Bernard's Top 10 @ 10 'pick 'n' mix' at 10:10am on Tuesday, March 19
Gavin Jacobson talks to Thomas Piketty 10 years on from Capital in the 21st Century; Inside the migrant exploitations allegations against a Green MP; The companies profiting from school lunches
TL;DR: My top 10 news and analysis links this morning include:
Today’s must-read: Gavin Jacobson talks to Thomas Piketty 10 years on from Capital in the 21st Century The Salvo
Local scoop: Green MP’s business being investigated over migrant exploitation claims Stuff Steve Kilgallon
Local deep-dive: The commercial contractors making money from School Lunches The Post-$$$ Aimee Shaw
Global scoop: DNA tests show many more too-close relatives than expected The Atlantic-gift Sarah Zhang
Global deep-dive: A startling rise in sea-surface temperatures suggests that we may not understand how fast the climate is changing. The New Yorker Elizabeth Kolbert
Column: Simon Wilson in the NZ Herald-$$$ on how David Seymour’s bike crash was the 22nd on a stretch of road that Auckland Transport has been trying to put a bike lane on, but which local businesses oppose.
Op-ed: The Public Health Communications Centre on the true costs and benefits of school lunches.
Thread: Glen Peters on carbon dioxide levels hitting a record high 428 ppm at Moana Loa on March 15, and being up by twice as much as expected in calendar 2023, via X
Paper or report: The three eras of global inequality, 1820–2020 with the focus on the past thirty years, a paper by Branko Milanovic via the Graduate Center, City University New York, Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality
Happy thing: A wedding photo
Today’s must-read
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