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A pedestrian takes a look at downed trees blocking the entrance of a house in Baltimore after a severe storm swept through the region. (Photo by Jose Luis Magana / AP)

Playing the blame game with our brains

From lost keys to failed interviews, we blame other people for their mishaps but never ourselves when we do the same. Why? Because assuming helps us to make sense of the world.

BBC

Make your ‘rainy brain’ sunnier

CNN

The mystery of brain freeze

If it has not happened to you, count yourself as lucky. For many people, eating ice cream or drinking an icy drink too fast can produce a really painful headache.

NPR

Migraines affect 36 million Americans

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Eastern power outages could last a week

From North Carolina to New Jersey, nearly 1.8 million people that are still without electricity are asking the same question: Why will it take so long to get the lights back on?

CBS News

Ontario hydro crews join US power restoration efforts after storm

Edmonton Journal

Millions without power after blackout

YouTube

State-sanctioned torture in Syria is a crime against humanity

The Syrian government is practicing a widespread policy of state-sanctioned torture, according to a report from Human Rights Watch.

BBC

Two sides of a Syrian conflict

CNN

Blog:

Is the US restraining Turkey from military action in Syria?

Telegraph.co.uk

Top teachers union in US losing members

The National Education Association has lost more than 100,000 members since 2010. By 2014, it could lose a total of about 308,000 full-time teachers and other workers.

USA TODAY

NATION

California lawmakers approve foreclosure-protection law

California legislators approved a sweeping bill aimed at stopping abusive practices by mortgage lenders and helping homeowners avoid foreclosure.

Reuters

Blog:

Legislature passes Homeowner Bill of Rights

(Bay Citizen)

Pulse Of The Bay

Air tankers to resume firefighting

Air Force tanker planes will resume fighting some of the most challenging wildfires in U.S. history after a deadly crash of one of its planes over the weekend.

USA TODAY

Scientists sorting out beetle-fire relationship

Msnbc.com

How Mass. is faring under its landmark health care reform law

Six years into its health care reform experiment, Massachusetts is neither in a state of doom nor of glory. What lessons does its law, the model for Obama’s Affordable Care Act, hold for the nation?

Christian Science Monitor

New elderly care program controls health costs

CBS News

POLITICS

Federal highway fund running on fumes

Transportation and budget experts say the once-self-sustaining mechanism for highway spending no longer works the way it was intended.

McClatchy Newspapers

Gov. Christie would take Romney’s VP call

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said he would “take the call” if Mitt Romney wants to talk to him about being his running mate, though he fell short of saying he would accept the offer.

USA TODAY

EDUCATION

Online classes cut costs, but do they actually dilute brands?

Many schools wonder if technology will live up to its hype. However, with each new free online venture launched, it is not hard to see how anxiousness could quickly turn into panic.

NPR

Los Angeles school implements positive behavior system

Roosevelt High School has instigated a new discipline policy that rewards positive behavior and removed suspension for “willful defiance.”

EducationNews.org

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Fledgling NASA nonprofit starts to lift off

A new nonprofit organization that is to take charge of expanding scientific research on the International Space Station has had a rocky first year, but now is starting to show what it can do.

NPR

Why do chimps attack?

Another brutal chimp attack, this time on an American student at the Jane Goodall Institute in South Africa, begs the question: What makes these animals angry, and how can we prevent further attacks?

Discovery News

Newly found feathered dinosaur is not related to birds

The discovery of a new species of feathered dinosaur in southern Germany is further changing the perception of how predatory dinosaurs looked.

ZeeNews

HEALTH

CDC offers AIDS tests in drugstores

Getting an AIDS test at the drugstore could become as common as a flu shot or blood pressure check, if a new pilot program takes off, the Centers for Disease Control has announced.

Reporter News

Anger attacks rampant among US teens

Nearly two-thirds of American teenagers admit to having “anger attacks” that involve destroying property and threatening or engaging in violence, a new study found.

ABC News

Childless women linked to alcoholism

A new study suggests that women who want to become mothers but are unable to bear children are more than twice as likely to end up hospitalized for alcoholism.

Yahoo! News

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

How Barbie crushed Sindy

Her 50th birthday is just around the corner and she can no longer keep up with fashion. Can anyone save Sindy, the British rival to Barbie?

BBC

The science of staring

If you just arrived from rural Idaho and it’s your first trip to Times Square, staring is understandable. But how do the rest of us decide when to break stride and look at whatever everyone else is looking at?

The Atlantic

Report: America’s sheriff Andy Griffith dead at 86

Actor Andy Griffith, who won the hearts of 1960s TV viewers with his role as gentle Sheriff Andy Taylor in “The Andy Griffith Show,” then returned as a 1980s country lawyer in “Matlock,” died at 86.

Msnbc.com

Columns And Op-Ed

The opinions in the items below are not necessarily those of DailySource or our editors. Read more.

Editorial:

Use common sense when making charitable contributions

Idaho Statesman

Column (Gregory Maguire):

Thank you, Anderson

CNN

Column (Elliot Negin):

Be patriotic by going beefless on July 4th

Huffington Post

Blog (Marcelle Friedman):

Why Michelle Obama’s cookie recipe will lose her husband the election

(Slate)

XX Factor

Column (Steve Coll):

Nation of immigrants

The New Yorker

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Election offers clear choices

Creators Syndicate

Column (Alice Park):

Selling marrow: Should we be able to pay for parts?

TIME

Column (Steve Kornacki):

Obamacare battle moves to the states

Salon

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GOOD NEWS

Anonymous couple gives $30M gift to homeless in Vancouver

A $30-million philanthropic gift from an anonymous wealthy couple is allowing the city of Vancouver to reopen Taylor Manor as a home for 56 street people with complex mental health issues.

Vancouver Sun

Vet fulfills dying wish

A former chief petty officer in the Navy had just one wish for Father’s Day — to watch his son graduate from Marine Corps boot camp.

CNN

Charities in Colorado benefit from endurance athletes’ passion

Meet the charity jocks — the people throughout Colorado and around the world who push their bodies to the limits for the sake of causes that are dear to them: cancer, Down syndrome, you name it.

Denver Post

WORLD

North Korea aims for new image