Friday Water Cooler

The Media Is an Arm of the Ruling Class of This Country (huffingtonpost.com).You're being fed information from just a handful of companies. See illustration below.

Click to enrage.

Modern mussell shells are much thinner than 50 years ago (phys.org). Because of acidification.

Should We Sequence the DNA of Every Cancer Patient? (technologyreview.com). Boiling the ocean is seldom a good approach, and probably won't be good here either.

New Device Sold on the Dark Web Can Clone Up to 15 Contactless Cards per Second (news.softpedia.com/news). Imagine a crook with one of these just strolling through a crowded subway station, sniffing out card details...

Why Philosophers Should Care About Computational Complexity (scottaaronson.com).

Home Depot Files Antitrust Lawsuit Against Visa, MasterCard (ajc.com).

US Recession Odds Hit 55% According to Deutsche Bank Model (mishtalk.com).

That Time I Went To A Trump Rally (storify.com). Berntards, listen up!

44 Percent of Democrats Want Sanders to Make an Independent Run for the White House (defenddemocracy.press).

Chin Up (carlbeijer.com).

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