Currently Creasing: Week of January 20

Here’s what our team has for you to bookmark & read this week

1. Today is MLK, Jr. Day. Here’s our guide to making it a meaningful one, today and every day.

2. The Bleak Future of Australian Wildlife: The bushfires were a disaster waiting to happen for animals already fighting for survival.

3. Can a higher minimum wage save lives by reducing suicides? The answer appears to be yes.

4. Vitamins and the Failure of Free-Market Health: The booming dietary-supplement industry is plagued by outlandish claims, undermining credible science, and seeding confusion.

5. 'Freed From The Secret': Rep. Ayanna Pressley Opens Up About Living With Alopecia: The freshman lawmaker says she felt that it was particularly important for her to speak out about her condition because her hairstyle, Senegalese twists, has become a part of her political brand.

6. Eating More Vegetables Did Not Affect Prostate Cancer Progression: Men with early stage prostate cancer did not show benefits from a vegetable-rich diet.

7. Meanwhile, Fish Oil Supplements Tied to Sperm Health: Young men who took fish oil supplements had higher sperm counts, a greater sperm volume and larger average testicular size.

8. Why getting enough vitamin D in wintertime is so important: Diminished sunshine means many people experience deficiencies. This can lead to GI tract problems caused by infections and inflammation.

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Thought of the Week

“And one day we must ask the question, ‘Why are there forty million poor people in America? And when you begin to ask that question, you are raising questions about the economic system, about a broader distribution of wealth.’ When you ask that question, you begin to question the capitalistic economy. And I’m simply saying that more and more, we’ve got to begin to ask questions about the whole society…”

— Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in a speech to Southern Christian Leadership Conference Atlanta, Georgia, August 16, 1967