Six Quick Links for Wednesday Noonish

This is an incredible statistic: "Once Warnock and Ossoff take their seats, the Democratic half of the Senate will represent 41,549,808 more people than the Republican half." [vox.com]

Some tips garnered from research on how to change people's minds. "Be nice and respectful. Listen. Understand. Instill doubt." [bakadesuyo.com]

America's "toxic individualism" has got to go. "How do you convince people that caring about others is necessary? How can we relay the idea that living in a civilized society means working for the health and happiness of everyone in it?" [gen.medium.com]

LeBron James tweets about putting together an ownership group for the Atlanta Dream, the WNBA team that outgoing senator Kelly Loeffler co-owns. A good idea from the comments: make it a cooperative so that fans own the team. [twitter.com]

Linking to ESPN about Raphael Warnock's win over Kelly Loeffler in the Georgia Senate run-off because the players on the WNBA team that Loeffler co-owns raised Warnock's profile greatly last summer, making his victory possible. [espn.com]

F. Scott Fitzgerald's first edition copy of The Great Gatsby (with handwritten corrections and notes in the margins) is available to view on the Princeton University Library website. [findingaids.princeton.edu]

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