Things I have recently spotted that may be of interest to someone else:
Education: National Public Radio has published an in-depth report on the pluses and minuses of school voucher programs.
Ethics: Rerum Novarum, an encyclical issued in 1881, by Pope Leo XIII, on the treatment of laborers, and a lot more. Sample (from paragraph 28):
Neither must it be supposed that the solicitude of the Church is so preoccupied with the spiritual concerns of her children as to neglect their temporal and earthly interests. Her desire is that the poor, for example, should rise above poverty and wretchedness, and better their condition in life; and for this she makes a strong endeavor. By the fact that she calls men to virtue and forms them to its practice she promotes this in no slight degree.
Finance: Relevant reports on a study of repaying loans, which found that people who mentioned God when talking about paying back loans were less likely to pay them back.
Health: National Public Radio details two good methods for washing our hands. (Confession: I don't use either of them.)
History: Some historical facts you didn't learn in school, from Listverse.
Humor: (Sort of) Scientific American reports further on the question of why people take their empty shopping carts to a cart corral, or don't. The report is mostly interesting comments, from returners and non-returners.
Politics: Listverse tells us that free speech is being attacked from many sides, in many ways.
(And history) FiveThirtyEight discusses US political scandals of the past, and points out that even when Presidents were involved in some really bad stuff, many congresspeople stuck by them.
Science: (and Christianity) Relevant strongly defends the concept of human-caused climate change.
Wired reports that scientists have made functioning mouse ovaries with a 3-D printer. Really.
Listverse describes 10 fascinating facts about plants.
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