Interesting Reads for Friday, 23 December 2016: Obama Protects Atheists, Berlin Terrorist Shot Dead, How Life Began

Obama Signs Law Protecting Atheists from Religious Persecution (Snopes)

Berlin Attack Suspect Anis Amri Shot Dead In Milan, Italy (BBC)

41 Dead in Siberia After Drinking Bath Perfume as If It Were Alcohol (Seeker)

The Arctic Could End This Year With Record Breaking Heat Wave Temperatures (Think Progress)

Critical Planning for Climate-Ready Fisheries (NRDC National Resources Defense Council)

The 7km abyss deep under the ocean: Biggest fault on Earth found inside the deadly 'ring of fire' (The Daily Mail, UK)

The Secret Of How Life Began On Earth (BBC "Best Read" )

Google and Honda Team Up To Make Autonomous Cars (Wired)

Unions Make A Comeback in Vancouver, WA (KUOW 94.9 FM)

Union Wins Against Trump™ International Hotel, Las Vegas; Also, Employees Win Right To Unionize In New Trump™ International Hotel, Washington D.C. (Common Dreams)

Two More Trump Advisers Are Ditching “Drain The Swamp”; Corey Lewandowski & Barry Bennett Open Up Shop A Block From White House (Bloomberg)

How Did a Nation Crippled by Wall Street Billionaires End Up With Them Running the Country? (Wall Street On Parade)

Trumpxuberance . . . Until It’s Not! (James Kunstler)

Interesting Reads for Thursday, 22 December 2016: Sea Creatures, Millenials, Peak Cars & More

This Russian Deep Sea Fisherman Posts His Discoveries on Twitter and OH MY GOD KILL IT WITH FIRE (Gizmondo)

Peak Car Market: 32% of Trade-Ins On Car Lots Now Upside Down On Their Loans . . . Negative Balances on Trade-Ins Are Now An Average ($4,832) (The Detroit News)

Young Americans Living With Parents At 75 Year High (Wall Street Journal)

Is Age 30 The New 20? (Marketwatch)

How to Convince Someone When Facts Fail (Scientific American)

Smog refugees flee Chinese cities as "airpocalypse" blights half a billion people

(The Guardian)

China's Alibaba back on US counterfeits blacklist (BBC)

Trump Appoints "Death By China" Author Peter Navarro To Head Trade Office, Hints At Trade War With Beijing (Zero Hedge)

India’s Small Businesses Facing “Apocalypse” After Demonetisation Experiment KOs The Economy (The Guardian)

Strange Music, Owned By A Gangster Rapper, Enforces The Toughest "On The Road" Rules for Artists (Wall Street Journal)

Find the No. 1 Song on the day you were born (Playback.FM)

Interesting Reads for Wednesday 21 December 2016: Energy Storage, Science Rocks, Obama Blocks & More

It's Energy Storage's Time To Shine (Travis Holum - Motley Fool)

Ford To Close F-150 Kansas Plant For One Week To Decrease Slow Moving Inventory, GM To Lay Off Another 1,300 Workers In March  (Reuters)

Does Elon Musk really want to create The Boring Company to build underground roads? (International Business Times, UK)

7/11 and Flirtey Beat Amazon and Deliver 77 Packages by Drones in Reno, Nevada (Phys Org)

President Obama Invokes 1953 Law To Indefinitely Block Drilling In Arctic And Atlantic Oceans (CNBC)

Alaska's Indigenous People See Their Culture Slipping Away As Sea Ice Vanishes (Guardian)

A Feminine Response To Iceland's Financial Crash (TEDTalk)

Carl Sagan on Humility, Science as a Tool of Democracy, and the Value of Uncertainty (Brain Pickings)

Donald Trump's War On Science (The New Yorker)

Trump Rejects Climate Change, But Mar-A-Lago Could Be Lost to the Sea (Bloomberg Business Week)