• We already know that the emails we write and the phone calls we make aren’t private anymore. But snail mail? You too?
• A psychological study has found that kids who have less structured time are more independent and are better at setting and reaching their own goals. More proof that Heather Havrilesky was right, if you needed it.
• Baffler blog contributor Kyle Chayka tore into the Brookings Institute report on #innovation in cities for Pacific Standard: “turning older urban corridors into heavily polished centers for young workers with particular needs—it all sounds a bit like another catalyst of change we’re more familiar with: gentrification.”
• Are you upset that “a bunch of overeducated white guys who cry during ‘Love Actually’” and “a class of men who pee sitting down” took away the trademark to your racially insensitive football team name? Maybe this proposal for a replacement team name will cheer you up.
