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  michael wood

  Jul 12, 2017
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  Watch the Heartwarming Moment This Police Officer Serenades Elderly Blind Woman: 'I'll Always Remember This Morning'

  People

  Body-cam footage captured Officer Kristian Johnson singing "You Are My Sunshine" to an elderly woman after helping her with her microwave After helping an elderly woman who had trouble warming her pastry, a police officer used his voice to warm her heart—and it was all captured on video provided by …

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  A challenge to Piketty's theory about the future of work

  Axios - Christopher Matthews

  Thomas Piketty's 2014 book, Capital in the 21st Century, is the rarest of tomes — a 700-page best-seller on economic theory. The French economist was …

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  The Myth of Technological Unemployment

  Reason.com - Deirdre Nansen McCloskey

  If the nightmare of technological unemployment were true, it would already have happened, repeatedly and massively. As a savvy reader, you already …

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  Cornell University is touting an app that lets illegal immigrant day workers report 'wage theft'

  Business Insider - Neetu Chandak

  The Worker Institute at Cornell University recently touted its role in developing a mobile app to help illegal immigrant day laborers report “wage theft” and register workplace complaints. Though the JORNALER@ App was first released in November, it was recently showcased at the New York City …

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  America hits peak anti-intellectualism: Majority of Republicans now think college is bad

  Salon - Sophia Tesfaye

  Has America hit peak anti-intellectualism? Aside from the election of Donald Trump, a businessman born into wealth whose only notable expertise is in reality television, there is now more evidence that the right-wing’s long game of denigrating U.S. institutions to reshape political discourse is …