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I've just read this. What a biography. Close calls and murdered friends! His crackhead Dad owned the most expensive brothel in Manhattan! Best book I've read about the recent history of Russia. Jamie is gay, but got his law degree in the US South in the 1980s, so was used to life in the closet...

In New Zealand, it was yesterday

Opinion: The problem with treating science like a startup

The problem with treating science like a startupFew New Zealanders spend much time thinking about volcanic monitoring but when a volcano erupts, we expect expertise to exist immediately.thespinoff.co.nz

This thread is magnificent

The last Waiheke Gulf News to look like this - a collector’s edition! From now on it’s going to be a free broadsheet Gulf News/Waiheke Weekender. In effect, the $3 Gulf News will now be free. Nobody is being sacked. And there’s strictly no A.I.

There is an alternate universe in which book cover designers actually get to design book covers, free from the know-it-alls

While the ICE agents who gunned down Renee Good and Alex Pretti still walk free, a man who moved antifascist magazines from one house to another gets 30 years in prison. The US has a long history of crushing dissent

The Deadly Rise of Giant Trucks and S.U.V.s - Gift article The US Insurance Institute for Highway Safety found last year that vehicles with larger blind zones were substantially more likely to hit pedestrians when turning left.

The Deadly Rise of Giant Trucks and S.U.V.s (Gift Article)The vehicles on American roads have grown larger — and they are killing thousands more pedestrians, a Times investigation found.www.nytimes.com