current events
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If you pride yourself on your knowledge of current events, see if you can beat a Slate senior editor’s score in today’s news quiz!
From Slate ● Aug. 28, 2026
"The hippocampus is important for our ability to distinguish between similar but different memories and separate the emotional connotation of past memories and current events," Dupont says.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 25, 2026
“Days of Unrest” is intended as Price’s response to current events, from an artist who has always spoken her mind and who has been political from the start.
From Salon ● Jul. 14, 2026
There is, you may be surprised to learn, little evidence to suggest Americans are less well-informed about current events than they were when 75% of households watched one of the nightly news broadcasts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026
She taught her three children the art of debate and tutored them on current events, translating for Jim the images of famine and war that upset him on the TV news.
From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French
