>> Andrew Bird’s started blogging for the NY Times. (via Pitchfork)

>> The print newspaper’s a dying medium, and the New Yorker has a long feature about it. On Friday I went to Media Re:Public, a conference that was pretty much about the same topic. Lots of people spoke about how they envisioned the future of media to be — but all seemed to be speculating wildly, with no accurate sense of what’s going to happen beyond the sort of answers you’d get from a magic 8-ball.

>> More parents are opting against vaccinating their kids, creating unexpected community problems. Apparently, vaccination isn’t always permanent for individuals — so vaccination works by “herd immunity”: “denying the disease ‘reservoirs’ of unexposed people that give infection a toehold from which to attack the broader population.” When that “reservoir” gets above 5%, we get an erosion of this immunity — “ironically in affluent, educated areas.” (via 3qd)

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