1. How equal are your retweets? Thanks to Twee-Q, you can find out whether you retweet as many women as men. If you use Twitter and you care about gender equality in social media, this will make you think.
2. An amazing slideshow depicting a man who attempted suicide in 2005, and the cop who talked him away from the ledge. Here’s where they are now.
3. Astronaut Chris Hadfield recently had his last day on the International Space Station, after five months. To celebrate, he sang this awesome cover of David Bowie’s Space Oddity. Check it out:
Ned Resnikoff is an urban policy analyst, researcher, writer, and editor. His byline has appeared in a variety of publications, including the New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Dissent, and The Nation. He writes the newsletter Public Comment, which can be found at publiccomment.blog.