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China’s TikTok War:
Basically, China realized that our army is strong but our minds are soft and weak and those minds need videos of people with pet ducks and we will accept an interlude of straight Hamas disinformation, then nurses doing the slide, then an interlude about how America is the world’s devil, so long as right after there’s a pile of happy kittens.
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THE DATA EXAMINER – LENS:
Here is a small number of children being held hostage by Hamas.
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WHAT CHALLENGES DO TODAY’S AIRLINE PILOTS FACE?:
Pilots have a reputation for swaggering confidence, but they face challenges accessing mental-health care. Concerns about derailing their careers and losing income if they seek treatment for mental-health conditions have led some to avoid seeking treatment or disclosing conditions, regulators and advocacy groups say. The Federal Aviation Administration says it has sought to reduce the stigma around mental health. Being diagnosed with anxiety, depression or some other mental-health condition doesn’t automatically disqualify a pilot, but it can result in more monitoring.
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** Pickpocketing 101, from easy to complex. WATCH
** Breweries that survived the Prohibition period. WATCH
** The economics of Aldi and why it’s so cheap and successful. WATCH
** Your Brain from Birth to Death – Follow the journey of a human brain from its beginnings as a mere neural plate in the embryo to its final flickers minutes after death. WATCH
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Why Your Neighborhood Pharmacy Isn’t So Friendly Anymore:
CVS and Walgreens took in big profits during the pandemic thanks to generous reimbursement for administering millions of COVID-19 vaccinations. But now the companies are struggling to respond to gripes from employees who say they’re overworked and understaffed, and more liable to make prescription errors that put their patients’ safety at risk. Customers are also unhappy: CVS’s satisfaction rating dropped 23% from 2021 to 2023, according to an annual survey by consumer research firm J.D. Power, while Walgreens’s dropped 25%.
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WHY WE’RE DRAWN TO HORROR
The surprising evolutionary reasons why we paradoxically seek out horror films and haunted houses. READ
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Spinal Implant Breakthrough:
The mobility of a man with advanced Parkinson’s disease has been restored using an electrical implant placed on his lower spine, according to a study. Experts caution the technology, if successful in expanded clinical trials, would not be commercially available for five to 10 years. The patient, Marc Gauthier, was diagnosed with Parkinson’s over 30 years ago. The disease led to significant mobility issues, where he reported falling up to six times a day. Two years ago, researchers inserted a neuroprosthetic device in his lower spine to send signals to areas of his body showing weakness. The procedure corrected Gauthier’s irregular manner of walking and allowed him to go for miles at a time without falling. Parkinson’s is the second most common neurodegenerative disease in the world, afflicting over 6 million individuals. The disease stems from the premature decay of dopamine-producing neurons in the midbrain. Treatments typically involve mimicking dopamine in the relevant neural region, though their efficacy declines over time.
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