#sundayread for March 31, 2019
By Wade Kwon
Photo: Charles Kremenak (CC)
My picks for #sundayread for March 31, 2019:
- I finally read Rachel Carson’s “Silent Spring,” as relevant as ever, a look at man’s poisonous war on nature over minor nuisances. Highly recommended.
[aff. link] https://amzn.to/2HPzU1g - Recycling Is Broken
By Maddie Stone @themadstone - Getting kids into the reading habit:
1. Classics are fine, but don’t forget popular fiction, by Jonathan Douglas @JDLiteracyTrust (via @EccoEnglish)
2. Adults can read children’s lit along with their kids, by @AlicePenfold1 - Flashback: Stretch or stagnate
- Tired: Bedside manner. Wired: Webside manner. Doctors learn new ways to diagnose patients through video calls.
By Robbie Gonzalez @rtg0nzalez
(via @LillyTrials) - The Sexist, Political History of Pockets
By @ChelseaGSummers - Flashback: Y’all Connect — Behind the buzz: N2V marketing from Netflix
- Why Self-Checkout Is and Has Always Been the Worst
By Brian Merchant @bcmerchant - Presumed guilty: Did a Tufts grad student really hack into university servers to change her grades?
By @ZackWhittaker - Flashback: Facebook Pages are dying. What now?
- A look at the “The @Rosie O’Donnell Show” in this excerpt from @RaminSetoodeh’s “Ladies Who Punch: The Explosive Inside Story of ‘The View'”
- The Brothers Who Bought South Africa
By @MattCampbell and @WildFranz
(RT @AfricaResearch) - Zimbabwe’s clean slate: What brought Mugabe down, and why he didn’t see it coming
By @GeoffreyYork
(RT @kikiochieng) - Something is wrong on the internet – it’s little kids and YouTube.
By @JamesBridle
(RT @LetMommySleep)
More posts from Wade this week:
More #sundayread:
- All tweets for March 31 #sundayread
- The latest #sundayread tweets
- More #sundayread recommendations from me
