Let my people go ??
POLITICS — Let Bavaria secede – Bill Wirtz for ftn.media: 1 in 3 Bavarians wants to leave Germany. There is every reason to believe that Bavarians are perfectly able to govern themselves.
ACTIVISM — Colors of the rainbow – Melissa Vida for globalvoices.org: In El Salvador, artists and activists paint pedestrian crossings in rainbow colors to promote equal rights.
DEBATE — Marxed out – Ibrahim B. Anoba for fee.org: Millennials would not be willing to sacrifice their real-world lifestyles for the utopian promises of Marxism.
CORRUPTION — It's good to be the king – David Z. Morris for fortune.com: Vladimir Putin has enriched himself massively as Russian president. To access some of his wealth a puppet in DC might come handy.
SCIENCE — Deep blue sea – Douglas Fox for aeon.co: There are species on Earth so different from everything else that they are practically biological aliens. This allows us to understand evolution better.
DEMOCRACY — Swiss model – Micol Lucchi for www.weforum.org: Some background on the most famous democracy in the world.
DEBATE — You're so vain – Meghan Murphy for www.feministcurrent.com: According to this feminist, non-binary people are “insufferable people who want the entire world to obsess over their feelings, hair colour, and makeup as much as they do.”
SCIENCE — Fiction science – Science Alert for futurism.com: Some scientific journals are crap. A neuroscientist has tricked four publications into accepting a totally fake paper about midi-chlorians – the entirely fictional life forms in Star Wars that make ‘the force’ possible.
CULTURE — Slave to the rhythm – Simon Usborne for www.theguardian.com: Almost 30,000 licences to play songs in the workplace were granted last year – up 8% on 2015. Are we set for a new era of employee productivity?.
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