Category Archives: Daily Digest

• Many Americans say their financial situation is worse since the Great Recession
• Trump Has Gotten China to Lower Its Tariffs. Just Toward Everyone Else.
• Awakening to the Traumacene
• When Social Security Runs Out: What the Program Will Look Like in 2035
• How the FCC lost a year in “the race to 5G”
• Blood Types May Soon Be Indifferent As Scientists Use Our Gut Bacteria to Make ‘Universal’ Blood Type
• Meanwhile, over on Planet Japan
• The diet that’s shrinking your brain
• The Worst Patients In The World
• Saving the Planet With Electric Cars Means Strangling This Desert
• Largest Animal Epidemic in History Is Due to Industrial Farming
• Oil price drop would dampen the offshore rebound
• Biblical plague of locusts is swarming over Italian farmlands. Could it happen in the US?
• AccuWeather’s new analysis predicts substantial 2019 crop yield shortfall

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• Robocall revenge: Meet the techies turning the tables on scammers
• Despite Being Homeless and Illiterate as a Teen, Man Now Makes Thousands Creating ‘Backyard Beaches’
• More researchers report promising Alzheimer’s vaccine results in mice
• I Wrote This on a 30-Year-Old Computer
• Europe’s tiniest states square off in the Olympic mini-games
• Antennas of flexible nanotube films an alternative for electronics
• The benefits of drinking herbal tea
• Largest Ever Hybrid-Electric Aircraft Takes Flight – and Airlines Are Already Expressing Interest
• Two hours a week is key dose of nature for health and wellbeing
• Most ‘meat’ in 2040 will not come from dead animals, says report

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• China extradition clashes plunge Hong Kong into historic violence
• Trump to announce US troop increase in Poland
• This Is One Of The Worst Risk/Reward Setups In History
• Seniors were sold a risk-free retirement with reverse mortgages. Now they face foreclosure.
• Jon Stewart chokes up, gives angry speech to Congress
• Red Pill Realities
• Sign the International Appeal to Stop 5G on Earth and in Space
• Are McMansions Making People Any Happier?
• 400 arrested at Moscow police abuse march: monitor
• Ebola outbreak enters ‘truly frightening phase’ as it turns deadly in Uganda
• Facebook debuts US blood donation tool, its latest public health move
• If Gold Was Just a Barbarous Relic…
• U.S. Gasoline Prices Set To Drop As Driving Season Begins
• How modern life is transforming the human skeleton
• Cheerios, Nature Valley cereals contain Roundup ingredient, study finds

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• A $45 billion public works plan and what does Illinois get? Deeper in debt.
• China Expands Use of Local Government Debt in Stimulus Push
• Oil Drops Below $54 as Global Recession, Supply Concerns Mount
• Germany Gets a Recession Warning as Investor Confidence Plunges
• Bond Markets Rally as Investors Price In Monetary Easing
• Swiss National Bank to hold interest rates until at least 2021: Reuters poll
• Photos Of Travelers Coming In And Out Of The US Have Been Hacked And Stolen
• Rare Noctilucent Clouds, Earth’s Highest Clouds, Spotted in the Northern U.S. Over the Weekend

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• Life And Debt: Stories From Inside America’s GoFundMe Health Care System
• The Groups Where Thousands of Facebook Users Ask for Money
• The Nordic Secret
• Patients whose blood pressure only spikes at the doctor’s office are twice as likely to die of a heart attack or other cardiac event
• Cisco Makes Networks Smarter With Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
• How the Left Embraced Globalization
• New study dramatically narrows the search for advanced life in the universe
• The Tyranny Of TAPS – Hunting Down ‘Future Threats’
• Oh that it should come to this Pt. 8
• Gasoline Prices Set to Plunge at the Pump
• OPEC’s Struggle To Avoid $40 Oil
• Promising Compelling Electric Cars Is Easy, Building Them Is Hard — Audi e-tron & Jaguar I-PACE Recalls
• How Dengue, a Deadly Mosquito-Borne Disease, Could Spread in a Warming World
• Past climate change pushed birds from the northern hemisphere to the tropics
• Scientists discover unlikely culprit for fertilizing North Pacific Ocean: Asian dust

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• Weak US Employment Report Raises Red Flag on Economy
• Hong Kong March: Vast Protest of Extradition Bill Shows Fear of Eroding Freedoms
• FDA and FTC Hit Vape Companies With Warnings Over Influencer Posts on Social Media
• Trump Defends ‘Beautiful’ Tariffs as a Negotiating Tactic
• Why You May Be Less Prepared for Retirement Than You Think
• How much does lithium cost? The industry can’t seem to agree
• The Healing Power of Gardens: Oliver Sacks on the Psychological and Physiological Consolations of Nature
• How Safe Is Sunscreen?

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• From Beds to Beads to Bracelets, It’s Bad Out There in Retail
• One-third of Americans say they need a side gig to pay expenses
• How Can I Estimate the Income I’ll Need in Retirement?
• As Walmart turns to robots, it’s the human workers who feel like machines
• Prominent investigative journalist detained in Russia
• US, Russia blame each other as ships nearly collide in Asia
• Forget “Money”: What Will Matter Are Water, Energy, Soil and Food–and a Shared National Purpose
• Paul Craig Roberts: “That America” Is Gone
• Save your kids from the busted fate of the Millennials
• Refugees and Migrants From Venezuela top Four Million: IOM and UNHCR
• Sun’s 11-Year Cycle –“Powered By Tidal Forces of Venus, Earth, Jupiter”
• A ‘Gusher Of Red Ink’ For U.S. Shale
• Frogs are dying off at record rates — an ominous sign the 6th mass extinction is hitting one group of creatures hardest
• Oops! Glacier National Park quietly removed a visitor center sign saying its iconic glaciers will disappear by 2020 due to climate change.

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• FCC’s robocall blocking plan may finally give you some relief
• House passes family leave with support of Lamont
• Colorado becomes first state in nation to cap price of insulin
• Boulder County commissioners see permanent supportive housing as potential homelessness solution
• One of the largest environmental protests ever is underway. It’s led by children.
• Lawyers are optimistic that the youths’ climate change lawsuit will go to trial
• Brazilian couple spends 20 years planting millions of trees on a barren cattle ranch to create a 1,750-acre paradise for animals pushed out by deforestation
• Seven acres of vacant Atlanta land to become nation’s largest public food forest

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• U.S. Manufacturing Index Dips to Lowest Level in Almost a Decade
• World marks 30 years since Tiananmen massacre as China censors all mention
• Venezuela Defaults on Gold Swap With Deutsche Bank
• The real cost of Trump’s tariffs on Mexico, explained
• U.S. Companies Add Fewest Jobs Since 2010, ADP Data Show
• New York school district pauses on facial recognition system
• A bill to halt facial recognition tech in schools
• The Peasants’ Revolt
• Facebook wants to send ’emotional’ robots to explore the world on tank-style tracks and scan the faces of people to ‘help users make friends’
• Crypto Commons
• Truth, Lies and Inflation
• A Look at the Future of Lithium Ion Batteries
• Oilfield Services Feel The Pain As Crude Prices Drop
• Elon Musk’s mega-constellations of Starlink artificial satellites will taint our view of the night sky, warn astronomers
• Climate change could pose ‘existential threat’ by 2050: report
• Ocean Acidification Innovation Act of 2019

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• Japan’s pension system inadequate in aging society, council warns
• Australia’s central bank cuts rates to record lows as growth sags
• Global Manufacturing Shrinks Amid Wall Street Recession Warning
• The Huge Asset Bubble You Aren’t Paying Attention To
• Inflation’s decline puts pressure back on ECB
• Civil War II Weather Report: Spicy Time Coming
• KLM Airlines wants to help build a more efficient jet with in-wing seating
• Number of Homeless People Jumps 12% Across L.A. County to Nearly 59,000
• Rare Earth Metals Caught in Trade War
• North American Imports Of OPEC Crude Oil Drop In 2018
• Heat, not drought, will drive lower crop yields, researchers say

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