Other Cool Stuff From Around the World, Mostly By Gina
Friday, Nov. 27, 2015
MotherBoard: How Does Drug Use Affect Typing Speed? A Highly Scientific Investigation
NY Times: Bill Gates Expected to Create Billion-Dollar Fund for Clean Energy
Daily Beast: The Green Backlash Against Black Friday
Thursday, Nov. 26, 2015
Press Democrat: Oregon's Dungeness crab season may open soon
The Guardian: Smoking high strength cannabis may damage nerve fibres in brain
The Guardian: Your Thanksgiving cranberry sauce is poisoning Native American lands
Wednesday, Nov. 25, 2015
Newsweek: A Cannabis Crusader Brings the Fight for Legal Weed to America’s Heartland
Press Democrat: Slain Sebastopol parents struggled to get help for troubled son accused of their murder
CNN: Banned pesticide found in Colorado testing
Bloomberg News: Cannabis Coffee Makers Are Hoping to Become Bulletproof 2.0
Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2015
International Business Times : Costco Chicken Salad Connected To E. Coli Cases In Seven States: Report
International Business Times : California Pot Growers And Officials Struggle Over Making Pot Farms Environmentally Friendly
The Telegraph: How fast your heart beats predicts if you will die early
Inc.: After a Town Suffered a Terrible Tragedy, These Entrepreneurs Brought It Back to Life
Hakai Magazine: What’s Killing Alaska’s Sea Otters?
Daily Dot: How to destroy an American family with cyber harrasment
The Oregonian: Costco chicken salad linked to E. coli in Washington, other states
The Guardian: Climate Change: The incredible plan to make money grow on trees
Wall St. Journal: More Young Adults Live With Their Parents Now Than During the Recession
Press Democrat: Suspect in slaying of parents near Sebastopol caught after day-long manhunt
Press Democrat: Abalone diver dies off Mendocino Coast
Sunday, Nov. 22, 2015
Wall St. Journal: Why White House Economists Worry About Land-Use Regulations
Ukiah Daily Journal: Panel discussion focuses on transportation of medical marijuana
The Oregonian: Washington joins Oregon, CA in delaying crab season due to toxin
The Telegraph: UC Researchers Say Art, Nature Boost Immune System
Daily Beast: Forget Napa and Sonoma: Try the New Urban Wineries in Brooklyn, Seattle, and San Francisco
Daily Beast: Inside the Plot to Get Every American High on Acid
Press Democrat: Trimmigrants flock to California to process marijuana
Saturday, Nov. 21, 2015
NY Times: F.D.A. Takes Issue With the Term ‘Non-G.M.O.’
SF Chronicle: New tests provide glimmer of hope for Dungeness crab season
Huffington Post: Medical Marijuana Patients To DEA Chief: Pot Is No 'Joke,' And You Should Be Fired
The Guardian: Two months after Oregon legalization, pot saturation sends profits up in smoke
Friday, Nov. 20, 2015
Seattle Times: Seattle opens homeless camp for 80
The Guardian: The Night Before review – Seth Rogen serves up Christmas film with side of pot
The Guardian: Colorado’s Airbnb-style website for cannabis lovers
Quartz: Two-thirds of the world (U.S. too) can’t pass this basic financial literacy test. Can you?
The New Yorker: A Field Guide To Psychedelics
SF Chronicle: Modern-day downtown Oakland speakeasy raided
Thursday, Nov. 19, 2015
The Guardian: Philosophy saved me from poverty and drugs: that’s why I teach it to kids
LA Times: Genetically engineered salmon is fit for dinner, FDA says in first decision of its kind
The Oregonian: Portland's housing authority received 'unprecedented' number of rent increases
SF Chronicle: 49 California parks will be free on Black Friday
Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2015
NY Times: Half of New Yorkers Say They Are Barely or Not Getting By, Poll Shows
The Guardian: Heroin antidote Narcan as a nasal spray gets clearance from US regulators
Grist: Michael Pollan’s "In Defense of Food" hits the big screen
LA Times: ON THE STREETS: An ongoing video series about homelessness in So Cal
SF Chronicle: Hayward first California city to put fire station, medical center together
SF Chronicle: Colorado declares tainted marijuana a public threat
Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2015
Daily Beast: Feds cracking down on supplement makers
SF Chronicle: Rare sea turtle from Mexico found in NorCal river