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We discuss the article "How Cats Used Humans to Conquer the World" by Sarah Zhang in The Atlantic: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/06/cat-domination/530685/ --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/artistmaterialist/support

Ecologist Amanda joins us as we discuss the article "The Moral Cost of Cats" by Rachel E. Gross in Smithsonian Magazine. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/moral-cost-of-cats-180960505/ --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/artistmaterialist/support

We discuss the article "How the Startup Mentality Failed Kids in San Francisco" by Daniel Duane in Wired: https://www.wired.com/story/willie-brown-middle-school-startup-mentality-failed/ --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/artistmaterialist/support

We discuss the article "Where are the Radical Politics of Cyberpunk?" by Cameron Kunzelman in Waypoint: https://waypoint.vice.com/en_us/article/ne5jg7/radical-politics-cyberpunk-2077 --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/artistmaterialist/support

We're taking a brief hiatus from making the podcast this week & next. In the meantime, please share any interesting long read articles you've come across recently over at our blog: http://artistmaterialist.wordpress.com --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/artistmaterialist/support

We discuss the article "A Compassionate Substance - How science and myth collide in water." by Philip Ball in Lapham's Quarterly. https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/water/compassionate-substance --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/artistmaterialist/support

We discuss the article "We Depend on Plastic. Now We're Drowning in It." by Laura Parker in National Geographic. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2018/06/plastic-planet-waste-pollution-trash-crisis/ --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/artistmaterialist/support

We discuss the article "The Two Most Important College-Admissions Criteria Now Mean Less" by Jeffrey Selingo in The Atlantic: https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2018/05/college-admissions-gpa-sat-act/561167/ --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/artistmaterialist/support

We discuss the article "What's That Smell You're Reading?" by Ann Elizabeth Wiener in Distillations magazine: https://www.sciencehistory.org/distillations/magazine/whats-that-smell-youre-reading --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/artistmaterialist/support

We discuss the article "How Shoddy Statistics Found a Home in Sports Research" by Christie Aschwanden and Mai Nguyen at FiveThirtyEight.com: https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-shoddy-statistics-found-a-home-in-sports-research/ --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/artistmaterialist/support

We discuss the article "I Dream of Content-Trash" by Zach Webb in The Baffler: https://thebaffler.com/latest/i-dream-of-content-trash-webb --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/artistmaterialist/support

We discuss the article "Why restaurants became so loud — and how to fight back" by Julia Belluz in Vox. https://www.vox.com/2018/4/18/17168504/restaurants-noise-levels-loud-decibels --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/artistmaterialist/support

We discuss the article "Dear Humanities Profs: We Are the Problem" by Eric Bennett in the Chronicle of Higher Education: https://www.chronicle.com/article/Dear-Humanities-Profs-We-Are/243100 --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/artistmaterialist/support

We discuss the article "OLPC’s $100 laptop was going to change the world — then it all went wrong" by Adi Robertson: https://www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2018/4/16/17233946/olpcs-100-laptop-education-where-is-it-now --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/artistmaterialist/support

We discuss the article "10 Breakfasts from a Century Ago that No One Eats Anymore" by Kat Kinsman: http://www.myrecipes.com/extracrispy/breakfast-foods-no-one-eats-anymore --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/artistmaterialist/support

We discuss Hollis Robbins' article "Dancing with Chains." http://blog.lareviewofbooks.org/essays/dancing-chains/ --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/artistmaterialist/support

We discuss a study of urban renewal efforts in Flint Michigan as described in the article "Want to fight crime? Plant some flowers with your neighbor." https://theconversation.com/want-to-fight-crime-plant-some-flowers-with-your-neighbor-91804 --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/artistmaterialist/support

We discuss the article "Why Gen X Isn't Psyched for the '90s Revival" from Racked. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/artistmaterialist/support

We discuss the article "How Skin Care Became an At-Home Science Experiment" by Julie Beck in The Atlantic. (https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2018/03/the-citizen-science-of-skin-care/555125/) --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/artistmaterialist/support