Last summer, a research group from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) quietly published the results of a new approach in the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease. What they found was striking.

Although the size of the study was small, every participant demonstrated such marked improvement that almost all were found to be in the normal range on testing for memory and cognition by the study’s end. Functionally, this amounts to a cure.

Read more at Healthline.

Uber is reportedly in talks to buy Lime or Bird, the start-ups whose electric scooters are on the streets of Los Angeles and are set to come to London this year. 

The ride-hailing company wants to move further into other vehicle-renting markets after purchasing bike hire start-up Jump for $200m (£156m) in April, The Information reported.

Read more at Telegraph.

There are more than 15 million active job listings on LinkedIn, but career experts say merely having a profile on the online networking site isn’t enough.

Even if you’re not looking for a new job, it’s important to have a polished profile, says Lisa Rangel, owner of Chameleon Resumes, an executive job-search consultancy that specializes in upgrading resumes and LinkedIn profiles.

Read more at NY Post.

There’s only one stock metric that investors should focus on in 2019, according to “Shark Tank” star Kevin O’Leary, chairman of O’Shares ETF Investments.

Cash flows.

Read more at Yahoo.

Every time Trump reminds you that the stock market has experienced a feverish, tubercular bloom under his presidency, just recall that 84% of stocks are held by 10% of Americans.

The wealth of middle class people is primarily in the form of their personal residences, whose value has driven to incredible peaks by rich people (often represented by hedge funds) diversifying their portfolios by speculating in the property markets.

Boing Boing.

A strong earthquake shook Alaska's largest city, Anchorage, startling residents, damaging buildings and uprooting roads. The governor has declared a disaster, and schools are closed for several days until buildings can be assessed. Judy Woodruff speaks by phone to Lori Townsend of Alaska Public Media about "the most violent shaking" she has experienced in 20 years in the state.

Read more at PBS News.

Before the tearing, the choking and the pouring mucus, tear gas burns. It causes searing pain in the eyes, skin, lungs and mouth—or anywhere it touches. “It can be overwhelming and incapacitating.

You can be forced to shut your eyes and cannot open them,” says Sven-Eric Jordt, an anesthesiologist at Duke University. And then comes the coughing and the nausea and the vomiting. What causes these chemicals to have such devastating effects on the human body?

Read more at PBS News.

Less than eight months after his wife Barbara Bush passed, former President George H.W. Bush died Friday night at the age of 94. Hari Sreenivasan reports.

George Herbert Walker Bush became president in 1989. His inaugural address included the words 'kinder' and 'gentler'–words that would become part of his legacy, and that he also used in his acceptance speech at the republican convention in 1988.

Read more at PBS News.

Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador used his first full day in office to double down on promises to deploy the military for public security, tackling a key concern: stemming rampant violence and rising murders.

Speaking on Sunday before rows of generals at a sun-drenched military installation in one of Mexico City’s toniest neighborhoods, Lopez Obrador said the retooling of the military is “indispensable” to tackle the daunting task of making Mexico safer.

Read more at Associated Press News.