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We keep hunting for the village that cracked living to 100. The bigger news is that the village may not exist. In @NewYorker, physician @DhruvKhullar reviews Saul Newman’s book Morbid, which makes a deflating case. The world’s “blue zones” line up almost perfectly with the places that have poor birth records, deep poverty, and a history of pension fraud. Fix the paperwork and the miracle fades. When US states brought in birth certificates, their counts of people over 110 dropped by up to 82%. Okinawa, the famous one, has Japan’s worst obesity rate, and it’s the KFC capital of the country. What lengthens a life is dull and mostly out of your hands. The richest Americans outlive the poorest by more than a decade, and that gap keeps widening. Your lifespan tracks where you live more than what you eat.


Wagner PMC has turned into a drug cartel after Prigozhin’s death The new Wagner fighters have firmly established themselves in the Central African Republic, where no one can reach them. According to The Wall Street Journal, their base is located near the upper reaches of the Ubangi River. Their main source of income has become the trade in tramadol — a powerful painkiller that is used in large doses as a cheap stimulant. In addition, the mercenaries control gold mining and other resources in the CAR — one of the poorest and most unstable countries in the world. Analysts estimate that illegal gold trading could bring Wagner fighters around $180 million a year. After Prigozhin’s death, the Kremlin took control of many of the group’s operations, but in the Central African Republic this proved more difficult. Hundreds of former Wagner fighters retained their influence and became integrated into local security structures.






What happened to me in the West Bank was an outrage. But it is nothing compared to what Palestinians face every day. It is time to share their stories that American politics have silenced and ignored. This is our first video about Palestinians we met.

The Coordinates of a Kiss









I still have no idea who decided to grow Alfalfa in the middle of fucking Arizona












