A Bank That Accepts Parmesan As Collateral: The Cheese Stands A Loan BY Carmen Nobel FROM Forbes

Israel Is Not America’s Ally By Daniel Larison FROM The American Conservative

What neuroscience has to do with nationalism FROM CNN

Stanford Neuroscientist Robert Sapolsky tells Fareed our brains are hardwired to feel animosity in response to seeing people who are different.

Source: CNN

Google, Apple and 12 other companies that no longer require employees to have a college degree by Courtney Connley FROM CNBC

Who votes for Germany's far-right party AfD? Not who you'd think BY Elizabeth Schumacher FROM DW.com

Would Building Speed-Limit-Free Highway Lanes Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions? BY Christian Britschgi FROM Reason.com

Research Supporting Chile's Anti-Obesity Regulations Doesn't Tell Us if the Regulations Work BY Baylen Linnekin FROM Reason Magazine

The new science of inspiration and the efficacy of pep talks. BY Nick Tasler FROM Psychology Today

Why German Corporate Boards Include Workers BY Justin Fox FROM Bloomberg

How Speaking a Second Language Affects the Way You Think BY David Ludden Ph.D. FROM Psychology Today

Homage To A Government by Philip Larkin , published in 1974 (written in 1969), regarding the withdrawal of British soldiers from overseas posts

Homage To A Government

Next year we are to bring all the soldiers home
For lack of money, and it is all right.
Places they guarded, or kept orderly,
We want the money for ourselves at home
Instead of working. And this is all right.

It's hard to say who wanted it to happen,
But now it's been decided nobody minds.
The places are a long way off, not here,
Which is all right, and from what we hear
The soldiers there only made trouble happen.
Next year we shall be easier in our minds.

Next year we shall be living in a country
That brought its soldiers home for lack of money.
The statues will be standing in the same
Tree-muffled squares, and look nearly the same.
Our children will not know it's a different country.
All we can hope to leave them now is money.

How to Know If You're a Victim of Gaslighting by Darlene Lancer, JD, LMFT FROM Psychology Today

If Global Warming Is Killing Us, Why Is Global Life Expectancy Increasing? BY Ryan McMaken FROM Mises.org

Book Review: PAYING THE PRICE College Costs, Financial Aid, and the Betrayal of the American Dream by Sara Goldrick-Rab FROM Kirkus Review

Flawed Humans, Flawed Justice By Adam Benforado OPINION: FROM The New York Times

If you like the article, check out his book

Unfair: The New Science of Criminal Injustice

Hire smart people, as stupidity is incurable, says Jack Ma BY Ben Kwok FROM Asia Times

“Cancer is curable, stupidity is not.”

What You Need to Know about Rent Control and Rent Stabilization in NYC BY Mariela Quintana FROM nakedapartments.com

Homeschooling Produces Better-Educated, More-Tolerant Kids. Politicians Hate That BY J.D. Tuccille FROM Reason

Only 16 percent of survey respondents now say they started homeschooling to provide religious instruction, says the NCES, while 34 percent report "concern about the school environment, such as safety, drugs, or negative peer pressure," and others cited "dissatisfaction with academic instruction."

Why Is the IRS Auditing the Poor More Than the Rich? by Roy Ulrich FROM The American Prospect

Chinese lunar lander’s cotton seeds spring to life on far side of the moon by William Zheng FROM South China Morning Post

Xie said the six species [cotton, rapeseed, potato, yeast and fruit flies] were chosen because they were small and could grow in a confined environment. They were also hardy enough to withstand some of the extreme conditions on the lunar surface.

[But they are actually growing in a controlled environment--not really "on" the moon.--BM]