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Senate Passes Landmark Criminal-Justice Overhaul Bill In Bipartisan Vote (#GotBitcoin?)
Senate Majority Leader Mitch Mcconnell (R., Ky.) At The Capitol On Tuesday. The Senate on Tuesday passed a landmark bill that would change sentencing guidelines for federal prisoners—and would allow early release for potentially tens of thousands of inmates who were convicted of nonviolent crimes. Senate Passes Landmark Criminal-Justice Overhaul…
Deontay Wilder Might Be America’s Next Great Heavyweight (#GotBitcoin?)
Deontay Wilder: "I'm A Monster In The Ring But It's Not The Real Me" Deontay Leshun Wilder (born October 22, 1985) is an American professional boxer. He has held the WBC heavyweight title since 2015, and in doing so became the first American world heavyweight champion in nine years, which…
How Will Bitcoin Behave During A Recession? (#GotBitcoin?)
#GotBitcoin? Economists find it increasingly likely that the US will soon experience a recession. Many Bitcoin speculators believe that the price of Bitcoin will rise in a recession, but that may be wishful thinking. Cryptocurrency behavior depends on what type of recession the economy is in. In a typical recession,…
Amazon Targets Unprofitable Items, With a Sharper Focus on the Bottom Line (#GotBitcoin?)
Inside The Amazon Fulfillment Center In Fall River, Mass. Amazon.com Inc. has trained people to buy everything from major appliances to daily staples online. Now it is having second thoughts about some of those sales because they don’t make money—and is pushing big brands to change how they use its…
Top Colleges Are Enrolling More Students From Low-Income Homes (#GotBitcoin?)
Yale University Is Among The Elite Schools That Have Increased Enrollment By Lower-Income Students In Part By Increasing Their Undergraduate Student Populations. A major push to increase enrollment of lower-income students at the nation’s top colleges and universities is showing some early signs of success. Top Colleges Are Enrolling More…
Jailed Women’s Activists Tell Saudi Investigators of Torture (#GotBitcoin?)
Many Of The Detained Women’s Rights Activists Were Leading Champions Of Women’s Right To Drive. Human-rights commission investigating alleged waterboarding, electrocution of activists who led campaign to end driving ban on women. Jailed Women’s Rights Activists Tell Saudi Investigators of Torture. A human-rights commission reporting to Saudi King Salman is…
Headspace vs. Calm: The Meditation Battle That’s Anything But Zen (#GotBitcoin)
Headspace vs. Calm: The Meditation Battle That’s Anything But Zen (#GotBitcoin) A pair of apps preach relaxation to millions of customers—but still badly want to beat each other. Headspace vs. Calm: The Meditation Battle That’s Anything But Zen The two smartphone apps taking meditation mainstream exude a Zen vibe and trumpet…
Sad Santas Confront Empty Malls: ‘Do I Have Something In My Beard?’ (#GotBitcoin?)
Rick Moody, The Santa At Auburn Mall In Maine, Says When Children Aren’t Around, ‘You Wave To The Customer-Service People.’ Vacant storefronts don’t herald jolly holidays for professional Kriss Kringles; ‘I have a book for when it’s really, really slow’. Sad Santas Confront Empty Malls: ‘Do I Have Something In…
Trump Policies Cause Chinese Stocks To Out-perform Those of US. (#GotBitcoin?)
#GotBitcoin? Shares in China have outperformed their U.S. counterparts since Beijing and Washington agreed to hold fire in their trade battle, reversing a pattern that has held for most of this year. Trump Policies Cause Chinese Stocks To Out-perform Those of US. What’s Happening Calm has returned to China’s stock…
Food, The Gut’s Microbiome And The FDA’s Regulatory Framework
There Is Rapid Growth In The Number Of Products That Claim To Affect The Gut Microbiota And Benefit Health. New understanding of how our gut microbial communities (microbiota) transform dietary ingredients into metabolic products that affect human biology is altering our definitions of the nutritional value of foods (1, 2). Food,…
I Downloaded My DNA This Week (#GotBitcoin?)
I Downloaded My DNA This Week One of the features that all these DNA companies like 23andme, Ancestry, etc. provide is the ability to download the raw data from a genetic scan. I took a test a couple years ago as part of a sales pitch for the company I…
Plastic Water Bottles, Which Enabled a Drinks Boom, Now Threaten a Crisis (#GotBitcoin?)
Evian’s Water Bottling Plant In Évian-Les-Bains Facing a consumer backlash and stricter regulation, companies are trying to do what’s eluded them for years: make a better bottle. Plastic Water Bottles, Which Enabled A Drinks Boom, Now Threaten A Crisis Bottled water, which recently dethroned soda as America’s most popular beverage, is…