markjgsmith

Today’s links:

• Sending astronauts to Mars would be stupid, astronaut says www.bbc.com #

• Paddy Ashdown Dead www.theguardian.com #

• Civil rights 'under serious attack' across the globe www.theguardian.com #

• Node.js Fundamentals - Web Server Without Dependencies blog.bloomca.me #

• I quite like the design of the top part of the page to this Nieman Journalism Lab site, the bottom half feels kind of squashed to me, maybe this is a new style? www.niemanlab.org #

• E-cigarette maker Juul is giving each of it's 1500 employees $1.3 million dollars as part of an investment deal with Altria (the parent company of Philip Morris) www.inc.com #

• There may have been no drones at Gatwick Airport at all, police say inews.co.uk #

• How US billionaires are fuelling the hard-right cause in Britain - Interesting piece that sheds some light on the strategies behind the cauldron of activities that surrounds the funding of alternative media and political groups - "Universities would produce the intellectual raw materials. Thinktanks would transform them into a more practical or usable form. Then “citizen activist” groups would press for the implementation of policy change." www.theguardian.com #

• 5 unicorns that will probably go public in 2019 (besides Uber and Lyft) techcrunch.com #

• How to Be an Artist - A bunch of short bite-sized lessons that you can snack on over the holidays www.vulture.com #

• Quantum Quantum everything is Quantum www.quantamagazine.org #

• "Not another fucking drone" - Yep it's drone again, what a surprise en.wikipedia.org #