Heart disease rates in people under 40 have more than doubled since 2010. Age 17 is a key turning point when heart health scores can start to decline in young people, according to a nurse practitioner who studies how early life shapes long-term health. https://buff.ly/BVnnabl

Coal plants increased particulate pollution by 15-20% during the 2018-2019 government #shutdown when EPA inspectors were furloughed. Emissions dropped back to normal once inspections resumed, according to economists who looked at monitoring data https://buff.ly/yZKXGEN

How did "surreal" go from obscure art jargon to everyday speech? An art historian looks at how a new exhibition traces surrealism's journey from 1920s Paris cafes to global influence over the past century. https://buff.ly/71eij1R

Kant's 3 rules for virtuous thinking: Think for yourself, think from everyone else's perspective, and think in harmony with yourself. A philosopher explores how these 18th-century ideas remain relevant in our "post-truth" world.

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Building a stable ‘abode of thought’: Kant’s rules for virtuous thinking

Kant’s 3 rules can offer a helpful check as to whether we are not only living well but thinking well.

#AI tools can boost student motivation. An educational psychologist explains that students benefit most from AI when they use it consistently and maintain control over how they engage with it. https://buff.ly/1OR2aGQ

College faculty are self-censoring in classrooms to avoid controversy, according to a scholar of education, health and behavior studies. Over half of surveyed professors have altered course materials or emails to avoid expressing potentially controversial opinions. https://buff.ly/57704Yi

Giant ground sloths, some weighing thousands of pounds and as tall as a house, are nothing like the sleepy tree hugging sloths we know today. New techniques of fossil dental analysis reveal what they ate: https://buff.ly/mHuSOxY

The Shockoe Hill African Burying Ground in Richmond, VA holds up to 22,000 enslaved and free people of color. Today it sits amid highways, an auto shop, and a power substation - a stark contrast to the well-maintained white Christian cemetery across the way. https://buff.ly/G4iFZnr

The U.S. government’s Office of Space Commerce has faced deep budget and staffing cuts, even though the Trump Administration has made elevating it a priority. This leaves the future of U.S. leadership in space commerce uncertain. A space scientist explains: https://buff.ly/fiLhZyS

Is it wrong to have too much money? Your answer may depend on deep-seated values – and your country’s economy

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Is it wrong to have too much money? Your answer may depend on deep-seated values – and your country’s economy

People who highly value equality and purity are most likely to see excessive wealth as wrong, a new study suggests.