Month: January 2020
NYTimes: Boris Johnson Might Break Up the U.K. That’s a Good Thing.
Boris Johnson Might Break Up the U.K. That’s a Good Thing. nyti.ms/2FDr4jL
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NYTimes – Everyone Knows Memory Fails as You Age. But Everyone Is Wrong.
Everyone Knows Memory Fails as You Age. But Everyone Is Wrong.
Even 20-year-olds forget the simplest things.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/10/opinion/sunday/age-memory.html
PBS – Newshour Weekend — A neuroscientist lays out the keys to aging well
A neuroscientist lays out the keys to aging well
As a neuroscientist, professor emeritus of psychology, musician and best-selling author, Daniel Levitin has extensively studied the brain and its impact on aging. His latest book, "Successful Aging," explores the questions: what happens in the brain as we age and what are the keys to aging well? NewsHour Weekend’s Christopher Booker recently spoke to Levitin to learn more.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/a-neuroscientist-lays-out-the-keys-to-aging-well
Australia Shows Us the Road to Hell
Australia Shows Us the Road to Hell
The political reaction is scarier than the fires.
In a rational world, the burning of Australia would be a historical turning point. After all, it’s exactly the kind of catastrophe climate scientists long warned us to expect if we didn’t take action to limit greenhouse gas emissions. In fact, a 2008 report commissioned by the Australian government predicted that global warming would cause the nation’s fire seasons to begin earlier, end later, and be more intense — starting around 2020
www.nytimes.com/2020/01/09/opinion/australia-fires.html
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Trump Has Made Us All Stupid The decline of discourse in the anti-Trump echo chamber.
Trump Has Made Us All Stupid
The decline of discourse in the anti-Trump echo chamber.
Donald Trump is impulse-driven, ignorant, narcissistic and intellectually dishonest. So you’d think that those of us in the anti-Trump camp would go out of our way to show we’re not like him — that we are judicious, informed, mature and reasonable.
But the events of the past week have shown that the anti-Trump echo chamber is becoming a mirror image of Trump himself — overwrought, uncalibrated and incapable of having an intelligent conversation about any complex policy problem.
www.nytimes.com/2020/01/09/opinion/trump-iran-media.html
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******** NYTimes: Buckle Up for Another Facebook Election
Democracies cannot coexist in a world with social media like Facebook. Facebook and other social media should be barred from political advertising – full stop.
Buckle Up for Another Facebook Election nyti.ms/2NfHao3
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NYTimes: Did Trump and Iran Just Bury the Hatchet, or the Future?
Did Trump and Iran Just Bury the Hatchet, or the Future? nyti.ms/2tCkIhX
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