Weekly roundup: March 7 - 13

Articles

Time for a new political party from Maclean's via @acoyne

Strong markets the best solution to food risk from Economy Lab

Prisons should be repair shops not garbage dumps from National Post

On the left hand, there are no easy answers from The New York Times

Bat catcher from The Seattle Times

Podcasts

Tell me a story from RadioLab

Full Interview: Brian Christian on The Most Human Human from CBC's Spark

Videos

via Treehugger


Community is a really well done show. It is funny and different every episode. The above video was mashed together by someone and really seems like a possible episode.

Tweets

Screenshot from Twitter. 2011-03-12T17:28:43.000Z. Chris Selley (@cselley). CBC says social media in Japan is being used "almost like an online gathering place.".

I remember when the entire Internet looked like https://t.co/y8WtctY no Google ads, no "sign up for our mailing list". Calm, peaceful, info.

— Peter Rukavina (@ruk) March 8, 2011
Screenshot from Twitter. 2011-03-11T17:54:12.000Z. Andrew Leach (@andrew_leach). RT @Revkin @edyong209 @Eaterofsun: :eadline you won't read: "Millions saved in Japan by good engineering and gov't building codes"..