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Weekend Reads 9/3/16

Not a Drill: SETI Is Investigating a Possible Extraterrestrial Signal From Deep Space

The unusual signal was originally detected on May 15, 2015, by the Russian Academy of Science-operated RATAN-600 radio telescope in Zelenchukskaya, Russia, but was kept secret from the international community. Interstellar space reporter Paul Gilster broke the story after the researchers quietly circulated a paper announcing the detection of “a strong signal in the direction of HD164595.”

'You're better than this' vs. 'You should be ashamed of yourself' 

So you might look across at this kid and say something like, "You should be ashamed of yourself." Or you might look at them and say, "You’re better than this." And even though those two things seem, at first glance, to be contradictory assertions, they’re really saying the same thing.

They want to destroy Leslie Jones: Harassment targeting “Ghostbusters” star exposes the ugliness driving the new right

You see, one of the main reasons that Jones is a favorite target of the worst people on the internet is because she was chosen as one by Milo Yiannopoulos, a writer and editor at Breitbart. He spent so much time and effort riling up the rats against her that it got him suspended permanently by Twitter, in fact. And Yiannopoulos’s boss Stephen Bannon now runs the Donald Trump campaign.

Make no mistake: Yiannopoulos got his job at Breitbart not despite, but because of his skills at whipping up the sociopathic internet into a frenzy of resentment at even the hint that they might have to share the world with women and people of color.

Companies Rethink Annual Pay Raises

“If someone is doing well and you give them 3% and someone is mediocre and you give them 2%, it’s really only a symbolic difference,” says Shari Stier, vice president of global human resources at Pact, an international development organization with 4,000 employees. “It’s a big challenge in HR,” she adds.

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