Check the scoreboard. The only one that really matters. Women live a lot longer than men. "Male life expectancy at birth is currently 75.8 years — 5.3 years less than it is for women ... Over the past several years, men have died at higher rates than women from 14 of the top 15 causes of death. The only exception has been Alzheimer’s disease — and that, at least to some extent, is because more women live long enough to develop it ... That disparity has many causes, one of which is that men simply don’t go to the doctor as often." I'm not one of the men who avoids the doctor. I have high everything and pretty much any symptom I read about I manage to manifest. My personal tagline could be test in progress. I've turned my head and coughed so many times that it's become my signature dance move. If I see anyone wearing rubber gloves, I instinctively drop my underpants and bend over (which, I'll admit, has caused some confusion in my local grocery store's meat section). But a lot middle aged men have been avoiding the doctor since their pediatrician days. At one clinic outside Cleveland, medical professionals are trying to figure out if a doctor's office vibe change can increase visits. NYT Magazine (Gift Article): What Does It Take to Get Men to See a Doctor? "As soon as I stepped off the elevator at the Cutler Center for Men earlier this summer, I was greeted by a smiling woman with short gray hair in an athletic half-zip top, standing in front of a sign that read, 'Welcome Guys.' Past check-in, there were pool tables and foosball tables and two giant-screen televisions showing replays from the N.B.A. finals between the Thunder and the Pacers. A small cafe, decorated with vintage album covers and a classic arcade game, offered flavored water and coffee." (Once, when I was getting barium enema CT scan, the radiologist decided to play the song Sexual Healing. It was definitely a vibe. But I'm not sure it made we want to come back for another visit.) 2Biting the Hand That Feeds Us"The lettuce and tomato on your hamburger very likely came from California. The almonds and pistachios you snack on as well. There’s a good chance the olive oil on your pasta is from California. Did you pair that with a glass of wine? Probably California, too. This bounty all depends on a reliable, skilled and experienced labor force that is overwhelmingly made up of immigrants ... These immigrants are nothing less than the backbone of America’s food supply, doing jobs that few native-born Americans seek. The Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids targeting them now will have real consequences for all Americans, very likely including higher grocery prices and fewer options in the produce aisle." NYT (Gift Article): Wilted Lettuce. Rotten Strawberries. Here’s What Happens When You Round Up Farmworkers. "These workers are not strangers, and they’re not a burden on California or the nation. They are part of the fabric of our communities. Many have lived and worked here for decades. Our kids go to school together. We live in the same neighborhoods. We worship in the same churches and shop in the same stores." 3The Algorithm Method"Algorithms are old—around 300 B.C., Euclid invented one for finding the greatest common divisor of two integers. They are, essentially, mathematical procedures for solving problems. We use them to coördinate physical things (like elevators) and bureaucratic things (like medical residencies). Did it make sense to treat unclaimed time as a problem? We’ve solved it algorithmically, and now have none." Joshua Rothman in The New Yorker on how algorithms changed our daily rhythms, and how the AI chat programs that are replacing them could change everything. A.I. Is Coming for Culture. "The messages around us are changing, even writing themselves. From a certain angle, they seem to be silencing some of the algorithmically inflected human voices that have sought to influence and control us for the past couple of decades." 4A Slice of the Action"You know the pizza tracker. You’ve likely used it to follow your pizza’s journey from a store to your home. But even if you haven’t, you live in the world the Domino’s pizza tracker built. Because in marketing, product development, and user experience, the pizza tracker is an icon. An inspiration. A platonic ideal that has been imitated across industries ranging from food-delivery apps to businesses where the only grease is on the hands of auto mechanics." How the Domino’s pizza tracker conquered the business world. 5Extra, ExtraHot Air: Opponents of offshore wind projects didn't like the research done by a Brown University professor. So they've demanded a retraction and they've threatened to try to get the Trump administration to take action. Welcome to the new age of unfree thought. Bloomberg (Gift Article): Offshore Wind Opponents Target Work of Brown University Researcher. These opponents are likely to receive a warm response from a White House that loves attacking universities and hates wind. Trump administration halts work on an almost-finished wind farm. 6Bottom of the NewsWe are constantly bombarded with headlines that shock and surprise us. So it's nice to know we can still get the occasional headline that doesn't. In fact, I think I've found the least surprising headline of all time. Man driving to Burning Man arrested on charges involving a 'substantial' amount of drugs.
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