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My picks for #sundayread for May 13, 2018:

• Flashback: Beyond how to make money at blogging
• America 2018, in the grips of a heroin epidemic: Looking at 7 days in Cincinnati.
• The Risk of Nuclear War with North Korea
  By Evan Osnos @eosnos
• Flashback: A rule of thirds for writing
• .@LiveNation Rules Music Ticketing, Some Say With Threats
  By Ben @Sisario and @Graham_Bowley
• The ghostly radio station that no one claims to run
  By @ZariaGorvett
• Palantir Knows Everything About You
  By Peter Waldman, @Lizette_Chapman and Jordan Robertson @jordanr1000
• Woes of America’s fastest growing state, Idaho
  By @MariaLaGanga
  (via @DonnaWares)
• The astonishing innovations of the Netherlands shaping the future of farming, food.
  By Frank Viviano
  (via @redfordcenter)
• Flashback: Project Bulk Day 253: Feelings, noting more than feelings
• How Ryan Murphy @MrRPMurphy Became the Most Powerful Man in TV
  By @EmilyNussbaum
  (via @cturnip)
• The Sordid Double Life of Washington’s Most Powerful Ambassador
  By @RyanGrim
• Perpetrators of violence, we’re told, dehumanize their victims. The truth is worse.
  By @PaulBloomAtYale
• Racism Is “Built into the Very Bones” of Mississippi
  By Jesmyn Ward @jesmimi

More posts from Wade this week:

• The Birmingham channel: We will control the horizontal

More #sundayread:

• All tweets for May 13 #sundayread
• The latest #sundayread tweets
• More #sundayread recommendations from me

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My picks for #sundayread for May 6, 2018:

• Flashback: The habit of writing
• The school beneath the wave: The unimaginable tragedy of Japan’s tsunami
  By Richard Lloyd Parry @dicklp
• The Turbulent Life of One of America’s Last Snake-Handling Preachers
  By @JordanConn
• Flashback: The post I’ll promote till the sun collapses
• It’s a “Premium Mediocre” world, and we’re all just living in it.
  By Venkatesh Rao @vgr
  (via @Evolving_Ego)
• The Unabashed Beauty of Jason Brown @jasonbskates on Ice
  By Pa @triciaLockwood
• Flashback: From 10 years ago, Birmingham is ranked No. 1 for this unleaded mess
• From 1992: Richard Price’s Third Act
  By @RonRosenbaum1
• On the road with Nigeria’s first mobile library
  (via @kikiochieng)
• Flashback: Book it: a scavenger hunt on social media
• Why Sorority Members Dress Alike
  By Stephanie Talmadge @srtalmadge
• The Girl Detectives: The University of Pittsburgh mostly female student club devoted to solving crimes
  By @MarinCogan
• Should we give up half of Earth to wildlife?
  By Robin McKie
• Alan Watts on Inner Sanity Amid Outer Chaos
  By Maria Popova @brainpicker
  (via @DrSteveMarshall)

More posts from Wade this week:

• The Birmingham channel: Mostly valuable players

More #sundayread:

• All tweets for May 6 #sundayread
• The latest #sundayread tweets
• More #sundayread recommendations from me

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Spanish writer Juan José Millás

My picks for #sundayread for April 29, 2018:

• Flashback: Blogging: New angles for old topics
• Inside the Chinese-led gambling epidemic in rural Ghana
  By Jonathan Kaiman @JRKaiman
  (RT @kikiochieng)
• Gardendale failed in its attempt secede from Jefferson County schools, but segregation continues in many districts.
  By @EmmanuelFelton
  #alpolitics #bham
• Flashback: Alabama makes national news (the lousy kind) thrice 10 years ago.
• Feminist Artist Tatyana @Fazlalizadeh Fights Street Harassment With Public Art
  By Priscilla Frank @badgirlpripri
  (via @18thStreetArts)
• How hospitals could be rebuilt, better than before
  (RT @MedEdInc)
• Flashback: A smarter way to respond to tweets
• How New Zealand made Edmund Hillary, the man who conquered Everest
  By Spencer Hall @edsbs
• How One Badass Reddit Post Produced 170 New Customers in under 3 Hours
  By @RodgersGigi
• Flashback: Y’all Connect: Dress up your YouTube profile page
• @KenBurns’ American Canon
  By Ian Parker
• You Are the Product
  By John Lanchester
• Has Anyone Seen the President?
  By Michael Lewis
• Mindfulness would be good for you. If it weren’t so selfish.
  By @ThomasJoiner

More posts from Wade this week:

• The Birmingham channel: Freight-hopper’s fancy

More posts from Wade this week:

• The Birmingham channel: Electric dreams

More #sundayread:

• All tweets for April 29 #sundayread
• The latest #sundayread tweets
• More #sundayread recommendations from me

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My picks for #sundayread for April 22, 2018:

• Reading “I Am Malala” by @Malala Yousafzai with @ChristinaLamb, I found inspiration in a brave girl who defied the Taliban to support educational access for all girls.
  [aff. link] https://amzn.to/2HhfKgK
• My Family Always “Passed” as White, Until We Didn’t
  By @MikeMiksche
  (via @GenelleL)
• No choice to walk away: When the domestic abuser is your child
  By Jenny Noyes @jennynoise
  (RT @LadyLadyj)
• Flashback: Pay attention: How I’m listening to improve my communication
• How emerging markets — China, India — are leading new trends in global tourism industry
  By @AfshinMolavi
  (RT @kikiochieng)
• How cultivated individuals can become barbarians in a crowd
  By Sigmund Freud
• Flashback: Five years ago, my 4,000th-post milestone on Wade on Birmingham
• The most popular @globeandmail personal essays from 2016 and 2017
  By Tina Petrick @tinaptech, @SophieNadeau, Justin Williams, Marie Wadden @waddenm and Alison Belbin @Junk_Island
• How Instagram is reshaping restaurant design
  By @CaseyNewton
  (via @kickpointinc)
• Flashback: Y’all Connect: Crunching the numbers on storytelling
• The Male Glance: How we approach male vs. female art
  By Lili Loofbourow @Millicentsomer
  (via @laura_hudson)
• Inside a 3-Year Russian Campaign to Influence U.S. Voters
  By @ScottShaneNYT and @MarkMazzettiNYT
  (RT @alanamoceri)
• Fake news is an existential crisis for social media
  By Natasha Lomas @riptari
  (RT @fierceness2000)
• How self-proclaimed born quitter @Dave_McGinn found the willpower to finish his first marathon

More posts from Wade this week:

• The Birmingham channel: Electric dreams

More #sundayread:

• All tweets for April 22 #sundayread
• The latest #sundayread tweets
• More #sundayread recommendations from me

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My picks for #sundayread for April 15, 2018:

• After decades sitting on my shelf, I finally read “Mere Christianity” by @CSLewis and hope to someday meet the Christians he lovingly describes.
  [aff. link] https://amzn.to/2GZx35E
• Searching DNA: Identifying the disappeared in Colombia
  By @Chantal_F lores
• Homeward Bound was supposed to foster science’s next generation of female leaders. Instead, accusations of sexual harassment and bullying.
  By Eve Andrews @eefandrews
  (h/t @Longreads)
• Flashback: Determining the right social networks for marketing
• Review of “Conspiracy: Peter Thiel, Hulk Hogan, Gawker and the Anatomy of Intrigue” by @RyanHoliday
  By @WilliamCohan
  (via @j1berger)
• The Scientific Paper Is Obsolete
  By James Somers @jsomers
• Flashback: Y’all Connect: The formulas for storytelling in marketing, with beautiful examples
• Kenya: The Election and the Coverup
  By Helen Epstein
  (RT @kikiochieng)
• Many Chinas, Many Tables: Stories of Bay Area Chinese cuisines
  (via @CAAM)
• Flashback: 10 years ago today, live blog of “The Biggest Loser” finale with Enterprise’s Roger Shultz
• Oral History of “The Dinner Party,” on the 10th anniversary of the Best “Office” Episode Ever
  Compiled by @GreeneAndy
• The Climate Movement’s New Battle Cry: Keep It 100
  By @BillMcKibben
  (via @redfordcenter)
• The playboy who got away with $242 million — using black magic
  By Brigitte Scheffer @schefferbri
  (RT @LiekeMuller)
• Why a horde of middle-age professionals started second careers as teachers
  By @LucyKellaway
  (via @karissathacker) #sundayread

More posts from Wade this week:

• The Birmingham channel: Now is the spring of our discontent

More #sundayread:

• All tweets for April 15 #sundayread
• The latest #sundayread tweets
• More #sundayread recommendations from me

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My picks for #sundayread for April 8, 2018:

• Learned a lot from Neil Postman’s “Amusing Ourselves to Death” (1985). I see the commodification of news, plus the drawbacks of the Information Age, in a whole new light.
  [aff. link] https://amzn.to/2uTSa3T
• The End of Typing: The Next Billion Mobile Users Will Rely on Video and Voice
  By @EricBellmanWSJ
  (RT @kikiochieng)
• Why We Forget Most of the Books We Read
  By @JulieEBeck
• Flashback: One year ago, newspaper front pages on Alabama governor Robert Bentley’s ouster.
  #alpolitics
• How Productive Failure Leads to Better Learning
  By @CourtneySeiter
  (RT @Vanessa_Atim_)
• Mr. Smith’s Funhouse: How Pittsburgh shaped one of skateboarding’s biggest stars
  By Liz @BloomPG
• Flashback: Spring cleaning for sites and blogs
• Across Canada, educators are changing the way they teach history to better include Indigenous perspectives
  By @Wendy_Stueck and Caroline Alphonso @calphonso
• 10 Great Books on Autism
  By Med Kharbach @medkh9
  (@via Butterflies_Hav)
• Flashback: Y’all Connect: Spring cleaning for social media
• On female rage
  By Leslie Jamison @lsjamison
• Guantánamo, Forever
  By @AmosBarshad
  (via @reportermike)
• Silicon Valley has been humbled. But its schemes are as dangerous as ever.
  By @EvgenyMorozov
  (via @OlafSteenfadt)
• My Life in a 36DD Bra, or, the All-American Obsession
  By @EveBabitz

More posts from Wade this week:

• The Birmingham channel: Building bridges

More #sundayread:

• All tweets for April 8 #sundayread
• The latest #sundayread tweets
• More #sundayread recommendations from me

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My picks for #sundayread for April 1, 2018:

• For 2 Months, Farhad Manjoo (@fmanjoo) Got His News From Print Newspapers. Here’s What He Learned.
  (via @kikiochieng)
• Read “1984” for the first time since high school. Well worth it, especially in today’s political climate.
  [aff. link] https://amzn.to/2pU2i6X
• Flashback: Social media and volunteerism: How to change the world
• @DonaldGlover interviews
  • @BijanStephen for @Esquire
  • @TadFriend for @NewYorker
• Flashback: Y’all Connect: Learn storytelling from Pixar in a free online course
• Goodbye, @YosemiteNPS. Hello, What?
  By @DanielDuane
  (via @AnOaklandSir)
• Writer/producer/actor @LenaWaithe Is Changing the Game
  By @JackieWoodson
• Christopher Steele, the Man Behind the Trump Dossier
  By @JaneMayerNYer
• How Canada has been secretly giving asylum to gay people in Chechnya fleeing persecution
  By @JohnIbbitson
  (RT @EvyCoul)
• Should teens take “porn literacy” classes?
  By @MaggiePJones

More posts from Wade this week:

• Happy Easter!
• The Birmingham channel: Let’s get physical

More #sundayread:

• All tweets for April 1 #sundayread
• The latest #sundayread tweets
• More #sundayread recommendations from me

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My picks for #sundayread for March 25, 2018:

• 101 recent poems from me: Haiku retrospective 45
  #haiku #poetry
• What happened when Cambridge Analytica harvested 50 million Facebook profiles for a data breach?
  1. https://buff.ly/2FR5gje by @CaroleCadwalla dr and Emma Graham-Harrison @_EmmaGH
  2. https://t.co/4cElhbzY5H by Nicholas Thompson @nxthompson and Fred Vogelstein @fvogelstein
• Former Mobile Press-Register reporter @RyanDezember’s 10-Year odyssey through America’s housing crisis
  (via @jenbarnett)
• I listened to “The Power of Now” by @EckhartTolle again, and found it to be uplifting and clarifying.
  [aff. link] https://amzn.to/2pE3T1a
• A first-time author unwittingly exposed the house of cards beneath “bestseller” books
  By @Thu-Huong Ha
  (RT @wordpressdotcom)
• Take a Hike!
  By Charles Petersen @petersenplusone
• Flashback: Case study – 11,000+ Facebook Shares for chickens in sweaters
• The Death of a Teenage Quarterback
  By @LarsAnderson71
• The Protein Craze
  By @CaseyJohnston
• Flashback: The new new new LinkedIn
• Oral history of FX drama “The Americans,” starting its sixth and final season Wednesday
  Compiled by Cynthia Littleton @Variety_Cynthia
• A Most American Terrorist: The Making Of Dylann Roof
  By Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah
• Buddhist monk Ittetsu Nemoto @itte2nemo10 confronts Japan’s suicide culture
  By @LarissaMacFarqu har
• RT @xaviercolas: best dedicatoria ever

More posts from Wade this week:

• The Birmingham channel: Up, down and all around

More #sundayread:

• All tweets for March 25 #sundayread
• The latest #sundayread tweets
• More #sundayread recommendations from me

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My picks for #sundayread for March 18, 2018:

• I rarely say this: This book changed my life. “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking” by @SusanCain is so spot on, I’m buying copies for all my friends.
  [aff. link] http://amzn.to/2HDEsU2
• The Army created a model program that decreased record suicide rates in the ranks. Then, they abandoned it.
  By @BenHattem
  (via @stophandguns)
• How EMILY’s List Lost Its Way
  By Clio Chang @cliomiso
• Flashback: Y’all Connect: How Iron Man beats both Superman and Batman
• From 2007: G-L-O-R-Y! The world of hot, peppy and insanely underpaid NFL cheerleaders
  By Jeanne Marie Laskas @jmlaskas
• The Emoji Report: An analysis of every emoji published on Twitter over the last 2 years
  (via @PRorigins)
• Flashback: Death of a blog
• Invasion of the Body Hackers: Are ID Implants Chipping Away at Worker Privacy?
  By Jeff Harvey @JTHMovement
• Power through your work commute on an electric bike
  By @SimonBirchSays
  (via @BristolBicycles)
• Flashback: A look at Alabama military casualties after 5 years of the War on Terror
• Lisa the actress: The journey of Yeardley Smith’s 30-year role
  By @DarrynKing
• Computational Propaganda: How Twitter Bots and Trump Fans Made #ReleaseTheMemo Go Viral
  By @MollyMcKew
• How DACA works, who it protects and what happens to immigrants after it runs out
  By Dara LindV @DLind
• The whole point of Confederate monuments is to celebrate white supremacy
  By Karen L. Cox @SassyProf
  (via @crewless)

More posts from Wade this week:

• The Birmingham channel: In the almost spring

More #sundayread:

• All tweets for March 18 #sundayread
• The latest #sundayread tweets
• More #sundayread recommendations from me

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My picks for #sundayread for March 11, 2018:

• Y’all Connect: This is the end, beautiful friends.
• The Writing of “Silent Spring”: Rachel Carson and the Culture-Shifting Courage to Speak Inconvenient Truth to Power
  By Maria Popova @brainpicker
  (RT @redfordcenter)
• Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation?
  By @Jean_Twenge
• “In Cold Blood” by Truman Capote is remarkable. Wished I had read it sooner, but I also wish he hadn’t made up parts.
  [aff. link] http://amzn.to/2Gd2C8o
• Scientists came to explore the fabled waters of the Arctic — but their work could also change its future.
  By @ChrisCMooney
  (via @MacEwanU)
• The White Darkness: One man’s attempt to conquer Antarctica on foot
  By @DavidGrann
• Flashback: 10 years ago, when Birmingham played host to 1st round games for the NCAA Men’s Tournament.
  #bham
• Neither bills nor advancing age can dim the glow of drummer Itsvan “Steve” Hideg’s dream
  By @LATSteveLopez
  (via @SaucidoSlant)
• The Death of Clothing
  By Lindsey Rupp @lcrupp, @ChloeWhiteaker, @Matt_Townsend and @KimBhasin
• Flashback: What podcasts are on your playlist? Check out the great suggestions in the comments.
• In drought-stricken Somaliland, age-old challenges meet WhatsApp
  By @Peterson__Scott
  (via @kikiochieng)
• The Rockefellers vs. Exxon, the Company That Made Them the Rockefellers
  By @ReevesWiedeman
  (RT @DSanchezOnline)
• Is There a Smarter Way to Think About Sexual Assault on Campus?
  By @JiaTolentino
• Gilbert Vahé, the Man Who Keeps Monet’s Famed Gardens Growing
  By @CaseyLess er
  (RT @PaperCityCA)

More posts from Wade this week:

• The Birmingham channel: The table is set

More #sundayread:

• All tweets for March 11 #sundayread
• The latest #sundayread tweets
• More #sundayread recommendations from me

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My picks for #sundayread for March 4, 2018:

• Y’all Connect: The ethical digital marketer
• Friendship Is Complicated: Art, commerce and the battle for the soul of My Little Pony.
  By @MariaBustillos
• Success Is Not What You Gain but What You Leave Behind
  By @GusRazzetti
  (via @Acumen_AAA)
• Loved “The Political Mind” by @GeorgeLakoff — listened to audiobook twice. It’s essential reading to understand partisan messaging and why relying on rational arguments will always fall short.
  [aff. link] http://amzn.to/2Fih1SK
• The 35 best health and science books to read
  By Sarah Mupo
  (via @LillyTrials)
• An Antidote to Digital Dehumanization? Live Theater
  By @AyadAkhtar
  (via @ATYP_Theatre)
• Flashback: Harnessing Twitter’s power with TweetDeck
• Ambient at 40: The future of a drifting genre
  By Lawrence English @room40speaks
  (RT @ALICE_cph)
• Why we fell for clean eating
  By Bee Wilson @KitchenBee
  (RT @dannymcg)
• Flashback: Y’all Connect – Understanding our audience through listening
• Q&A With DJ @Diplo about touring Africa
  By @WillWelch
  (via @kikiochieng)
• Inside North Korea’s Hacker Army
  By @SamKimAsia
  (via @WuestefeldDoyle)
• The weird power of the placebo effect, explained
  By Brian Resnick @B_resnick
  (RT @MLekushoff)
• Q&A with @Malala Yousafzai, Nobel Peace Prize winner and education advocate
  (h/t @redfordcenter)

More posts from Wade this week:

• The Birmingham channel: Tour de loo

More #sundayread:

• All tweets for March 4 #sundayread
• The latest #sundayread tweets
• More #sundayread recommendations from me

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My picks for #sundayread for February 25, 2018:

• Y’all Connect: Behind the buzz: N2V marketing from Netflix
• Making a Crypto Utopia in Puerto Rico
  By @NellieBowles
  (RT @Martha_Engel)
• A look at the book “How Democracies Die” by Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt @dziblatt
  By @EzraKlein
  (via @participedia)
• I highly recommend “Half the Sky” by @NickKristof and Sheryl @WuDunn. A thorough investigation of female oppression, plus steps we can take to stop it.
  [aff. link] http://amzn.to/2EL85G3
• Generational Chaos Ahead
  By @JohnFMauldin
• Next time you see the Mediterranean
  By @HayGuesmi
  (RT @danwibg)
• Flashback: Y’all Connect – Using Illustrator or InDesign for email marketing
• Is linguistics, the study of language, a science?
  By @ArikaOkrent
  (via @smartergerman)
• Why a paperless world still hasn’t happened
  By David J. Unger @dungerdunger
  (via @kikiochieng)
• Flashback: Black History Month: “Slavery by Another Name” by @DouglasBlackmon
• The 150 Greatest Albums Made by Women
• Inside Facebook’s 2 Years of Hell
  By Nicholas Thompson @nxthompson and Fred Vogelstein @fvogelstein
• Show your work: The new terms for trust in journalism
  By @JayRosen_nyu
  (via @ShapingYouth)
• The Mystery of L.A. Billboard Diva Angelyne’s Real Identity Is Finally Solved
  By @GaryMBaum

More posts from Wade this week:

• The Birmingham channel: Untold riches

More #sundayread:

• All tweets for February 25 #sundayread
• The latest #sundayread tweets
• More #sundayread recommendations from me

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My picks for #sundayread for February 18, 2018:

• Y’all Connect: Hungry for content, starving for stories
• School segregation didn’t go away. It just evolved. The case of Gardendale, Ala.’s fight for a district.
  By Alvin Chang @alv9n
• Assisted dying in religious facilities means tough choices for families
  By @KellyGrant1
• Found @MonteBurke’s “Saban: The Making of a Coach” to be pretty by the numbers. But I did love Nick’s favorite insult to players during practice: “You run like a broke-dick dog.”
  [aff. link] http://amzn.to/2ELyWRD
• I Don’t Know What to Do With Good White People
  By @BritRBennett
• The Most Awful Train Station in America Could Get Unimaginably Worse
  By @DevinLeonard
  (via @MichaelFabiano)
• Flashback: Y’all Connect – Holiday freebie: Magic City Sticker Pack
• Should endangered languages be preserved, and at what cost?
  By @Rebecca_Roache
  (via @smartergerman)
• A free Facebook group isn’t the magic bullet you think it is
  By @DianaTower
  (via @ramit)
• Flashback: Wade’s 101: Haiku retrospective 26
• The 150 Worst Albums Made By Men
  By Julianne Escobedo Shepherd @jawnita
• The Uninhabitable Earth: What climate change could wreak — sooner than you think.
  By David Wallace-Wells @dwallacewells
• Threats, bullying, lawsuits: The tobacco industry’s dirty war for the African market
  By @SarahBoseley
  (RT @kikiochieng)
• How “I Do” Became Performance Art
  By @megangarber
  (via @molarawood)

More posts from Wade this week:

• Happy Valentine’s Day!
• The Birmingham channel: Bouncing back

More #sundayread:

• All tweets for Feb. 18 #sundayread
• The latest #sundayread tweets
• More #sundayread recommendations from me

Video: McShan Florist in Dallas in a Valentine’s week frenzy.

Happy Valentine’s Day, y’all! Would your luve like a red, red rose?