Kat’s stack of reads

What captured my attention this week among things I read? Sports excellence and investigations, a tremendous visualization on impact of climate change around the world, more attacks on democracy and rights in the U.S., Gun violence in America, a few feel-good stories and more

Sports excellence - Allyson Felix, Sydney McLaughlin & MLB All-Star Week; and ugliness - sexual assault allegations in hockey and misconduct allegations force Vince McMahon’s retirement

Sydney McLaughlin @gosydgo absolutely demolished the 400-meter hurdles record https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/olympics/2022/07/22/sydney-mclaughlin-400-meter-hurdles-world-record/

Allyson Felix (whose retirement lasted just one week before a surprise race Saturday night) & Chloe Kim on sports and building a career @allysonfelix @chloekim https://t.co/Ws1P1Ohyx2

Minor league baseball players and measly pay @brittghiroli https://theathletic.com/3130271/2022/02/15/we-are-making-pennies-for-many-minor-leaguers-unpaid-offseasons-prove-more-grueling-than-the-actual-seasons/

Baseball reporter Tim Kurkjian @kurkjian_espn makes the MLB Hall of Fame https://t.co/BTIj0TEi1h

Sexual assault allegations in Canadian hockey @katiejstrang @robsondan @ian_mendes https://t.co/iBqFMV59VF

Vince McMahon resigns “retires” from WWE after years of sexual assault allegations https://t.co/tVMsfI3Trq

Lots of health/medicine news, from learnings on the brain (the least understood body part) in the week that included #WorldBrainDay to alleged fabrications on Alzheimer’s research to research on long COVID.

Brain implants may soon enable ALS, stroke and other patients who have lost ability to speak a way to send their thoughts via text @putrinolab @icahnmountsinai https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-07-18/brain-computer-interface-company-implants-new-type-of-device

Three leading theories on what causes long COVID https://www.science.org/content/article/what-causes-long-covid-three-leading-theories

Is where we are with COVID pandemic like a boiling frog situation? @erictopol

Fabrications in Alzheimer’s studies takes a toll @cpiller https://www.science.org/content/article/potential-fabrication-research-images-threatens-key-theory-alzheimers-disease

Masking at takeoff and landing on planes may reduce majority of COVID risk while flying at minimal effort https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2022/07/covid-omicron-ba5-wave-airplane-masks/670565/

Brain injury is a devastating yet often invisible disability (I know from personal experience) https://www.biausa.org/public-affairs/media/brain-injury-as-a-form-of-invisible-disability

Continued assault on democracy in the U.S. and personal freedoms

Trump term 2 and attack on America @jonathanvswan

Part 1 https://t.co/x39E2Jg8nX

Part 2 https://t.co/HJVyuq6Hkr

How Stop the Steal captured the American right @chashomans https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/19/magazine/stop-the-steal.html?referringSource=articleShare

Impact of overturning of Roe v Wade on the future of embryonic research https://www.wired.com/story/roe-wade-embryo-research/?bxid=5cb4dd4e24c17c34e552060f&cndid=3629885&esrc=AUTO_PRINT&mbid=CRMWIR092120&source=EDT_WIR_NEWSLETTER_0_DAILY_ZZ&utm_brand=wired&utm_campaign=aud-dev&utm_content=WIR_Daily_072022&utm_mailing=WIR_Daily_072022&utm_medium=email&utm_source=nl&utm_term=P4

Attacks on women @thom_hartmann

Abortion law profoundly affecting women’s health https://apnews.com/article/abortion-science-health-medication-lupus-e4042947e4cc0c45e38837d394199033

Climate change research

Postcards from a world on fire - highly recommended visualization https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/12/13/opinion/climate-change-effects-countries.html

Guns in America

Book The Violence Project by Jillian Peterson, PhD @jillkpeterson & James Densley, PhD @theviolencepro

Art by a victim in Uvalde

https://t.co/O3PkGrGjZs

Uvalde red flags missed

Mass shooting near my hometown at Maquoketa Caves State Park https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/crime-and-courts/2022/07/23/iowa-camper-describes-aftermath-maquoketa-caves-state-park-shooting-schmidt-family/10133386002/

Miscellaneous- a couple feel-good stories, how people think & the war in Ukraine

Atrocities in Ukraine @alexey__kovalev

https://meduza.io/en/feature/2022/04/18/i-can-do-whatever-i-want-to-you

Reuniting a woman with a pendant of her deceased mother

‘It Was Meant To Be’: Woman Reunites Family With Pendant Lost On Rehoboth

Beach With Help Of Social Media11 hours ago

Pizza delivery driver rescues children from a fire https://t.co/LQSjl756ID

How people think h/y @jmegias http://www.collaborativefund.com/blog/think/

Attracting and retaining immigrants in America https://foreignpolicy.com/2022/07/16/immigration-us-technology-companies-work-visas-china-talent-competition-universities/