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YouTube: Columbine survivor Michelle Wheeler reflects 20 years after tragedy
The Verge: Facebook stored millions of Instagram passwords in plain text
Ars Technica: In new gaffe, Facebook improperly collects email contacts for 1.5 million
CNET: Facebook’s privacy mishaps: Zuckerberg could be held accountable, report says
Engadget: Mental health apps are sharing data without proper disclosure
JAMA Network: Assessment of the Data Sharing and Privacy Practices of Smartphone Apps for Depression and Smoking Cessation
CNET: Patient names, treatments leak among millions of rehab records
Steps To Recovery Addiction Treatment Center Leaking PII
Forbes: Best Buy Continues To Bet On Digital Health With New TytoHome Deal
YouTube: TytoCare Overview
The Verge: US facial recognition will cover 97 percent of departing airline passengers within four years
DHS: Fiscal Year 2018 Entry/Exit Overstay Report
YouTube: RT: NASA is concerned over 5G potentially setting back weather forecast accuracy back 50 years
Washington Post: Critical weather data threatened by FCC ‘spectrum’ proposal, Commerce Dept. and NASA say
The Weather Network: 5G cell service may come at price of weather safety in U.S.
Hackaday: How 5G is Likely to Put Weather Forecasting at Risk
BBC: Instagram triggers my epilepsy
ABC 6: Large cache of counterfeit Juul products seized in Philadelphia
NY Times: Senator McConnell, a Tobacco Ally, Supports Raising Age to Buy Cigarettes
The Next Web: Happy 4/20: Here’s some science to shut up the cannabis haters
Forbes: Marijuana Users Gain Less Weight Than Non-Users Despite The Munchies, Study Suggests
International Journal of Epidemiology:
Are cannabis users less likely to gain weight? Results from a national 3-year prospective study
Science Daily: CBD could help deliver medications to the brain
Molecular Pharmaceutics: Cannabidiol Enhances the Passage of Lipid Nanocapsules across the Blood–Brain Barrier Both in Vitro and in Vivo
YouTube: CBS Philly: Carl’s Jr. Selling CBD-Infused Burger On April 20
Inverse: How Carl’s Jr. Will Legally Sell a CBD Burger in Spite of FDA Disapproval
Japan Times: ‘Breaking Bad’? Shikoku professor allegedly instructed students to produce MDMA
Washington Post: USDA orders scientists to say published research is ‘preliminary’
CBS News: Amazon and Walmart testing program to let food-stamp recipients buy groceries online
NY Times: Don’t Count on 23andMe to Detect Most Breast Cancer Risks, Study Warns
Science Daily: Researchers use gene editing with CRISPR to treat lethal lung diseases before birth
ABC 7: Eating just one slice of bacon a day linked to higher risk of colorectal cancer, study says
BBC: A rasher of bacon a day ‘ups cancer risk’
CNN: Eating just one slice of bacon a day linked to higher risk of colorectal cancer, says study
International Journal of Epidemiology: Diet and colorectal cancer in UK Biobank: a prospective study
CBS Sacramento: It’s Legal For Your Meat To Have Trace Amounts Of Fecal Matter
CNN: It’s legal for your meat to have trace amounts of fecal matter. A group of doctors want to change that
NY Times: Here’s Soylent’s New Product. It’s Food.
PricePlow: Soylent Squared Ingredients: $18/lb for Soy, Corn Syrup, and Canola Oil
Investigation Finds Troubling Levels Of Arsenic In Bottled Water
Consumer Reports: Arsenic in Some Bottled Water Brands at Unsafe Levels
CNN: Recall of blood pressure drug losartan expanded
NY Times: F.D.A. Halts U.S. Sales of Pelvic Mesh, Citing Safety Concerns for Women
FDA approves first generic naloxone nasal spray to treat opioid overdose
Forbes: Plenity Now Is FDA-Approved For Weight Management
Obesity: A Randomized, Double‐Blind, Placebo‐Controlled Study of Gelesis100: A Novel Nonsystemic Oral Hydrogel for Weight Loss
NY Times: Can Botox and Cosmetic Surgery Chill Our Relationships With Others?
Forbes: A Sense Of Oneness May Be A Key To Happiness
Oneness Beliefs and Their Effect on Life