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TECHNOLOGY
French Inventor Demonstrates Flyboard Above Champs-Élysées
Flyboards will soon be for rent on every street corner in Paris.
Elon Musk Plans to Start
Implanting Chips in Brains
Allowing Us to Remotely
Control Computers

Or vice versa.
 
MISCELLANEOUS
1,000 Trees Planted in Norway to Be Used to Print Books 100 Years From Now
Assuming they can find an old printing press.
Source: Queen Favors Prince George, Singles Him Out for Gifts
Sends snippy notes to Princess Charlotte, calls baby Archie “a nasty screamer.”
LIFESTYLE
Number of Americans Who Say They're Not Too Happy Doubled Between 1990 and 2018
Especially among those who were 50 in 1990 and 68 in 2018.
Finland's Basic Income
Experiment Shows Recipients
Happier, More Secure

Researchers will next probe whether increasing basic income makes recipients even happier, even more secure.
Study: Women No Longer
Considered Less Competent
Than Men

However, men still considered less competent than women.
 
TRENDS
Survey: We Prefer Emojis
To Phone Calls for Sharing
Our Feelings

And we prefer texting a marriage proposal to proposing in person.
 
ODDS 'N' ENDS
French Debut Anti-Flyboard Guns
They'll soon be for rent on every street corner in Paris.

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