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A man sued a restaurant after swallowing a bone in his boneless wings. The restaurant won, but this begs a bigger question: how much should we be chewing our food?

A man sued a restaurant after a bone in his 'boneless' wings got lodged in his throat. He lost. (Grace Dean, Business Insider, Jul 26, 2024)

How to Chew Your Food — Plus Signs You're Doing It Wrong, According to MDs (Kirsten Nunez, Real Simple, Feb 25, 2025)

The 'chew chew cult' is a Victorian diet fad that should really, really never come back (Popular Science, Jan 29, 2020)

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We're living in an environment that is really tough for the arts. Why do names and show cancelations matter?

Republicans want to rename the Kennedy Center Opera House after Melania Trump (Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, Jul 22, 2025)

The Kennedy Center Opera House Might Be Renamed for Melania (Olivia Craigshead, The Cut, Jul 24, 2025)

The Kennedy Center was built with a bipartisan mission. The room where art happens is now divided (Alli Rosenbloom, CNN, Mar 6, 2025)

New board elects President Trump chair of Kennedy Center (Neda Ulaby, NPR, Feb 12, 2025)

House Republicans push to name Kennedy Center's opera house after Melania Trump (Veronica Stracqualursi and Sarah Ferris, CNN, Jul 22, 2025)

Review: 1776 at Kennedy Center (David Friscic, Broadway World, Jul 2, 2023)

Stephen Colbert is Practically Daring CBS to Shut Him Down Early (Judy Berman, Time, Jul 25, 2025)

Why We Need Fools: Jesters, Power, and Cults of Personality (Brian Klaas, The Garden of Forking Paths, Apr 7, 2024)

It's getting hot in here...! You're not imagining things -- this summer is hot. Everywhere.

Corn Sweat is Making Midwest Heat Waves a Lot Hotter (Luis Prada, Vice, Jul 24, 2025)

Weather tracker: heatwave triggers deadly wildfires in Turkey (Alice Fowle, The Guardian, Jul 25, 2025)

Heat Wave in Europe: What Every Traveler Needs to Know (Paige Cerulli, Kiplinger, Jul 24, 2025)

Record heat in China strains power grid, stirs health fears (Reuters, Jul 23, 2025)

A heat dome is peaking in the Northeast today. Here's how extreme temperatures could get (Mary Gilbert, CNN, Jul 26, 2025)

Half of world's population endured extra month of extreme heat due to climate change, experts say (Isabella O'Malley, AP, May 30, 2025)

Steve Miller Band says extreme weather is so dangerous it's canceling its tour (Isabella O'Malley, AP, Jul 17, 2025)

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Traveling abroad as an American? Yep, they can tell.

Liforme Yoga mats

23 Telltale Signs Someone is American, according to Europeans (Caroline Bologna, The Huffington Post, Jul 24, 2025)

Non-Americans are sharing the 'dead giveaway' someone is American and they are pretty right (Tod Perry, Upworthy, Dec 26, 2024)

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A TikTok video of men trying a menstrual cramp simulator is going viral. Now if we can only simulate the bloating...

4 guys try a menstrual cramp simulator and can't remotely handle it (Tod Perry, Upworthy, Jul 24, 2025)

Are period cramps as painful as a heart attack? (Rachel Ann Tee-Melegrito, Medical News Today, Mar 28, 2023)

Here's why period cramps can hurt even more than a heart attack, according to science (Caroline Praderio, Business Insider, Jan 5, 2024)

7 Weird Things You Might Be Able to Blame on PMS (Ashley Oerman, Women's Health, Sep 25, 2014)

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Fellow chocolate lovers, our indulgences are getting a little more expensive.

Blessings in a Backpack

Hershey and other chocolate makers hike prices as cocoa remains near record highs (Dee-Ann Durbin, AP, Jul 23, 2025)

Bitter truth: Why has chocolate become so expensive? (Alex Kozul-Wright, Al Jazeera, Apr 21, 2025)

Halloween 'shrinkflation': How candy companies are adapting amid cocoa crunch (Saba Aziz, Global News, Oct 25, 2024)

Omnom Lakris + Sea Salt bar

Tony's Chocolonely

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Don't let the summer daylight fool you -- days are getting shorter.

Earth is spinning faster this summer: July 22 among the shortest days ever recorded, scientists warn (TOI Science Desk, The Times of India, Jul 22, 2025)

Earth is spinning faster, leading timekeepers to consider an unprecedented move (Jacopo Prisco, CNN, Jul 21, 2025)

Earth will spin faster today to create 2nd-shortest day in history (Jamie Carter, Space . Com, Jul 20, 2025)

SMPTE timecode (Wikipedia)

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Red tape and bureaucratic delays have gotten in the way of feeding hungry children. It's worth raising our voice.

'People Are Going to Die': A Malnutrition Crisis Looms in the wake of USAID Cuts (Kate Knibbs, Wired, Jul 9, 2025)

Where's Plumpy'Nut? A lifesaving food for malnourished kids is caught up in U.S. cuts (Jewel Bright, Gabrielle Emanuel, Marc Silver, NPR, Apr 25, 2025)

A Life Saver Called "Plumpynut" (60 Minutes, CBS News, Oct 19, 2007)

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Dinosaurs are so "in" -- and the latest sale of a juvenile ceratorsaur for $30.5 million proves it.

"Movin' Out (Anthony's Song)" by Sammy Rae & The Friends (official music video)

Juvenile Ceratorsaur Dinosaur Fossil Sells for $30.5 Million by Sotheby's, Third-Highest Price at Auction (Karen K. Ho, ARTnews, Jul 18, 2025)

Inside the homes (and minds) of fossil collectors (Richard Conniff, National Geographic, October 2019)

Should private collectors be allowed to own dinosaur fossils? Sale of 'Apex' renews debate (Mary Kekatos and Jennifer Vilcarino, ABC News, Jul 27, 2024)

Movie Stars Increasingly Love Collecting Dinosaur Bones — to the Dismay of Scientists (Liam Archacki, Nov 29, 2024)

Rare Skeleton of a 150-Million-Year-Old Ceratosaurus Dinosaur Sells for $30.5 Million at Auction (Ainsley Brown, All That's Interesting, Jul 18, 2025)

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The way we're getting our news is changing, for better or worse (probably worse).

Americans still have faith in local news — but few are willing to pay for it (Jennifer Hoewe, Nieman Lab, Jun 12, 2025)

Social media new main source of news in US, research suggests (Ian Youngs, BBC, Jun 16, 2025)

How to spot fake news: Identifying propaganda, satire, and false information (Simon Fraser University

The Last Time We Worshipped in the Church of the Nightly News (Michael J. Socolow, Slate, Sep 10, 2021)