Weekly Reading List

  • Photo of a Ram 2500 rolling coal.Ram 2500 Drivers Have the Most DUIs, More Than Twice the National Average: Report – Statistically, drivers of certain vehicles are more often cited for driving under the influence than others, and the list is mostly made up of trucks and vehicles in the premium or luxury segments. With all that said, Ram 2500 drivers are by far the worst offenders.
  • Image by Carolyn Wells. Photo from Getty Images. The Heart Wing – The muscle that never stops, until the very end. Is your heart a hardworking pump or a mystic miracle?
  • A storefront along Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills reflects a battery of surveillance equipment keeping an eye on the popular high-end shopping street. Photographer: Eric Thayer/Bloomberg In (and Above) Beverly Hills, Police Are Watching – The affluent LA suburb has pioneered an integrated system of cameras, drones and surveillance tech that could soon be coming to a city near you.
  • Illustrations by Rey Velasquez Sagcal The Cult of Bike Helmets – “The question is whether a helmet law that is enforced by police, on balance, produces results that outweigh the harms the law creates.” For lawmakers, the answer was clear: The potential benefits of a helmet mandate were not worth the harms it did to marginalized Seattle residents.
  • Victim cowering, seen between a bully's legs' One Little Verbal Trick to Save Your A** in Self-Defense – This surprisingly effective trick comes from Derren Brown, a British illusionist, mentalist, trickster and writer, who once documented the effectiveness of using verbal confusion as a weapon of self-defense in his book ‘Tricks Of The Mind’.