PLATT - MISC News

GENERAL INTEREST
Don’t Flush Sodium Down The Toilet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEC64Bqeajs

Chuck Berry - Johnny B. Goode (Live 1958)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ROwVrF0Ceg

Radioactive Traces of Fukushima Have Been Found in Wine All The Way in California
https://www.sciencealert.com/radioactive-traces-fukushima-detected-californian-wine-caesium-137-napa

Bike Rider Rescued After Falling Into Wisconsin Drawbridge Gap
https://weather.com/series/human-nature/video/bike-rider-rescued-after-falling-into-wisconsin-drawbridge-gap?pl=pl-the-latest

The News in Zingers
http://jewishworldreview.com/0718/hamilton.php3

The WIRE: Your week in review
https://personalliberty.com/wire-week-review-20-100/

HEALTH
Concertgoer struck by lightning while on cellphone: cops
https://nypost.com/2018/07/21/concertgoer-struck-by-lightning-while-on-cellphone-cops/

HEALTH CARE
Trump Tackles the Art of the Drug-Price Deal
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/07/trump-administration-targets-prescription-drug-costs/

EDUCATION
Study finds reliance on Common Core creates deficits
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/red-alert-politics/study-finds-reliance-on-common-core-creates-deficits?utm_source=Examiner%20Today_07/23/2018&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=WEX_Examiner%20Today

BUSINESS
Getting tough on China without taxing Americans
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/editorials/getting-tough-on-china-without-taxing-americans?utm_source=Examiner%20Today_07/23/2018&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=WEX_Examiner%20Today

FINANCIAL
America Is Headed For Fiscal Catastrophe – And No One Seems To Care
https://townhall.com/columnists/justinhaskins/2018/07/23/america-is-headed-for-fiscal-catastrophe--and-no-one-seems-to-care-n2502691?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=

Honey, I shrunk our income gap 
http://jewishworldreview.com/0718/McArdle072318.php3

CLIMATE CHANGE
‘Powerful Evidence’ of Global Warming’s Effect on Seasons Found in Troposphere
https://www.ecowatch.com/climate-change-troposphere-seasons-2588396309.html?utm_source=EcoWatch+List&utm_campaign=8a05cad47b-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_49c7d43dc9-8a05cad47b-85328381

Heat wave strikes the Arctic, and the climate enters the Twilight Zone
https://www.yahoo.com/news/heat-wave-strikes-arctic-climate-enters-twilight-zone-210541776.html

Global warming is making more people kill themselves: study
https://nypost.com/2018/07/23/global-warming-is-making-more-people-kill-themselves-study/

TECHNOLOGY
How the 52 Places Traveler Stays Charged While Chronicling the World
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/11/technology/personaltech/52-places-jada-yuan.html?emc=edit_nn_20180723&nl=morning-briefing&nlid=5893540820180723&te=1

Why some accents don't work on Alexa or Google Home 
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0718/alexa_accents.php3

SOCIAL MEDIA
Mark Zuckerberg is a horror show, but there's a glimmer of truth hidden in his latest blunder 
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0718/sullivan072318.php3

NEW YORK
Cuomo had the MTA waste $30M on tunnel vanity project
https://nypost.com/2018/07/22/cuomo-had-the-mta-waste-30m-on-tunnel-vanity-project/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app

NKOR
Report: Satellite Images Show Kim Keeping Pledge to Dismantle Key Missile-Launch Sites 
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/kim-jong-un-nuclear-weapons-denuclearization-begun/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NR%20Daily%20Monday%20through%20Friday%202018-07-23&utm_term=NR5PM%20Actives

SCOTUS
No, Democrats, Brett Kavanaugh Doesn't Believe Presidents Are 'Above the Law'
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2018/07/23/no-brett-kavanaugh-doesnt-believe-presidents-are-above-the-law-n2502621?utm_source=thdailypm&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl_pm&newsletterad=

POLITICS
Dem Nominee in Maine Becomes 'Dues-paying Democratic Socialist'
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/cortneyobrien/2018/07/23/senate-democratic-candidate-signs-up-as-a-democratic-socialist-n2502794?utm_source=thdailypm&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl_pm&newsletterad=

NBC Poll: Democratic Ballot Advantage Shrinks To Six Points, But GOP Far From Being Out Of The Woods
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2018/07/23/nbc-poll-democratic-ballot-advantage-shrinks-to-six-points-n2502690?utm_source=thdailypm&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl_pm&newsletterad=

Trump's approval rating reaches record high in poll, powered by Republican support
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/trumps-approval-rating-reaches-record-high-in-poll-powered-by-republican-support?utm_source=Examiner%20Today_07/23/2018&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=WEX_Examiner%20Today

-- 
"When a nation goes down, or a society perishes, one condition may always be found;
they forgot where they came from. They lost sight of what had brought them along."
           - Carl Sandburg