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Los Angeles Times (latimes.com) 

Can probiotic supplements prevent hangovers?

A new class of over-the-counter probiotic supplements claim to prevent hangovers by reducing gut acetaldehyde. Some scientists are skeptical.

NewsWeek.com 

America Gets the President We Deserve | Opinion

Donald Trump leveraged our love of conflict and outrage, delivering a constant stream of scandals to keep us hooked. We gave him the attention he craved, and in doing so, we handed him free advertising.

Adweek.com 

20 Media Executives Offer Their Predictions for 2025

The great thing about predictions is that they are never wrong, which is why ADWEEK gathered responses from more than 20 media executives to hear what they think the new year holds for the industry. Naturally, artificial intelligence dominated the conversation, but media operators are of a mixed mind as to how the technology will...

Adweek.com 

Here’s How to Watch New Year’s Eve Programming on the News Networks

New Year's Eve festivities are typically the climax of the holiday season, and after an eventful 2024, the major news networks have big plans for ushering in 2025. Here's your guide to all the New Year's programming on Dec. 31 and Jan. 1. (All times Eastern) ABC News ABC will broadcast Dick Clark's New Year's...

Wired Magazine 

The Year Democrats Lost the Internet

Democratic digital strategists and creators argue that the party’s influencer outreach was too little, too late—and that without a coherent message, even the best strategy won't matter.

The New Republic 

Abortion Prepping for the Trump Era

Trump’s return to the White House, accompanied by allies deeply hostile to anything related to reproductive and sexual health and rights, has sparked panic. As in late 2016 during the first Trump transition period, part of the problem is not knowing how far things could go. Checklists and tips are again circulating online, urging people to update the gender listed on government-issued identity documents, get an emergency supply of birth control pills or hormones, assemble an emergency folder of health documentation... Читать дальше...

The New Republic 

After Terror Attacks, France’s Reckoning—and America’s Delayed Justice

In May 2021, the French writer Emmanuel Carrère approached the newsmagazine L’Obs with a proposal to cover the trial concerning the terror attacks that occurred in Paris on November 13, 2015. He told his editor that he would “go to court, every day, the way other people go to work.” He wrote a column every week for 10 months, work that has been collected and expanded into a book, V13: Chronicle of a Trial, published in France in 2022 and now out in an English translation by John Lambert.

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Technology Review  

China wants to restore the sea with high-tech marine ranches

A short ferry ride from the port city of Yantai, on the northeast coast of China, sits Genghai No. 1, a 12,000-metric-ton ring of oil-rig-style steel platforms, advertised as a hotel and entertainment complex. On arrival, visitors step onto docks and climb up to reach a strange offshore facility—half cruise ship, half high-tech laboratory, all laid…

Rock Paper Shotgun 

The RPS Selection Box: Ollie's bonus games of the year 2024

I'm quite proud of the delights that we packed behind each door of the Advent Calendar this year, to be honest. All my major choices are in there, plus a few more that I haven't played but I'd watched other people play, and had a swell time doing so. Still, there are always a handful that don't quite make the cut, but still deserve a heaped Christmas plateful of praise at year's end. So here's my selection box, my bonus games of the year for 2024. It's an unusually diverse triad this time.

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The New Yorker 

Syria Faces Its Past and Its Future

Images taken just after the precipitous end of the civil war reveal a secret legacy that is just becoming visible.

The New Yorker 

How Much Do Democrats Need to Change?

In Wisconsin, many of the Party’s candidates fared well, suggesting that the Presidential loss was not all it seemed.