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Health:

• Sleeping more flushes junk out of the brain
• Melatonin Industry to Raise Packaging Standards After Dramatic Rise in Childhood ER Visits
• Infected blood scandal: Children were used as 'guinea pigs' in clinical trials
• The Science Behind Ozempic Was Wrong
• Fake Botox has sickened patients nationwide. Here's what to know — and what to avoid

Happiness:

• Contest Gives Children Chance to Win the Field Trip of a Lifetime to Famous Landmarks–Celebrating America’s 250th
• Oldest MLB player turns 100: Roomed with Yogi Berra, stymied Ted Williams

Tales from Rideshare/Toast and Jam:

The Pursuit of a Higher Consciousness:

• Why Cannabis Makes You Hungry, According to Science
• Cannabis drinks allow people to go 'Cali Sober' on 4/20

Back of the Napkin:

• Widely-Used PuTTY SSH Client Found Vulnerable to Key Recovery Attack
• OpenAI's GPT-4 can exploit real vulnerabilities by reading security advisories
• Malicious Google Ads Pushing Fake IP Scanner Software with Hidden Backdoor

The Junk Drawer

• New NPR CEO Gave Ted Talk Asserting 'Truth' Is A 'Distraction'
• What Orwell Really Feared
• 1984 Tried To Warn You
• Star Trek star pens children's book detailing time in US internment camp

Dishonorable Mentions:

• Life-threatening rat pee infections reach record levels in NYC
• Corporate America Knows We’re Miserable. Is a Toilet Bomb the Answer?

Images:

Credits:

• RevCyberTrucker for the Cavalcade of Stupidity!
• Sharky

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