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Reader staffers share stories that fascinate, amuse, or inspire us.
Hey, did you read:
• About the racially based security measures used in California prisons? —Steve Bogira
• That perceptions of safety are based more on an area’s wealth, educational attainment, and creative economy than actual crime levels? —Mick Dumke
• What the ideal subway seating arrangement looks like? And that you can take a survey to tell the CTA what type of seating arrangement you prefer? (What they’ll do with the information is anyone’s guess, of course.) —Julia Thiel
• That someone made a CTA version of that public transit/median income interactive map the New Yorker did? —Gwynedd Stuart
• That “one of the most cited stats” in the “economic consensus view”—high debt-to-GDP ratios threaten growth—seems to be the result of selective exclusions, unconventional weighting, and an Excel coding error? —John Dunlevy
• Michael Pollan on his fond memories of TV dinners and Yodels snack cakes and his new food rule: Don’t buy anything you see marketed on television? —Kate Schmidt
• That Ferran and Albert Adria of El Bulli fame have opened a new restaurant, Pakta, which serves small plates inspired by Japanese-Peruvian cuisine? —Kate Schmidt
• That, OMG, the cupcake market is crashing? —Aimee Levitt