Links

Resistance to Change
https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/sideways-view/201610/resistance-change


Why Facts Don’t Change Our Minds
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/02/27/why-facts-dont-change-our-minds


Brazile says she found no evidence that Democratic primaries were rigged for Clinton
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2017/11/05/brazile-says-she-found-no-evidence-that-democratic-primaries-were-rigged-for-clinton/?utm_term=.042c8e74ee7b


As the winds around Antarctica intensify with rising global temperatures, they're driving changes in the ocean that could speed up the flow of the massive Totten Glacier, which carries ice from East Antarctica into the ocean, adding to sea level rise, a new study says.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/01112017/east-antarctica-totten-glacier-melting-winds-warm-ocean-sea-level-rise-study


Trump commerce secretary's business links with Putin family laid out in leaked files
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/nov/05/trump-commerce-secretary-wilbur-ross-business-links-putin-family-paradise-papers


Our renter's republic is broken: one in five tenants can't pay the rent
[High housing costs hurt more than low-income people, it hurts businesses and people that depend on their labor. Eg., restaurants have a hard time finding enough employees because potential employees can't afford to live close enough to the business to afford the commute.
A few days ago, I saw a sign on a restaurant that said they were closed on Wednesdays because they couldn't find enough employees. Other restaurants in this area of high housing costs have the same problem. ]
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/nov/05/renters-republic-broken-income-inequality


George HW Bush calls Trump a 'blowhard' in book The Last Republicans
George HW Bush told Updegrove he voted for Hillary Clinton, the Times reported.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/nov/04/george-hw-bush-trump-blowhard-ego-the-last-republicans


Donald Trump accused of obstructing satellite research into climate change
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/nov/05/donald-trump-accused-blocking-satellite-climate-change-research


Government Scientist Blocked from Talking About Climate and Wildfires
Critics are accusing the Trump administration of stifling the dissemination of taxpayer-funded science
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/government-scientist-blocked-from-talking-about-climate-and-wildfires/