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ENERGY — Subsidies blow – Benjamin Zycher for ftn.media: Sometimes progressive environmentalists have a point. For instance, they argue that oil subsidies are wasteful and should be abolished.
POLITICS — The Kurdish question – Patrick Truffer for offiziere.ch: In a few weeks, the Kurds in Iraq will vote in an independence referendum. What does this mean for the region?
SPORTS — Scorched earth – Wayne Drehs and Mariana Lajolo for espn.com: The olympic games have not boosted Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. They devastated the city.
FREEDOM — Who controls language, controls thought – Richard M. Ebeling for fee.org: Collectivists try to rob us of the words we need to think freely. “Liberty of thought, deed, action, and association is too precious to be lost to these latest coercing and intimidating thugs of the human mind. ”
GOVERNMENT — Pattern recognition – Peter Aldhous for buzzfeed.com: Finding domestic spy planes by letting artificial intelligence look for patterns. Buzzfeed found a whole lot.
TRANSPORTATION — Bureaucrazy – Virginia Postrel for bloomberg.com: The biggest impediments to infrastructure projects like “Hyperloop” are not engineering challenges, but government meddling.
CITIES — Switching gears – Kelsey Marquart for futurism.com: Elevators have allowed humans to expand ever-closer to the skies since the first passenger elevator was installed in 1857. Since then the technology has grown, and new types of elevators are on the horizon.
MEDIA — Clicks, clicks, and clicks – Franklin Foer for theatlantic.com: Data and analysis alone cannot save journalism. The cautionary tale of The New Republic.
ENVIRONMENT — Flocked – Spine Films for biographic.com: Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology, Germany are using new observation techniques and technologies to reveal the mysterious mechanics of schooling fish.
HISTORY — The real Da Vinci code – Josh Jones for openculture.com: Leonardo da Vinci's notebooks have Benn digitized and can now be browsed by everyone online.
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