YOU CAN FINALLY ENCRYPT FACEBOOK MESSENGER, SO DO IT

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- You can finally encrypt Facebook Messenger, so do it. (Wired) "While the company’s software updates for iOS and Android haven’t explicitly mentioned the encryption feature, anyone who updates their Messenger app will now find the “secret” option on the top right of the “new message” screen."

ART:

- An $8 Million Arena Sculpture to Usher In Civilization 3.0 (NYT)

BUSINESS/FINANCE:

- Hedge Fund Targets Companies’ Weakness: The Gender Gap (NYT)

EDITORIAL:

- A President Trump could end the era of American global leadership (WaPo)

- Donald Trump’s contempt for American democracy (WaPo)

HEALTH:

- Brain Benefits of Exercise Diminish After Short Rest (NYT) "The results showed striking changes in blood flow now. Much less blood streamed to most of the areas in the runners’ brains, and the flow declined significantly to both the left and right lobes of the hippocampus."

- Who should take statins? A vicious debate over cholesterol drugs. (WaPo)

LIVING:

- How to raise kinder, less entitled kids (according to science) (WaPo) "When someone cuts us off in traffic, shows up late or otherwise offends us, we often reflexively attribute it to an intrinsic characteristic of the person, yet when we inconvenience others, we generally blame outside forces. This Scrooge-like tendency is so universal that behavioral scientists have a name for it: the fundamental attribution error."

NEWS:

- Mitch McConnell and Paul Ryan Are of Two Minds About Divided Government (NYT) "Speaker Paul D. Ryan says he has had it with Republicans and Democrats sharing power, complaining that it breeds dysfunction and prevents major accomplishments. In contrast, Senator Mitch McConnell, the majority leader, says those periods when the parties split control of Congress and the White House are the ideal time to get big things done."

SCIENCE:

- Move Over, Fracking. There’s a New Technology in Town (Ozy) "As strange as it sounds, producers are experimenting with ways to zap previously unextractable oil resources with microwaves, which has the potential to kick-start an even bigger energy revolution than fracking — and appease environmentalists while they’re at it."

TECHNOLOGY:

- Google moves into hardware production with smartphone and other devices (WaPo)

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