- Obamacare Is a Policy Triumph and a Political Failure (NY Magazine) "Obamacare has made American health care both dramatically more affordable and humanitarian. Its various cost reforms have helped bring medical inflation to decades-low levels, and it has given access to basic medical care to 20 million Americans who lacked it before. And yet public opinion has never reflected these realities. The law’s advocates assumed that perception would eventually catch up with reality, but this has not happened, and there is little reason to believe it will anytime soon. And if there is a single overarching flaw in Obamacare, it is a failure to account for politics. It is completely routine for large social policy reforms to have technical changes afterward. What’s abnormal is the Republican boycott of any measure that might improve the law’s function. Technical fixes to Obamacare are conceptually easy and, given the law’s surprisingly low costs, very affordable."
LIVING:
LIVING:
- How Kids Learn Prejudice (NYT) "It is also important to consider that negative information is particularly compelling to children. For example, my colleagues and I have found that when children learn about people committing antisocial actions, they remember those actions in greater detail than they do with comparable positive actions. Talking about entire groups of people as being threatening or dangerous, as Mr. Trump has done, is precisely the kind of language that children are likely to internalize."
NEWS:
- Don’t forget: Hillary Clinton is blazing a momentous trail (WaPo) "Think, for a moment, about what a remarkable milestone that would be. Consider what it would say about the long and difficult struggle to make the Constitution’s guarantees of freedom and equality encompass all Americans. The first 43 presidents were all members of a privileged minority group — white males. The 44th is a black man, and the 45th may well be a white woman. That is a very big deal."
- Why the next president may have more power than usual (WaPo)
- Poor kids who do everything right don’t do better than rich kids who do everything wrong (WaPo)
SCIENCE:
- Renewables Now Exceed All Other Forms of New Power Generation (Gizmodo) "Renewables in the form of solar and wind now account for more installed capacity than any other form of electricity, including coal. That’s huge, especially in consideration of the ambitious climate targets reached in Paris last year. Incredibly, about half a million solar panels were installed each day around the world last year."
SPORTS:
- Heading a soccer ball causes instant brain changes, study finds (WaPo) "Even after just a single session of heading, memory-test performance was reduced by as much as 67 percent, though the alterations appeared to clear within 24 hours. The researchers caution against taking this temporary disruption as a sign of no long-term damage."
WATCH THIS:
- Fastball (Netflix)
BOTTOM OF THE NEWS:
- Self-Driving Truck’s First Mission: A Beer Run (NYT) "The truck drove through Denver — alongside regular passenger car traffic — and navigated to its destination in Colorado Springs without incident. The delivery was indicative of Uber’s larger ambitions to become an enormous transportation network, one in which the company is responsible for moving anything, like people, hot meals or cases of beer, around the globe, at all hours and as efficiently as possible."
- Would You Stick a Needle in Your Scrotum to Smooth It Out? (Esquire) "a plastic surgery 'derived from a botulism toxin' that 'smooths and plumps the fine lines, wrinkles, and sagging skin of the scrotum.'"
- Inside the Machine That Will Turn Your Corpse Into Compost (Wired)
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NEWS:
- Don’t forget: Hillary Clinton is blazing a momentous trail (WaPo) "Think, for a moment, about what a remarkable milestone that would be. Consider what it would say about the long and difficult struggle to make the Constitution’s guarantees of freedom and equality encompass all Americans. The first 43 presidents were all members of a privileged minority group — white males. The 44th is a black man, and the 45th may well be a white woman. That is a very big deal."
- Why the next president may have more power than usual (WaPo)
- Poor kids who do everything right don’t do better than rich kids who do everything wrong (WaPo)
SCIENCE:
- Renewables Now Exceed All Other Forms of New Power Generation (Gizmodo) "Renewables in the form of solar and wind now account for more installed capacity than any other form of electricity, including coal. That’s huge, especially in consideration of the ambitious climate targets reached in Paris last year. Incredibly, about half a million solar panels were installed each day around the world last year."
SPORTS:
- Heading a soccer ball causes instant brain changes, study finds (WaPo) "Even after just a single session of heading, memory-test performance was reduced by as much as 67 percent, though the alterations appeared to clear within 24 hours. The researchers caution against taking this temporary disruption as a sign of no long-term damage."
WATCH THIS:
- Fastball (Netflix)
BOTTOM OF THE NEWS:
- Self-Driving Truck’s First Mission: A Beer Run (NYT) "The truck drove through Denver — alongside regular passenger car traffic — and navigated to its destination in Colorado Springs without incident. The delivery was indicative of Uber’s larger ambitions to become an enormous transportation network, one in which the company is responsible for moving anything, like people, hot meals or cases of beer, around the globe, at all hours and as efficiently as possible."
- Would You Stick a Needle in Your Scrotum to Smooth It Out? (Esquire) "a plastic surgery 'derived from a botulism toxin' that 'smooths and plumps the fine lines, wrinkles, and sagging skin of the scrotum.'"
- Inside the Machine That Will Turn Your Corpse Into Compost (Wired)
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