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Thursday, December 19, 2019

What is Chocolate? Don't Go Through the Rest of Your Life Not Knowing

https://www.bonappetit.com/gallery/what-is-chocolate
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Loyalty Nearly Killed My Beehive

http://nautil.us/issue/52/the-hive/loyalty-nearly-killed-my-beehive-rp
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Sunday, December 15, 2019

Joseph in a cage, Mary on a raft: Should churches make political statements with Nativity scenes?

https://www.deseret.com/indepth/2019/12/14/21004751/nativities-creches-political-statement-protest-nativities
Posted by Krista at 6:16 PM No comments:

12 People Talk Honestly About How They Paid Off Their Debt

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/annehelenpetersen/paying-off-debt-millennials-student-loans
Posted by Krista at 5:42 PM No comments:

Wednesday, December 4, 2019

Let's Colonize Titan: Saturn's largest moon might be the only place beyond Earth where humans could live

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/lets-colonize-titan/
Posted by Krista at 9:09 PM No comments:

Saturday, November 23, 2019

Fact: Introverts Are Better Leaders than Extroverts

https://www.inc.com/geoffrey-james/fact-introverts-are-better-leaders-than-extroverts.html
Posted by Krista at 7:20 PM No comments:

The Tragedy of the ‘Trans’ Child

https://www.nationalreview.com/magazine/2019/12/09/the-tragedy-of-the-trans-child/
Posted by Krista at 6:03 PM No comments:

Tuesday, November 19, 2019

What One ER Doctor Has Learned From Witnessing His Son's Addiction Recovery

http://www.ldsliving.com/What-One-ER-Doctor-Has-Learned-From-Witnessing-His-Son-s-Addiction-Recovery/s/91915
Posted by Krista at 7:14 PM No comments:

Thursday, November 14, 2019

Want to Raise Successful Boys? Science Says Do This (but Their Schools Probably Won't)

https://www.inc.com/bill-murphy-jr/want-to-raise-successful-boys-science-says-do-this-but-their-schools-probably-wo.html
Posted by Krista at 8:31 PM No comments:

Wednesday, November 13, 2019

The Woman Who Can Smell Parkinson's

https://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/joy-milne-can-smell-parkinson-s-before-it-is-diagnosed-a-1295601-2.html
Posted by Krista at 1:58 PM No comments:

Monday, November 11, 2019

Stupefied

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/stupefied
Posted by Krista at 10:57 AM No comments:

Thursday, October 31, 2019

Having trouble sleeping? Try forgiving someone.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2019/10/21/having-trouble-sleeping-try-forgiving-someone/
Posted by Krista at 9:20 AM No comments:

Wednesday, October 23, 2019

What a conservative New York Times columnist had to say to BYU students

https://www.deseret.com/utah/2019/10/22/20923897/david-brooks-byu-new-york-times-conservative-core-problem-democratic-character
Posted by Krista at 8:01 PM No comments:

Monday, October 21, 2019

A Johns Hopkins Study Reveals the Scientific Secret to Double How Fast You Learn

https://www.inc.com/jeff-haden/a-johns-hopkins-study-reveals-scientific-secret-to-double-how-fast-you-learn.html
Posted by Krista at 7:59 PM No comments:

Sunday, October 20, 2019

The single most important interview technique that nearly everyone leaves out

https://www.inc.com/thomas-koulopoulos/the-single-most-important-quality-to-look-for-when-you-hire-anyone.html
Posted by Krista at 2:52 PM No comments:

The ‘Glass Floor’ Is Keeping America’s Richest Idiots At The Top

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/the-glass-floor-is-keeping-americas-richest-idiots-at-the-top_n_5d9fb1c9e4b06ddfc516e076
Posted by Krista at 2:38 PM No comments:

Monday, October 7, 2019

I Worked at Capital One for Five Years. This Is How We Justified Piling Debt on Poor Customers

https://newrepublic.com/article/155212/worked-capital-one-five-years-justified-piling-debt-poor-customers
Posted by Krista at 3:12 PM No comments:

Friday, September 27, 2019

The scientists persuading terrorists to spill their secrets

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/oct/13/the-scientists-persuading-terrorists-to-spill-their-secrets
Posted by Krista at 9:16 PM No comments:

The Mysterious Bronze Objects That Have Baffled Archaeologists for Centuries

http://mentalfloss.com/article/514246/are-roman-dodecahedrons-worlds-most-mysterious-artifact
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My Family’s Slave

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/06/lolas-story/524490/
Posted by Krista at 10:58 AM No comments:

Wednesday, August 28, 2019

PLASTICS What’s recyclable, what becomes trash — and why

https://apps.npr.org/plastics-recycling/
Posted by Krista at 7:27 PM No comments:

Saturday, August 24, 2019

My Life With Face Blindness

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/magazine/wp/2019/08/21/feature/my-life-with-face-blindness/
Posted by Krista at 6:25 PM No comments:

Thursday, August 22, 2019

The Stories That Bind Us

https://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/17/fashion/the-family-stories-that-bind-us-this-life.html
Posted by Krista at 2:46 PM No comments:

Friday, August 9, 2019

Total Recall: The People Who Never Forget: An extremely rare condition may transform our understanding of memory.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/feb/08/total-recall-the-people-who-never-forget
Posted by Krista at 11:25 AM No comments:

Friday, June 28, 2019

Can the Ivory-Billed Woodpecker Be Found in Cuba?

https://www.audubon.org/magazine/may-june-2016/can-ivory-billed-woodpecker-be-found-cuba
Posted by Krista at 7:46 PM No comments:

Thursday, June 27, 2019

The Hidden Cost of GoFundMe Health Care

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/07/01/the-perverse-logic-of-gofundme-health-care
Posted by Krista at 6:32 PM No comments:

The Yale Happiness Class, Distilled

https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2019/06/yale-happiness-class/592477/
Posted by Krista at 6:09 PM No comments:

Thursday, June 13, 2019

Towing an Iceberg: One Captain’s Plan to Bring Drinking Water to 4 Million People

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-06-06/towing-an-iceberg-one-captain-s-plan-to-bring-drinking-water-to-4-million-people
Posted by Krista at 3:16 PM No comments:

Friday, May 31, 2019

The Next Plague Is Coming. Is America Ready?

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-next-plague-is-coming-is-america-ready
Posted by Krista at 5:24 PM No comments:

Thursday, May 30, 2019

How to Get Every Email Returned Or at least how to try.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/25/opinion/sunday/writing-advice.html
Posted by Krista at 11:38 AM No comments:

Thursday, May 23, 2019

Beyond the Hype of Lab-Grown Diamonds

https://earther.gizmodo.com/beyond-the-hype-of-lab-grown-diamonds-1834890351
Posted by Krista at 6:47 PM No comments:

VANILLA FEVER: How did hunger for the humble vanilla pod lead to greed, crime and riches? Wendell Steavenson travels to Madagascar to meet the new spice barons

https://www.1843magazine.com/features/vanilla-fever
Posted by Krista at 6:30 PM No comments:

Saturday, May 11, 2019

Americans Need Generic Drugs. But Can They Trust Them?

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/11/opinion/sunday/generic-drugs-safety.html
Posted by Krista at 8:23 PM No comments:

Friday, May 10, 2019

The Peculiar Blindness of Experts

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/06/how-to-predict-the-future/588040/

Posted by Krista at 5:22 PM No comments:

Wednesday, May 1, 2019

The Irrationality of Alcoholics Anonymous

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-irrationality-of-alcoholics-anonymous
Posted by Krista at 7:40 PM No comments:

Friday, April 26, 2019

5 Common Mental Errors That Sway You From Making Good Decisions How to tell your emotional, irrational decisions from your logical, well-considered ones.

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/5-common-mental-errors-that-sway-you-from-making-good-decisions
Posted by Krista at 3:06 PM No comments:

100 Percent Is Overrated People labeled “smart” at a young age don’t deal well with being wrong. Life grows stagnant.

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/100-percent-is-overrated
Posted by Krista at 3:05 PM No comments:

Tuesday, April 23, 2019

Why Are Autoimmune Diseases on the Rise?

https://elemental.medium.com/autoimmunity-is-a-disorder-of-our-time-a7f1c45d6907?fbclid=IwAR2RnZa_pOdDsu1GjM9TxNZroG2uHCPmssEAHnV0c1ynJQtWYoXr2b_1AwU
Posted by Krista at 9:45 AM No comments:

Saturday, April 20, 2019

The most effective ways to curb climate change might surprise you

https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2019/04/specials/climate-change-solutions-quiz/index.html
Posted by Krista at 9:29 AM No comments:

Friday, April 19, 2019

The Truth About Dentistry It’s much less scientific—and more prone to gratuitous procedures—than you may think.

The https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/05/the-trouble-with-dentistry/586039/
Posted by Krista at 12:00 PM No comments:

Wednesday, April 10, 2019

Shockingly Good Smartphones You Can Get for $350 or Less

https://www.wsj.com/articles/shockingly-good-smartphones-you-can-get-for-350-or-less-11554642180
Posted by Krista at 7:37 PM No comments:

'Would you be willing?': words to turn a conversation around (and those to avoid)

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/dec/04/would-you-be-willing-words-turn-conversation-around
Posted by Krista at 1:10 PM No comments:

Sunday, April 7, 2019

Masters of Love: Science says lasting relationships come down to—you guessed it—kindness and generosity.

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/masters-of-love
Posted by Krista at 5:27 PM No comments:

Wednesday, April 3, 2019

Who besides the Chinese and Irish built the transcontinental railroad? Latter-day Saints — lots of them.

https://www.sltrib.com/religion/2019/04/02/who-besides-chinese-irish/
Posted by Krista at 7:36 PM No comments:

Friday, March 22, 2019

Is there a border crisis? Depends on how you measure it.

https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2019/0321/Is-there-a-border-crisis-Depends-on-how-you-measure-it
Posted by Krista at 3:31 PM No comments:

Nearly all Americans fail to eat enough of this actual superfood

https://www.vox.com/2019/3/20/18214505/fiber-diet-weight-loss
Posted by Krista at 10:53 AM No comments:

Thursday, March 7, 2019

Guilty In 1998, I helped convict two men of murder. I’ve regretted it ever since.

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/03/juror-revisits-murder-trial-20-years-later.html
Posted by Krista at 4:54 PM No comments:

Monday, March 4, 2019

I’m a Journalist. Apparently, I’m Also One of America’s “Top Doctors.”

https://www.propublica.org/article/top-doctors-award-journalist
Posted by Krista at 3:19 PM No comments:

Sunday, March 3, 2019

The First Dog Ascent of a 7,000-Meter Himalayan Peak

https://www.outsideonline.com/2390456/first-dog-ascent-baruntse-nepal
Posted by Krista at 8:39 PM No comments:

Drug Companies and Doctors Battle Over the Future of Fecal Transplants

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/03/health/fecal-transplants-fda-microbiome.html
Posted by Krista at 4:53 PM No comments:

Saturday, March 2, 2019

The Secrets of the World's Greatest Art Thief

https://www.gq.com/story/secrets-of-the-worlds-greatest-art-thief
Posted by Krista at 6:07 PM No comments:

Sunday, February 10, 2019

Here’s Why So Many Americans Feel Cheated By Their Student Loans

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/annehelenpetersen/student-debt-college-public-service-loan-forgiveness
Posted by Krista at 3:39 PM No comments:

The best thing you can do for your health: sleep well

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2019/feb/09/best-thing-you-can-do-for-your-health-sleep-well
Posted by Krista at 3:22 PM No comments:

Wednesday, January 23, 2019

He Knows the Stars’ Dirty Laundry. Because He Washes It.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/22/arts/music/tour-laundry-hans-juergen-topf.html
Posted by Krista at 5:20 PM No comments:

Woman’s Death Connected to Internet Self-Diagnosis

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/withoutacrystalball/2019/01/womans-death-connected-to-internet-self-diagnosis/
Posted by Krista at 11:45 AM No comments:

Monday, January 21, 2019

Coming Soon to a Police Station Near You: The DNA ‘Magic Box’

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/21/science/dna-crime-gene-technology.html
Posted by Krista at 4:59 PM No comments:

Sunday, January 13, 2019

Why Autocrats Love Emergencies

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/12/opinion/sunday/trump-national-emergency-wall.html
Posted by Krista at 12:39 PM No comments:

Saturday, January 12, 2019

The 10 Habits of Logical People

https://www.intellectualtakeout.org/article/10-habits-logical-people
Posted by Krista at 1:02 PM No comments:

Thursday, January 10, 2019

Wonderful Words: How to Describe Liars and the Lies They Tell

https://www.thegreatcoursesdaily.com/wonderful-words-vocabulary/
Posted by Krista at 10:11 AM No comments:

Saturday, December 29, 2018

As a grocery chain is dismantled, investors recover their money. Worker pensions are short millions.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/as-a-grocery-chain-is-dismantled-investors-recover-their-money-worker-pensions-are-short-millions/2018/12/28/ea22e398-0a0e-11e9-85b6-41c0fe0c5b8f_story.html
Posted by Krista at 4:01 PM No comments:

Friday, December 28, 2018

How Does Your State Make Electricity?

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/12/24/climate/how-electricity-generation-changed-in-your-state.html
Posted by Krista at 3:28 PM No comments:

Thursday, December 27, 2018

This company brings in $7 million a year testing dog poop DNA to catch non-scoopers

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/12/19/pooprints-brings-in-millions-testing-dog-poop-dna-to-snag-non-scoopers.html
Posted by Krista at 6:54 PM No comments:

Wednesday, December 26, 2018

Researchers Show Parachutes Don't Work, But There's A Catch

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2018/12/22/679083038/researchers-show-parachutes-dont-work-but-there-s-a-catch
Posted by Krista at 10:04 AM No comments:

Tuesday, December 25, 2018

Illusion of control: Why the world is full of buttons that don't work

https://www.cnn.com/style/article/placebo-buttons-design/index.html
Posted by Krista at 11:47 AM No comments:

Monday, December 24, 2018

The Women Rescued from Boko Haram Who Are Returning to Their Captors

https://www.newyorker.com/news/dispatch/the-women-rescued-from-boko-haram-who-are-returning-to-their-captors
Posted by Krista at 3:51 PM No comments:

Wednesday, December 19, 2018

How to Save for College

https://www.nytimes.com/guides/business/how-to-save-for-college
Posted by Krista at 6:45 PM No comments:

Tuesday, December 18, 2018

People fall off cruise ships with alarming regularity. Can anything be done to stop it?

https://qz.com/1443797/why-do-people-keep-falling-off-cruise-ships-because-people-keep-stepping-onto-them/
Posted by Krista at 6:24 PM No comments:

Thursday, December 13, 2018

What is behind the spread of a mysterious allergy to meat?

hthttps://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/dec/11/mysterious-allergy-to-meat-alpha-gal-lone-star-tick
Posted by Krista at 7:20 PM No comments:

Saturday, December 8, 2018

How Y’all, Youse and You Guys Talk

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/upshot/dialect-quiz-map.html
Posted by Krista at 6:02 PM No comments:

I worked in George H.W. Bush’s press office. He was like a father to me.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2018/12/01/i-worked-george-hw-bushs-press-office-he-was-like-father-me/
Posted by Krista at 5:47 PM No comments:

Tuesday, December 4, 2018

Walmart’s latest hire: Robotic janitors that clean floors and collect data

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2018/12/04/walmarts-latest-hire-robotic-janitors-that-clean-floors-collect-data/
Posted by Krista at 9:01 PM No comments:

Saturday, December 1, 2018

The Link Between August Birthdays and A.D.H.D.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/28/opinion/august-birthdays-adhd.html
Posted by Krista at 6:06 PM No comments:

Friday, November 30, 2018

5 things to know about incels

https://www.policeone.com/mass-casualty/articles/482200006-5-things-to-know-about-incels/
Posted by Krista at 5:25 PM No comments:

Saturday, November 24, 2018

Dutch Christian boatmaker aims to sail his exact replica of Noah’s Ark to Israel

https://www.timesofisrael.com/dutch-christian-boatmaker-to-sail-his-life-size-replica-of-noahs-ark-to-israel/
Posted by Krista at 6:24 PM No comments:

Tuesday, November 6, 2018

The Research Proves The No. 1 Social Justice Imperative Is Marriage

http://thefederalist.com/2017/11/03/research-proves-no-1-social-justice-imperative-marriage/
Posted by Krista at 6:37 PM No comments:
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Krista
I have a B.A. in Political Science and a Master's Degree in Public Administration (M.P.A.) from Brigham Young University. In addition, I have a Ph.D. in Public Administration and Public Affairs from Virginia Tech. I have another Master's degree. This one is in Library Science (M.L.S.) from Emporia State University in Kansas. In my public administration studies I emphasized administrative ethics and administrative law. In library school I emphasized reference, especially using government documents and legal materials.
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