PLATT - CURATED News

GENERAL INTEREST
The App That Tucks Me In at Night
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/07/17/arts/calm-app-sleep-meditation.html?te=1&nl=morning-briefing&emc=edit_NN_p_20190719&section=longRead?campaign_id=9&instance_id=11021&segment_id=15360&user_id=534895be791870e2f49b8be32ff6f7ab&regi_id=58935408ion=longRead

News Quiz: Test Your Knowledge of the Week???s Headlines (10 out of 11)
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/07/19/briefing/19weeklynewsquiz.html?%3Fte=1&nl=morning-briefing&emc=edit_NN_p_20190719&section=whatElse%3Fcampaign_id%3D9&instance_id=11021&segment_id=15360&user_id=534895be791870e2f49b8be32ff6f7ab&regi_id=58935408ion%3DwhatElse&auth=login-email

HEALTH
Don???t Put All Your (Frozen) Eggs in One Basket
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/19/style/modern-love-egg-freezing-fertility.html?te=1&nl=morning-briefing&emc=edit_NN_p_20190719&section=whatElse?campaign_id=9&instance_id=11021&segment_id=15360&user_id=534895be791870e2f49b8be32ff6f7ab&regi_id=58935408ion=whatElse

Creating Disposable Babies ??? Yes We Can, but Should We?
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/07/in-vitro-fertilization-disposable-children/

HEALTH CARE
Down-ticket Democrats fear ???Medicare for All??? nominee 
https://washingtontimes-dc.newsmemory.com/?token=386f47f0331dd683f07caff75ce0b8fb_5d31e0d5_5cd1fdb&selDate=20190719&goTo=A01&artid=0&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=washingtontimes-E-Editions&utm_source=washingtontimes&utm_content=Read-Button

PROGRESSIVES RUNNING AMOK
The Times??? obscene attacks on the Apollo program 
https://nypost.com/2019/07/18/the-times-obscene-attacks-on-the-apollo-program/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app

BUDGET
Trump faces new hit on deficit
https://thehill.com/policy/finance/453821-trump-faces-new-hit-on-deficit

AVIATION
This little-known inventor has probably saved your life
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-49012771

Man jumps on plane wing as it prepares for takeoff 
https://start.att.net/news/read/article/cnn-man_jumps_on_plane_wing_as_it_prepares_for_takeoff-cnn2/category/news

BUSINESS
THE HARD-LUCK TEXAS TOWN THAT BET ON BITCOIN???AND LOST
https://www.wired.com/story/hard-luck-texas-town-bet-bitcoin-lost/?verso=true

APOLLO 11
How We Augmented Our Original Reporting for the 50th Anniversary of the Moon Landing
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/19/reader-center/apollo-11-moon-landing-augmented-reality.html?te=1&nl=evening-briefing&emc=edit_ne_20190719?campaign_id=57&instance_id=11048&segment_id=15395&user_id=534895be791870e2f49b8be32ff6f7ab&regi_id=5893540820190719

Apollo 11 Anniversary: Everything You Need to Read on the Moon Landing
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/17/science/apollo-11-landing-anniversary.html?te=1&nl=evening-briefing&emc=edit_ne_20190719?campaign_id=57&instance_id=11048&segment_id=15395&user_id=534895be791870e2f49b8be32ff6f7ab&regi_id=5893540820190719

SCIENCE
The Science Times (Apollo 11) 
https://static.nytimes.com/email-content/SC_15368.html?campaign_id=34&instance_id=11016&segment_id=15368&user_id=534895be791870e2f49b8be32ff6f7ab&regi_id=58935408

Scientists develop world's first LIQUID MAGNET that could be one day be used to make fluid robots
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-7261371/Scientists-develop-worlds-LIQUID-MAGNET-one-day-used-make-fluid-robots.html

GEOLOGY
Australia Rock Contains Gold? No Such Luck. It's a Meteorite!
https://weather.com/news/trending/video/australia-rock-contains-gold-no-such-luck-its-a-meteorite?pl=pl-the-latest

TECHNOLOGY
Liberal Professor Warns: Google Manipulating Voters 'on a Massive Scale'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNvgl38TLvI

Technology and Mankind???s Shrinking Dominion 
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/07/technology-and-mankinds-shrinking-dominion/

Google will STOP websites from checking if you're using incognito mode after reports of the internet giant tracking users on porn sites
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-7262849/Google-says-stop-websites-checking-youre-browsing-using-incognito-mode.html

DEFENSE
'Drone-killer' buggy chained to deck of USS Boxer downed Iranian device by jamming its signal and forcing it to crash
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7264167/Drone-killer-buggy-equipped-signal-jammer-attack-Iranian-aircraft.html

Army Futures Command is already testing some of its next-generation tech downrange 
https://taskandpurpose.com/john-murray-futures-command

Air Force fighter pilot units are getting personal massage therapists to fight chronic pain 
https://taskandpurpose.com/air-force-fighter-pilot-units-are-getting-personal-massage-therapists-to-fight-chronic-pain

MILITARY
Mark Esper wasn't asked a single question about Afghanistan, where 12 US troops have died this year
https://taskandpurpose.com/esper-not-asked-about-afghanistan

Vice Adm. Michael Gilday nominated to lead the Navy
https://taskandpurpose.com/michael-gilday-will-lead-navy

The Corps has lost more than 25,000 Marines to misconduct over the past decade 
https://taskandpurpose.com/corps-misconduct-cmc-guidance

Search underway for sailor who went overboard off USS Lincoln 
https://taskandpurpose.com/search-missing-lincoln-sailor

LAW AND ORDER
MOON-ROCK THIEF GIVEN 8 YEARS
https://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/os-xpm-2003-10-30-0310300277-story.html

ASAP Rocky to Remain in Jail in Sweden, as Protest Clamor Grows
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/19/arts/music/asap-rocky-sweden-jail.html?te=1&nl=evening-briefing&emc=edit_ne_20190719?campaign_id=57&instance_id=11048&segment_id=15395&user_id=534895be791870e2f49b8be32ff6f7ab&regi_id=5893540820190719

TERRORISM
Ted Cruz Asks U.S. to Designate Antifa a Terrorist Organization
https://pjmedia.com/trending/ted-cruz-asks-u-s-to-designate-antifa-a-terrorist-organization/

IMMIGRATION
Arizona Dem. Joins Republicans in Effort to Expedite Deportation of Migrants with Invalid Asylum Claims 
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/arizona-dem-joins-republicans-in-effort-to-expedite-deportation-of-migrants-with-invalid-asylum-claims/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NR%20Daily%20Monday%20through%20Friday%202019-07-19&utm_term=NRDaily-Smart

Students Shocked Over President Obama's 'White Nationalist' Statements About Illegal Immigration
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2019/07/18/students-shocked-over-president-obamas-white-nationalism-comments-on-illegal-immigration-n2550282?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=07/19/2019&bcid=3cb4e56ddeac8885c78e874bb1d8f1a4&recip=27077809

Democrats get lecture on border conditions 
https://washingtontimes-dc.newsmemory.com/?token=386f47f0331dd683f07caff75ce0b8fb_5d31e0d5_5cd1fdb&selDate=20190719&goTo=A01&artid=0&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=washingtontimes-E-Editions&utm_source=washingtontimes&utm_content=Read-Button

Homeland chief hits back at 'squad member' Tlaib???s claim he wants to keep migrant kids in detention 'longer' than law allows - as AOC grills him on controversial Facebook posts by Border Protection officers during Committee hearing
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7263619/Squad-members-Tlaib-AOC-grill-Homeland-Security-chief.html

MIDDLE EAST
As Iran-U.S. Tensions Rise, Hezbollah Readies for War With Israel
https://news.yahoo.com/iran-u-tensions-rise-hezbollah-084513779.html

Iran???s Seizure of British Vessel Further Roils Gulf Region
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/19/world/middleeast/iran-british-tanker-drone.html?te=1&nl=evening-briefing&emc=edit_ne_20190719?campaign_id=57&instance_id=11048&segment_id=15395&user_id=534895be791870e2f49b8be32ff6f7ab&regi_id=5893540820190719&login=email&auth=login-email

POTUS
False Racism Accusations Don???t Excuse the Real Thing
https://news.yahoo.com/false-racism-accusations-don-t-103006836.html

TRUMPGATE
Federal judge temporarily halts congressional Democrats??? subpoenas of Trump financial records 
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/federal-judge-temporarily-halts-congressional-democrats-subpoenas-of-trump-financial-records/ar-AAEAks9?ocid=spartandhp

POLITICS
Sanders Campaign Workers Demand $15 Hourly Wage 
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/sanders-campaign-workers-demand-15-hourly-wage/

Westerners try to assure relocating BLM workers 
https://washingtontimes-dc.newsmemory.com/?token=386f47f0331dd683f07caff75ce0b8fb_5d31e0d5_5cd1fdb&selDate=20190719&goTo=A01&artid=0&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=washingtontimes-E-Editions&utm_source=washingtontimes&utm_content=Read-Button

"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)