Friday Links 4/9/21
Welcome to the weekend everyone!
Over the winter I compiled some favorite links each week on my blog. I decided to restart that practice but shift the articles to this newsletter format, as a faster, more ephemeral way to share interesting things with all of you. I'd love to know what you all think!
Here are six quick things that I found worth sharing in the last week:
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[Bragging] Over the past ten days, there has been an emergency leak from a retired Manatee Co. phosphate plant called Piney Point. Last weekend, when there was a chance that the entire facility might collapse and flood its surroundings, the story picked up international attention. My dear friend Ryan Callihan has been covering the situation of the closed facility for years. Yesterday his reporting on Piney covered the entire front page of the Bradenton Herald. Here's the latest.
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[Dream Jobs] The French Police have arrested an international gang of Lego thieves in Paris.
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[Podcasts] This wide-ranging podcast interview with poet Dana Gioia was a great listen on one of my runs this week - and gave me plenty of new books and authors to track down.
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[Philosophy] Zohar Atkins is a New York-based rabbi who occasionally writes tweet threads on various philosophers and historical thinkers. He recently did one on the influential (if hard to read) German philosopher Hegel.
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[Coffee] I'm trying out this delicious, slower French Press technique
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[Podcasts] Ryan Brooks recommended that I revisit Malcolm Gladwell's Revisionist History. I particularly enjoyed Road to Damascus which focused on the debt spies owe to their sources. Divide and Conquer deserves a shoutout as well - episode about the legal tripwire buried in the articles of Texas's annexation.
Alex