The Washington Post profiled the growing trend of readers treating non-readers as a dealbreaker — including a new dating app called Readme built specifically for bibliophiles — with Bumble data finding that straight women are 66% more likely to swipe right if a man lists reading as a hobby, and 75% of people across genders finding readers more attractive. Also: a major international study published in The New England Journal of Medicine examined more than 16,800 healthy adults aged 18 to 70 with no known cardiovascular disease and found artery plaque in 57.1% of them — including about 1 in 13 adults under 30. And the Nobel Peace Prize is being announced this Friday, October 9th, with the International Space Station emerging as a genuine top contender — a symbol of continuous international scientific cooperation between the US, Russia, Europe, Japan, and Canada through 25 years of wars, elections, and geopolitical turbulence. Plus the Red Lobster fake emergency, the $128K ATM finder, phantom phone vibrations, and the Florida beach paying you to vacation.
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