Weekend Readings – Feb 13, 2016

Gravitational Waves

https://www.quantamagazine.org/20160211-gravitational-waves-discovered-at-long-last/

Billionaires and the Politicization of American Universities [gated]
http://chronicle.com/article/How-Right-Wing-Billionaires-/235286

Global Shipping Slowdown Signals Global Economic Weakness

http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/economy/2016/02/global-shipping-slowdown-hints-recession-around-corner

California’s Republican Congressman Dana Rohrabacher interesting piece on US-Russian ties:

http://nationalinterest.org/print/feature/why-america-restarting-the-cold-war-russia-15183

Facebook, India and Neo-Colonialism

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/02/facebook-and-the-new-colonialism/462393/