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Business Amazon is the poster child for everything wrong with post-Reagan anti-trust enforcement Cory Doctorow

the virtue of selfishness How to combat manspreading on the subway – sit on the offender Mark Frauenfelder

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evolution Richard Dawkins wishes he'd named his "The Selfish Gene" book "The Immortal Gene" instead Mark Frauenfelder