Sunday, May 28, 2017

@1:20, 5/28/17

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Opinion

The Demented Detectives on Seth Rich’s Case

Some people believe conspiracy theories because they feel lost. Others because they are ruthlessly cynical.

Seth Rich remains dead.

2
Business Day

Fox News Retracts Seth Rich Story That Stirred Controversy

Mr. Rich’s family had demanded a retraction after Sean Hannity continued to promote a theory that Mr. Rich was murdered because he was involved in WikiLeaks.

FoxNews  is an entertainment operation.

3
Well

A 1-Hour Walk, 3 Times a Week, Has Benefits for Dementia

Regular, brisk walks improved thinking skills in older people with a common form of age-related memory loss.

Gretchen Reynolds is making sense.

4
U.S.

Video: Fact Check: The Updated G.O.P. Health Care Bill

Does the health care bill passed by the House live up to Republicans’ promises? We checked the facts.

The new Republican health care act is dead.

5
Well

High-Fiber Diet Tied to Less Knee Arthritis

As fiber intake increased, the prevalence of knee osteoarthritis decreased, a new analysis found.

The study would be more effective if it found a mechanism.
The observation that high dietary fiber reduces arthritis risk is useful.

6
Science

Somehow, This Fish Fathered a Near Clone of Itself

A fish was discovered carrying genes only from its father, a result of a rare phenomenon called androgenesis never before documented in vertebrates.

"Accident or not, it happened, and shows that reproduction can vary in all sorts of “weird and wonderful” ways across the natural world, said Benjamin Oldroyd, a professor of genetics at the University of Sydney who was not involved in this study.
“It may not add up to a hill of beans other than realizing that the world is much more complicated than we assume,” he said. “But it’s part of what life is, as a curious human, to understand these things.”"

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Job Market

Welcome Aboard! And by the Way: I Quit

A manager wonders about the ethics of recruiting new workers while simultaneously pursuing a job elsewhere.

The advice seems appropriate.

8
Opinion

Trump vs. Math

The budget commits a jaw-dropping error of economic logic.

Donald Trump is living in a bubble.

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N.Y. / Region

Still Haunted After a Case Goes Cold

Irene Gowins-Sowells watched her husband die nearly 17 years ago after he was fatally shot in front of their Brooklyn home. And no one can tell her who killed him.

Unfinished business.

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Podcasts

‘The Daily’: Fake News Dies Hard

How the unsolved murder of Seth Rich has become a case study of how and why fake news endures.

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