While I will miss the incredible folks at Quartz greatly, I’m very excited about this new opportunity!
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My main takeaway: A million things could go wrong and we are not prepared.
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Things I found out in this piece:
🐔 The U.S. government keeps hundreds of thousands of chickens in secret farms protected by bodyguards.
🥚 In the case of most approved vaccines for bird flu, each dose must be incubated in an egg.
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For my first story , I went to Mexico and got drugs.
Specifically, and I went to pharmacies, got pills & tested them.
Turns out, some are selling oxy & Adderall over the counter – but the pills are actually fentanyl & meth.
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Great story. "A decade after journalism suffered through its own period of disruption, its onscreen cousin entered a kind of clickbait era of its own: Make it fast, see what works, repeat."
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Hello Twitter I have a #journorequest. I am looking to interview folks over the age of 100 for an article to appear in the @washingtonpost. If you know any centenarians who would be happy to talk, please reach out 
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Hello Twitter I have a #journorequest. I am looking to interview folks over the age of 100 for an article to appear in the . If you know any centenarians who would be happy to talk, please reach out 🤞
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“In fact, the French rather like being stereotyped as the French, if that is the issue.”
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Researchers said the results are "hope-giving" — suggesting, per the authors, that “a combination of more healthy lifestyle factors are associated with a slower rate of memory decline, regardless of the genetic risk.”
For tips on healthy aging check out:
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The effect they found was cumulative — meaning that the more healthy lifestyle factors a person had, the better off they were (in terms of memory/dementia risk).
Most importantly, that held true even for people who are genetically more at risk of developing Alzheimer’s.
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As part of the study some 29,000 ppl above the age of 60 were asked about their daily habits, with a focus on six "modifiable lifestyle factors."
Here is what a "healthy lifestyle" looked like for each factor:
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🧵 I saw a ton of reader interest in my write-up this week of a study that found a link between 6 “healthy lifestyle habits” and a ⬇️ risk of dementia/slower rate of memory decline in a large group of older people in China.
Here are the takeaways:
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Justin Bieber has sold the rights to his music to a Blackstone-backed investment fund — becoming the latest, and one of the youngest, artists to cash in on their catalogues amid a boom in music licensing deals.
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I have worked (a depressing number) of mass shootings as a breaking-news reporter at The Washington Post. I have never seen one where the early communication from authorities has been as opaque & hard to pin down as the #MontereyPark shooting.
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10 years after "this is fine" was created, the fire has grown, the internet has made us all residents of the burning house, and the artist behind the meme is interested in happier endings.
I wrote about "that dog on fire" .
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“A colleague of mine called it sacrilege.”
A font feud brews after State Dept. picks Calibri over Times New Roman
Via &
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A folk singer. A teacher. A dancer who had celebrated his birthday a day prior. These are the victims of Nepal's deadly plane crash.
My story with :
Paris Mayor is in favor of restricting e-scooters for rent in the city and is organizing a public vote on the question. Back in Nov. I wrote about the movement to ban e-scooters and why it might actually succeed: washingtonpost.com/world/2022/11/
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Nous avons un vrai problème avec les trottinettes en free floating. Elles encombrent les rues et le modèle n'est pas écologique. Je vais donc poser la question aux Parisiens pour savoir ce qu’ils veulent. Mon avis : on arrête.
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L'Amérique du Nord 🇨🇦🇺🇸 connait présentement la plus grave épidémie de drogue de son histoire. L’espérance de vie a même baissé aux Etats-Unis, une première depuis des décennies...
Je vous explique ce phénomène mais également les répercussions que cette épidémie a chez nous ⬇️
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Flights are resuming across the U.S. after an FAA computer outage halted all domestic departures. (via , , and for )
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All eyes are on Brazil right now. But where is the man at the center of it all, Jair Bolsonaro? According to his wife, in a Florida hospital, receiving treatment for abdominal pain related to his stabbing in 2018. My story for The :
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LIVE UPDATES Lula promises prosecutions, Brasilia governor suspended, protest camps dismantled, videos show invasion, damage and more from
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The pizza box in Andrew Tate’s video didn’t lead to his detention, Romanian prosecutor’s office told us. It took months to investigate—& the anti-organized-crime unit seeks to bring the Tate brothers to trial. If convicted, they could face years in prison.
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Absolutely unsurprised by this. Only surprised by how little we object to giving governments troves of our data, knowing how likely it is they will misuse it down the line.
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France's latest book prize is awarded by detainees, from behind bars. I visited a prison near Orléans to understand how - and why
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"Harry and Meghan’s attempt to seize control of the narrative of their rift with the House of Windsor — and to profit from the same — is sparking strong emotion in Britain ahead of a docuseries about the couple’s well-documented ups and downs."
Marco Rubio faces fresh scrutiny over his long friendship with David Rivera, now charged with conspiracy. via
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BAKING NEWS 🥖🥖🥖 The French baguette added to UNESCO’s list of intangible heritage has details
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BAKING NEWS: U.N. deems French baguettes essential to humanity’s culture.
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1/ Today we are formally launching our expanded Climate & Environment team at - with new features and a range of ambitious, revelatory and compelling journalism. Here's what that means:
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As I wrote this week, concern is building in Europe about how turmoil at Twitter will affect the platform's ability to adhere to its commitments on content moderation— the French regulator Arcom gave Twitter a deadline of TODAY to prove that it can: washingtonpost.com/technology/202
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I am concerned about the news of firing of a vast amount of staff of Twitter in Europe. If you want to effectively detect and take action against #disinformation & propaganda, this requires resources. Especially in the context of 
disinformation warfare.
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U.K. nurses, struggling to pay bills, say strike is for future of healthcare +
#NHSNursesStrike
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Do you love dock-free e-scooters and often use them to get around? Do you think they are a dangerous eyesore? Either way, this story is for you: Paris could be about to ban them, and the decision taken there could have global implications.
It will be interesting to see how authorities react to these explanations. In Tennessee, the consumer protection team within the Attorney General's Office has already started looking into the complaints, a spokesperson told us.
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