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STAT
- The world’s best-selling drug is in line for cheaper competition — eventually
- ‘One-two punch’ shows promise in knocking out mosquitoes that carry Zika, CDC reports
- Lawmakers urge DEA to reconsider ‘hasty’ ban of opioid-like kratom
- The curious case of the $9,500 skin gel
- Up and down the ladder: The latest comings and goings
- Extremely rare US leprosy case found in California elementary school student
- Pharmalot, Pharmalittle: Mylan’s parent bloggers feel jilted thanks to price hikes
- Why can’t nurses get a break?
- World Health Organization names six candidates running for director-general
- Meet the world’s top peer reviewer
- Zika in 30 seconds: What you need to know today
- Thousands of food ingredients aren’t regulated by the FDA. It’s time that changed
- The drug industry might finally have an answer for migraines
- Can sheer willpower keep patients alive in their dying hours?
Revolutions
Scientific Method – Ars Technica
- Ig Nobel honors go to a testicle sling contraceptive, mirrored itching
- SpaceX still looking at “all plausible causes” of static fire accident
- Pharma company boosts the price of an old acne cream 3,900%
- How did plankton end up on top of Antarctica’s mountains?
ResearchBuzz
- California Law Enforcement, Law Networks, Literacy, More: Friday Afternoon Buzz, September 23, 2016
- Bahama Companies, LinkedIn Education, Canadian Soldiers, More: Friday Buzz, September 23, 2016
NPR Fresh Air
- [smithsonianmag:
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The Presurfer
- Ghost Minitaur
- 10 Ancient Places Of Legend That May Never Have Existed
- Roadside Curiosities: Things That Make You Go 'What the Heck?'
- Bananas
- Cat Bonnet For Cats Who Like Wearing Things On Their Heads
- Planet Unknown
- Scientists Use 3D Scans To 'Unwrap' An Ancient Scroll
Futurity
- Satellites link Texas earthquake to oil/gas waste disposal
- Ancient reptile had a thick, ‘three-eyed’ skull
- Melatonin tells these fish to hum all night
- Researchers aren’t talking to LGB teens of color
- Fingerprint scans could save 5 million children’s lives
- New video is like riding a whale while it eats
- Stabilizing SOD1 protein de-clumps motor neurons
Recyclart
Main Feed - Environmental Defense
Modern FarmerModern Farmer
- This Weekend, Clergy of Many Faiths are Drawing Attention to Food Waste
- “Seed: The Untold Story” Will Make You Look at Plant Babies in a Whole New Way
- 6 New Books We’re Reading this Fall
Big Picture
WebUrbanist
Committee on Science, Space, and Technology
The Hacker Factor Blog
Food and Drug Administration--Press Releases
- FDA approves expanded indications for Ilaris for three rare diseases
- FDA approves Amjevita, a biosimilar to Humira
Internet Archive Blogs
In Custodia Legis: Law Librarians of Congress
WIRED
- Computer Scientists Close In on Perfect, Hack-Proof Code
- While You Were Offline: Skittles PR Faces Its Biggest Crisis Ever
- Don’t Try to Make a Living Writing Short Stories
- Palmer Luckey Is the Worst, But He Doesn’t Reflect Silicon Valley
- Salesforce Buying Twitter Would Make Perfect Sense
We Make Money Not Art
Dilbert Daily Strip
CreativeApplications.Net
OET Experimental Licensing Branch Recent Grants
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CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report
GOOD
- Believe It Or Not, There’s An Even More Hotly Contested Election You Should Be Following
- Officer Saves A Suicidal Man’s Life After Talking To Him About Football
- How To Pick GOOD Almonds
- Dutch Students Live With The Elderly In Exchange For Free Boarding
- NBA Player-Turned-Sacramento Mayor Punches Pie-Throwing Activist
- The Power of Mindfulness in Unexpected Places
- High School Quarterback Gives Homecoming Crown To Friend With Cerebral Palsy
- Obama Shuts Down Trump For Saying Black Americans Have “Never Been Worse Off”
- New Clinton Ad Shows How Trump’s Sexist Insults Affect Young Women
- Oakland High School Band Takes A Knee, Sends Most Powerful Message Yet
- This List Of Highest-Paid Public Employees Will Make You Angry, But Here’s Why it Shouldn’t
- The Dalai Lama's Donald Trump Impression Is Spot On
Grist
- Haze fills the air and ash rains from the sky: Just another day in Siberia.
- North American tribes forge an alliance to fight oil projects.
- Car-free cities might be catching on.
- Debate moderators say climate questions don’t make good TV
- Trump gives his classic right-wing energy plan a scary historical name
- You don’t get Leonardo DiCaprio by being this thirsty, people.
- Here are our reading recs to kick off six months of hibernation.
Eurostat News releases
Front Porch
McSweeney’s
- Excerpts From the Gilmore Girls Revival Script, Which Seem to Indicate That Aliens Play a Large Role in the Show
- List: Lesser-Known Writing Fellowships
- Inside Witnesses: One Crime’s Many Narratives: Shira and Her Boss Take Care of Business
Features – FiveThirtyEight
- What’s Wrong With Aaron Rodgers?
- The Key States In The Contest For Senate Control
- The Science Of Clinton: Education, Advanced Manufacturing And More Money For Research
- The Four Types Of Denzel Washington Movies
- When Does A Presidential Candidate’s Mental Health Matter?
- How Big A Table Can The Carpenter Build?
- Significant Digits For Friday, Sept. 23, 2016
- Religion And Education Explain The White Vote
Design Milk
- Teatime Made Anew with Purpur
- House as a Rock by Global Architects
- Elevate Entertaining With Sarmarie
- From Concept to Reality: The Self-Lacing Nike HyperAdapt 1.0
- Say Hello to Hemp Sunglasses
- Friday Five with Alexander Tochilovsky
The Curious Wavefunction
kottke.org
- The most amazing whistler in the world
- Thermal photography of classic American foods
- ASL performance of “Alexander Hamilton”
- The story of the modern cocktail revival
- How the Mona Lisa became so overrated
National Geographic News
- National Park Service Faces Sex Harassment Scandal
- Australia Is Drifting So Fast GPS Can't Keep Up
- Devil Frog Vomits Up a New Ant Species
- How the African American Museum Snagged Washington’s Best Real Estate
- See the Native Americans on the Front Lines of a Historic Protest
- Watch a Daring Mission to Rescue Rare Tree Frogs
- Keys to Our Early Ancestry Provide Plenty More to Unlock
- Map Shows Every River That Flows to the Mighty Mississippi
- Pictures Capture the Bond Between Politicians and Their Dogs
- These 7 Obscure Animals May Get More Protection From Humans
someecards.com
- No strings.
- Evanna Lynch, the actress who played Luna Lovegood, hates her Patronus.
- 25 tweets from funny women on Twitter this week: therapy, Patronuses, banjos and more.
- Kim Kardashian is the latest leader of a K-based clan to maybe back Trump.
- Lupita Nyong’o loved meeting Beyoncé, even if her drunk friend made the pic blurry.
- You will believe what Kristen Stewart looks like blonde.
- Ariel Winter Instagrams herself getting makeup on her naked butt because she's a star.
- Don't turn in a paper you wrote while wasted, student warns. It might be hilarious.
- The 20 funniest reactions to Ted Cruz wussing out and boarding the Trump Train.
- Kylie Jenner is thinking about baby names. God help us.
- This is how long it takes the average man to orgasm, according to the shortest study of all time.
- Fall break.
- Mel Brooks tried to pants Obama but he wasn't quick enough.
- Uncle accidentally sends penis pic to entire family, then totally fails to hide his tracks.
- Exes Demi Lovato and Joe Jonas lived the ultimate nightmare when they got stuck in an elevator together.
- Go au natural this Fall by making your lips look like rocks.
- Woman trapped in Port-a-Potty during movement. The other kind of movement.
- Dr. Pimple Popper says, "Get outta here, ya crazy cyst."
- Mom diagnosed with 'cancerous growth' discovers it's something much better. Actually, two somethings.
- The top 41 tweets of the week, as picked by someone who dearly loves tweets.
- Using tanning beds may force you to have an awkward conversation with your sexual partner.
- Kesha sings perfectly defiant 'You Don't Own Me' on the Brooklyn stop of her F*ck The World Tour.
- Blac Chyna, Kylie, and Tyga attempting to interact is as awkward as all your conversations.
- 8 alerts that would make your office's Google calendar actually useful.
- Horrified woman suddenly recognizes her new boss from that time he sent her inappropriate pics.
- New Clinton ad featuring young girls takes aim at Trump's sexist track record.
- Amy Schumer and Blake Lively called out the sexist double standard on these kids' magazine covers.
- Woman live tweets sitting next to guy's 'terrifying baby doll' that has its own plane ticket.
- James Corden got to the bottom of the 'Stranger Things'/'Parks and Rec' paternity theory.
- People revealed the craziest things an ex ever said to try to win them back.
- Advice columnist Amy Dickinson can't believe it when dude writes in just to mansplain mansplaining to her.
- Here's the scientific case against wearing tampons in under 4 minutes.
- The liberal comedy stylings of Barack Obama and Seth Myers are to blame for Donald Trump.