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Wednesday, Jul 9
TSA Shoe Policy, AI Education, and Airplane Toilets
TSA begins to unwind no-shoes policy at airport security lines. Find this story and more in today's digest.
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Tuesday, Jul 8
Tariffs, Mushroom Murders, and America's Loneliest Road
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Monday, Jul 7
Texas Floods, America Party, and Flies Versus Maggots
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Thursday, Jul 3
Independence Day, Diddy Verdict, and a Forgotten Founding Father
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Wednesday, Jul 2
'Alligator Alcatraz,' Megabill Vote, and Stargazing Opportunities
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Business & Finance
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Tracking US spending this year
US Treasury Fiscal Data via fiscaldata.treasury.gov
Modern monetary theory, explained
The Problem With Jon Stewart via youtube.com
The context behind US defense spending
Econofact via econofact.org
The history and legacy of FDR's New Deal policies
This is Democracy Podcast via podcasts.la.utexas.edu
Experiment with the national budget with this calculator
America Off Balance via calculator.americaoffbalance.org
Visualizing US government spending
USAFacts via usafacts.org
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Science & Technology
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CBT helps rewire the brain's false beliefs by challenging negative thoughts
Sprouts via youtube.com
Hail forms in freezing temperatures thousands of feet above the ground
The National Weather Desk via youtube.com
Turbulence can be described by mathematically models rooted in chaos theory
TED-Ed via youtube.com
Panic attacks are intense fear episodes that often occur without a clear trigger
UnitedHealthcare via uhc.com
JWST might spot life faster on ocean worlds than Earth-like ones
Live Science via livescience.com
Plant hormones and growth regulators guide growth stages and responses in plants
Oregon State University via extension.oregonstate.edu
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Health & Medicine
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What causes autoimmune diseases?
Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell via youtube.com
Physiological muscle memory allows us to quickly regain lost musculature
CNN via cnn.com
How to remember everything
Undo via undo.fm
How the feared self fuels OCD
Psyche via psyche.co
Board games can improve life satisfaction and coping self-efficacy
Tabletop Gaming via tabletopgaming.co.uk
The rarest blood type in the world
1440 via youtube.com
World History
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The colorful history and medieval origins of tarot
Smithsonian Magazine via smithsonianmag.com
In admiration of ancient Rome's Appian Way
3 Quarks Daily via 3quarksdaily.com
Minneapolis' sewage-filled Schieks Cave
Atlas Obscura via atlasobscura.com
Top 10 medieval castles in Ireland
Medievalists.net via medievalists.net
Snapshots of life in rural Cuba in the 1950s
Vintage Everyday via vintag.es
How the Declaration sought help from Spain and France
Smithsonian Magazine via smithsonianmag.com
Society & Culture
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The 1977 'SNL' Mardi Gras special is considered the show's biggest disaster
Cracked.com via cracked.com
The 1980s brought luxury items into the bathroom
The MIT Press Reader via thereader.mitpress.mit.edu
Saudi Arabia began investing in international sports in the mid-2010s
BBC Sport via bbc.com
JRR Tolkien believed fairy tales needed dramatic reversals of fortune
Big Think via bigthink.com
Tracey Ullman sued ‘The Simpsons’ after the cartoon left her show
Cracked.com via cracked.com
Writer William Gibson invented the term 'cyberspace'
the Guardian via theguardian.com
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