PLATT - MISC News

GENERAL INTEREST
This flaw in the human mind explains why the world is full of overconfident, bumbling know-it-alls 
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/this-flaw-in-the-human-mind-explains-why-the-world-is-full-of-overconfident-bumbling-know-it-alls-2017-09-20

Dogs’ Love of Man Is Real
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/451614/new-study-confirms-dogs-love-man-real?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NR%20Week%20in%20Review%202017-09-24&utm_term=VDHM

Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2017
http://earthsky.org/earth/wildlife-photographer-of-the-year-2017-finalists?mc_cid=647914f68c&mc_eid=11b1b20d94

This Is The Real Reason Your Jeans Have Those Studs on the Pockets
http://start.att.net/player/category/news/article/southern_living-this_is_the_real_reason_your_jeans_have_those_stud-5min

The Strange Case of Confederate Cool
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/451486/confederate-chic-when-leftists-love-johnny-reb?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NR%20Week%20in%20Review%202017-09-24&utm_term=VDHM

News quiz: The year (so far) in review, Part I (5/10)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2017/09/24/news-quiz-the-year-so-far-in-review-part-i/?undefined=&utm_term=.8c7785b90b3e&wpisrc=nl_headlines&wpmm=1

HEALTH
A woman inside a restaurant is bitten several times by a copperhead snake
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/national/article175141381.html

Husband dies of disease caused by deer tick in Pennsylvania
https://www.yahoo.com/news/husband-dies-disease-caused-deer-193608039.html

You won’t believe where you might encounter bedbugs these days
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/you-wont-believe-where-you-might-encounter-bedbugs-these-days/2017/09/22/78d22f98-93e8-11e7-aace-04b862b2b3f3_story.html?undefined=&utm_term=.41d5a5e1bd77&wpisrc=nl_most&wpmm=1

HEALTH CARE
Health Insurers and Drug Companies Contributed $26.2 Million to 111th Congress
http://www.consumerwatchdog.org/newsrelease/health-insurers-and-drug-companies-contributed-262-million-111th-congress

Four Themes Shaping the Future of Health Care
https://www.globalxfunds.com/four-themes-shaping-the-future-of-health-care/#..WcezIwhifiM.mailto

MEXICO CITY
Mexico City, Before and After the Earthquake
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/09/23/world/americas/mexico-city-earthquake-surveying-destruction-damage.html?emc=edit_nn_20170924&nl=morning-briefing&nlid=58935408&te=1

CLIMATE CHANGE
The Weird Way That Climate Change Could Make Earthquakes Worse
http://www.newsweek.com/weird-way-climate-change-could-make-earthquakes-worse-669922

EDUCATION
Forget Cheat ‘Sheet’ — Student Outwits Professor With Enormous 'Cheat Poster'
https://www.yahoo.com/news/forget-cheat-sheet-student-outwits-130123589.html

TECHNOLOGY


LAW ENFORCEMENT
Axon hopes you'll submit smartphone video as evidence
https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/axon-hopes-apos-ll-submit-100400872.html

BIG BROTHER
The new electronic police state
https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/electronic-police-state-133057392.html

SOCIAL MEDIA


Obama tried to give Zuckerberg a wake-up call over fake news on Facebook
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/obama-tried-to-give-zuckerberg-a-wake-up-call-over-fake-news-on-facebook/2017/09/24/15d19b12-ddac-4ad5-ac6e-ef909e1c1284_story.html?utm_term=.3fe2bca83afe&wpisrc=al_alert-COMBO-economy%252Bnation&wpmk=1

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