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)

Reads for Wednesday, 25 February 2015

U.S. Postal Service, FedEx Have New Competition…from Waffle House: Roadie Is Going To Be The Uber Of Package Delivery (MSN Money)

Oldie, but Goodie: Co-Founder of Motley Fool, Dave Gardner, On "The Greatest Secret Of All" (Motley Fool) 

What Dodd-Frank Didn’t Fix: The Worst Conflicts on Wall Street (Wall Street On Parade) 

The Easy Oil Is Gone So Where Do We Look Now? (Oilprice.com)

President Obama Vetoes Keystone Pipeline Bill; Republicans Gear Up For Override Bill But Might Not Have The Votes (Politico) 

Oil rigs fall idle after global crude prices drop (BBC)

Nobel Prize Winner Robert Shiller: Buying A Home Isn't Necessarily A Good Investment (Yahoo Finance) 

Bill O Reilly Threatens Another Reporter  (Talking Points Memo) 

Another Big Merchant Dumps American Express (Megan McArdle for Bloomberg) 

Apple now twice as big as world's second-largest company, ExxonMobil (The Daily Telegraph - UK) 

Investigation: Why are cargo pilots excluded from new rest rules? (CBS News) 

Two Ex-Army Rangers Believe Flip Flops And Sarongs Will Defeat ISIS (Gizmondo)

Goodbye, Putin (Foreign Affairs Magazine) 

U.S. military vehicles paraded 300 yards from the Russian border (Washington Post blog)

75% of Air and Rain Samples Contain Monsanto’s Round Up (Natural Society) 

Obama administration to allow sales of armed drones to allies (Washington Post)