PLATT - CURATED News

GENERAL INTEREST
Social media post reveals the unsettling truth about the first little piggy 
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0918/zorn090418

Turtle-y amazing: Japanese cafe spends over £200,000 installing a toilet that's surrounded by a huge fish tank
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/travel_news/article-6923245/Japans-Hipopo-Papa-Cafe-spends-200k-installing-toilet-thats-surrounded-huge-fish-tank.html

Strange ‘unicorn’ sheep saved from death by two cases of beer
https://www.foxnews.com/science/strange-unicorn-sheep-saved-from-death-by-two-cases-of-beer

Posters 1940 to 1969 – l'art et l'automobile
https://arteauto.com/collections/automobile-posters-from-1940-to-1969

PHYSICAL HEALTH
Don’t Count on 23andMe to Detect Most Breast Cancer Risks, Study Warns
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/16/health/23andme-brca-gene-testing.html?emc=edit_ne_20190416&nl=evening-briefing&nlid=5893540820190416&te=1

MENTAL HEALTH
Here’s How to Predict Whether Your Memory Loss Will Be Alzheimer’s
https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/heres-how-to-predict-whether-your-memory-loss-will-be-alzheimers/ar-BBVYzbO?ocid=spartandhp

PROGRESSIVES UNHINGED
Preferred Pronouns or Prison
https://www.prageru.com/video/preferred-pronouns-or-prison/

HUMOR
The News in Zingers 
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0419/hamilton.php3

BUSINESS
China's $18 Billion Electric Car Bubble Looks Ready to Burst 
https://www.ecowatch.com/china-electic-vehicle-bubble-2634693976.html

WEATHER
AccuWeather's 2019 Atlantic hurricane season forecast 
https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/accuweathers-2019-atlantic-hurricane-season-forecast/ar-BBVzeqs?ocid=spartandhp

ENVIRONMENT
How to Restore a Million Acres of Strip-Mined Land? Bring in the Elk 
https://www.ecowatch.com/central-appalachia-conservation-2634676425.html

SCIENCE
Scientists create entire human heart with 3-D printer for the first time 
https://nypost.com/2019/04/15/scientists-create-entire-human-heart-with-3-d-printer-for-the-first-time/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app

PALEONTOLOGY
Palaeontologists’ fury as 'the only juvenile T-Rex in the world' loaned to a museum in Kansas emerges for sale on EBAY for $3 million after the maverick fossil hunter who found it listed it on the site
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-6927321/Palaeontologists-fury-juvenile-T-Rex-world-emerges-sale-EBAY.html

CYBER SECURITY
Microsoft's web-based email services breached
https://www.foxnews.com/tech/microsofts-web-based-email-services-breached

FOREIGN POLICY
Trump vetoes measure ending US support for Saudi-led war in Yemen
https://thehill.com/policy/defense/439226-trump-vetoes-resolution-ending-us-support-for-yemen-war

BIG BROTHER
We Built an ‘Unbelievable’ (but Legal) Facial Recognition Machine
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/04/16/opinion/facial-recognition-new-york-city.html?emc=edit_ne_20190416&nl=evening-briefing&nlid=5893540820190416&te=1

SOCIAL MEDIA
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez quits Facebook, calls social media ‘a public health risk’
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-quits-facebook-calls-social-media-a-public-health-risk-2019-04-15

YouTube fact-check algorithm incorrectly tags live broadcast of Notre Dame fire with details of the 9/11 terror attack
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6927219/YouTube-fact-check-algorithm-incorrectly-tags-live-broadcast-Notre-Dame-fire-9-11-attacks.html

MIDDLE EAST
Acknowledging political reality in the Middle East 
https://washingtontimes-dc.newsmemory.com/?token=f3470f964c61775dc27c854c9f74b5df_5cb5f165_5cd1fdb&selDate=20190416&goTo=B01&artid=1&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=washingtontimes-E-Editions&utm_source=washingtontimes&utm_content=Read-Button

POLITICS
To Defend Ilhan Omar, Democrats Use Identity Politics as a Shield 
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/04/ilhan-omar-9-11-comments-democrats-use-identity-politics-as-a-shield/

How Bernie Sanders’s Tax Returns Compare to Those of Other Candidates
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/04/14/us/politics/2020-candidates-tax-returns.html

Nancy Pelosi takes ANOTHER shot at AOC and says a 'glass of water with a D next to it' could have won the 29-year-old's seat before warning her not to 'menace' voters
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6927283/Nancy-Pelosi-takes-shot-AOC-says-glass-water-D-win-seat.html

For Democrats, Ilhan Omar Is a Complicated Figure to Defend
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/16/us/politics/ilhan-omar-democrats.html?emc=edit_ne_20190416&nl=evening-briefing&nlid=5893540820190416&te=1

Dems see lane to Buttigieg victory
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/439192-dems-see-lane-to-buttigieg-victory

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