Electric Grid Is Hard
Maggie Koerth-Baker
,
FiveThirtyEight
Meet Virgin Galactic's Spaceship Test Pilot
Nicolas Schmidle
,
New Yorker
Will Found Marilyn Nude Scene Mean Posthumous Sexploitation?
Yohana Desta
,
VF
Banks, Retailers Tracking How You Type, Swipe, Tap
Stacy Cowley
,
New York Times
Tuesday, August 14
Taxpayers Get the Bill as Medicare's Drug Premiums Stay Low
Austin Frakt
,
NYT
Uber Drivers Take Riders the Long Way—at Uber’s Expense
Greg Bensinger
,
WSJ
The Activists Who Took on Silicon Valley — and Won
Nicholas Confessore
,
NYT Mag
Meet the U.S. Farm Subsidy $1 Million Club
Adam Andrzejewski
,
Forbes
What a Grieving Orca Whale Tells Us
Ed Yong
,
Atlantic
1,400 Years Ago, Warrior Had Knife for an Arm
Joe Pappalardo
,
Popular Mechanics
Iranians Posing as Anti-Immigrant Americans Online
Peter Hasson
,
Daily Caller
Wednesday, August 15
Bribes, Backdoor Deals, Pay to Play -- and Bad Rosé
Victoria James
,
Bon Appétit
Bleak New Estimate of Overdose Deaths: 72,000 in 2017
Margot Sanger-Katz
, NYT
Thursday, August 16
SEC Subpoenas Tesla Over Musk Tweets
Emily Glazer
,
Wall Street Journal
Shopify Deletes Free Speech Pledge, Purges Gun Retailers
Stephen Gutowski
,
WFB
Traces of Controversial Herbicide in Cheerios, Quaker Oats
Mihir Zaveri
,
NY Times
'Abolish Prisons' Is the Left's New 'Abolish ICE'
Ruari Arrieta-Kenna
,
Politico Magazine
Military-Recruit Pool: Fat, Uneducated, Convicted
Mark Perry
,
American Conservative
The Fragile Business of Beekeeping
Jamie Lowe
,
New York Times Magazine
Friday, August 17
How a Face Transplant Transformed a Young Woman's Life
Joanna Connors,
NatGeo
Hipster Condiments Killed Mayonnaise
Sandy Hingston,
Philly Mag
Are Cities Making Animals Smarter?
Paul Bisceglio
,
Atlantic
Saturday, August 18
Tough Cookies: Hydrox Accusing Oreo of Intentional Sabotage
Carly Stern
,
Mail
How Internet Dating Boosts the Sum of Human Happiness
The Economist
Hospitals Investing in Local Housing to Improve Health
Paul Chisholm,
NPR
Diplomas Get an 'F' for Spelling
Melissa Korn
,
Wall Street Journal