Jennifer 8. Lee
Head of @plympton. Doc producer of @pictcharacter, @generaltsomovie. Emoji via @unicode/@emojination. @credcoalition. Once @nytimes. [email protected]
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Barack Obama Looks Back on His Toughest Fight
An excerpt from the President’s new memoir, “A Promised Land,” on what it took to make Obamacare a reality.
Jennifer 8. Lee
Interesting fact from Obama’s memoir in @NewYorker: employer-tied health insurance emerged during FDR’s nationwide WWII wage freeze. Companies used health insurance and benefits as a way to supplement compensation. newyorker.com/magazine/2020/… pic.twitter.com/AvOg7BZBlk
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Register Democrats. Save the World.
Help Field Team 6 register Democrats in battleground states!
2020 Nobel in Economics Is Awarded to Paul Milgrom and Robert Wilson
The two U.S. academics were honored for their work in auction theory.
Jennifer 8. Lee
The turnaround time for Stanford’s comms office to get this Nest video of this year’s two economics Nobel Prize winners, Paul Milgrom and Robert Wilson (and Wilson’s wife?), in the middle of the night is impressive. The two won for auction theory work nytimes.com/2020/10/12/bus… twitter.com/stanford/statu…
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Jim Dwyer, Pulitzer Prize-Winning Journalist, Dies at 63
Working for New York Newsday, The Daily News and The Times, he covered the human stories of New York in dramatic prose and crusaded against injustice.
Nobel Prize in Chemistry Awarded to 2 Scientists for Work on Genome Editing
Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna developed the Crispr tool, which can alter the DNA of animals, plants and microorganisms with high precision.
Jennifer 8. Lee
Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna are 5th and 6th women to win Nobel Prize 🏅 in chemistry ⚗️ in ~120 year history. For developing Crispr gene 🧬 editing tool. First paper published in 2012. (What other Nobels have had such a fast turnaround)
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Trump Took $70,000 in Tax Deductions for Hair Care. Experts Say That’s Illegal.
It’s a small but telling detail in The Times’s exposé on the president’s taxes.
Jennifer 8. Lee
This is my favorite line of the piece: “Mr. Trump has always been secretive about the swirling, straw-colored confection that rests atop his scalp.”
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Thank you for posting: Smoking’s lessons for regulating social media
Day by day, the evidence is mounting that Facebook is bad for society. Last week Channel 4 News in London tracked down Black Americans in Wisconsin who were targeted by President Trump’s 2016 campaign with negative advertising about Hillary...
Jennifer 8. Lee
Thoughtful piece by @BostonJoan about our once-reluctance to regulate smoking (individual choice!) until we understood dangers of secondhand smoke. The harmful effects of social media could be looked upon same way.
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US National Book Awards: Announcing the 2020 Shortlisted Finalists
Eight of the 25 titles announced today are debut works in the shortlists for the 71st annual National Book Awards. Winners named November 18.
Jennifer 8. Lee
Excited to see @charles_yu's Interior Chinatown among the finalists for the National Book Awards, as well as Deesha Philyaw's The Secret Lives of Church Ladies from West Virginia University Press (@rgay, @rebeccamakkai, Cristina Henríquez are judges!) .
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MacArthur Foundation Announces 21 ‘Genius’ Grant Winners
The writer N. K. Jemisin and the playwright Larissa FastHorse are among the fellows recognized for their “exceptional creativity” with a no-strings-attached grant of $625,000.
Jennifer 8. Lee
Excited to see writers @nkjemisin, @JackieWoodson, and documentary filmmaker @wangnanfu among this year's @macfound fellows. macfound.org/programs/fello… and also funny that @nkjemisin thought it was a spam call. nytimes.com/2020/10/06/art…
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How Mark Meadows Became the White House’s Unreliable Source
At a moment of crisis that demands clear and forthright information, the chief of staff is playing his old games.
Jennifer 8. Lee
Re the motivation for the confusing anonymous briefing by Mark Meadows on Trump’s health, @TimAlberta observes Meadows is the only politician he’s encountered who stacks up to a real-life version of Frank Underwood of House of Cards.
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NBC News @NBCNews
LIVE: NBC News Special Report: President Trump’s doctor provides update on the president's health from Walter Reed medical center.
Jennifer 8. Lee
Does anyone know, is the White House physician to the president a quasi-political position or appointment? The difference in tone of Conley versus the other doctors who spoke is striking.
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Brian Thomas Garibaldi, M.D., Associate Professor of Medicine | Johns Hopkins Medicine
Brian Garibaldi is an associate professor in the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, where he attends in the Medical Intensive Care U...
Jennifer 8. Lee
Perked up when I heard a familiar name at the Walter Reed press conference. And Googling, indeed, learned one of the doctors on Trump’s case is someone from my high school — Brian Garibaldi, an Associate Professor at Johns Hopkins Medicine.
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Emojination
Updates from the world of Emojination, the voice of the people on matters of emoji
Jennifer 8. Lee
If you want to keep up with @emojination work with Unicode, you can subscribe to our new not-super-frequent newsletter on @substack. At least 38 of the emoji that are showing up on iOS in a few weeks are done by @emojination members!
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White House Medical Unit - Wikipedia
Jennifer 8. Lee
Re Walter Reed and "abundance of caution," White House Medical Unit has emergency medical and trauma capability at White House/Naval Observatory, for anything "urgent." Plus POTUS is never more than 20 min away by helicopter from level 1 trauma center.
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‘Weakness Was the Greatest Sin of All’: How a Lifelong Need to Seem Strong Made Trump Vulnerable
His father’s admonition to be a “killer” became his Achilles’ heel.
Jennifer 8. Lee
A reminder that, Trump's grandfather, Frederick Trump, died suddenly (seemingly overnight) of the Spanish Influenza in 1918, when Trump's fatehr was only 12.
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In God We Trust - Wikipedia
Jennifer 8. Lee
“In God We Trust" has been the official motto of the U.S since it was adopted by the Congress in 1956, when it supplanted E pluribus unum, which had been in use since the initial 1776 design of the Great Seal of the US. H/t @danielgott.
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First Look: New Emojis in iOS 14.2
The wait is nearly over for iOS users: bubble tea, a transgender flag, seal, feather and more emojis are included in the latest iOS beta. iOS 14.2 beta 2 was released to developers today, meaning these new emojis are coming to a public release in...
HOTorNOT: The forgotten website that shaped the internet
How a 20-year-old joke pioneered the social web.
Fast Company Innovation Festival - Innovation For Good / A Virtual Event / October 5 -9
The annual Fast Company Innovation Festival convenes thousands of makers and innovators from across the globe—exceptional leaders and doers shaping the future—for five days of inspired conversation, purposeful networking, and meaningful takeaways.
Jennifer 8. Lee
Join me for the first ever virtual Fast Company Innovation Festival on October 5-9! Five days of inspiration, connection and more! Join me here
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How Gabby Giffords Survived a Shot to the Head, and Outsmarted the NRA
Less than a decade after her brush with death, former congresswoman Gabby Giffords is closer than you think to redefining America’s relationship with guns.