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How can you own — and bottle, and sell — a natural resource?https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2021/7/12/22554546/bottled-water-michigan-waste-flint-plastic?utm_campaign=vox&utm_content=chorus&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter …

Small talk was already, for many of us, dreadful. And now we’re all so bad at it.https://trib.al/OPHoRO4 

With the influx of Covid-19 variants, what are the odds that we'll need an annual booster shot the way we do with the flu shot? We asked health experts. Here's what they said.https://trib.al/he1K9g1 

40% of food produced in America heads to the landfill or is otherwise wasted. These are the personal — and policy-level — changes that could help solve America's staggering food waste problem.https://trib.al/vjlBzau 

How online fundraising led voters to donate more money than they realizedhttps://www.vox.com/2021/7/11/22572641/dark-patterns-online-fundraising-voters-donate-money-campaigns?utm_campaign=vox&utm_content=chorus&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter …

Whitney Houston followed rules in order to make it big in pop music as a Black woman — and beat the Beatles and Elvises of pop culture. Then she started to break the rules.https://trib.al/AxS0Hc8 

Most US parents are eligible for new child tax credit payments. Here's how to get your money: You’ll get it automatically if you filed taxes in 2019 or 2020. OR Sign up with the IRS's free file site, or visit http://GetYourRefund.org  for more help.https://trib.al/Ruoj6we 

”Race norming" — the medical practice the NFL just banned for being racist — influences how Americans are diagnosed by doctors, what medical students learn in school, and more:https://trib.al/dHTH4Sk 

Researchers have found that “expiration” dates — which rarely correspond to food actually expiring or spoiling — are mostly well-intentioned, but haphazard and confusing. In other words, they’re not actually expiration dates at all.https://trib.al/hW4o79v 

Why you can't stop being so socially weird right now, according to a psychologist:https://trib.al/7AzXgUX 

It’s not your imagination. Things are getting more expensive.https://trib.al/ydOu2yL 

In 2020, Taiwan had only seven Covid-19 deaths. Here’s how they did it.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fhaEIlGux4 …

If you thought airports were miserable pre-pandemic, we have bad news for you.https://trib.al/GXHHW1z 

The US is leaving Afghanistan. The Taliban is gaining. What happens now?https://www.vox.com/22570391/afghanistan-taliban-biden-withdrawal?utm_campaign=vox&utm_content=chorus&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter …

Here are the factors health experts are considering when determining which people may need a Covid-19 booster shot.https://trib.al/lr0wJ8O 

Why American parents are obsessed with finding out the sex of their fetushttps://www.vox.com/first-person/22569143/parents-gender-ultrasound-sonogram?utm_campaign=vox&utm_content=chorus&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter …

Very early in the pandemic, perceptions about Covid-19 weren’t too divided by political party. Today 95% of Democrats are already vaccinated or want to get the vaccine, while 41-46% of Republicans reject it.https://trib.al/jthixtM 

Racist stereotypes about Black people's physical strength was used to justify slavery centuries ago. Today, it's used in medical algorithms to put Black Americans at the back of the line for kidney transplants:https://trib.al/F2XSnz5 

Richard Branson’s trip to space is about convincing others to come along https://www.vox.com/recode/22570789/richard-branson-elon-musk-jeff-bezos-spacex-blue-origin-virgin-galactic?utm_campaign=vox&utm_content=chorus&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter …