Weekend Digest: Five Recommended Piqs Of This Week

Every Sunday I'll recommend five piqs I personally think are particularly relevant, rewarding or simply entertaining. Also I want to use this space to introduce one of our piqers. Here we go: 

piqs of the week:

• Brooklyn Experiment: A Virtual, Peer2Peer Energy Trading System Built On Blockchain

The energy grid slowly turns into a decentralized network, just like the internet. The project "Brooklyn Microgrid" is testing a neighborhood version of such a peer2peer grid.  

• What If Sociologists Had As Much Influence As Economists?

In many countries there are councils of economic advisors. But as we all know, economists often are wrong. They tend to be caught in their models and are detached from society. So why is there no council of sociologists as a counterbalance and extension?

• What's Killing America's Black Infants?

Infant mortality in America is higher than in most wealthy countries. Mortality of babies from African American mothers are particularly high. The reasons for this problem aren't as obvious as they might appear. 

• Why Is Work So Boring?

Well produced animation series about the big questions in life.

• Why So-Called Objective And Unbiased Algorithms Might Be Actually Racist

Algorithms are considered objective and unbiased, while in fact they might be amplifying existing structures of suppression.

Introduced: Valentina Nicolae (channel: health and sanity)

Valentina was born in 1987 in Bucharest. She studied Psychology and Educational Sciences at the University of Bucharest. For two years she worked in a psychotherapy practice, dealing with gambling addicts. She's an independent reporter, writing and doing video reportages mostly about social and political issues.