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Health:

• Can Eggs Prevent Dementia? Here's How Many To Eat For Beneficial Effects
• Screen Use In 9- And 10-Year-Olds Elevates Risk Of Depression, Anxiety, Study Says
• Your doctor’s office could be reading your blood pressure all wrong
• Eating Nothing But Sardines May Help You Lose Weight, But Experts Say It's a Bad Idea

Happiness:

• Painting Found in Italian Villa Basement Turns Out to Be Original Picasso
• Good Samaritan ‘Skip’ Finds $12,000 and Returns it All to the Senior Citizen Who Lost it

Tales from Rideshare/Toast and Jam:

Higher Consciousness:

• Most People Don’t Trust The Government For Marijuana Information, Federally Funded Study Shows
• LAPD Raids Medical Lab For (Nonexistent) Weed, Get Gun Stuck In An MRI Machine

Back of the Napkin:

• Why it's time to take warnings about using public Wi-Fi, in places like airports, seriously
• Russian Hackers Are Using Fake AI 'Nudify' Sites to Steal Data

The Junk Drawer:

• Internet Archive leaks user info and succumbs to DDoS
• Musk’s ‘Free’ Starlink For Helene Victims Wasn’t Free

Last Call:

• She ate a Costco salad before giving birth. After a drug test, authorities took her baby away
• Reports: China hacked Verizon and AT&T, may have accessed US wiretap systems
• NFL replay official: We didn’t see Seahawks’ muffed punt until too late to fix blown call

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Credits:

• RevCyberTrucker for the Cavalcade of Stupidity!
• Mama T

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