There's a morsel of good news about inequality that's buried in all the scary headlines BY Pedro Nicolaci da Costa FROM Business Insider

Why You and Your Mother-in-Law May Not Get Along BY Madeleine A Fugère Ph.D. FROM Psychology Today

Laziness May Have Driven Homo Erectus to Extinction By Yasemin Saplakoglu

Why Does Airline Food Taste So Bad? Turns Out, It’s All Your Fault by Barbara Peterson FROM Conde Nast Traveler

Are Today's Young Adults Becoming "Generation Lonely"? BY Suzanne Degges-White Ph.D. FROM Psychology Today

David Camarillo | TEDxStanford Why helmets don't prevent concussions — and what might

Just ride your bike very slowly!

Sleep Problems? Here’s 21 Tips To Get The Best Sleep Ever FROM Model Health by Shawn Stevenson

If you like the list, see his bestselling book Sleep Smarter.

The Spectacle That Is Elon Musk Coming Undone FROM The Wire BY Vasudevan Mukunth

The Growing Global Problem of Overtourism FROM The Wire BY Claudio Milano and Joseph M Cheer and Marina Novelli

Taking on Taiwan’s ruinous and partisan pension system FROM The Economist

The Surprising Power of Language Over Memory and Choice BY Viorica Marian Ph.D. FROM Psychology Today

"This could have substantial consequences, as how risky something feels affects the choices that we make for everything from medical decisions to national security. For example, in the United States, over 25% of doctors are foreign-born and many of their patients speak another language as well."

China makes $8.46 from an iPhone — that’s why a trade war is futile from BY By Jason Dedrick, Greg Linden and Kenneth L. Kraemer FROM Asia Times

Most Germans don’t buy their homes, they rent. Here’s why Matt Phillips FROM Quartz

Discovery of ancient tools in China suggests humans left Africa earlier than previously thought FROM Phys.org

Why Germans pay cash for almost everything by Matt Phillips FROM Quartz

"But the real point isn’t that Germans love cash. It’s that—for the same historical reasons—they loathe debt. (Armchair anthropologists have also long noted that German word for debt—Schulden—comes from the word for guilt, Schuld.)"

Modern Minds 3 Ways That City Living Is Linked with Psychological Illness by Kevin Bennett FROM Psychology Today

TED Talk: The Surprising Decline in Violence BY Steven Pinker

The Sokal affair by Ben Goldacre FROM The Guardian

Yellen battles congressman over Fed independence by Patrick Gillespie BY CNN

The ancient secret to ‘hacking’ the aging process BY Dr. Jason Fung, M.D. FROM Diet Doctor