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What are we reading? September 27, 2018

Each week, BIV staff will share with you some of the interesting stories we have found from around the web.
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Each week, BIV staff will share with you some of the interesting stories we have found from around the web.

Kirk LaPointe, editor-in-chief:

Somewhat lost in other news this week was an extraordinary analysis and investigation by award-winning journalist Jane Mayer on the Russian involvement in the 2016 US election. - The New Yorker

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/10/01/how-russia-helped-to-swing-the-election-for-trump

Want to know what you might have been wise to read in recent years? A 21st century canon has been created to guide you. - Vulture

http://www.vulture.com/article/best-books-21st-century-so-far.html

Daniel T’eo-Neisheim played professional football for four years ending in 2013. Last year he was found dead with painkillers and alcohol in his system, the end of his decline into paranoia and pain. - The New York Times

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/09/27/sports/football/nfl-cte-daniel-teo-nesheim.html

Timothy Renshaw, managing editor:

The coal power train keeps right on rolling in China. - The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/sep/26/satellite-images-show-runaway-expansion-of-coal-power-in-china?utm

Mark Falkenberg, deputy managing editor:

Americans in our midst still carry considerable potential political heft down south despite their Canadian postal codes. A report by the U.S. Federal Voting Assistance Program pegs the number of voting-age Americans in Canada at 622,492 – by far the highest number internationally - FVAP

https://www.fvap.gov/uploads/FVAP/Reports/FVAP-OCPAsummarybrief.pdf

An oldie but a goodie about oldies but goodies. Just read this story from last fall about B.C. entrepreneur Fred Soofi, who has waged a battle against the destruction of Port Moody heritage by buying, moving and restoring early 20th century houses that would otherwise be backhoed and trucked to the landfill to make way for McMansions. - CBC

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/heritage-hero-saves-3-homes-demolition-port-moody-1.4365870

Carrie Schmidt, editorial researcher:

Time travel! Let's do it! But first, read this short explainer about the Block Universe Theory. Also, wormholes. We will need wormholes for this all to work. Get to work on creating some wormholes. - Big Think

https://bigthink.com/surprising-science/a-controversial-theory-claims-present-past-and-future-exist-at-the-same-time

Tyler Orton, reporter:

Human memory is flawed. That doesn’t mean Christine Blasey Ford is wrong: an examination of why the science of memory is so frustrating juxtaposed with why critics of Kavanaugh’s accuser are missing the point. - Vox https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2018/9/20/17879768/memory-brett-kavanaugh-christine-blasey-ford-psychology