Friday, August 18, 2017

@18:40, 8/17/17

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U.S.

Trump Has Always Had Complicated Personal Relations With Blacks

As questions of racism increasingly dog the president, his past, from dating a biracial model to his love for the black celebrity limelight, paints a complex picture.

Trump's coalition with the racists is important to him now.
It looks like he does not think enough to be personally racist.

2
Arts

James Corden Jabs Trump for Disbanding His Business Councils

Mr. Corden said: “Forget creating new manufacturing jobs in this country. Trump can’t even manufacture manufacturing councils.”

Donald Trump is wrong again.

3
Opinion

A Word to the Hungry

We need to think less about the shape of our bodies and more about living sensibly.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/11/opinion/women-weight-food-body-shaming.html

The payment must have been significant.

4
Science

Earth in Suspension

A total solar eclipse is not just the momentary theft of day. It is a profound interruption of the world as we know it.

Night is the Earth's shadow.

5
Style

The Sex Partner Who Refuses to Share His Saturday Night

And: picking up the dinner tab for traveling friends; revealing a case of PTSD to one’s boss; and feeling competitive with a married, pregnant sister.

Talk to me.

Sooner is better.    As soon as you can is best.

6
Opinion

Can’t Eclipse the American Spirit

What’s happening in the heavens is a bonanza on earth.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DLreOgMIOQ

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U.S.

Trump Gives White Supremacists an Unequivocal Boost

During a shouting-match of a news conference, an angry president asserted that “alt-left” activists in Charlottesville were as much to blame as neo-Nazis.

No proof is possible.

8
Science

An Eclipse Chaser’s Guide to Your First Eclipse

The coming solar eclipse will be a wondrous sight — if you get into viewing position in time, the clouds cooperate and you’re ready to have your mind blown.

Not for me.

9
Science

Marian C. Diamond, 90, Student of the Brain, Is Dead

Dr. Diamond, a neuroscientist, challenged the long-held assumption that the brain is a static and unchangeable entity and examined Albert Einstein’s.

Her work is published.

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Science

A Speedier Way to Catalog Human Cells (All 37 Trillion of Them)

Many types of cells remain unknown, but researchers have discovered a faster way to group cells by function, paving the way for a complete census.

The reasoning seems faulty.  Exhaustion has a fog all its own.

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