Non-potpourri Potpourri

Been a busy week (even with il Duce Donald out of the country embarrassing us elsewhere) and I didn't gather any math bits for passing along here, so will just offer up some non-math-potpourri links to a few miscellaneous items that caught my interest:

1)  https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/11/epidermolysis-bullosa-new-skin/545291/

2)  https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/11/scientists-on-new-supernova-wtf-have-we-been-looking-at/

3)  https://aeon.co/essays/science-is-a-public-good-in-peril-heres-how-to-fix-it

4)  https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/oct/20/snail-in-the-coffin-left-coiling-mollusc-jeremy-dies-after-finding-love

5)  https://extranewsfeed.com/woman-fired-for-flipping-off-trumps-motorcade-receives-453-673-job-offers-ad9df89bdbe2

6)  https://www.npr.org/2017/11/06/562246599/michael-lewis-many-trump-appointees-are-uninterested-in-the-agencies-they-head-u

7)  https://onbeing.org/programs/rachel-yehuda-how-trauma-and-resilience-cross-generations-nov2017/

8)  https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2017-retail-debt/

[ICYMI, I did do 5 posts over at Math-Frolic this week.]