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New Study Unveils Coffee’s Surprising Brain Benefits (Maria)

The author writes, “A new study at a leading research center found coffee appears to rewire the gut-brain connection, changing microbes that influence mood, stress, and cognition. Even decaf had surprising brain benefits, hinting that coffee’s power goes far beyond caffeine.”

Kids Forced to Appear Alone in Court as Trump Ramps up Deportations (Dana)

From The New Republic: “The Trump administration is moving to radically expedite the removal of immigrant children, impeding the work of immigration advocates. … Immigration hearings for children are being moved up by weeks or even months, making it increasingly difficult for children to obtain legal resources or relief. These are children who are either unaccompanied minors or are taken into custody after their parents are detained for immigration charges.”

A Landslide in Alaska Set off a Tsunami. There May Be More to Come. (Laura)

From The New York Times: “Nearly 500 feet up a near-vertical rock face, scraped clean of soil and alder trees, Bretwood Higman, a geologist, looked down across the Tracy Arm fjord in southeast Alaska at a scene of devastation. At 5:26 a.m. on Aug. 10 last year, a mass of rock with a volume 24 times larger than that of the great pyramid of Giza crashed down the mountainside, sending a wave of water 1,578 feet up the opposite wall and setting off a tsunami that roared down the fjord. … Dr. Higman was part of an international team investigating the aftermath of the geologic event, the second largest landslide-generated tsunami on record. Using computer models, the researchers were able to recreate the landslide and tsunami, as well as a standing wave called a seiche that sloshed back and forth for 36 hours after the landslide.”

The Chief Justice and His Wife Took $20 Million From Firms He Rules On. I’m Filing for His Disbarment. (Sean)

The author writes, “The evidence is public and the statutes are unambiguous. He is breaking the law. Over sixteen years of federal financial disclosure forms, Chief Justice John Roberts mischaracterized more than twenty million dollars in household income from law firms appearing before the Supreme Court. He concealed his wife’s equity stake in her employer for three consecutive years. He failed to recuse from more than five hundred cases argued at the Supreme Court by law firms that had paid his household millions in commissions, and from at least three additional cases in which he personally held stock in a party. He architected the Court’s first ethics code and designed it to be unenforceable. This is a course of conduct stretching across two decades, connected by a single through-line: the belief that the rules that apply to every other federal judge do not apply to him.”

This Donut-Shaped Discovery Just Shattered a 150-Year Math Rule (Mili)

The author writes, “A 150-year-old rule in geometry has been proven wrong. Mathematicians found two different doughnut-shaped surfaces that look identical when measured locally but are actually different overall. For decades, researchers suspected this might be possible but couldn’t prove it—until now. The breakthrough reshapes how mathematicians understand the relationship between local measurements and global form.” 

Rare Two-Colored Lobster Caught by Fishermen off Cape Cod Donated to Aquarium (Reader Steve)

The author writes, “It might be a divided lobster, but it has united New Englanders in fascination. A Cape Cod seafood company has donated a rare two-colored lobster to a science center, sparing the critter from the kettle because of its remarkable coloration. The lobster found is the typical brown color on one side and bright orange on the other, and the two-toned pattern goes all the way from its head to its tail.”