FOR MANY WOMEN, TRUMP'S 'LOCKER ROOM TALK' BRINGS MEMORY OF ABUSE

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- For Many Women, Trump’s ‘Locker Room Talk’ Brings Memories of Abuse (NYT) "Yet by Saturday morning, she [Kelly Oxford] was getting as many as 50 responses per minute: often-explicit, first-person accounts of molestation. A hashtag had materialized: '#notokay.' The Twitter posts continued to pour in through the weekend. And by Monday afternoon, nearly 27 million people had responded or visited Ms. Oxford’s Twitter page. A social media movement was born as multitudes of women came forward to share their stories. The result has been a kind of collective, nationwide purge of painful, often long-buried memories."

HEALTH:

- Let’s Talk a Millennial Into Getting a Flu Shot (NYT)

NEWS:

- ‘I’m the Last Thing Standing Between You and the Apocalypse’ (NYT)

SCIENCE:

- Why Obama may have picked the wrong planet (WaPo) "At about 50 kilometers above the surface the atmosphere of Venus is the most earthlike environment (other than Earth itself) in the solar system,' wrote Geoffrey Landis, a NASA scientist, in a 2003 paper."

TECHNOLOGY

- Twitter’s Woes Signal the End of the Social Wars (Wired) "There are many reasons the titans of tech would pass [on buying Twitter]. Twitter isn’t growing fast enough, it doesn’t make enough money, and it is overrun by trolls, morons, and bullies. And those are the big problems. But the fact no one seems to want one of the world’s most influential social platforms says something about how the landscape has changed."

- Workplace by Facebook, or a Party in the Office (The New Yorker) "Software’s emotional dimension is crucial: how it feels dictates how it’s used. (Architects hire environmental psychologists; tech companies hire user-experience researchers.) Microsoft Word is the quiet room at the university library; personal Gmail is a dirty kitchen, yesterday’s plates stacked next to the sink; Twitter is an overcrowded bar. Throughout the day, I’ll move from room to room, alternating between solitude and socializing, work and play."

BOTTOM OF THE NEWS:

- Crikey, We Need Another Steve Irwin (Ozy) "The fact that a decade later most people struggle to name another wildlife communicator is a testament both to Irwin’s uniqueness and to the gap in science communication that he left behind. Wildlife science communication has declined. While space, engineering and physics are crucial fields, if we continue to sideline wildlife presentation and fail to foster a new crop of communicators, who will we have to effectively personalize conservation and tell us what’s at stake?"

- McDonald's downplays Ronald McDonald while 'creepy clown' sightings spread (AP)

- Why people go @*@&@(*&! in the office (WaPo)

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