My picks for #sundayread for March 31, 2019:

• I finally read Rachel Carson’s “Silent Spring,” as relevant as ever, a look at man’s poisonous war on nature over minor nuisances. Highly recommended.
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• Recycling Is Broken
  By Maddie Stone @themadstone
• Getting kids into the reading habit:
  1. Classics are fine, but don’t forget popular fiction, by Jonathan Douglas @JDLiteracyTrust (via @EccoEnglish)
  2. Adults can read children’s lit along with their kids, by @AlicePenfold1
• Flashback: Stretch or stagnate
• Tired: Bedside manner. Wired: Webside manner. Doctors learn new ways to diagnose patients through video calls.
  By Robbie Gonzalez @rtg0nzalez
  (via @LillyTrials)
• The Sexist, Political History of Pockets
  By @ChelseaGSummers
• Flashback: Y’all Connect — Behind the buzz: N2V marketing from Netflix
• Why Self-Checkout Is and Has Always Been the Worst
  By Brian Merchant @bcmerchant
• Presumed guilty: Did a Tufts grad student really hack into university servers to change her grades?
  By @ZackWhittaker
• Flashback: Facebook Pages are dying. What now?
• A look at the “The @Rosie O’Donnell Show” in this excerpt from @RaminSetoodeh’s “Ladies Who Punch: The Explosive Inside Story of ‘The View'”
• The Brothers Who Bought South Africa
  By @MattCampbell and @WildFranz
  (RT @AfricaResearch)
• Zimbabwe’s clean slate: What brought Mugabe down, and why he didn’t see it coming
  By @GeoffreyYork
  (RT @kikiochieng)
• Something is wrong on the internet – it’s little kids and YouTube.
  By @JamesBridle
  (RT @LetMommySleep)

More posts from Wade this week:

• The Birmingham channel: Black and white and red all over

More #sundayread:

• All tweets for March 31 #sundayread
• The latest #sundayread tweets
• More #sundayread recommendations from me