Longread #413 -- Buzzkill -- 11/25/13

"Buzzkill" by Patrick Radden Keefe
Published in the New Yorker, November 18, 2013

Eric

Longread #412 -- Duane Allman Remembered -- 11/22/13

I stumbled on this recently and really loved reading it. For anyone who loves classic rock, Southern rock, and especially the Allman Brothers Band, it is a must read. I highly recommend putting on Live at the Fillmore East while you read it.

Happy Friday!

"Duane Allman Remembered" by Jas Obrecht
Published initially in Guitar Player, October 1981

Eric

Longread #411 -- The Nazi Anatomists -- 11/20/13

"The Nazi Anatomists" by Emily Bazelon
Published on Slate, November 6, 2013

Eric

Longread #410 -- Nick Brown Smelled Bull -- 11/19/13

"Nick Brown Smelled Bull" by Vinnie Rotondaro
Published in Narrative.ly, October 17, 2013

Eric

Longread #409 -- Almost Without Hope -- 11/18/13

An excerpt (emphasis mine):

"It’s well-documented that the government’s attempts to meet its obligations to the Native Americans have failed miserably; the primary cause is insufficient funding. Currently, prisoners receive significantly higher per capita health-care funding than Native Americans. The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights reports the federal government spends about $5,000 per capita each year on health care for the general U.S. population, $3,803 on federal prisoners and $1,914 on Indian health care. 

One of the most pressing inequities of the federal government’s attempts to meet these obligations, according to advocates such as the National Indian Health Board, a nonprofit in Washington, D.C., is that while the biggest federal health and safety-net programs such as Medicare, Social Security and veterans’ health are protected from sequestration cuts, the IHS is not. It stands to lose 5 percent of its $4 billion budget this year, a percentage that is expected to increase next year if sequestration continues, IHS administration officials say. These cuts will be devastating for many tribes.

"Almost Without Hope: Seeking A Path to Health on the Rosebud Indian Reservation" by Tracie White
Published in Stanford Medicine, Fall 2013

Eric

Longread #408 -- Minimum Income -- 11/15/13

"Switzerland’s Proposal to Pay People for Being Alive" by Annie Lowrey
Published in the New York Times, November 12, 2013

Eric

Longread #407 -- Breathless and Burdened, Part 3 -- 11/14/13

"As experts recognize new form of black lung, coal industry follows familiar pattern of denial" by Chris Hamby
Published by the Center for Public Integrity, November 1, 2013

Eric

Longread #406 -- Breathless and Burdened, Part 2 -- 11/13/13

"Johns Hopkins medical unit rarely finds black lung, helping coal industry defeat miners' claims" by Chris Hamby
Published by the Center for Public Integrity, October 30, 2013

Eric

Longread #405 -- Breathless and Burdened, Part 1 -- 11/12/13

This is the first of a devastating three-part series about the exploitation of miners by coal mining companies, lawyers, and high-powered experts who all profited while sick miners wasted away with black lung. It's a remarkable reminder that even when a program exists -- such as the federal black lung compensation program -- that it can be manipulated by more powerful and resourceful interests to circumvent the program's true goals.

"Coal industry's go-to law firm withheld evidence of black lung, at expense of sick miners" by Chris Hamby
Published by the Center for Public Integrity, October 29, 2013

Eric

Longread #404 -- Stranger in a Strange Land -- 11/8/13

Meant to post this yesterday, but I forgot. So it goes...

Happy Friday!

"Stranger in a Strange Land" by Rany Jazayerli
Published on Grantland, November 1, 2013

Eric

Longread #403 -- The Man Who Would Teach Machines to Think -- 11/6/13

"The Man Who Would Teach Machines to Think" by James Somers
Published in the Atlantic, October 23, 2013

Eric

Longread #402 -- The Hell of American Day Care -- 11/5/13

"The Hell of American Day Care" by Jonathan Cohn
Published in the New Republic, April 15, 2013

Eric

Longread #401 -- The Decline of Wikipedia -- 11/4/13

"The Decline of Wikipedia" by Tom Simonite
Published in the MIT Technology Review, October 22, 2013

Eric

Longread #400 -- E-Cigarettes -- 11/1/13

"The E-Cigarette Industry, Waiting to Exhale" by Matt Richtel
Published in the New York Times, October 26, 2013

Eric