Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
In 1983, two years after the AIDS virus was first discovered in the United States, the Food and Drug Administration issued guidelines for gay men who wanted to donate blood. If they had had sex with other men at any time since 1977, they would be prohibited from donating blood indefinitely. That policy lasted for…
The Senate has approved a defense budget that would also require women to register for the draft. The new rules would apply to any woman who turns 18 on or after January 1, 2018. The key opponents to drafting women were conservative Republicans, including your old friend, botched Madam Tussauds exhibit Ted Cruz. This one…
SAN FRANCISCO — A California judge who was criticized for handing down a short jail term in a case involving a sexual assault at Stanford University is facing a growing number of impediments both inside and outside the courtroom. Since Judge Aaron Persky of Santa Clara Superior Court sentenced a former champion swimmer for Stanford,…
Think about where you go to find news. Podcasts? WNYC? The New York Times? Facebook? Twitter? Newsletters? Do you want us to stop asking questions? Welcome to the Attention Economy. There is fierce competition for your eyes and ears — (thank you for choosing correctly). Media companies know that a good way to find an audience is to write and speak…
With Donald Trump there is always both higher and lower to go. Despite his constant assertions to the contrary, Trump is doing badly in the polls. With the extensive coverage of his campaign and the seemingly bottomless depths of pandering crassness he has sunk to, it’s easy to despair that Trump’s view of the world…
When the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) signed off on the new National Market System (Reg NMS) in 2005, the goal was to transform the 188-year-old New York Stock Exchange from an old school institution where specialists shouted from the trading floor into a hyper-efficient system of computers quietly matching orders in real time. This…
Here are 16 babies, six short of our sperm donor’s full count.Thinkstock Never has a subject been more deserving of New York Post coverage than Ari Nagel, the Brooklyn man who graced the cover of the tabloid over the weekend with the headline “Great Balls of Sire: NY prof donates free sperm in public…
“If you want to create jobs, you can’t just focus on Silicon Valley, New York and Boston,” AOL founder and billionaire Steve Case told Recode earlier this year. “And you can’t just focus on tech, you have to focus on other sectors.” Now Case is pulled together the dollars to further test that thesis, Forbes…
America’s richest self-made woman is broke. On June 1, Forbes went viral when it downgraded its estimation of Elizabeth Holmes’ wealth from $4.5 billion to zero. The magazine argued that Theranos, the embattled biotech company Holmes founded, should no longer be valued at $9 billion. Therano’s new valuation of $800 million meant Holmes’ 50% common…
An inquest said the gun may have been in circulation before pump action shotguns were essentially banned in 1996 and was never confiscated in the buyback. According to the inquest, his shells were 15 to 20 years old. During the 17-hour siege of the cafe, Mr. Monis fired several times, once into a wall, before…