Generation Adderall: Here’s What We’re Reading Today

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Here’s what we’re reading today.

1. Generation Adderall

“Like many of my friends, I spent years using prescription stimulants to get through school and start my career. Then I tried to get off them.”

+1: Ontario unveils plans to confront opioid epidemic.

2. Tony Clement drops out of Conservative leadership race

“Conservative MP Tony Clement is ending his bid for the leadership of his party, saying he has fallen short of financial and other goals he set when he launched his campaign.

‘I make this decision not very lightly, of course, but owing to the financial realities it’s very clear that I cannot expose my family to any further financial risk at this time,’ Clement said Wednesday in a video posted to Twitter and Facebook.”

3. What Wikileaks emails say about Hillary Clinton

“Conservatives will see corruption and liberals will see corporatism and expedience, but the exchanges simply expose the candidate who’s been there all along.”

+1: Teen beauty queens say Trump walked in on them naked in them changing.

+1: Sweet god, when will this election be over?

4. Facebook has had an insane impact on voter registration in the U.S.

“As if we needed a reminder of how intertwined Facebook and politics are in 2016, a new report citing top election officials says that the social media company contributed to substantial increases in nationwide voter registration during a brief drive on the site last month.”

5. Mirrors are a flawed technology

“There are more ways to see ourselves now than ever before — but are we seeing ourselves any more clearly?.”

+1: Lucid streaming: Virtual reality can be as immersive as a movie because it doesn’t look or feel real at all.

PHoto: New York Times