Senior computer engineering major
For this week’s digital edition, Diamondback columnists selected their top website recommendation for fellow students. Robert Cobb’s choice? The Weekly Sift.
I could praise a lot of sites, but most of them are either niche sites specific to a particular interest of mine (Extra Credits on Penny Arcade, Less Wrong or McSweeney’s) or big enough that everyone probably already knows them (Project Free TV, TED or a bunch of learning sites). The Weekly Sift is applicable to everyone — it is a weekly news blog, covering mostly politics, but also more general news. The Sift is written by a left-leaning ex-mathematician who follows the news full-time because no one else has the time. The coverage is thoughtful and links out to sources and relevant articles.
If you are interested in keeping an eye on the news but realize you don’t have time to really track everything, this is a better use of your time than scanning Yahoo! News articles or checking your newsfeed for articles. If you are a progressive liberal, the presentation will be right in your wheelhouse; if “staunch conservative” is a normal descriptor of you, the author is very open about his bias, and maybe reading the thoughts from “behind enemy lines” will be helpful.
P.S. I’d sign up for the weekly email, just so that it shows up in your inbox each Monday and you don’t have to remember to click.
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