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Signal Boost: "Kao Kalia Yang's response to Radio Lab and the 'Yellow Rain' Segment"- Radiolab, a sciencey podcast  recently published a piece on Yellow Rain and the Hmong experience.

Kao Kalia Yang finally gets a space for her story: (content warning for racism and discussion of miscarriage)

The aired story goes something like this: Hmong people say they were exposed to Yellow Rain, one Harvard scientist and ex-CIA American man believe that’s hogwash; Ronald Reagan used Yellow Rain and Hmong testimony to blame the Soviets for chemical warfare and thus justified America's own production of chemical warfare. Uncle Eng and I were featured as the Hmong people who were unwilling to accept the “Truth.” My cry at the end was interpreted by Robert as an effort to “monopolize” the story.

The Brief: A website that aims to sum up the most essential technology news, daily.

The lactose-tolerance gene, and it's amazing spread over the last 12,000 years.

This is an amazing network debugging story.

When The Avengers were young (I like Jarvis best)

Speekeasy: a Leicester bar where everybody knows your game | News | Edge Online
A new bar in Leicester combines videogames with a 1930s decor and cocktails.

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