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Foreign interference in this year's election is said to be far more sophisticated, and far more difficult to track.<\/a> \/ The New York Times [+]<\/span><\/p>\n

China is considering approving $1.4 trillion in extra debt to revive its economy.<\/a> \/ Reuters<\/span><\/p>\n

Related: If “Xi Jinping Thought” is not a vision for a genuine socialist movement driving toward a communist utopia, what is it?<\/a> \/ China Books Review<\/span><\/p>\n

An explainer for why forecasts continue to miss the pace and persistence of falling birth rates.<\/a> \/ The Financial Times [+]<\/span><\/p>\n

The United States' Nuclear Emergency Support Team (NEST) is a group of volunteers who have high-level security clearances.<\/a> \/ NPR<\/span><\/p>\n

Personal assistants for billionaires earn around $250,000 a year—and the job is a logistics nightmare.<\/a> \/ The Cut<\/span><\/p>\n

Related: “Private rail cars were, and still are, very much a high-end luxury.”<\/a> \/ Why is this interesting?<\/span><\/p>\n

Regarding yesterday's news about the art market, Maurizio Cattelan's Comedian—a banana fixed to a wall with duct tape—is estimated to sell for $1.5 million.<\/a> \/ Artsy<\/span><\/p>\n

A brief video about the tumbleweed's 19th-century arrival in America.<\/a> \/ YouTube<\/span><\/p>\n

A short film about two brothers traveling alone from Boston to the 1967 World's Fair in Montreal by pony cart.<\/a> \/ The New York Times [+]<\/span><\/p>\n

Britain's cheese world suffers the loss of over £300,000 worth of clothbound Cheddar.<\/a> \/ NPR<\/span><\/p>\n

How do different species respond to death? “In ways that are learned rather than instinctive, not rigidly responsive to specific stimuli, and highly variable.”<\/a> \/ The New Yorker<\/span><\/p>\n

European scientists develop an algorithm capable of interpreting pig sounds.<\/a> \/ Reuters<\/span><\/p>\n

Examples of people who cultivate “divine discontent.” “The tendency to revise, in particular, seems especially common.”<\/a> \/ Personal Canon<\/span><\/p>\n

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