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Oats

The Nutrition Source editors Harvard T. H. Chan newsletter
Oats contain several components that have been proposed to exert health benefits.
The FDA allows oat food labels to tout the nutritional value and health benefits of oats such as a reduced risk of coronary heart disease, weight and hunger control.

If 52 Americans protesters were gunned down?

Code Pink Code Pink
It is almost too horrible to imagine. Today, Israeli snipers again opened fire on unarmed Palestinian protesters in Gaza. So far, 52 are confirmed dead and the death toll will likely continue to climb.

France Goes Off the Rails

Benoît Duteurtre. Translated by Charles Goulden. The Nation
The government’s proposed railway reforms will force yet more traffic onto the country’s overcrowded roads, even as people in the provinces and regions lose mobility, convenience, and time.

Emmanuel Macron and Echoes of May 1968

Elizabeth Benjamin The Conversation
The French president has proposed a controversial higher education reform at a particularly inopportune moment, sparking major protests.

Class of 2018 - College Edition

Elise Gould, Zane Mokhiber, and Julia Wolfe Economic Policy Institute
In this study, we analyze data on recent young college graduates (ages 21–24) to learn about the Class of 2018’s economic prospects as they start their careers.

AI Mimics Brain Codes for Navigation

Francesco Savelli & James J. Knierim Nature
An artificial-intelligence technique called deep learning has now been used to model spatial navigation. The system develops a representation of space similar to that of the grid cells found in the mammalian brain.

The Broken Iran Treaty: To Resist Trump is to Resist Israel

Philip Weiss Mondoweiss
President Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
The Israeli government and its lobby, and its neoconservative US allies, convinced Donald Trump to sabotage the Iran deal. The forces that pushed for the Iraq war 16 years ago are sowing destruction again. The broken Iran treaty leaves no doubt; you cannot resist Trump without resisting Israel.