Subject: The next plague is coming. Are we ready?
From: "Flipboard 10 for Today" <[email-masked]>
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Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2018 11:57:20 +0000 (UTC)

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The Next Plague Is Coming. Is America Ready?
[35 min read] theatlantic.com - The epidemics of the early 21st century revealed a world unprepared, even as the risks continue to multiply. Much worse is coming. Image above: Workers at the University of Nebraska Medical Center's biocontainment unit practicing...
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The Wounds of the Drone Warrior
[31 min read] nytimes.com - I n the spring of 2006, Christopher Aaron started working 12-hour shifts in a windowless room at the Counterterrorism Airborne Analysis Center in Langley, Va. He sat before a wall of flat-screen monitors that beamed live,...
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Marriage and #MeToo
[6 min read] marieclaire.com - Behind the millions-loud movement, there’s a quiet fringe of women not comfortable posting the hashtag—because to out their perpetrator would be to out their husband. After the half-hearted foreplay, but before the lousy sex—...
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Fathers also want to ‘have it all,’ study says
[5 min read] theladders.com - Have you seen the T-shirt slogan: Dads don’t babysit (it’s called “parenting”)? This slogan calls out the gendered language we often still use to talk …
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Inside Amazon’s $3.5 million competition to make Alexa chat like a human
[16 min read] theverge.com - Onstage at the launch of Amazon’s Alexa Prize, a multimillion-dollar competition to build AI that can chat like a human, the winners of last year’s challenge delivered a friendly warning to 2018’s hopefuls: your bot  w ill  mess...
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LA Is Doing Water Better Than Your City. Yes, That LA
[10 min read] wired.com - The frantic phone calls to the Community Water Center began in the summer of 2014. In the 7,000-strong unincorporated community of East Porterville, …
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‘Simpsons’ creator answers show’s biggest mysteries
[6 min read] nypost.com - In the late 1980s, cartoonist Matt Groening was called into the Fox Network’s “Tracey Ullman Show” for a meeting. The sketch comedy show was using …
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How David Bowie Invented Ziggy Stardust
[12 min read] rollingstone.com - Jason Heller's book  Strange Stars: David Bowie, Pop Music, and the Decade Sci-Fi Exploded  is the story of how science fiction influenced the musicians  …
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James Corden's 10 Best Carpool Karaoke Segments Ranked (Videos)
[1 min read] thewrap.com - These are the most endlessly watchable, candid looks at pop music’s biggest stars
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The subtle ingredients of the best golf clubs
[5 min read] golfdigest.com - For a small number of old-line clubs like Shinnecock Hills, it’s not about six-figure initiation fees, five-year waiting lists or elite membership rosters. The most venerable clubs are a little past all that. The trademarks of...
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