https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/19/science/rare-august-blue-supermoon.html
The celestial event, which is visible from Sunday to Wednesday morning, probably won’t happen again until 2037.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/14/magazine/canada-brain-disease-dementia.html?unlocked_article_code=1.D04.uRdV.-zQyFlcrK6k8
Doctors in Canada have identified dozens of patients with similar, unexplained symptoms — a scientific puzzle that has now become a political maelstrom.
https://www.iospress.com/catalog/books/the-case-of-the-frozen-addicts
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/16/world/europe/rescue-dog-blindness-dna-test.html?unlocked_article_code=1.D04.pHFj.QQzFaOVk3fg_&smid=url-share
Shola, who assisted with search-and-rescue operations in the U.K., has moved to her second act: saving other English Shepherds from blindness.
https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/358195/the-case-against-summer
Summer is too hot, too boring, and too long
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Von_Restorff_effect
https://boingboing.net/2024/08/15/trumps-bizarre-video-pits-singing-democrats-against-rep-luna-in-a-swimsuit.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2024-08-14/Recent_research
https://www.thedailybeast.com/jd-vance-awkwardly-retreats-from-confronting-kamala-harris-on-air-force-2-after-realizing-she-wasnt-around
The made-for-TV moment was so weird that it could have been a page taken right out of the script of political TV show “Veep”.
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