When to Claim Social Security: How Much Does It Matter, Anyway?
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Lost in AirPod Translation - The Atlantic
Apple promises to put an AI interpreter in everyone’s ears. It couldn’t even help me order tamales.
2025 Empire State Pen Show - Recap and Report Card — The Pen Addict
The 2025 Empire State Pen Show scored 72.5/100, which is pretty good given that it’s the first show. Being in Midtown Manhattan made the Location and Food scores higher than a lot of other shows. The Size score might go up if they added more vendors, and the After Hours score definitely has room for improvement. The biggest drawback to this show, if you’re not local, is the cost of travel and lodging
What is the Woman, Infants, and Children (WIC) program? | USAFacts
In FY 2024, 6.7 million women, infants, and children received WIC benefits. For comparison, 41.7 million people received SNAP benefits in FY 2024, more than six times as many as received WIC.
Ohtani’s 3 HRs, 10-K gem spark Dodgers' NLCS sweep of Brewers - ESPN
“It’s like we’re the Chicago Bulls,” Betts said, “and he’s Michael Jordan.”
Betts was referring, of course, to Shohei Ohtani, who had once again put together a performance many of his peers described as the greatest in baseball history. On the mound, he pitched six scoreless innings and struck out 10 batters. In the batter’s box, he clobbered three home runs, one of which might have left the ballpark entirely. And when it was over, and the Dodgers had clinched a second straight pennant on an Ohtani-fueled, 5-1 victory in Game 4 of the NLCS, his teammates once again struggled to make sense of it.
London Became a Global Hub for Phone Theft. Now We Know Why. - The New York Times
Some phones are reset and sold to new users in Britain. But many are shipped to China and Algeria as part of a “local-to-global criminal business model,” the police said, adding that in China, the newest phones could be sold for up to $5,000, generating huge profits for the criminals involved.
Report Finds Lead in Naked Protein Powders and Other Popular Brands - The New York Times
The group, Consumer Reports, tested samples of 23 protein powders and shakes and found that more than two-thirds of them had more lead in a serving than it regards as safe for daily consumption.
See Advanced Weaponry the U.S. Is Deploying to the Caribbean - WSJ
U.S. military buildup includes F-35B jets, reaper drones and 10,000 troops—too few to invade Venezuela but enough to support more airstrikes
How Autism Cases Rose as Diagnosis Morphed Over Time - WSJ
“I have no doubt that a real increase in incidence and prevalence of autism is occurring,” said Dr. Philip Landrigan, a pediatrician and director of the global public-health program at Boston College. “But this increase is inflated by increased awareness among the general public of autism, and heightened diagnostic sensitivity.”
How Video Games Are Shaping a Generation of Boys, for Better and Worse - The New York Times
While the Digital Wellness Lab survey found that lonelier adolescents gamed more, gaming didn’t alleviate their loneliness — a pattern that was more pronounced for boys. This could be because those with weak social skills were more comfortable making friends online, but then got less practice interacting offline, researchers said.
The official website of the Nobel Prize - NobelPrize.org
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2025 to Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt “for having explained innovation-driven economic growth” with one half to Joel Mokyr “for having identified the prerequisites for sustained growth through technological progress” and the other half jointly to Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt “for the theory of sustained growth through creative destruction.”