{"id":33493,"date":"2024-08-29T14:24:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-29T14:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/p\/thursday-headlines-sacred-ciao#id33231"},"modified":"2024-08-29T14:24:00","modified_gmt":"2024-08-29T14:24:00","slug":"thursday-headlines-sacred-ciao","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/thursday-headlines-sacred-ciao\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday headlines: Sacred ciao"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An explainer for why the Horn of Africa is on the cusp of war&mdash;basically because Ethiopia wants to be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/08\/26\/opinion\/ethiopia-somalia-conflict.html?unlocked_article_code=1.GE4.vkqZ.NjdqeIRhrWyn&amp;smid=url-share\">a coastal nation.<\/a><span style=color:#A9A9A9> \/ The New York Times [+]<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Africa will finally get mpox vaccines amid a lot of criticism over delays caused by the World Health Organization&#39;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/aug\/25\/africa-to-finally-receive-first-batch-of-vaccines-for-deadly-mpox-virus\">red tape.<\/a><span style=color:#A9A9A9> \/ The Guardian<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Thanks to the new Kennedy-Gabbard team, Bernie-Trump voters are said to be back in play <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wakeuptopolitics.com\/p\/bernie-trump-voters-are-back\">in American politics.<\/a><span style=color:#A9A9A9> \/ Wake Up to Politics<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Ben Mathis Lilley: As a backroom power broker, Donald Trump Jr. is basically the complete opposite <a href=\"https:\/\/slate.com\/news-and-politics\/2024\/08\/rfk-jr-donald-trump-jr-jd-vance-kari-lake-political-reverse-midas-touch.html\">of Nancy Pelosi.<\/a><span style=color:#A9A9A9> \/ Slate<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Unrelated: Almost half of TikTok users ages 18-29 use the platform <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/short-reads\/2024\/08\/20\/about-half-of-tiktok-users-under-30-say-they-use-it-to-keep-up-with-politics-news\/\">to follow politics.<\/a><span style=color:#A9A9A9> \/ Pew Research Center<\/span><\/p>\n<p>A global decline in condom use by adolescents in recent years is blamed on a drop <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/world-health-organization-condoms-teens-51e80e563d4423eeda3e1d9c73e06fba\">in sex  education.<\/a><span style=color:#A9A9A9> \/ The Associated Press<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The risk of death for people who donate a kidney has dropped by more than <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/health\/health-news\/donating-kidney-safer-ever-new-research-finds-rcna168524\">half in the last decade.<\/a><span style=color:#A9A9A9> \/ NBC News<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Everything you need to know about why experts struggle to count mortality from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.asimov.press\/p\/black-death\">the Black Death.<\/a><span style=color:#A9A9A9> \/ Asimov Press<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Devoted, regular volunteering is found to build <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forkingpaths.co\/p\/the-power-of-supercitizens\">social cohesion in communities.<\/a><span style=color:#A9A9A9> \/ The Garden of Forking Paths<\/span><\/p>\n<p>A computer scientist says our ability to learn over the long term is &#8220;educability,&#8221; and it&#39;s a lot more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/culture\/open-questions\/what-does-it-really-mean-to-learn\">important than cleverness.<\/a><span style=color:#A9A9A9> \/ The New Yorker<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Experts say paleontology is &#8220;a honeypot of narcissists,&#8221; &#8220;a snake pit of personality disorders,&#8221; and &#8220;an especially <a href=\"https:\/\/nymag.com\/intelligencer\/article\/tanis-site-controversy-paleontology-fossils-during-depalma.html\">nasty area of academia.&#8221;<\/a><span style=color:#A9A9A9> \/ Intelligencer<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Should scientific fraud be prosecuted? 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