An alternative to junking that broken appliance

http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Making-a-difference/Change-Agent/2017/0531/An-alternative-to-junking-that-broken-appliance

How 100-year-old Kirk Douglas found true love

http://www.timesofisrael.com/how-100-year-old-kirk-douglas-found-true-love/

The Mummies’ Medical Secrets? They’re Perfectly Preserved

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/02/science/mummies-smallpox-vilnius-lithuania-crypt.html

How to Make a Mummy (Accidentally)

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/02/science/spontaneous-mummification.html

How to Raise a Feminist Son

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/02/upshot/how-to-raise-a-feminist-son.html

A Proven Way to Win in Business: Have a Daughter, Hire Women

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/01/upshot/a-proven-way-to-win-in-business-have-a-daughter-hire-women.html

America’s northern border The case for building a wall to keep Canadians out

http://www.economist.com/news/united-states/21722898-if-aim-border-security-prevent-drug-smuggling-extra-dollars-might-be-better

South Florida tries to hold back the sea

http://www.economist.com/news/united-states/21722836-denial-rules-tallahassee-miami-takes-matters-its-own-hands-south-florida-tries

To Counter Opioid Crisis, NIH Pushes Researchers to Invent More Drugs

http://www.chronicle.com/article/To-Counter-Opioid-Crisis-NIH/240219

Thar She Glows! How the Natural History Museum Cleans Its Blue Whale

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/31/arts/design/thar-she-glows-how-the-natural-history-museum-cleans-its-blue-whale.html

How a 5-sentence letter helped fuel the opioid addiction crisis

http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-opioid-addiction-letter-20170531-story.html

Trying to Embrace the Cure

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/31/opinion/trying-to-embrace-the-cure.html

Innovations Perspective Is AI the end of jobs or a new beginning?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/innovations/wp/2017/05/31/is-ai-the-end-of-jobs-or-a-new-beginning/?utm_term=.8af0980b902a

Google expands paid carpooling across California

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/google-expands-paid-carpooling-across-california/2017/05/31/6a8a5038-45f9-11e7-8de1-cec59a9bf4b1_story.html

Blood in the water: Four dead, a coast terrified and the birth of modern shark mania

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/retropolis/wp/2017/05/31/blood-in-the-water-four-dead-a-coast-terrified-and-the-birth-of-modern-shark-mania/

As Computer Coding Classes Swell, So Does Cheating

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/29/us/computer-science-cheating.html

How data-crunching is cutting down on massive health-care fraud

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Society/2017/0530/How-data-crunching-is-cutting-down-on-massive-health-care-fraud

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

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

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

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

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

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

Could a different kind of transcript revitalize high-school learning?

http://www.csmonitor.com/EqualEd/2017/0518/Could-a-different-kind-of-transcript-revitalize-high-school-learning

Amazon went public in 1997 and changed how we live

http://www.seattletimes.com/business/amazon-went-public-in-1997-and-changed-how-we-live/

Planning to Age in Place? Find a Contractor Now

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/19/health/aging-in-place-contractors.html

Companies need workers — but people keep getting high

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/05/17/companies-need-workers-but-people-keep-getting-high/

10 Time-Saving Gmail Tricks in 2 Minutes

https://www.wsj.com/video/10-time-saving-gmail-tricks-in-2-minutes/52408840-E30F-4084-BB68-F43543CF9C0F.html

Leave Your Safe Spaces: The 2017 Commencement Address at Hampden-Sydney College

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/15/opinion/leave-your-safe-spaces-the-2017-commencement-address-at-hampden-sydney-college.html

The States Where Campus Free-Speech Bills Are Being Born: A Rundown

http://www.chronicle.com/article/The-States-Where-Campus/240073

The Mystery of the Wasting House-Cats

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/16/magazine/the-mystery-of-the-wasting-house-cats.html

Former Israeli spymasters rip into Trump, say Israel must reassess intel sharing

http://www.timesofisrael.com/former-israeli-spymasters-rip-into-trump-say-israel-must-reassess-intel-sharing/

Should Silicon Valley be liable for cybersecurity?

http://www.csmonitor.com/Technology/2017/0515/Should-Silicon-Valley-be-liable-for-cybersecurity

PostEverything Perspective I wrote ‘The Art of the Deal’ with Trump. His self-sabotage is rooted in his past

https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2017/05/16/i-wrote-the-art-of-the-deal-with-trump-his-self-sabotage-is-rooted-in-his-past/

The Gender Pay Gap Is Largely Because of Motherhood

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/13/upshot/the-gender-pay-gap-is-largely-because-of-motherhood.html

The World Is Getting Hacked. Why Don’t We Do More to Stop It?

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/13/opinion/the-world-is-getting-hacked-why-dont-we-do-more-to-stop-it.html

Alison’s story: How $750,000 in drug ‘treatment’ destroyed her life

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Society/2017/0509/Alison-s-story-How-750-000-in-drug-treatment-destroyed-her-life

Buzzworthy: How you can help America's pollinators

http://www.csmonitor.com/Environment/Inhabit/2017/0508/Buzzworthy-How-you-can-help-America-s-pollinators

8,000 Colorado inmates have free computer tablets — but cost of texts, calls and streaming media adds up

http://www.denverpost.com/2017/05/09/colorado-prison-inmate-free-tablets/

Sagebrush renaissance

http://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/upfront-blog/2017/0507/Sagebrush-renaissance

The new range war

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Society/2017/0507/The-new-range-war

Willing to Cook for Strangers, but Guests Are Harder to Find

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/05/technology/airdine-social-dining-apps.html

Want to Make More Baskets? Science Has the Answer

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/03/sports/want-to-make-more-baskets-science-has-the-answer.html

In the future, virtual assistants will not only take orders. They’ll also have ideas of their own.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/innovations/wp/2017/05/03/in-the-future-virtual-assistants-will-not-only-take-orders-theyll-have-ideas-of-their-own/

Mexican Drug Smugglers to Trump: Thanks!

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/05/opinion/sunday/mexican-drug-smugglers-to-trump-thanks.html

Companies Compete but Won’t Let Their Workers Do the Same

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/04/opinion/noncompete-agreements-workers.html

Before Michelle, Barack Obama asked another woman to marry him. Then politics got in the way.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/book-party/wp/2017/05/02/before-michelle-barack-obama-asked-another-woman-to-marry-him-then-politics-got-in-the-way/

How to Stop a Lone-Wolf Terrorist? Australia Has a Plan

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/02/opinion/australia-lone-wolf-terrorists-waleed-aly.html

Review: Yes, those tiny birds were cut from real feathers

http://www.seattletimes.com/entertainment/visual-arts/review-yes-those-tiny-birds-were-cut-from-real-feathers/

Who’s Up and Who’s Down in Online Education?

http://www.chronicle.com/article/Who-s-UpWho-s-Down-in/239964

"Four other institutions had online enrollments increase by more than 10,000 students: Western Governors University, Brigham Young University-Idaho, the University of Central Florida, and Grand Canyon University."

One beige bus. A city tour. And a shift in thought on Mexican corruption.

http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Americas/2017/0502/One-beige-bus.-A-city-tour.-And-a-shift-in-thought-on-Mexican-corruption

The New Threat to Wolves in and Around Yellowstone

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/01/science/wolves-hunting-yellowstone-national-park.html

One Day, a Machine Will Smell Whether You’re Sick

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/01/health/artificial-nose-scent-disease.html

The opioid antidote: Naloxone has reversed hundreds of overdoses in Denver in the last year

http://www.denverpost.com/2017/04/28/opioid-overdoses-naloxone/

A Plan to Poison the Wild Hogs of Texas

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/29/opinion/sunday/a-plan-to-poison-the-wild-hogs-of-texas.html

When the Gospel of Minimalism Collides With Daily Life

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/29/style/when-the-gospel-of-minimalism-collides-with-daily-life.html

Health & Science Las Vegas offers needle exchange program through vending machines

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/las-vegas-offers-needle-exchange-program-through-vending-machines/2017/04/28/3fb56eda-2a95-11e7-b605-33413c691853_story.html

Despite the ‘Yuck Factor,’ Leeches Are Big in Russian Medicine

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/29/world/europe/leeches-russia-medicine.html

House Love: Moving a Home in India 1,500 Miles to Save It

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/28/style/house-love-moving-a-home-in-india-1500-miles-to-save-it.html

Fighting Compulsive Gambling Among Women

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/28/business/retirement/fighting-compulsive-gambling-among-women.html

You’re Too Focused on What You’re Focused On

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/29/opinion/sunday/youre-too-focused-on-what-youre-focused-on.html

In Greenland’s northernmost village, a melting Arctic threatens the age-old hunt

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/in-greenlands-northernmost-village-a-melting-arctic-threatens-the-age-old-hunt/2017/04/29/764ba9be-1bb3-11e7-bcc2-7d1a0973e7b2_story.html