Elsewhere on Friday…
— Why is free time still so elusive? (The Conversation)
— How I got scammed out of $50,000 (The Cut)
— Of man and nature (The Newsletter of (Not Quite) Everything)
— Is the media prepared for an extinction-level event? (The New Yorker)
— The Stanford professor taking on racism in the $4 trillion muni-bond market (Wall Street Journal)
— In defense of busywork (The Verge)
— “contraversy = news mentions” (Information is Beautiful)
— The loss of things I took for granted (Slate)
