Here’s How Sleeping More on Weekends Could Save Your Life

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1. Here’s how sleeping more on weekends could save your life.

By Kate Wheeling in Pacific Standard

2. Americans are bargaining away their innocence.

By Tim Lynch at the Cato Institute

3. Technology is going to change almost everything we know about food. Here’s how.

By Kara Nortman in Re/Code

4. Facebook makes us think we’re right — regardless of the facts.

By Cass R. Sunstein in Bloomberg View

5. You can’t trust what you read about nutrition.

By Christie Aschwanden in FiveThirtyEight

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