Lunchtime reading
ChicagoClimate changeConservationConservativesEconomicsEntertainmentEnvironmentGeographyIllinoisPoliticsPsychologySecurityTechnologyTravelUS PoliticsWeatherWorkWorld PoliticsI had these lined up to read at lunchtime:
- Bruce Schneier explains how blockchain shifts, but does not eliminate, trust; and Bitcoin isn't useful. A lined article from 2017 goes further and says Bitcoin is an environmental catastrophe.
- A new interactive project shows how the summers in your city will feel in 2080. (Chicago's then will feel like Kansas City's today.)
- It turns out, if you're liberal, your brain reacts much differently to repulsive pictures than your conservative friends' brains.
- I'm ready to go on all of these Scotch distillery tours.
- The New York Times listed 50 startups that they think will take off soon.
- And with the Pritzker administration set on legalizing recreational marijuana in Illinois this year, is it any surprise that the largest existing producers want to continue being the largest producers?
- David Leonhardt draws a distinction between criticizing the Israeli government (acceptable) and anti-Semitism (not).
Meanwhile, for only the second time in four weeks, we can see sun outside the office windows:

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