Opinion | She Helped a Customer in Need. Then U.S. Bank Fired Her. – The New York Times

February 1, 2020

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/01/opinion/sunday/us-bank-fired-employee.html


Paul Singer, Doomsday Investor

February 1, 2020

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“He had also written a farewell letter. “I believe that working for something larger than yourself is the greatest thing a human can do. A family, a cause, a company, a country—these things give shape and purpose to an otherwise mechanical and brief human existence,” the letter read. “The downside about things that are larger than ourselves, of course, is that we who have the privilege of serving them ourselves are fungible. It is the fundamental definition. You can’t have the grace of the one without the other.””
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Paul Singer, Doomsday Investor
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/08/27/paul-singer-doomsday-investor


The flip side of flipped classrooms

February 1, 2020

https://cen.acs.org/education/undergraduate-education/flip-side-flipped-classrooms/98/i3


A World Without Pain | The New Yorker

February 1, 2020

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/01/13/a-world-without-pain


Carbon is C&EN’s Company of the Year for 2019

February 1, 2020

https://cen.acs.org/materials/3-d-printing/Carbon-CENs-Company-Year-2019/98/i1


Housing – Housing is at the root of many of the rich world’s problems | Special report | The Economist

February 1, 2020

https://www.economist.com/special-report/2020/01/16/housing-is-at-the-root-of-many-of-the-rich-worlds-problems


Palaeontology – What really killed the dinosaurs? | Science and technology | The Economist

February 1, 2020

https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2020/01/18/what-really-killed-the-dinosaurs


The country home of capital – Why so many of America’s financial elite have left Greenwich | Finance and econo mics | The Economist

February 1, 2020

https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2020/01/09/why-so-many-of-americas-financial-elite-have-left-greenwich


How Chaos at Chain Pharmacies Is Putting Patients at Risk – The New York Times

February 1, 2020

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/31/health/pharmacists-medication-errors.html


Tobacco smoking and somatic mutations in human bronchial epithelium

February 1, 2020

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-1961-1

Tobacco smoking and somatic mutations in human bronchial epithelium

Kenichi Yoshida, Kate H. C. Gowers, Henry Lee-Six, Deepak P. Chandrasekharan, Tim Coorens, Elizabeth F. Maughan, Kathryn Beal, Andrew Menzies, Fraser R. Millar, Elizabeth Anderson, Sarah E. Clarke, Adam Pennycuick, Ricky M. Thakrar, Colin R. Butler, Nobuyuki Kakiuchi, Tomonori Hirano, Robert E. Hynds, Michael R. Stratton, Iñigo Martincorena, Sam M. Janes & Peter J. Campbell