Other Cool Stuff From Around the World, Mostly By Gina
Monday, Nov. 16, 2015
LA Times: Is Robert Durst moving closer to answering a murder charge in L.A.?
NY Times: Chip Credit Cards Give Retailers Another Grievance Against Banks
Reuters: San Diego craft brewer to sell for $1 billion
Hopes & Fears: What it's like to deliver weed by bike in NYC
Press Democrat: Santa Rosa homeless encampment planning to move
The Guardian: Marijuana social network Massroots enjoys natural high of success
Sunday, Nov. 15, 2015
Maxim: Anonymous Has Declared War on ISIS in Revenge for the Paris Attacks
The Guardian: Poorest town in poorest state: segregation is gone but so are the jobs
Daily Beast: Backpacker, Go Home: How Tourism Is Ruining Everything
SF Chronicle: Virginia farm saves rare heritage cattle
Saturday, Nov. 14, 2015
LA Times: Electric Vehicles Beat Gasoline Cars in Greenhouse Gas Study
Slate: How Solar Installations Could Be the Barn-Raisings of the 21st Century
The Atlantic: Point Arena: The Small Town That Defines America's Digital Divide
Friday, Nov. 13, 2015
Grist: Chemicals used in oil spill cleanup made Gulf disaster worse
The Guardian: Toxic Mud: Brazil's slow-motion environmental catastrophe unfolds
The Guardian: The battle to save Silicon Valley's oldest trailer park
Willits News: U.S. pot use up sharply
Del Norte Triplicate: Crescent City harbor considering solar power
Nautil: How the Western Diet Has Derailed Our Evolution
Thursday, Nov. 12, 2015
SF Chronicle: Thousands of medical marijuana patients petition to fire DEA chief
LA Times: 'Recreational' marijuana proponents are pushing a false narrative
Ukiah Daily Journal: Mendocino County begins reworking local medical marijuana ordinance
The Guardian: America's poorest white town: abandoned by coal, swallowed by drugs
Wednesday, Nov. 11, 2015
The Guardian: Looking for Sasquatch: an expedition along the 'Oregon Bigfoot Highway'
NY Times : The Next Internet? Marijuana Delivered as Easy as Pizza
Aeon: Researcher says "local and organic" aren't sustainable practices
The Guardian: Marijuana proposals fight to represent California's 2016 legalization effort
The Guardian: Snoop Dogg launches cannabis brand, Leafs by Snoop
LA Times: U.S. Soccer to eliminate heading of balls for players 10 and under
Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2015
LA Times: Mammoth sees 20 inches of snow as storm wallops Sierra
Collector's Weekly: Did the CIA's Experiments With Psychedelic Drugs Unwittingly Create the Grateful Dead?
Daily Beast: Pills Kill More People Than Guns and Car Crashes
The Guardian: Renewable energy made up half of world's new power plants in 2014: IEA
The Oregonian: Oregon wolves removed from state endangered species list
The Oregonian: Some felony pot convictions can be sealed under new Oregon law
LA Times: Researchers detail what a Rockstar energy drink does to your body
LA Times: Half of immigrants in state illegally could be eligible for Medi-Cal expansion, study finds
SF Chronicle: Thunderstorm in Bay Area means snow in the Sierra
Monday, Nov. 9, 2015
NY Times: Stonehenge Begins to Yield Its Secrets
LA Times: Coming set-top box mandate may help break pay TV firms' hold over viewers
The Oregonian: Merger creates $23 billion timber company to settle in Seattle: Weyerhaeuser to buy Plum Creek Timber
Sunday, Nov. 8, 2015
The Telegraph: Cooking with vegetable oils releases toxic cancer-causing chemicals, say experts
NY Post: New York startup developing ‘healthier’ canniabis
Daily Beast: The Next Tech Hot Spot: Rural America
Saturday, Nov. 7, 2015
Salon: Our stuff is burying us alive: Hoarding and the mountains of garbage we call “collections”
The Atlantic: Dorms for Grownups: A Solution for Lonely Millennials?
Seattle Times: Keystone pipeline rejection means oil tankers could multiply in Strait of Juan de Fuca
The Guardian: Lost at sea: the man who vanished for 14 months
LA Times: Religion doesn't make kids more generous or altruistic, study finds
LA Times: L.A. leaders warn Angelenos to prepare for 'Godzilla' El Niño storms