The Brain Makes a Lot of Waste. Now Scientists Think They Know Where It Goes

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June 27, 2024 Avocado Injuries, Virginia Woolf, and TikTok Talk Ten picks for today, curated by our editors. Plus, noping out. 1   Election 2024 'It May Be One of the More Consequential in American History': Why Tonight's Debate Could Upend the 2024 Campaign More than 70 percent of American voters plan to tune in. POLITICO Adam Wren Save 2   Breakthroughs The Brain Makes a Lot of Waste. Now Scientists Think They Know Where It Goes. The brain appears to rely on synchronized waves to wash out waste products, including toxins associated with Alzheimer's disease. NPR Jon Hamilton Save 3   Weird Science Would You Clone Your Dog? We love our dogs for their individual characters—and yet cloning implies that we also believe their unique, unreproducible selves can, in fact, be reproduced. The New Yorker Alexandra Horowitz Save 4   Hot Recs The 20 Best Albums of 2024 (So Far) Variety critics pick albums by Beyoncé, Taylor Swift, Charli XCX, Billie Eilish, Ariana Grande, Tyla, Kali Uchis, Tems and others as the mid-year best. Variety Chris Willman Save 5   Thought-Provoking Tiktok LLM Tiktok's opaque censorship protocol has led to the development of euphemisms adopted offline too, but the language acquisition users are modeling has precedent. The New Inquiry Eleanor Stern Save 6   First Person 3 Degrees and $100M of Product: What It's Like to Work a Shift in a Cold Storage Facility We take for granted that we can eat meat from across the country or even yogurt made just a few towns away. A new book makes it eminently clear that we shouldn't. Eater Nicola Twilley Save 7   Stay Safe Out There It's a Dangerous Time of Year for Avocado Lovers Most injuries related to cutting avocados occur from April through July. Here's how to reduce your risk. The Washington Post Anahad O'Connor Save 8   Women's Health Why Is It So Hard to Get a Basic Question Answered About Your IUD? In the 1970s, a dangerous device hit the market. Today, millions of women use IUDs safely—but to many, they remain as mysterious as ever. Slate Mia Armstrong-López Save 9   The More You Know 15 Trees Every Outdoor Lover Should Learn to Identify Identifying traits and uses for common North American trees. Outdoor Life Tim MacWelch Save 10   Just Because A Selection of Virginia Woolf's Most Savage Insults Moments that remind us how certain people really should have been afraid of Virginia Woolf, because she was full of epic—and sometimes kind of horrible and classist—insults. Literary Hub Emily Temple Save Further Reading   Collection of the Day 'Noping Out' Is the New 'Having It All' No one likes archaic social obligations and unpaid emotional labor. But are enough of us saying no to them? Pocket x Glamour Ruhama Wolle Save   Yesterday's Most Read Story I Went to See the Statue at the Center of the Most Absurd Controversy in America. Whew. A 26-foot-tall controversy in the California desert. Slate Dan Kois Save Thanks for reading! If you enjoyed this newsletter, please share it with a friend. Was this email forwarded to you? Subscribe now to get Pocket in your inbox every day. Take Pocket everywhere You're receiving this email because you subscribed to Pocket. Unsubscribe • Manage Preferences • Privacy Policy • Help Center • Advertise © 2024 Mozilla Corporation, 149 New Montgomery St, 4th Floor, San Francisco, CA 94105