Saturday, January 12, 2019

PLATT - MISC News

GENERAL INTEREST
How Beauty Is Making Scientists Rethink Evolution
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/09/magazine/beauty-evolution-animal.html?emc=edit_nn_p_20190111&nl=morning-briefing&nlid=58935408section%3DlongRead&section=longRead&te=1

Footprints in the snow lead to an emotional rescue
https://www.unionleader.com/nh/outdoors/ty-gagne-s-from-high-places-footsteps-in-the-snow/article_482a2e0f-e725-5df6-9e7c-5958bdb272e5.html?block_id=664693&fbclid=IwAR1ELMzFaK7fkfGScuNKjePpTE_S5swcd_8g11lJKpRLCQc66xRQJS0NeJQ&&te=1&nl=morning-briefing&emc=edit_nn_p_20190111&section=whatElse

News Quiz: Test Your Knowledge of the Week’s Headlines (8 out of 11)
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/01/11/briefing/11newsquiz.html?emc=edit_nn_p_20190111&nl=morning-briefing&nlid=58935408section%3DwhatElse&section=whatElse&te=1

Costco sells out of 27-pound mac-and-cheese bucket with 20-year shelf life
https://nypost.com/2019/01/11/costco-sells-out-of-27-pound-mac-and-cheese-bucket-with-20-year-shelf-life/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app

Incredible story about biker and abused little girl will tear your heart out
https://thechive.com/2019/01/03/incredible-story-about-biker-and-abused-little-girl-will-tear-your-heart-out/

HEALTH
The computer will see you now: AI detected start of cervical cancer better than doctors could
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-6578497/AI-detected-start-cervical-cancer-better-standard-tests.html

FINANCIAL
Reality Check: AOC's 'Tax the Rich' Scheme Would Pay For...One Percent of the Left's Proposed Spending
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2019/01/11/reminder-aocs-70-percent-top-marginal-tax-rate-idea-would-pay-forone-percent-of-the-lefts-proposed-spending-n2538907?utm_source=thdailypm&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl_pm&newsletterad=&bcid=3cb4e56ddeac8885c78e874bb1d8f1a4&recip=27077809

WEATHER
From China to Russia, world is blanketed in white – in pictures 
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/gallery/2019/jan/11/from-china-to-russia-world-is-blanketed-in-white-in-pictures

ENERGY
Pipeline battle puts focus on Canada's disputed right to use indigenous land
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jan/11/canada-pipeline-indigenous-trudeau-treaty?utm_term=RWRpdG9yaWFsX0d1YXJkaWFuVG9kYXlVUy0xOTAxMTE%3D&utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=GuardianTodayUS&CMP=GTUS_email

SCIENCE
Scientists Find a Simple Trick For Remembering Pretty Much Anything
https://mail.yahoo.com/neo/launch?.src=ym&reason=myc#6678460195

ENTOMOLOGY
Huge swarm of locusts descends on Mecca leaving worshippers covered in insects as cleaners battle to control the bugs at Islam's holiest site
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6577871/Huge-swarm-locusts-descends-Mecca.html

GEO SCIENCE
A Weird Shift of Our Planet's Magnetic Field Is Messing With Navigation
https://mail.yahoo.com/neo/launch?.src=ym&reason=myc#8392942187

TECHNOL9GY
'A game of patience and persistence': life in São Paulo's internet deserts 
https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2019/jan/11/a-game-of-patience-and-persistence-life-in-sao-paulo-internet-deserts?utm_term=RWRpdG9yaWFsX1VTTW9ybmluZ0JyaWVmaW5nLTE5MDExMQ%3D%3D&utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=USMorningBriefing&CMP=usbriefing_email

'Right to Repair': Fixing Our Own Broken Stuff Should Be Standard 
https://www.ecowatch.com/right-to-repair-movement-2625650609.html

NATIONAL SECURITY
How the U.S. Can Protect Corporate America’s Tech Secrets From China
See the second Wall Street Journal article, below.

SHUTDOWN
Stop Playing Shutdown Politics with Our Parks 
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/01/government-shutdown-national-parks-partisan-politics/

What Is and Isn’t Affected by the Government Shutdown
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/02/us/whats-affected-government-shutdown.html?emc=edit_nn_p_20190111&nl=morning-briefing&nlid=58935408&section=topNews&te=1

See How the Effects of the Government Shutdown Are Piling Up
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/01/08/us/politics/government-shutdown-calendar.html?emc=edit_nn_p_20190111&nl=morning-briefing&nlid=58935408&section=topNews&te=1

Not About the Wall: Democrats are Rejecting a Long List of Other Border Security Measures to Spite Trump
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2019/01/11/democrats-are-rejecting-a-border-barrier-and-long-list-of-other-security-too-n2538909?utm_source=thdailypm&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl_pm&newsletterad=&bcid=3cb4e56ddeac8885c78e874bb1d8f1a4&recip=27077809

IMMIGRATION
No, Don’t Declare an Emergency 
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/01/trump-national-emergency-declaration-border-immigration/

Obama Border Patrol chief: Agents arrest 'rapists, murderers, gang members every single day'
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/obama-border-patrol-chief-agents-arrest-rapists-murderers-gang-members-every-single-day

SCOTUS
RBG Won't Return to the Supreme Court Next Week
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2019/01/11/rgb-n2538916?utm_source=thdailypm&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl_pm&newsletterad=&bcid=3cb4e56ddeac8885c78e874bb1d8f1a4&recip=27077809

The graveyard ghouls and a lather of speculation 
https://washingtontimes-dc.newsmemory.com/?token=5ca971b970fda09fa662815665f172b6_5c38af37_5cd1fdb&selDate=20190111&goTo=B01&artid=0&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=washingtontimes-E-Editions&utm_source=washingtontimes&utm_content=Read-Button

White House prepares to REPLACE ailing Ruth Bader Ginsburg as Trump aides quietly signal his allies should gear up for another Kavanaugh-style Senate fight
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6579517/White-House-prepares-REPLACE-ailing-Ruth-Bader-Ginsburg.html

TRUMPGATE
Prosecutors Examining Ukrainians Who Flocked to Trump Inaugural
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/10/us/politics/ukraine-donald-trump-inauguration.html?emc=edit_nn_p_20190111&nl=morning-briefing&nlid=58935408section%3DwhatElse&section=whatElse&te=1

Top House Dem. to Replace Anti-Terrorism Subcommittee with Trump-Investigating Subcommittee
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/top-house-dem-to-replace-anti-terrorism-subcommittee-with-trump-investigating-subcommittee/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NR%20Daily%20Monday%20through%20Friday%202019-01-11&utm_term=NRDaily-Smart

POLITICS
How Sweden Overcame Socialism
See the first Wall Street Journal article, below.

'Over 90 percent?' Liberals eyeing White House vie for title of highest tax raiser
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/jan/10/julian-castro-elizabeth-warren-vie-set-highest-tax/?bt_ee=UGEDFZOLTxNzdNxWnYf5OUkveh29V9B2pWMcv17SBfsStdxvBCD8MgvwIaqFkIN3&bt_ts=1547235231838

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"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)  see link for full story access

https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-sweden-overcame-socialism-11547078767?emailToken=598aefc1948ee43368c05c4a72bb99aaQ+JLK0+LZc9sndKPl7m6ptHh2+HreQfOzr2lew/hsX+PaYGYAnBgZCagXFnC+EiQ47IIri57OgPBmhAsY0WOwg%3D%3D&reflink=article_email_share

How Sweden Overcame Socialism

It’s a model for the U.S., but the lesson isn’t what Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez thinks it is.

Jan. 9, 2019 7:06 p.m. ET
Currency notes from Sweden's central bank.
Currency notes from Sweden's central bank.
 Photo: Johan Jeppsson / Ibl Bildbyr/Zuma Press
Nearly half of millennials say they prefer socialism to capitalism, but what do they mean? “My policies most closely resemble what we see in the U.K., in Norway, in Finland, in Sweden,” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez told “60 Minutes.” Yet Sweden’s experiment with socialist policies was disastrous, and its economic success in recent decades is a result of market-based reforms.

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