PLATT - CURATED News

GENERAL INTEREST
Watch the speed of light in slow motion:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-6862367/Mesmerizing-video-captures-speed-light-looks-like-10-TRILLION-frames-second.html

News Quiz: Test Your Knowledge of the Week’s Headlines (9 out of 11)
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/03/29/briefing/29weeklynewsquiz.html?emc=edit_NN_p_20190329&nl=morning-briefing&nlid=58935408ion%3DwhatElse&section=whatElse&te=1

HEALTH
Scientists Discover Signs of New Neurons Developing Even in Adult Brains as Old as 87
https://auroushealthcare.wordpress.com/2019/03/29/scientists-discover-signs-of-new-neurons-developing-even-in-adult-brains-as-old-as-87/

Food Companies Are Making Their Products Addictive, and It's Sickening (Literally)
https://www.ecowatch.com/food-companies-making-products-addictive-2632845184.html

Eating Bad Pork Gave Teen Deadly Tapeworms in the Brain
http://www.newser.com/story/273210/teen-dies-from-tapeworms-in-the-brain.html?utm_source=part&utm_medium=att&utm_campaign=rss_science_syn

HEALTH CARE
ObamaCare’s Enemy No. 1 says this is the wrong way to kill it 
https://nypost.com/2019/03/28/obamacares-enemy-no-1-says-this-is-the-wrong-way-to-kill-it/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app

******* RUNNING AMOK
Experts: Stop Using the Word ‘Cyclist’ Because It ‘Dehumanises’ Bike Riders
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/03/experts-cyclist-word-dehumanizes-bike-riders/

BUSINESS
Texas Attorney General is investigating San Antonio's decision to ban Chick-fil-A from airport
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6862553/Texas-AG-investigating-Chick-fil-As-exclusion-airport.html

AVIATION
What caused the deadliest plane crash in world history
https://www.news.com.au/travel/travel-updates/what-caused-the-deadliest-plane-crash-in-world-history/news-story/7456afb4a8c6e57a41a7b27178ff8be4

ENVIRONMENT
EU Parliament Bans Plastics Responsible for 70% of Ocean Trash 
https://www.ecowatch.com/europe-plastics-ban-2633124406.html

CYBER SECURITY
Email addresses of almost a BILLION people are leaked in one of the biggest data breaches ever ...
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-6864029/Biggest-breach-recorded-982-MILLION-peoples-personal-information-exposed.html

DEFENSE
This New Generation of Weapons Could Mean More Covert Airstrikes Around the World
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/27/magazine/airstrikes-somalia-glide-bombs.html?emc=edit_NN_p_20190329&nl=morning-briefing&nlid=58935408ion%3DlongRead&section=longRead&te=1

MEDIA
Media's Trump-Russia collusion coverage is the 'worst journalistic debacle of my lifetime:' Brit Hume
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/medias-trump-russia-collusion-coverage-is-the-worst-journalistic-debacle-of-my-lifetime-brit-hume-says

SMOLLETT
IPBA (Illinois Prosecutors Bar Association) Statement on Jussie Smollett Case Dismissal 
http://www.ilpba.org/announcements/7249825

Smackdown: Illinois Prosecutors Bar Association Calls Kim Foxx's Handling of Smollett Case Dishonest, Unethical
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2019/03/29/illinois-prosecutors-kim-foxxs-handling-of-smollett-was-dishonest-and-unethical--and-may-have-violated-state-law-n2543973?utm_source=thdailypm&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl_pm&newsletterad=&bcid=3cb4e56ddeac8885c78e874bb1d8f1a4&recip=27077809

IMMIGRATION
Trump threatens to close Mexican border next week
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/436459-trump-threatens-to-close-mexican-border-next-week?userid=288549

TRUMPGATE
New Poll: Majority of American Voters Want House Democrats to Stop Their Russia Investigations
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2019/03/28/new-poll-majority-of-american-voters-want-house-democrats-to-stop-their-russia-investigation-n2543905?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=03/29/2019&bcid=3cb4e56ddeac8885c78e874bb1d8f1a4&recip=27077809

Tulsi Gabbard says it's a 'good thing' Trump wasn't charged by Mueller
https://www.yahoo.com/news/tulsi-gabbard-calls-mueller-findings-a-good-thing-in-break-from-dem-candidates-203318063.html

Rudy Giuliani’s Bizarro Legal Strategy May Have Saved Trump’s Presidency
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/03/rudy-giuliani-bizarro-legal-strategy-may-have-saved-trumps-presidency-mueller-interview

Mueller Report Said to Exceed 300 Pages, So . . . What? 
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/03/robert-mueller-report-said-to-exceed-300-pages-so-what/

Mueller Did the Right Thing
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/03/mueller-did-the-right-thing/

POLITICS
BETO O’ROURKE, THE DANGEROUS FAKE
http://www.educationviews.org/beto-orourke-the-dangerous-fake/

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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)