“Sober curious.”
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The Affordable Care Act remade the US health insurance system. Unfortunately, the White House has no plan for what comes next if courts decide to overturn it. 1/16
Related: The White House wants to revoke an Obama-era rule designed to make light bulbs more energy efficient. 2/16
A timeline of Nixon's presidential approval ratings matched to the musical themes in the original The Legend of Zelda. 3/16
Compared to other counties, those that hosted Trump campaign rallies in 2016 had a 226% increase in reported hate crimes. 4/16
Your weekly white paper: Lynchings in America were used as voter suppression—and notably decreased when Jim Crow was instituted. 5/16
The European Parliament approves a directive to hold tech companies responsible for any copyright-infringing content posted on their sites. 6/16
Some Parliament members say they voted for it by accident. 7/16
A Boeing 737 Max makes an emergency landing in Florida shortly after takeoff as it’s being flown to California. 8/16
India becomes the fourth country to shoot down a satellite in orbit with a missile. 9/16
A subreddit moderator explains how scammers use cute animal photos and multiple accounts to plant propaganda (and worse). 10/16
There are now no more wild caribou in the contiguous US, as the sole remaining female has been brought into captivity. 11/16
A synthetic alcohol alternative is being developed that delivers tipsiness, but not drunkenness, without the physical damage. 12/16
On "sober curiosity," a wellness approach to alcohol consumption that’s less about recovery and more about habit recognition. 13/16
Warner Music Group is partnering with an algorithm to produce albums of music created to induce moods, such as rest or relaxation. 14/16
Archaeologists have discovered a sunken ship in the Nile matching a description provided by Herodotus in the fifth century BC. 15/16
Since 2015, John Donohue has been sketching the restaurants of New York City, and hopes one day to draw them all. 16/16
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