ScienceAlert: Four Key Nutrients Are Shockingly Lacking in Over 60% of People’s Diets
The researchers behind the study, from the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), and the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN), say it’s a wake-up call for global health.
Using a combination of data collected from the Global Dietary Database and statistical models developed by the researchers, the team estimated micronutrient levels in diets for 99.3 percent of the world’s population, across 185 countries.
TL;DR: iodine, vitamin E, iron, calcium
Guardian: A new flashpoint has emerged at Sabina Shoal in the South China Sea – and a new danger
Over recent weeks, Manila has accused Chinese personnel of ramming its boats, blasting them with water canon and firing flares at its aircraft, with incidents often centred on a new location, an atoll called Sabina Shoal. It comes as tensions in the South China Sea, a strategically important waterway that links the Indian and Pacific Oceans, were already at their highest in a decade.
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Sabina Shoal is important to the Philippines because it is close to Reed Bank, which is believed to be rich in oil and gas, and because it is the main staging ground for resupply missions to Second Thomas Shoal. Were China to take control of it, it could cut off resupplies from reaching Second Thomas, and potentially stop vessels reaching Thitu Island, a Philippine island in the South China Sea that is inhabited by about 400 civilians, said Collin Koh, senior fellow at the Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies, of the S Rajaratnam School of International Studies.
The Bridge: Your Turn, and The Random Ranter Takes on Jagmeet Singh
First week back and lots of thoughts from the Bridge listeners on what the summer meant for them and their families. And the Random Ranter starts off all wound up about Jagmeet Singh as the NDP leader pulls the plug on his party’s deal to keep the LIberals propped up until next year. Lots to ponder on this week’s Your Turn.
First week back for one of the most popular podcasts in Canada.
CBC: 10 years after Franklin shipwreck site was located in Nunavut, Inuit involvement is still strong
The wreck site of the HMS Erebus was located in 2014, while the site of the HMS Terror was identified in 2016 – both with the help of Inuit oral history. They are located near Gjoa Haven, Nunavut, a hamlet of about 1,350 people on King William Island, north of the Arctic Circle.
Gjoa Haven Mayor Raymond Quqshuun Sr. says Inuit involvement in the ongoing project with Parks Canada – which has included retrieving 1,500 artifacts from the Erebus site – is proving successful.
Inuit guardians working under the hamlet’s Nattilik Heritage Society guard the areas of the shipwrecks and also contribute to research, he said.
New Yorker: The Hidden-Pregnancy Experiment
We are increasingly trading our privacy for a sense of security. Becoming a parent showed me how tempting, and how dangerous, that exchange can be.
AP News: JD Vance says he laments that school shootings are a ‘fact of life’ and calls for better security
Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance said Thursday that he lamented that school shootings are a “fact of life” and argued the U.S. needs to harden security to prevent more carnage like the shooting this week that left four dead in Georgia.
“If these psychos are going to go after our kids we’ve got to be prepared for it,” Vance said at a rally in Phoenix. “We don’t have to like the reality that we live in, but it is the reality we live in. We’ve got to deal with it.”
The Ohio senator was asked by a journalist what can be done to stop school shootings. He said further restricting access to guns, as many Democrats advocate, won’t end them, noting they happen in states with both lax and strict gun laws. He touted efforts in Congress to give schools more money for security.
NYT: David Brooks: The Junkification of American Life
Gioia wrote: “The tech platforms aren’t like the Medici in Florence, or those other rich patrons of the arts. They don’t want to find the next Michelangelo or Mozart. They want to create a world of junkies — because they will be the dealers.”
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Even journalism has found ways to trigger dopamine for profit. We journalists go into this business to inform and provoke, but many outlets have found they can generate clicks by telling partisan viewers how right they are about everything. Minute after minute they’re rubbing their audience’s pleasure centers, which feels like a somewhat older profession.
NYT: Paul Krugman: Bacon Prices and the Windmills of Trump’s Mind
Lately I’ve become obsessed with bacon — or, more accurately, with Donald Trump’s obsession with the price of bacon, which has long been his favorite gauge of inflation. For it seems to me that Trump’s false claims about bacon prices, and his assertions about what’s driving them, offer a window into his judgment. And the view isn’t pretty.
It probably won’t surprise you to hear that nothing Trump says about bacon prices is true. It would be an exaggeration to say that he lies as easily as he breathes; adults normally breathe 12 to 18 times each minute, whereas Trump, during his recent Mar-a-Lago news conference, uttered around only two lies or distortions a minute. But he does lie a lot — although to be fair I’m not sure whether he’s knowingly lying about bacon or merely willfully ignorant.
Nor should it surprise you that he keeps saying that bacon costs four or five times more than it did a few years ago, even though this claim has been thoroughly debunked. That is, as Daniel Dale of CNN points out, the candidate’s standard practice: “By virtue of shameless perseverance, Trump often manages to outlast most of the media’s willingness to correct any particular falsehood.”
Last Updated: 05.Sep.2024 23:52 EDT
