Extra, Extra
It Takes a Villages: “As one of the world’s largest retirement communities, The Villages in central Florida is known for its endless golf courses, having the oldest median age in the United States and its traffic-stopping golf-cart parades usually supporting a Republican candidate during campaign season. What it’s not known for is kids. Yet the area that is home to The Villages has become the fastest-growing metro for young children in the U.S. this decade.” Why the fastest-growing place for young kids in the US is in the metro with the oldest residents.
+ Middle East on Edge: Israel and US brace for Iranian attack as diplomats push hard for Gaza ceasefire. Meanwhile, “U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has ordered a guided missile submarine to the Middle East and is telling the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier strike group to sail more quickly to the area, as the U.S. on Monday said it believes Iran or its proxies may launch a strike against Israel as soon as this week.”
+ Week Sauce: “Scientists hail ‘smart’ insulin that responds to changing blood sugar levels in real time. “People with type 1 diabetes may in future only need to give themselves insulin once a week.”
+ End of an Era: “Wojcicki’s death Friday from lung cancer at age 56 marks the end of an era for Google and Silicon Valley. It cuts tragically short the life of a Silicon Valley leader who was a role model throughout her industry and a link to her powerful company’s earliest and humbler days. She was the rare tech-industry executive, even rarer as a woman in a male-dominated industry, who was universally liked.” WaPo: A Silicon Valley pioneer who locked in on excellence. “Wojcicki and her husband, Dennis Troper, a longtime Google employee, knew tragedy, too. In February, their 19-year-old son, Marco, a freshman at the University of California at Berkeley, died of a drug overdose.”
+ Emergency in the ER: “Bleeding and in pain, Kyleigh Thurman didn’t know her doomed pregnancy could kill her. Emergency room doctors at Ascension Seton Williamson in Texas handed her a pamphlet on miscarriage and told her to “let nature take its course” before discharging her without treatment for her ectopic pregnancy.” Dozens of pregnant women, some bleeding or in labor, are turned away from ERs despite federal law.
+ Kid Plenty: Last week my daughter told me, “No one on TikTok liked Biden. Everyone on TikTok loves Kamala.” That’s all the evidence I needed of the shift in youth perceptions. If you need a little more, there’s this from The New Yorker: Kamala Harris’s Youth-Vote Turnaround. “In the past year, I’ve interviewed dozens of young voters across the country. I kept asking myself: Was Trump doing something right, or was Biden doing something very, very wrong? Three weeks into Kamala Harris’s campaign, we seem to have our answer. The news for the Democrats is full-blast, coconut-tree thrills. While Biden had idled behind Trump in surveys and vibes, Harris quickly caught up and even overtook the former President. Young people, including in battleground states, are now choosing Harris over Trump by as many as twenty-four points.”
+ Tourist Trap: A mass circumcision is marketed to tourists in a remote area of Uganda. Some are angrily objecting. (Don’t let the Project 25 folks see this. They’ll add it to the plan.)
+ Box Set: Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds mark first married couple to top box office in 34 years.
