Why I’m leaving Facebook

https://qz.com/1342757/everything-bad-about-facebook-is-bad-for-the-same-reason/ …Facebook didn’t intend for any of this to happen. It just wanted to connect people. But there is a thread running from Perkins’ death to religious violence in Myanmar...

Trump makes a pick

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/08/trump-picks-science-adviser-kelvin-droegemeier/566543/This may be the first Trump decision I’ve agreed with, and I’m surprised at the pick. Makes me wonder how it happened.