Interesting Links for the Weekend, 7th and 8th of January 2016: Wired Fiction, IoT Hacks, Cruise Line Fine and More

The Great Dying: 

Happiness Comes On Day 5

(Wired - The Fiction Issue: 

"Tales From An Uncertain Future")

UpportunityU Interview: "Journey to Mars" with NASA's Jim Wilson     (UpportunityU)

How To Stop Your Home From Being Hacked Through The Internet of Things
(Visual Capitalist) 

Drugs du jour: LSD in the 60s, Ecstasy in the 80s, Smart Drugs today     (AEON)

How I memorized an entire chapter from "Moby Dick"     (Vox)

Biggest Fine Ever for Cruise Line Dumping of Waste into the Ocean    (Key West the Blue Newspaper) 

The US Navy's Big Mistake: Building Tons of Aircraft Carriers    (War Is Boring)


Trump Nominee Jay Clayton Will Be the Most Conflicted SEC Chair Ever    (Matt Taibbi - Rolling Stone)

Quote for the Weekend, 7th and 8th of January 2017 by US Astronaut Ellen Ochoa on Perseverance

What everyone in the astronaut corps shares in common is not gender or ethnic background, but motivation, perseverance, and desire - the desire to participate in a voyage of discovery. 

- Ellen Ochoa

Reads for Thursday, 26 February 2015

Scarcity (The Reformed Broker) 

This Billionaire Governor Taxed the Rich and Increased the Minimum Wage -- Now, His State's Economy Is One of the Best in the Country (Huffington Post) 

Apple to hold event on March 9, as Watch launch nears (Reuters) 

Will Great Britain and Italy Say "Screw Nuclear" And Get Power From A Giant Concentrated Solar Plant Located In Tunisia's Sahara Desert? (The Ecologist) 

Watch How NASA Monitors Sand Flying From the Sahara to the Amazon (Time Magazine)

Study provides direct evidence that human activity is causing global warming: For the first time, researchers directly observed carbon dioxide trapping heat in the atmosphere (Salon) 

Four new NASA Earth-observing missions are collecting data from space – with a fifth newly in orbit – after the busiest year of NASA Earth science launches in more than a decade (NASA) 

Lawmakers Seek Information on Funding for Climate Change Critics (NY Times) 

Putin's Secret Plan For Ukraine Leaks (The Daily Beast) 

An Investor’s Guide to Better Writing — Seriously (Vitaliy Katsenelson) 

Link for the US Debt Clock also contains assets, poverty, social security recipients and more (US Debt Clock Website) 

Grant Williams' Latest

New York Times: "China's Rapid Growth Hits The Brakes" 

Euan Mearns (late of "The Oil Drum") breaks down energy production/exports in Russia

New York Times: "Low-Wage Workers Are Finding Poverty Harder to Escape"

Youtube Link for Documentary Film "Death By China" 

13 Years After Defects Were Known, New CEO of GM Says She Was Not Aware Of Them Until January 31, 2014 - Two Weeks After She'd Taken Over 

Canada finance minister resigns, natural resources minister set to take over

Chinese Central Bank denies it took part in emergency talks to save collapsed developer

Short Sellers Come Out Of The Dark To Target Chinese Developers

Charles Hugh Smith: "The Five Year Fantasy Is Ending" 

NASA: Bursting Cloud of Solar Material Measured at a Speed of 1800 Miles Per Second

Mississippi, The Poorest State, Will Spend Money Testing Welfare Recipients For Drugs

The Big Picture Blog Posts Photos Of The Search For Missing Flight MH370, Family Members, Concerned Civilians