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A collection of stories you might have missed while everyone was focused on the Red Team vs. Blue Team fight
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- Birdwatching and your brain / Permanent DST and dark mornings / Caught in a tornado on a bike
- The first ‘psycho boss’ / A giant ship becomes a reef / A new dwarf planet beyond Pluto
- Skipping meals over grocery prices / Robot-dog walkers wanted / More school, less dementia
- Paying to make friends / Betting apps limit winners / Preschool skills pay off at 21
- Gen Z skips the DMV / Would AI tell you when you’ll die? / Can you really pick up an accent?
- Why we love being scared / Social lives and sharp minds / Saving for a first home takes 16 years
- Reading and your brain / Your old Slack chats are for sale / Can married men have friends?
- Having a baby is too expensive, say 4 in 5 parents / A mom let her 5-year-old collect goose feathers and was charged with neglect / 160-million-year-old sea monster vomit found
- One soda a week changes kids’ brains / A whale carried a 19th-century harpoon for over 100 years / A radioactive jet is aimed at Earth
- Birth memories aren’t real — but your brain might still have them / Frequent napping is linked to higher dementia risk / Luna is home