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  • January 31, 2022January 31, 2022

Your Sense of Smell Declines as You Age, But Scientists Say Identifying a Sweet Scent Is Always the Easiest

By Nashia Baker Research has backed the theory that people begin losing their sense of smell at the age of 55. However, scientists are now finding that it’s not an all-encompassing loss. Acc

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  • January 31, 2022January 31, 2022

Today is National Pie Day

Here are some of my favorite winter pies (I love pie) Homemade Apple Pie Recipe With a Caramelized Filling and Flaky Pie Crust  Southern pecan pie (I use Lyle’s Golden Syrup or King Syr

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  • January 31, 2022January 31, 2022

This weekend marked the 49th anniversary of Roe v. Wade.

It may be its last as settled law. As the Supreme Court considers a Mississippi law that bans abortion after 15 weeks, and whether to overturn Roe altogether, The Times examined how U.S. abort

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  • January 31, 2022January 31, 2022

How to read the Doomsday Clock

By SJ Beard 19th January 2022 The Doomsday Clock depicts how close humanity is to armageddon – but where did it come from, how do you read its time, and what can we learn from it? Existentia

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  • January 31, 2022January 31, 2022

Nikole Hannah-Jones surreptitiously quoted MLK to show how radical some would find him today

(the Washington Post catches up to the story) By Lateshia Beachum 1/19/22 After Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones used the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s words in a s

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  • January 31, 2022January 31, 2022

8 Anti-Inflammatory Foods to Add to Your Diet

By Brierley Horton, MS, RD Updated January 14, 2022 There are two types of inflammation, and their consequences are quite different. Acute inflammation is the kind that’s both safe and

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  • January 31, 2022January 31, 2022

How to Get Rid of Pink Mold in the Shower

Erica Young Updated: Jan. 05, 2022 What is the pink mold in my shower? So here’s the surprising fact: the “pink mold” in your shower is not mold. Ready to get scientific? The pink residu

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  • January 31, 2022January 31, 2022

MLK Day

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  • January 17, 2022January 17, 2022

Zora Neale Hurston

Novelist, folklorist, dramatist, and anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston wrote in her memoir, Dust Tracks on a Road, that she was born on January 7, 1891, in Eatonville, Florida,

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  • January 17, 2022January 17, 2022

These 5 Walmart, Kroger, ALDI and Other Grocery Store Foods Are Being Pulled From Shelves

BY AMANDA MCDONALD JANUARY 10, 2022 Packaged Salads Beef Sticks  Infant Formula Read the entire list HERE.

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  • January 17, 2022January 17, 2022

Freebies To Grab In Early 2022 That Will Make You Oh-So Happy

By Katie Smith December 27, 2021 You can check out free samples in a variety of categories, including beauty and food, at Freeflys. There is a free sandwich from Jimmy John’s in your future

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  • January 17, 2022January 17, 2022

Sidney Poitier, First Black Man to Win Best Actor Oscar and a Titan of Cinema, Dead at 94

By Alynda Wheat (@AlyndaWheat) Updated January 07, 2022 10:57 AM Poitier died Thursday evening. With a staggering list of accolades, including an Academy Award, a Presidential Medal of Fr

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  • January 17, 2022

Marian Anderson

Famed contralto Marian Anderson made her debut at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City on January 7, 1955, as Ulrica in Verdi’s Un ballo in maschera. She was the first

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  • January 17, 2022January 17, 2022

11 Things in Your Freezer You Should Toss Out

Carrie Madormo Updated: Dec. 21, 2021 Smelly ice cubes Forgotten freezer meals Stale coffee beans Freezer-burned meat Unrecognizable leftovers Read the entire list HERE. Originally P

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  • January 17, 2022

WHOSE HOUSE? THEIR HOUSE: JUST WHO WAS HELD ACCOUNTABLE FOR THE 1/6 INSURRECTION IS TELLING

BY SUSANNAH CROCKFORD  JANUARY 1, 2022 Almost as soon as the tear gas cleared from the Capitol grounds on Jan 6, multiple stories emerged. About what happened, and when, and who was

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NY Times

  • Meta Has Created a Prediction Markets App
  • Trump Says Vandals Sabotaged the Reflecting Pool. Internal Documents Raise Doubts.
  • New Yorkers Vote in High-Stakes Primaries
  • Trump Is Making Big Claims About the Iran Talks. Iran Keeps Contradicting Him.
  • U.S. Presses Meta to Agree to A.I. Reviews
https://youtu.be/ZALIdsv_3cg?si=FZBaK7cjVEztCJnB

NPR

  • Leading Lebanese conservationist dies after an Israeli airstrike on her home
  • Butterflies may hold clues to longer lives
  • A new app could help streamline loon data by enabling citizens to log observations
  • A new study rewrites the history of the plague
  • How to map quadrillions of miles of underground fungi
https://youtu.be/7aGbj3LAHsI?si=Iso1GGmZlbrOj5nO

The Progressive

  • Queer Media Workers Navigate an Uncertain Landscape
  • The U.S. Supreme Court May Continue the Culture War Around Religion and LGBTQ+ Personhood
  • Mohammad Sabaaneh’s Desperate and Defiant Vision
  • When a Bullet Enters an Ordinary Moment
  • Trump’s Deal with Iran Is Good Enough
https://youtu.be/oKbsiNd4Q-Y?si=MF6Eq8qv49QiZkTB

FactCheck.org

  • How Trump’s Preliminary Deal with Iran Compares with His Rhetoric
  • No Evidence for Trump’s Right to Try Claim
  • The Shaky Assumptions Behind Trump’s Over $500 Billion in Projected Drug Savings
  • Trump Makes Unsupported Claims About Drug Flows
  • Trump’s Inaccurate Anecdote on ‘Right to Repair’ Cars
https://youtu.be/FA8AZSMEOD0?si=uBmpaQx4ZdqASMpy

Snopes.com

  • Did Trump's motorcade drive through newly painted reflecting pool?
  • Why Norway's World Cup team brought its own food and chefs to US
  • Is Trump Organization selling peeling paint from reflecting pool?
  • Altered image fuels false claim Laura Loomer attended Reza Pahlavi's birthday party
  • Ryan Reynolds didn't donate $27M 'Deadpool' salary to Parkinson's research, despite claims
https://youtu.be/OFkeKKszXTw?si=y7SJCxWT57VseByL

Tradeoffs

  • Medicaid Overhaul Complicates States’ Plans to Bring Care Into Jails and Prisons
  • Where Did the No Surprises Act Go Wrong? And Can It Be Fixed?
  • Mental Health Courts Offer People Facing Prison an Imperfect Alternative
  • A Closer Look at a Widely Despised Health Insurance Policy
  • Republicans Want to Change How You Buy Health Care
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