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CATCH UP/READ UP:
1. Sandy Hook defamation win.
Larry Pozner, whose six-year-old son Noah was killed in the December 14, 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, has won a defamation suit against an author who claimed the massacre never happened. AP/CBS News
2. HBO's teen drama Euphoria.
Critics and parents are raising concerns about HBO's new drama, Euphoria. Premiering last Sunday, the show "appears to be overtly, intentionally marketing extremely graphic adult content...to teens and pre-teens." The Hollywood Reporter/The New Yorker
3. Zion Williamson is number one pick.
Zion Williamson is going to the New Orleans Pelicans. Williamson was the number one overall pick in last night's NBA draft, and the first thing he did was thank his mom. Sports Illustrated
4. Juul ban.
San Francisco is set to become the first US city to ban all sales of e-cigarettes; it is also the same city in which Juul is headquartered. The legislation comes at a time when the company has been looking to expand its growing workforce. Forbes
5. Childhood brain expenditure & weight gain.
According to researchers from Northwestern University and New York University School of Medicine, a child's brain uses almost half of the body's energy in the early years of life, and the period when a kid's brain stops consuming so much fuel is when the risk of obesity comes into play. Newsweek
6. Harvard rescinds admissions.
Harvard University rescinded the admission of Kyle Kashuv, a Parkland High School shooting survivor, over racial slurs he made in texts, Skype conversations, and Google Document study guides when he was 16. One screenshot shows he used the racial slur for African-Americans more than a dozen times. Kashuv, a gun-rights activist, says he "hopes people have the goodness in their hearts to forgive me. What I said two years ago isn't indicative of who I am." NYT/NPR/Huffington Post
DO GOOD/FEEL GOOD:
A Connecticut girl was afraid of IVs so she created a teddy bear to hide them. "The purpose of the Medi Teddy is to conceal a bag of IV fluid, medication, or blood product from the child who is receiving it and instead provide a friendly face to look at!" CNN
Boys are wearing US Women's National Team jerseys. Women and girls wear male athletes' jerseys all the time, but lately boys and men have been spotted wearing star-player Alex Morgan's jersey.
TWEET/RETWEET:
@MTV: "Family is what you fight for, family is what you protect. What you see in this film is exactly what Mommy would do for you."—Sandra Bullock, at the MTV awards, on her role in Birdbox. WATCH
BOOK PICK:
Lori Gottlieb's Maybe You Should Talk To Someone is a thought-provoking, witty, and hopeful memoir about one woman’s experience both as a therapist and as somebody in therapy herself. Motherwell
LIVE/LEARN:
(And other fun facts)
- 68% of books sold worldwide are bought by women.
- Bananas are curved because they grow towards the sun.
- A lion's roar can be heard from five miles away.
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