Web, Screen Time, Death, Apple News, Demolition Derby - Five Things - Issue #338

Read this. Tim Berners-Lee is on a mission.

Children ages 8 to 11 who use smartphones and other devices in their free time for less than two hours a day performed better on cognition tests, the study found.

Over several years, Oscar the cat had curled up next to 50 patients. Every one of them died shortly thereafter. How could doctors reproduce this ability?

With Facebook falling out of favor as a news source, publishers are seeing huge traffic growth from Apple News. Ad revenue, not so much.

Since 1869, Mainers have been spending late August at the Union Fair. They come for the wild blueberries and—recently—stay for the Demolition Derby.

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