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The Secret to a Long and Healthy Life? Eat Less
The Secret to a Long and Healthy Life? Eat Less
Alex Riley, BBC
Permanently cutting the daily calories you consume may turn out to have a profound effect on your future life, according to some tantalising scientific studies.
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Google Is Already Late to China’s AI Revolution
Google Is Already Late to China’s AI Revolution
Cade Metz, Wired
Deep learning and related technologies are fundamentally changing the way Google works, and they will change so many other companies—even entire industries—over the next several years. The trouble is that Schmidt undersells how far these technologies have already spread beyond the walls of Google. The age of intelligence has moved ahead much farther than he admits—especially in China.
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'It Was Quasi-Religious': The Great Self-Esteem Con
‘It Was Quasi-Religious’: The Great Self-Esteem Con
The Guardian
In the 1980s, Californian politician John Vasconcellos set up a task force to promote high self-esteem as the answer to all social ills. But was his science based on a lie?
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The Young Japanese Working Themselves to Death
The Young Japanese Working Themselves to Death
Edwin Lane, BBC
Japan has some of the longest working hours in the world, and some young Japanese workers are literally working themselves to death. Now there are calls for the government to do more.
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How Interracial Love Is Saving America
How Interracial Love Is Saving America
Sheryll Cashin, The New York Times
Although America is in a state of toxic polarity, I am optimistic. Through intimacy across racial lines, a growing class of whites has come to value and empathize with African-Americans and other minorities. They are not dismantling white supremacy so much as chipping away at it.
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The Opioid Crisis Changed How Doctors Think About Pain
The Opioid Crisis Changed How Doctors Think About Pain
Sarah Kliff, Vox
There is a simple story about America’s painkiller addiction crisis — where drug companies pushed too-good-to-be-true statistics that promised opioids to be safe and effective, when they were in fact addictive and deadly. This story happened: As the Charleston Gazette revealed in a Pulitzer Prize–winning series, pharmaceutical companies sent 780 million opioid pills to West Virginia — a state with fewer than 2 million residents — over six years.
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It's Time to Bust the Myth: Most Trump Voters Were Not Working Class.
It’s Time to Bust the Myth: Most Trump Voters Were Not Working Class.
Nicholas Carnes & Noam Lupu, The Washington Post
In short, the narrative that attributes Trump’s victory to a “coalition of mostly blue-collar white and working-class voters” just doesn’t square with the 2016 election data. According to the election study, white non-Hispanic voters without college degrees making below the median household income made up only 25 percent of Trump voters.
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The 35 Words You're (Probably) Getting Wrong
The 35 Words You’re (Probably) Getting Wrong
Harold Evans, The Guardian
Have you made a flagrant error, in confusing your alternative choices? The legendary Fleet Street editor Harold Evans proscribes this glossary to solve your language dilemmas.