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Public-health advice is pretty clear that children are especially at risk of heat-related illnesses, but actual heat-related-illness data seem to tell a different story, Daniel Engber reports:

The Thinking About Kids and Heat Has Flipped

The film critic David Thomson's new book attacks movies at large for harming society. Michael O'Donnell argues that the notorious contrarian couldn't be more wrong:

The Film Historian Who’s Sick of Movies

“Falling in love can be exhilarating, but it isn’t the secret to happiness per se. You might more accurately say that falling in love is the start-up cost for happiness—an exhilarating but stressful stage we have to endure to get to the relationships that actually fulfill us.”

When it comes to lasting romance, passion has nothing on friendship, Arthur Brooks wrote in 2021. https://theatln.tc/aIimaygJ

🎨: Jan Buchczik