The Next Big Thing in Music Theory.  How to measure music now: intervals, beats or money?  The introduction of “externalities” into music theory.

Ranked-choice voting: Maine proved the concept in 2018 midterms.

Proportional representation is starting to gain adherents.

Competitive book-sorting event pits New York library workers against Washington State’s / Boing Boing.

Wow.  Go, Seattle.

https://www.npr.org/2018/10/26/661011560/life-death-and-the-lazarus-drug-confronting-americas-opioid-crisis

One of the most clear-sighted and honest discussions I’ve heard about this; not mired in emotion nor suffused with moral outrage. Well done.