The new high surpasses the last peak in life expectancy in 2019, and it's the highest since the government started tracking this key measure of the nation's health and well-being in 1900. (Stein, NPR)
Read MoreWhile Germany’s national exhibition centre was being built in the Eighties, the conservative chancellor Helmut Kohl was promising to lead a revival of traditional “bourgeois virtues” and selling sex was still legally classified as an activity that “violates good public morals”. (Moody, The Times)
Read MoreMarcello Hernández, the cast member perhaps most likely to become SNL’s next breakout star, dropped by the “Weekend Update” desk to inform the Millennial co-anchor Colin Jost—and, by proxy, many Millennial audience members—of the slang terms favored by Gen Z. (Tedder, The Atlantic)
Read MoreSince 1947, the Doomsday Clock has metaphorically represented the risk that we will succumb to human-made threats, with midnight representing Armageddon. Now, we are closer to that than at any time in the last 80 years. (Carpineti, IFLScience)
Read MoreInstead of a weighty volume, the next [Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders] will be "a living document" online and easier to update. The APA hasn't set a strict timeline and hasn't decided yet if it will be called the DSM-6 or some new name. (Chatterjee, NPR)
Read MoreMost American households have two working parents, so once they’re home there’s plenty to do and little opportunity to tune out. Mom and dad are opting to scroll in secret lest they be accused of being hypocritical for telling their children to get off their screens. (Jargon, The Wall Street Journal)
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