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Friday, May 26, 2017
A rare birth defect also gave him a gift: a nearly impossible-to-hit curveball
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/recruiting-insider/wp/2017/05/25/a-rare-birth-defect-also-gave-him-a-gift-a-nearly-impossible-to-hit-curveball/
Waiting for the Credits to End? Movies Are Naming More Names
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/26/movies/why-end-credits-in-movies-are-so-long.html
‘It Was Forced on Me’: Child Marriage in the U.S.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/26/opinion/sunday/it-was-forced-on-me-child-marriage-in-the-us.html
Thursday, May 25, 2017
Amy Reed, Doctor Who Fought a Risky Medical Procedure, Dies at 44
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/24/us/amy-reed-died-cancer-patient-who-fought-morcellation-procedure.html
Wednesday, May 24, 2017
Could Chocolate Guard Against an Irregular Heartbeat?
https://medlineplus.gov/news/fullstory_165862.html
Your Data Is Way More Exposed Than You Realize [Watch the video.]
https://www.wsj.com/articles/your-data-is-way-more-exposed-than-you-realize-1495657390
How did whales get so big?
http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2017/0524/How-did-whales-get-so-big
Tuesday, May 23, 2017
THE WORLD IS RUNNING OUT OF SAND
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/05/29/the-world-is-running-out-of-sand
Student Debt’s Grip on the Economy
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/20/opinion/sunday/student-debts-economy-loans.html
When Power Makes Leaders More Sensitive
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/19/jobs/power-leaders.html
Why It’s So Hard to Admit You’re Wrong
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/22/smarter-living/why-its-so-hard-to-admit-youre-wrong.html
California Today: Crafting the Perfect Wave
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/22/us/california-today-crafting-the-perfect-wave.html
The Order of Lenin: ‘Find Some Truly Hard People’
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/22/opinion/lenin-stalin-bolshevism-soviet-russia.html
Monday, May 22, 2017
When scientists saw the mouse heads glowing, they knew the discovery was big
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/when-scientists-saw-the-mouse-heads-glowing-they-knew-the-discovery-was-big/2017/05/19/f33cc574-246a-11e7-a1b3-faff0034e2de_story.html
The Painful Truth About Teeth
http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/national/2017/05/13/the-painful-truth-about-teeth
Sunday, May 21, 2017
We Aren’t Built to Live in the Moment
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/19/opinion/sunday/why-the-future-is-always-on-your-mind.html
Hoax Article in Social-Science Journal Gets a Rise Out of Some Scholars
http://www.chronicle.com/blogs/ticker/hoax-article-in-social-science-journal-gets-a-rise-out-of-some-scholars/118526
Baby Boomers Look to Senior Concierge Services to Raise Income
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/19/business/retirement/boomers-retiring-concierge.html
The Self-Medicating Animal
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/18/magazine/the-self-medicating-animal.html
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