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Alex Chapin

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Joined March 2007
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Did Jane Jacobs Predict the Rise of Trump? - @CityLab - citylab.com/politics/2016/12…
The Jane Jacobs Guide to the Trump Presidency

The Jane Jacobs Guide to the Trump Presidency

Ever prescient, her final book outlined a coming dark age—and how to get through it.

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MachinePix
@MachinePix9 Sep 2016
Fourteen wind turbines in a line.
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@voxdotcom25 Aug 2016
According to according to Susan Rice, the world is better than it ever has been — and it’s getting better still. bit.ly/2b1E4Ep

Think the world is on fire? Obama’s national security adviser says things are better than ever.

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The world is not falling apart according to Steven Pinker, rates of violence continue to go down. vox.com/2016/8/16/12486586/2… via @voxdotcom
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Steven Pinker
@sapinker12 Aug 2016
Obsolete technologies that will baffle modern children - in pictures  telegraph.co.uk/technology/2… via @telegraphtech
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“Machine Money and People Money” by @tadhgin medium.com/the-wtf-economy/m…
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The 7 biggest problems facing science, according to 270 scientists vox.com/2016/7/14/12016710/s…
Music playlists, humans vs algorithms buzzfeed.com/reggieugwu/the-… via @uugwuu
Nice graphs profiling American voters nyti.ms/1TZ6sk8
The Voting Habits of Americans Like You (Published 2016)

The Voting Habits of Americans Like You (Published 2016)

The electorate is increasingly divided by race, education, gender and generation, and these fissures could grow even wider in 2016.

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Here are the lyrics to "Listen, Robert Moses" - the song Bob Dylan wrote w/ Jane Jacobs - via @Gothamist ...
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David Pogue
@Pogue24 Apr 2016
Oh wow. If you’ve ever spent one minute in the tech or marketing industries, you’ll laugh hard at this parody… bland.ly/#our-culture
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The smug style in American liberalism, ouch! vox.com/2016/4/21/11451378/s… via @voxdotcom
The smug style in American liberalism

The smug style in American liberalism

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A Futuristic Suit That Gives You a Taste of Old Age, via @nytimes nytimes.com/2016/04/01/nyreg…
Via @NPR: Standards, Grades And Tests Are Wildly Outdated, Argues 'End Of Average' n.pr/1nMRfZW
Students Aren't Coddled. They're Defeated. ihenow.com/1WrOxVc
Rethinking Grading: An In-Progress Experiment wp.me/p3JAa-kW via @jmittell
Rethinking Grading: An In-Progress Experiment

Rethinking Grading: An In-Progress Experiment

Today I started my spring course, Television and American Culture, a class I have offered around 15 times. It’s the course that inspired my textbook (of the same name), and my co-edited book …

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Why fruits and vegetables taste better in Europe than in the US vox.com/2016/2/12/10972140/f…?
The surprizing similarities between Sanders and Trump vox.com/2016/1/30/10869974/t…

This election could be the birth of a Trump-Sanders constituency

It’s time for the Washington elite to wake up and listen to what these voters are responding to.

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The Reading Brain in the Digital Age: The Science of Paper versus Screens scientificamerican.com/artic… #science
The Reading Brain in the Digital Age: The Science of Paper versus Screens

The Reading Brain in the Digital Age: The Science of Paper versus Screens

E-readers and tablets are becoming more popular as such technologies improve, but research suggests that reading on paper still boasts unique advantages

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New study highlights some of the positive impacts of a liberal arts education disq.us/937sde
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