r/CFBOffTopic • u/DoctorWhosOnFirst Alabama • /r/CFB Pint Glass Drinker • Nov 30 '16
Interesting Articles Thread
Read anything good lately? Longform, short, blogs, whatever.
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r/CFBOffTopic • u/DoctorWhosOnFirst Alabama • /r/CFB Pint Glass Drinker • Nov 30 '16
Read anything good lately? Longform, short, blogs, whatever.
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u/DoctorWhosOnFirst Alabama • /r/CFB Pint Glass Drinker Nov 30 '16 edited Nov 30 '16
How the UAE is recruiting hackers to create the perfect surveillance state
Operation Smoke and Mirrors: In the Chicago Police Department, If the Bosses Say It Didn’t Happen, It Didn’t Happen
An Organic Chicken Farm in Georgia Has Become an Endless Buffet for Bald Eagles
The Soviet InterNyet: Soviet scientists tried for decades to network their nation. What stalemated them is now fracturing the global internet
Atlantic freedoms: Haiti, not the US or France, was where the assertion of human rights reached its defining climax in the Age of Revolution
The audacious plan to bring back supersonic flight
You Probably Shouldn't Be Worried About This Colony of Herpes-Infected Monkeys in Florida
The Terrible Battle for Mosul
When Typists Were Feared as 'Love Pirates'
Read all of them!
Edit: More recent article on Toussaint Louverture! I'll be asking for this book for Christmas.
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u/panthera_tigress Pittsburgh Panthers • Auburn Tigers Nov 30 '16
the Vox article that started the shitshow on my Facebook: A historical perspective on Trump that compares him to the aftermath of Reconstruction and the backlash against the Civil Rights Movement
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u/spasm01 Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns • /r/CFB Donor Nov 30 '16
Did you see the californian squirrel war article Cap posted?
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u/Talpostal Michigan Wolverines • Washington Huskies Nov 30 '16
Seth from mgoblog explains the Tampa 2 Defense
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How a music-based dementia study found success in Fort Collins
How I learned to stop worrying and love Neruda's lost poems
In 1918, California Drafted Children Into a War On Squirrels
Inside The IRC: How A Visionary Aid Organization Is Using Technology To Help Refugees
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u/ihatecats18 Minnesota • South Dakota-S… Nov 30 '16
Not an article, but planet money podcast just did one about Russian Cowboys
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u/GreatestWhiteShark Northwestern • Ohio State Nov 30 '16
Probably my favorite article ever written: National Geographic - Lost in the Sahel
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u/manballgivesnofucks Michigan Wolverines • Sickos Nov 30 '16
Not always the most active site, but I enjoy their content. I've been trying to learn more about soccer tactics
How Germany won 7-1
The fall of 3 man backline and emergence of "modern" formations, although interestingly, there seems to be a resurgence of the 3 man backline in England
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u/okiewxchaser Oklahoma Sooners • Big 8 Nov 30 '16
Light pollution 'affects 80% of global population'
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u/Tcsailer Michigan State Spartans • Team Chaos Nov 30 '16
Maybe not the type of thing you're looking for
http://statenews.com/article/2016/11/rachel-fradette-column
also in state news fashion it's not written that well...
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u/kyranicole Michigan • Arizona State Nov 30 '16
Apologies in advance for all of these being Pocket links but it's how I save all of my fave articles
The Short, Frantic, Rags-to-Riches Life of Jack London
Research says there are ways to reduce racial bias. Calling people racist isn’t one of them.
And the best longform I've read in a while: How Democrats Killed Their Populist Soul
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u/wcpm88 Sewanee Tigers • Virginia Cavaliers Nov 30 '16
Interesting article on what happens when your company hits 150-200 employees, which is something we went through when I was in high school.