PLATT - MISC News

GENERAL INTEREST
Glorious Glenstone: An Immersive Experience of Art in 230 Acres of Natural Beauty 
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/01/art-review-glenstone-museum-immersive-experience/#slide-1

Sowell:  Fact-Free Politics
http://jewishworldreview.com/cols/sowell011819.php3

Terrifying New Escape Room Just Locks You In A Church Meet-And-Greet Time
https://babylonbee.com/news/terrifying-new-escape-room-just-locks-you-in-a-church-meet-and-greet-time

MENTAL HEALTH
For Sanity’s Sake, Delete Your Account
See the second Wall Street Journal article, below.

HEALTH CARE
ACA Turns Patients Into Guinea Pigs
https://townhall.com/columnists/twilabrase/2019/01/19/aca-turns-patients-into-guinea-pigs-n2539280?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=01/19/2019&bcid=3cb4e56ddeac8885c78e874bb1d8f1a4&recip=27077809

AGING
The Centenarian: Arthur Warner McNair
http://americandigest.org/wp/the-centenarian-arthur-warner-mcnair/

How to Store Data Along Memory Lane
See the first Wall Street Journal article, below.

BUSINESS
Facebook testing a 'meme hub' called LOL in attempt to attract teens
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-6608475/Facebook-testing-meme-hub-called-LOL-desperate-attempt-attract-teens.html

CLIMATE CHANGE
Pentagon: Climate Change is Real and a 'National Security Issue' 
https://www.ecowatch.com/pentagon-report-on-climate-change-2626395731.html

ARCHAEOLOGY
Scientists find preserved animal carcasses in mysterious Antarctic lake 'twice the size of Manhattan' buried under 3,500 feet of ice
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-6608149/Scientists-animal-carcasses-Antarctic-lake-buried-3-500-feet-ice.html

ASTRONOMY
It begins this Sunday 10:34 p.m. EST.
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/this-weekends-lunar-eclipse-will-be-a-super-blood-wolf-moon-2019-01-18

SPACE TECHNOLOGY
Putin's megarocket plans grounded after engineers find flaw that could cause new 'heavy lift' rocket to explode
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-6607007/Russian-scientists-defect-new-heavy-lift-space-rocket-engine.html

"NEWS" MEDIA
The Truth According To Your Weltanschauung
http://www.michellesmirror.com/

SOCIAL MEDIA
Facebook shuts down over 500 pages it says were created by two separate Russian 'influence operations' in major crackdown
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-6603205/Facebook-closes-hundreds-inauthentic-Russia-linked-pages.html

BIG BROTHER
STOP The 'Dem Politician Protection Act'! 
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0119/mcconell011819.php3

THE SHUTDOWN
Trump pitches new plan to reopen government amid Dem pushback
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/426178-trump-pitches-new-plan-to-reopen-government-amid-dem-pushback

Meet the man who paved the way for government shutdowns 
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0119/government_shutdown_originator.php3

The Shutdown Is Bringing Pain – But Perhaps Silver Lining for Swamp Opponents
https://townhall.com/columnists/dustinsiggins/2019/01/18/the-shutdown-is-bringing-pain--but-perhaps-silver-lining-for-swamp-opponents-n2539276?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=01/19/2019&bcid=3cb4e56ddeac8885c78e874bb1d8f1a4&recip=27077809

MLK National Park to Re-Open Despite Shutdown, Thanks to Delta
https://www.ecowatch.com/delta-mlk-national-park-2626370024.html

Thanks, TM ...

TRUMPGATE

POLITICS
‘We needed Trump to survive’ – in this area of Texas, Trump is deemed a success 
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jan/18/trump-success-roberts-county-texas-republicans?utm_term=RWRpdG9yaWFsX0d1YXJkaWFuVG9kYXlVUy0xOTAxMTk%3D&utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=GuardianTodayUS&CMP=GTUS_email

-- "You must never confuse faith that you will prevail in the end – which you can never afford to Lose – with the discipline to confront the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever they might be." - VAdm James Stockdale, USN (1923-2005) FROM THE WALL STREET JOURNAL (without permission)  use link for full story.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-to-store-data-along-memory-lane-11547853504?emailToken=87edb8fbb55f39fc9afcd3afc8fb3610l7mcx8ptsTrlgEUPFFWvpEuCKw0xPjWzJ+JhUgZp2+uaD14MFsRUTV6THLfyZKfT+feyvKJcJ4SkibkwtcFj3Q%3D%3D&reflink=article_email_share

How to Store Data Along Memory Lane

Inspired by a relative’s Alzheimer’s, Nelson Dellis learned 10,000 digits of pi and found ways of making memorization creative and entertaining.

By

James Taranto

Jan. 18, 2019 6:18 p.m. ET

Illustration: Ken Fallin

Miami

Nelson Dellis remembers things. Useless things—strings of random digits or the order of the cards in a shuffled deck—and useful things like names and phone numbers. Mr. Dellis, 34, describes himself as a “memory athlete,” meaning he trains intensively and participates in organized competitions of recall. He won the annual USA Memory Championship four times in five years starting in 2011, and once set a record, since surpassed, by memorizing 339 digits of pi in five minutes. In 2016 he spent 10 days committing pi’s first 10,000 digits to memory to raise awareness of Alzheimer’s disease.