Coming to Appreciate Stay-at-Home MomsSee the Wall Street Journal article, below.
GENERAL INTEREST
How good are YOUR maths skills? Take the test that will reveal your level of everyday numeracy (and women are more likely to struggle than men) (17 / 17)
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-7024217/From-fractions-percentages-multiple-choice-quiz-challenges-greatest-mathematicians.html
Garden in England Becomes Playground for Adorable Fox Cubs
https://weather.com/science/nature/video/garden-in-england-becomes-playground-for-adorable-fox-cubs?pl=pl-the-latest
Scientists discover why grocery store tomatoes don’t taste like anything
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/scientists-discover-why-grocery-store-tomatoes-dont-taste-like-anything/ar-AABmlWW?ocid=spartandhp
thanks, TM ...
HEALTH
Treatment targets for men with advanced prostate cancers
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/05/190513132114.htm
7 Proven Health Benefits of Brazil Nuts
https://www.ecowatch.com/brazil-nuts-health-benefits-2636704160.html
WHO AFRO - Situation Report - Ebola Virus Disease Outbreak in DRC - Sitrep 41 (2019)
http://newsletters.afro.who.int/outbreak-dashboards/122tb0z7ocy1hj3oiwqrmm?email=true&a=11&p=55004854
HEALTH CARE
Bring Competition to Medicaid
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/05/medicaid-needs-competition-free-market/
Most of the profit in the health-care industry is going to drug companies — here’s why you should care
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/most-of-the-profit-in-the-health-care-industry-is-going-to-drug-companies-heres-why-you-should-care-2019-05-13
‘This Is All We Can Afford’: Shrinking Lives in the English Countryside
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/13/world/europe/cumbria-uk-austerity-cuts.html?login=email&auth=login-email
Disabled man says airline denied his crucial medical device: 'People in wheelchairs should be able to fly'
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/disabled-man-medical-device-southwest-airlines-144206481.html
PROGRESSIVES *******
An elite law firm's inability to promote enough minority partners exposes the unrealistic expectations of diversity mandates
http://jewishworldreview.com/0519/mac_donald051419.php3
HUMOR
The News in Zingers
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0519/hamilton.php3
BUSINESS
GOP angst grows amid Trump trade war
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/443506-gop-angst-grows-amid-trump-trade-war
Opinion: The media is lying to you about Trump’s China tariffs
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-media-is-lying-to-you-about-trumps-china-tariffs-2019-05-14
HISTORY
Fake history: Rashida Tlaib’s grotesque distortion of the making of Israel
https://nypost.com/2019/05/13/fake-history-rashida-tlaibs-grotesque-distortion-of-the-making-of-israel/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app
ENVIRONMENT
Jakobshavn Isbrae: Mighty Greenland glacier slams on brakes
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-48265217
The elite soldiers protecting the Amazon rainforest
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-48187766
ENTOMOLOGY
Photographer lay in a bog for three hours to capture precious moments as rare dragonfly sheds its old skin and unfurls its wings
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-7026871/Photographer-lay-bog-three-hours-capture-rare-dragonfly-shedding-old-skin.html
ORNITHOLOGY
We cannot evict birds with netting, say MPs
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-48258898
CYBER SECURITY
WhatsApp Rushes to Fix Security Flaw Exposed in Hacking of Lawyer’s Phone
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/13/technology/nso-group-whatsapp-spying.html
David P. Willis: Social Security impostor scam: It's growing, and this is how they trick you
https://start.att.net/news/read/article/asbury_park_press-david_p_willis_social_security_impostor_scam_its_g-tca-2/category/finance
DEFENSE
The untold heroism behind a Delta Force Marine's secret Navy Cross from Benghazi
https://taskandpurpose.com/benghazi-attack-marine-navy-cross
Navy prosecutor accused of trying to spy on defense attorneys for two Navy SEALs
https://taskandpurpose.com/navy-spy-seals-attorneys
LAW AND ORDER
900-pound drug suspect had hole cut in home to get to court
https://nypost.com/2019/05/13/900-pound-drug-suspect-had-hole-cut-in-home-to-get-to-court/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app
SOCIAL MEDIA
Facebook Will Break One Way or Another
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/05/facebook-will-break-one-way-or-another/
Tulsi Gabbard Becomes First 2020 Dem to Speak Out against Facebook Censorship
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/tulsi-gabbard-becomes-first-2020-dem-to-speak-out-against-facebook-censorship/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NR%20Daily%20Monday%20through%20Friday%202019-05-14&utm_term=NRDaily-Smart
IMMIGRATION
Cuban migrants try to get to U.S. through Mexico
https://washingtontimes-dc.newsmemory.com/?token=1dcf2fc8f49a4fc3a6afb1ed68fec6e9_5cdae165_5cd1fdb&selDate=20190514&goTo=A08&artid=0&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=washingtontimes-E-Editions&utm_source=washingtontimes&utm_content=Read-Button
TERRORISM
Limpet mines were used to blow holes in tankers in UAE, say divers examining four sabotaged ships as US and Iran try to calm fears of war after Saudi Arabia claimed explosive-laden drones targeted its oil pipeline in 'act of terrorism'
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7027141/President-Rouhani-blasts-Pentagon-claims-Iran-used-EXPLOSIVES-sabotage-ships-UAE.html
SPYGATE
Barr Assigns U.S. Attorney in Connecticut to Review Origins of Russia Inquiry
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/13/us/politics/russia-investigation-justice-department-review.html
TEXAS
Texas Senate revives ‘Save Chick-fil-A’ bill after House kills companion proposal
https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/texas-senate-save-chick-fil-a-bill-revived
TRUMPGATE
House Intel to probe whether lawyers for Trump family interfered in investigation
https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/443691-house-intelligence-to-probe-whether-trump-family-interfered-in
Why Did the Anti-Trump Conspirators Throw Their Lives Away?
https://townhall.com/columnists/williammarshall/2019/05/13/why-did-the-antitrump-conspirators-throw-their-lives-away-n2546229?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=05/14/2019&bcid=3cb4e56ddeac8885c78e874bb1d8f1a4&recip=27077809
POLITICS
Against Progressive Plans to Tinker with the Senate
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/05/progressive-plans-change-senate-response-jamelle-bouie/
Other Freshmen Dem Women Are Distancing Themselves From AOC... Can You Blame Them?
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/bethbaumann/2019/05/13/train-wreck-ahead-freshmen-dem-women-say-aoc-doesnt-represent-them-n2546276?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=05/14/2019&bcid=3cb4e56ddeac8885c78e874bb1d8f1a4&recip=27077809
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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)https://www.wsj.com/articles/coming-to-appreciate-stay-at-home-moms-11557442888?mod=searchresults&page=1&pos=5
Coming to Appreciate Stay-at-Home Moms
During a rough patch they were there for me as my career-woman friends fell away.
I’m not a mother, and at 48 I’m unlikely to become one. My whole professional life, I’ve been leaning in. It wasn’t until things went badly wrong that I realized the human-capital value of a group of women modern society tends to ignore or dismiss—stay-at-home-moms.
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