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Oct 22, 2024 | yahoo.com | Haley Weiss

The Lies We’ve Been Told About AlcoholJarren Vink"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." It took only seven years for cigarette sales to dip after the U.S. Public Health Service’s first public acknowledgment that smoking causes cancer. Drinking alcohol causes cancer, too, and we’ve known that for at least 37 years, since the World Health Organization (WHO) first published findings in 1987.

May 3, 2024 | india.postsen.com | Haley Weiss

This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and recommends the best in culture. Sign up for it here. By killing her dog, South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem may have also killed her chances of becoming Donald Trump’s vice president. So who else is on the list?

Apr 10, 2024 | newyorkfolk.com | James White |Haley Weiss

This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and recommends the best in culture. Sign up for it here. Yes, the American tax code is complicated. But a web of other forces makes the country’s tax-filing system much trickier than it needs to be.

Apr 10, 2024 | theatlantic.com | Haley Weiss

At Hopscotch, Daryl Collins’s bottle shop in Baltimore, he happily sells wine to 18-year-olds. If a customer isn’t sure what variety they like (and who is, at that age?), Collins might even pull a few bottles off the shelves and pop the corks for an impromptu tasting. No Maryland law keeps these teens away from the Tempranillo, because at this shop, none of the drinks contain alcohol.

Mar 8, 2024 | slate.com | Haley Weiss

Skip to the content Science The sandworms of Dune have more than earned their spot atop the pantheon of iconic sci-fi creatures. Dune author Frank Herbert’s gargantuan autotrophs have served as the blueprint for generations of other monster designs, like Beetlejuice’s sandworm, the tunneling graboids from Tremors, and at least two Star Wars creatures.