A New Harper Lee Novel and more conversation starters for brunch.
Harper Lee to Publish First Novel in Over 50 Years, Rolling Stone
After more than 50 years, author Harper Lee will follow up her beloved, and only, book To Kill a Mockingbird with her second novel, Go Set a Watchman, set for release on July 14th, publisher HarperCollins announced Tuesday.
The Problem With Those 'Feminist' Super Bowl Ads,The Cut
I certainly prefer girls throwing punches and Mindy Kaling’s eye-rolls to the back-slapping boys'-club tone of GoDaddy and Budweiser ads from Super Bowls past. But this year’s empowerment-infused commercials left me feeling conflicted. Of course I endorse the idea that "girly" is not an insult, that being a dad is important work, that systemic injustice can render certain women invisible, that domestic-violence survivors deserve support not scorn. I want these ideas to go mainstream. So then why did I cringe watching companies use those ideas to sell stuff during the Super Bowl?
18 Things The Left Shark Is Totally Thinking, BuzzFeed
It’s no surprise that the real winner of Super Bowl XLIX was Katy Perry’s left shark. To honor this break-out star, the BuzzFeed Community asked its Twitter followers to caption the left shark.
Too Much Jogging 'as Bad as No Excercise at All', BBC
Too much jogging may be as bad for you as not putting on your running shoes at all, a report in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology says.
UK House of Commons OK's Making Babies from DNA of 3 people,SF Gate
Britain moved Tuesday toward allowing scientists to create humans from the DNA of three people. The technology aims to liberate future generations from inherited diseases, but critics say it crosses a fundamental scientific boundary and could lead to "designer babies." The U.K.'s House of Commons voted 382-178 in favor of legislation to license these experiments. If approved in the House of Lords, Britain would become the world's first nation to allow genetic modifications in human embryos.
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