Found at Slate: Dismissed!
We won’t solve the military manpower crisis by retaining our worst soldiers. — Critizing a new directive that “raises the approval authority for discharges from the battalion commander level to the ‘special court-martial convening authority’ level — generally a step of one command level, from battalion to brigade,” then gives steps the military can take to retain troops, mostly by cutting out the middleman of private contractors and adopting some of their policies. Very good, sensible article.

Found at Cosmic Log: Super-predator is regular visitor — Introduces new hypothesis of Earth’s periodic mass extinctions. Interesting and thought-provoking. I was already wondering about humans before the article mentioned it.