PLATT - CURATED News

GENERAL INTEREST
Financial collapse of the United States Postal Service is coming
https://thehill.com/opinion/finance/444316-financial-collapse-of-the-united-states-postal-service-is-coming

Ancient Chinese Buildings Are Held Together With Rice, Sugar, and Blood
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/chinese-architecture?

This Plane Accidentally Flew Around the World
https://medium.com/s/story/the-long-way-round-the-plane-that-accidentally-circumnavigated-the-world-c04ca734c6bb

HEALTH
How Exercise Affects Our Memory
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/01/well/move/how-exercise-affects-our-memory.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

BUSINESS
Trump, China and trade: Who blinks first?
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/444343-trump-china-and-trade-who-blinks-first

How good CEOs make personal connections with employees 
https://nypost.com/2019/05/19/how-good-ceos-make-personal-connections-with-employees/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app

TRAVEL
In Search of Ancient Morocco
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/15/t-magazine/morocco-travel-draa-valley.html?module=inline&te=1&nl=morning-briefing&emc=edit_nn_20190519

A Bid to Maintain One of the World’s Oldest Culinary Traditions
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/08/t-magazine/parsi-food.html?module=inline&te=1&nl=morning-briefing&emc=edit_nn_20190519

A Journey Into Greece’s Land of a Thousand Stories
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/13/t-magazine/greece-ithaca-visit.html?module=inline&te=1&nl=morning-briefing&emc=edit_nn_20190519

British backpacker, 25, also moaned about her 'nine to five bulls***' life before she began traveling in Australia and complained about 4 hour fruit picking days – as hostel hits back and says ‘99% of workers are happy’
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7038737/British-backpacker-claims-lured-slave-labour-Bundaberg-region-fruit-picking-farm.html

SPORTS
High school sprinter accepts New Orleans Saints star’s $10K race challenge
https://www.foxbusiness.com/features/high-school-sprinter-accepts-new-orleans-saints-stars-10k-race-challenge

CLIMATE CHANGE
Climate change: One man's fight to save a California tree
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-48189216

ENVIRONMENT
Compassionate conservation is 'seriously flawed'
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-48315709

SCIENCE
‘Knitting Is Coding’ and Yarn Is Programmable in This Physics Lab 
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/17/science/math-physics-knitting-matsumoto.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

ENTOMOLOGY
Liberty Vittert: What’s your actual chance of getting a mosquito bite? A statistician crunches the numbers
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/liberty-vittert-mosquito-bite-statistician-numbers

Wasps Passed This Logic Test. Can You?
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/09/science/paper-wasps-logic-test.html?em_pos=medium&ref=headline&nl_art=7&te=1&nl=science-times&emc=edit_sc_20190514

ORNITHOLOGY
Nat Geo’s Geese Leave the Nest | National Geographic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19-OcyxQKGk

DEFENSE
This Missile Might be the U.S. Navy's Important Weapon in Decades 
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/missile-might-be-us-navys-important-weapon-decades-58462

LAW AND ORDER
Why Zimbabwe’s female rangers are better at stopping poaching
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2019/06/akashinga-women-rangers-fight-poaching-in-zimbabwe-phundundu-wildlife-area/?cmpid=org=ngp::mc=crm-email::src=ngp::cmp=editorial::add=sunstills_20190519::rid=50837301195

SOCIAL MEDIA
Facebook’s A.I. Whiz Now Faces the Task of Cleaning It Up. Sometimes That Brings Him to Tears.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/17/technology/facebook-ai-schroepfer.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

MIDDLE EAST
Trump, Saudi Arabia warn Iran against Middle East conflict
https://news.yahoo.com/saudi-arabia-says-seeking-avert-war-ball-irans-010340952--sector.html

Iran-US tensions: 'There will be no war', says Zarif
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-48321768

Bolton emerges as flashpoint in GOP debate on Iran
https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/444362-bolton-emerges-as-flashpoint-in-gop-debate-on-iran

SPYGATE
Klobuchar: 'Don't think' there are reasons to investigate Mueller probe's origins
https://thehill.com/homenews/sunday-talk-shows/444440-klobuchar-dont-think-there-are-reasons-to-investigate-mueller?rnd=1558274623

When Did the Spying Begin?
See the Wall Street Journal article, below.

TRUMPGATE
Romney on Mueller report: 'Really, really troubling,’ but Americans ‘just aren’t there’ on impeachment
https://news.yahoo.com/romney-cnn-mueller-report-142312332.html

In clash with Congress, weak legal case may still help Trump
https://news.yahoo.com/weak-legal-case-could-still-042426643.html

Democratic leaders' impeachment tightrope
https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/444402-democratic-leaders-impeachment-tightrope

POLITICS
Dems walk Trump trade tightrope
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/444356-dems-walk-trump-trade-tightrope

Abortion Fight or Strong Economy? For G.O.P., Cultural Issues Undercut 2020 Message
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/19/us/politics/republicans-abortion-economy-issues.html?te=1&nl=morning-briefing&emc=edit_nn_20190519&login=email&auth=login-email

Here are the potential candidates still eyeing 2020 bids
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/444250-here-are-the-potential-candidates-still-eyeing-2020-bids

Why Dems think they can virtue signal their way to the White House 
https://nypost.com/2019/05/18/why-dems-think-they-can-virtue-signal-their-way-to-the-white-house/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app

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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."
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FROM THE WALL STREET JOURNAL (without permission) 

https://www.wsj.com/articles/when-did-the-spying-begin-11558105067?emailToken=7a7bbca6da79326911c073f9e7b08978sudhKNl0oSrfH8Y3yhcjyT8W61nnWgl0g7J3lK2h+fyrVrMnLTInASaOVixFJcywfsV8+Qmy/o1epNlPcmtbHQ%3D%3D&reflink=article_email_share

When Did the Spying Begin?

U.S. Attorney General William Barr says he’s going to find the answer.

By

James Freeman

May 17, 2019 10:57 a.m. ET

President Donald Trump greets former Vice President Joe Biden and former President Barack Obama after being sworn in as the 45th president of the United States on the West front of the U.S. Capitol on January 20, 2017. Photo: lucy nicholson/Reuters

Americans are getting closer to learning how the surveillance tools of the U.S. government were turned against the party out of power during the 2016 presidential campaign. This morning the Journal’s Sadie Gurman and Aruna Viswanatha report on their interview with the head of the U.S. Department of Justice: