* When Bread Bags Weren’t Funny, or, we are now spectacularly rich in ways that rarely make the news.
* “Is Snapchat Really Confusing, or Am I Just Old? A 32-year-old’s hopeless quest to understand America’s fastest-growing social app.” This describes me, and I too remember old people telling me when I was younger about life before computers and so on, “What’s the point?”
* Dubious, polemical, yet: “Today’s Apps Are Turning Us Into Sociopaths.” See also Facebook and cellphones might be really bad for relationships.”
* “Why college isn’t always worth it: A new study suggests the economic return on a college degree may be a lot more modest than you think.” This better matches anecdotal yet seemingly universal observation, and it better matches work like that in Paying for the Party. The more I learn about college and about pre-school education the more skeptical I am of either as panaceas.
* What life is like for non-sports fans; a shockingly good metaphor.
* “American Schools Are Training Kids for a World That Doesn’t Exist.”
* College students use social media to be anti-social.
* Cops murder a guy on camera.
* “Orchestra in Los Angeles gives disadvantaged youth a lifeline through music.” Never before has such a project been tried!
* “Meet the [Washington State] Sex Workers Who Lawmakers Don’t Believe Exist,” from The Stranger and probably SFW.
* Employers want better technical writers but aren’t getting them.
* “Why GM Hired 8,000 Programmers.”
* “Lesbian” takes testosterone, sees personality and ideology change. This is not the piece’s actual title.
* Robots aren’t yet taking all our jobs because there aren’t enough smart human engineers to operate them. Which is too bad: the future in which we have all our material needs met and can spend all our time making art.
* “Scientists know there are more giant craters in Siberia, but are nervous to even study them,” which may be the most important article you’re going to skip.