To quote Emerson, Lake, and Palmer: Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends. Never is a long time, but I'm hoping that The Monday Kickoff lasts for quite a while yet.

With that out of the way, let's get Monday started with these links:

Why Don’t People Return Their Shopping Carts? A (Somewhat) Scientific Investigation — One behavioural psychologist's attempt to answer that age-old question using research and data, and the surprising conclusions she came to.

From the article:

Even in stores where returning the cart is expected, people may fail to do so if they feel the task of cart return is beneath them. Seeing a task as low status makes neglecting it feel more permissible.

99 Problems: The Ice Cream Truck's Surprising History — And it's a history that's surprising, indeed and we get a look at what the future may hold for the venerable ice cream truck.

From the article:

Slowly, ice cream became part of the street vending scene in London and New York, although there was a certain amount of skepticism around it. No one, not even the ice cream men themselves, would have bet on it surviving 250 years.

With Big Tech, the Border Is Everywhere — A meditation on what the term border means, especially in the context of today's United States, and how technology has been changing what and where borders are.

From the article:

Technological “advances” are part of a longer history of alleged reforms, tweaks, and “fixes,” all of which have only expanded and legitimized carceral and bordering practices.

Jeremy Vine loves him, motorists hate him. Is this man London’s most controversial cyclist? — A look at why and how urban bicycling activist Michael van Erp has become the scourge of bad drivers in London in an attempt to make the city's roads safer for his fellow cyclists.

From the article:

The tension of Erp’s content is that he’s doing a positive thing, something that has taken dangerous drivers off the roads, while sometimes being annoying as he does it. And therein lies the appeal. It is a deeply revealing test of character, when committing a minor traffic violation, to look up and see a brash Dutch-Zimbabwean laying down the highway code. Few watch Cycling Mikey for road safety. They’re there for the reactions.