markjgsmith

2018/12/24 #

Today’s links:

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

  • 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 sayinews.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 holidayswww.vulture.com #

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

For enquiries about my consulting, development, training and writing services, aswell as sponsorship opportunities contact me directly via email. More details about me here.