Friday Links!
Leading off, an incredible and appalling story: Toxic Gaslighting: How 3M Executives Convinced a Scientist the Forever Chemicals She Found in Human Blood Were Safe. Decades ago, Kris Hansen showed 3M that its PFAS chemicals were in people’s bodies. Her bosses halted her work. As the EPA now forces the removal of the chemicals from drinking water, she wrestles with the secrets that 3M kept from her and the world.
Gripping: The Rise and Fall of a Super-Cop.
This is amazing: Physicists listened to electrical noise to crack a superconductor mystery.
I can't imagine the Brian Wilson bio reviewed here is better than the review itself, which is superbly written: I’m just a sound.
This is a terrific read: Lab-grown meat was supposed to save the world. What happened?
A beautifully-done video: A legendary Australian gold hunt, told from an Aboriginal perspective.
Excellent writing: My 99-Year-Old Grandmother Built a Hidden Empire Around Flannel. Then She Lost It All.
A brilliant article: Inside the Trial of Russell Brand.
A couple of political links that make for excellent reading: Rampant Corruption. An Unpopular War. A Historic Election. It’s 1972 All Over Again, and Why James Talarico’s “Love Thy Neighbor” Politics Infuriates So Many: Many evangelicals have questioned the senator-elect’s Christianity. His faith is rooted in a historic denomination of mainline Protestantism.
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