The weekend is here!pour yourself a cup dark matter coffeetake a seat on the balcony and get ready for our long weekend:

• Online shopping in the ocean The e-commerce giant couldn’t reliably deliver to the remote island in French Polynesia, so locals made their own online shopping service. (Rest of the world) see also This is what happens when globalization collapses The story of a container being shipped from a Chinese factory to a U.S. warehouse traces the arc of a global supply chain consumed by trouble. (New York Times)

• Louis DeJoy, postmaster, Democrat loves to hate, won’t go anywhere Many believe that Trump-era appointees will and should be brought through the door by Joe Biden. That only sweetens his recent success. (Work Week)

• Queen of crime: Forensic scientist Angela Gallop helped solve many of Britain’s most notorious murders. But today she worries that the entire field — and justice itself — is at risk (protector)

• It’s not too late for a new Covid-19 drug to change the pandemic New, easy-to-take antiviral drugs are now available in pharmacies. This is the person they are most willing to help. (sound)

• Wall Street Livesman’s Quixotic Quest to Build a Non-Racist Bank Alex Ehrlich started Percapita to reach the underfunded while making money. It’s not easy. (Work Week)

• How the US and EU are cutting Russia off from the global economy Unprecedented coordination in late November set the stage for aggressive sanctions when Ukraine was invaded. (Wall Street Journal) see also The Formation of Vladimir Putin Track Putin’s 22-year slide from politician to tyrant. (New York Times)

• weird science: This rush of attention to the fringes of science isn’t just happening in the boutique realm of the history of science. The most prominent of these is the “replication crisis”, mainly in psychology and biomedicine, which shows quite astoundingly that many of the typical findings of cognitive psychology and cancer genetics cannot be replicated by other scientists. Since reproducibility is often cited as one of the most important signs that science produces reliable knowledge, the prevalence of this failure is indeed worrying. (Los Angeles Review of Books)

• 100 Ways To Slightly Improve Your Life Without Really Trying Whether it’s bringing fruit to work (and going to the bedroom!), being polite to rude strangers, or going naked, this is a century-old way to make life better without any effort…(protector)

• Night Shift: Can technology shape our dreams? On the one hand, scientific research has looked at what dreams do to our brains. On the other hand, there is a crazy arc of actual and possible answers to this question: What can my dreams do for me? The gap between what science can tell us and what we want to know may be a central spiritual feature of our situation. (Harper)

• Chris Paul is building a business empire.Now he just needs an NBA ring: CP3 is making deals, texting with Bob Iger, and getting ready for a title fight. (Work Week)

Be sure to check out our Master of Business interview This weekend with Bill Gross, co-founder of PIMCO who manages the Total Return Fund, the largest mutual fund in the world at $293B. Gross advised the Treasury on the role of subprime mortgage bonds and was named Morningstar’s ten-year fund manager in 2010.

U.S. military spending vs. other top countries

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