Weekly roundup December 30 - January 5

Articles

Buses are great: How to improve mass transit [Slate]

TTC rebuilds its fleet one bus at a time [Toronto Star]

We need to talk about TED [The Guardian]

Learning to speak American [The New York Review of Books]

Netflix’s dumbed-down algorithms [Reuters]

What do y’all, yinz and yix call stretchy office supplies? [New Yorker]

Industry, not environmentalists, killed traditional bulbs [Washington Examiner]

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