PLATT-CURATED News

How Conversation Builds Character
https://www.artofmanliness.com/articles/how-conversation-builds-character/

GENERAL INTEREST
Here's Just How Miserable Woodstock Really Was
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/gabrielsanchez/miserable-woodstock-history?bftwnews&utm_term=4ldqpgc#4ldqpgc

Old Movie Stars Dance to Uptown Funk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=3&v=M1F0lBnsnkE

A dog's habits
https://twitter.com/RozierHistorian/status/1155557985093083136

Just found out Gorbachev did a commercial for pizza hut
https://twitter.com/zei_nabq/status/1161350265473290240

Exclusive: Inside the search for Amelia Earhart???s airplane
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/culture/2019/08/inside-search-for-amelia-earhart-airplane/

Devils Tower
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devils_Tower

Where Is the Most Lightning-Prone Place in the World?
https://www.livescience.com/54666-most-lightning-prone-place-in-the-world.html

A Tabloid Legend on Jeffrey Epstein???s Death
https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-tabloid-legend-on-jeffrey-epsteins-death-11565910441?emailToken=a3483960e819ab541496898de2bd7d1cpvLfRxmbeyuVyVP9W3vD3SNL4q9vNHQTlO5tMd8Y7I8ekvBTixEBi4b5dCEbH6IGFMKhd962994c+osfb1K+RHnT/MsRKv208a6iX+0SLYg%3D&reflink=article_email_share

PHYSICAL HEALTH
C. Diff Is Evolving Into Superbug in Response to Western Sugary Diets
https://www.ecowatch.com/c-diff-bacteria-evolving-superbug-2639853006.html

A cover-up just like Chernobyl: Sixty doctors who treated naked missile technicians wrapped in plastic bags after mystery Russian 'nuclear explosion' are 'flown to Moscow for urgent tests' after they were NOT told of radiation risk
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7366619/Medics-treating-victims-Russian-radiation-explosion-flown-Moscow-urgent-tests.html

MENTAL HEALTH
Trauma counselors were pressured to divulge private information about Facebook and Instagram content moderators they'd treated, letter by employees alleges
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7365981/Facebook-content-moderators-claim-trauma-counselors-pressured-divulge-info-sessions.html

Finding Home amid Ruptured Relationships 
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/08/finding-home-amid-ruptured-relationships/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NR%20Daily%20Saturday%202019-08-17&utm_term=NRDaily-Smart

MIND BOGGLING STUPID
An Alaskan Women???s Shelter Is Sued for Turning Away a ???Man in a Nightgown??? 
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/08/an-alaskan-womens-shelter-is-sued-for-turning-away-a-man-in-a-nightgown/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NR%20Daily%20Saturday%202019-08-17&utm_term=NRDaily-Smart

"May God ruin Trump", Tlaib's grandmother says
https://news.yahoo.com/may-god-ruin-trump-tlaibs-142958855.html

CULTURE
Here???s why my fellow millennials are seduced by socialism 
https://nypost.com/2019/08/16/heres-why-my-fellow-millennials-are-seduced-by-socialism/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app

SPORTS
South Africa's unlikely ultramarathoner helps others cross the finish line
https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Africa/2018/0706/South-Africa-s-unlikely-ultramarathoner-helps-others-cross-the-finish-line?cmpid=ema:mkt90day:20190817&src=journey

Best thing you???ll see today..
https://twitter.com/RexChapman/status/1161293150914318336

BUSINESS
Uber customers paid more than $6 billion in cash last year, and accounting for it isn???t easy
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/uber-customers-paid-more-than-6-billion-in-cash-last-year-and-accounting-for-it-isnt-easy-2019-08-16

Manufacturing shrinks, raising questions for Trump
https://thehill.com/policy/finance/457771-manufacturing-shrinks-raising-questions-for-trump

ASTRONOMY
The Supermassive Black Hole at the Center of Our Galaxy Just Lit Up and No One Knows Why
https://mysteriousuniverse.org/2019/08/the-supermassive-black-hole-at-the-center-of-our-galaxy-just-lit-up-and-no-one-knows-why/

ENERGY
Power plant outages, low wind puts Texans on high alert to conserve power
https://www.chron.com/business/energy/article/Power-plant-outages-low-wind-puts-Texans-on-high-14307971.php?cmpid=ffpower

ENVIRONMENT
A Kamikaze Climate Suit
https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-kamikaze-climate-suit-11565996020?emailToken=3691d35a7395a1fbb303c0a28ba8f0e2jqVlFrjteCgFPRKa9ynQNLAA1OaPU02DRAO86wIW0WXGYBbNsv3AdeDz3GLuhNPyZAdGd1yiP5pd00lk+IQI8Q%3D%3D&reflink=article_email_share

ORNITHOLOGY
Hitchcock-like scene as vomiting vultures swarm NY couple???s $700K vacation home
https://nypost.com/2019/08/16/hitchcock-like-scene-as-vomiting-vultures-swarm-ny-couples-700k-vacation-home/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app

SPACE
NASA picks headquarters for Moon lander
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-49381622

CYBER SECURITY
Massive Security Flaw Exposes Millions of Fingerprints
https://www.idropnews.com/news/massive-security-flaw-exposes-millions-of-fingerprints-heres-why-apple-users-dont-need-to-worry/114364/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Newsletter&utm_campaign=081619&utm_term=Newsletter

An ???Old-School Hacker??? Fights Cybercrime 
https://www.wsj.com/articles/an-old-school-hacker-fights-cybercrime-11565994214?emailToken=5d75d0ab9689a6204f97836b37f4dbdaHdo4QdRG9uoNXl7pyv/ErL6vwK2V/vefIvWKSaoCoB+cZOg89V41UIi7Fcf36BzNgxxODrZPv8nyX1QYgvJ0A2OHBgaDhKzKuQ2cYXglje4%3D&reflink=article_email_share

MILLIONS of Google Chrome users may STILL be using logins that have already been leaked online
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-7363789/Millions-people-need-change-login-details-Google-says.html

Is Your Phone Recording Your Conversations? The Answer Might Surprise You.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/smartphone-devices-recording-privacy_l_5d570869e4b056fafd0bbc09?ncid=APPLENEWS00001

FOREIGN POLICY
Pentagon underscores strong US relationship with Greenland
https://thehill.com/policy/defense/457765-pentagon-underscores-us-defense-relationship-with-greenland

DEFENSE
The Navy's new supercarrier arresting gear can now recover all of the service's aircraft ??? except the F-35
https://taskandpurpose.com/navy-gerald-ford-carrier-advanced-arresting-gear-f35

Navy sets sights on new submarine weapons
https://www.foxnews.com/tech/navy-sets-sights-on-new-submarine-weapons

MILITARY
A pair of Blue Angels jets got a little too close for comfort during training in Florida 
https://taskandpurpose.com/blue-angels-accidentally-touch-during-florida-practice

'She???s an old beast' ??? What it's like to serve aboard the Polar Star, the Pentagon's neglected 43-year-old stepchild 
https://taskandpurpose.com/polar-star-coast-guard-icebreaker

TERRORISM
ISIS fighters are being forced to do arts and crafts
https://taskandpurpose.com/isis-prisoners-art-therapy

IMMIGRATION
With Trump???s new immigration rule, a deep bow toward ???America First??? 
https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2019/0815/With-Trump-s-new-immigration-rule-a-deep-bow-toward-America-First?j=208967&sfmc_sub=105553743&l=1215_HTML&u=7425470&mid=10979696&jb=165&cmpid=ema:Weekender:20190817&src=newsletter

POLITICS
Donald Trump LOSES to all four leading Democrats in new presidential shock poll from Fox News
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7364617/Donald-Trump-LOSES-four-leading-Democrats-new-presidential-shock-poll-Fox-News.html

2020 Vision: Trump gets surprise Log Cabin Republicans endorsement
https://news.yahoo.com/2020-vision-trump-gets-surprise-log-cabin-republicans-endorsement-182340690.html

"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)