The Apple Store Line-Up Is Dying: Here’s What We’re Reading
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Here’s what we’re reading today:
1. The Apple Store line is dying
“For the first time, being first through Apple store doors around the world is no guarantee of securing the top-of-the-line new iPhone. A combination of limited supply and Apple’s push toward online pre-orders meant walk-in customers were unable to buy the larger 7 Plus version.
“The result: smaller, less-enthusiastic lines. That’s a big change from the retail frenzy that has long been a ritual of the company’s marketing for a product that still accounts for at least 57 percent of revenue.”
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2. Tesla will build biggest battery ever to power Los Angeles
“The deal to build the facility comes after the recent methane gas leak in LA at the Aliso Canyon natural gas facility, which was one of the biggest environmental disasters in US history. The leak displaced 8,000 California residents and caused more environmental damage than the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.” The new Tesla battery will power more than 2,500 households for a day and will be ready by the end of the year.
3. How morality changes in foreign languages
“And yet, like many other people who speak more than one language, I often have the sense that I’m a slightly different person in each of my languages—more assertive in English, more relaxed in French, more sentimental in Czech. Is it possible that, along with these differences, my moral compass also points in somewhat different directions depending on the language I’m using at the time?” Scientific American looks at the ethical shifts that come from thinking in a different language.
4. Pity the substitute teacher
“Substitute teaching has to be education’s toughest job. I’m a veteran teacher, and I won’t do it; it’s just too hard. The role magnifies the profession’s biggest challenges—the low pay, the insufficient time to plan, the ordeals of classroom management—into an experience that borders on soul-crushing. At the same time, the job drains teaching of its chief joy: sustained, meaningful relationships with students. Yet in 2014, some 623,000 Americans answered school districts’ early-morning calls to take on this daunting task.” In The Atlantic, Sara Mosle explores the hellish nature of being a supply teacher.
5. The battle over how flat Kansas is
“How flat is it? And should we make it even flatter?”
