##  In the News

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### [Reminder to the Red States, Turnabout is Fair Play](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=33212:reminder-to-the-red-states-turnabout-is-fair-play&catid=395)

August 17 2026

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### [Brace Yourself For A Worse Housing Crisis](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=33148:brace-yourself-for-a-worse-housing-crisis&catid=398)

August 03 2026

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### [California’s Empty Classrooms Are a Warning Sacramento Can’t Ignore](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=33213:californias-empty-classrooms-are-a-warning-sacramento-cant-ignore&catid=378)

August 17 2026

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### [Your Boss Owns Your Workday—Not Your Brain](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=33199:your-boss-owns-your-workday-not-your-brain&catid=425)

August 13 2026

#  SOMETHING YOU SHOULD KNOW - PODCAST

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  [### The Extraordinary Benefits of Watching Sports

Written by Michael Carruthers on July 03 2026.

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 Written by Michael Carruthers on July 03 2026. Posted in [SOMETHING YOU SHOULD KNOW - PODCAST](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&id=399).

## [Slurping, Beliefs, Happiness, and the Evolution of Language](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=32973:slurping-beliefs-happiness-and-the-evolution-of-language&catid=399)

 Sometimes the smallest everyday habits reveal fascinating truths about how people think, behave, and experience the world. Four recent topics hi…

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### [When Maps Go Wrong & The Science of Everyday Courage](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=31850:when-maps-go-wrong-the-science-of-everyday-courage&catid=399)

Written by Michael Carruthers on November 21 2025.

### [Strange Secrets of the Human Body and Why Your Brain Requires Friends](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=31849:strange-secrets-of-the-human-body-and-why-your-brain-requires-friends&catid=399)

Written by Michael Carruthers on November 21 2025.

### [The Secret Languages We All Speak & Amazing Changes in Nature You Never Knew](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=31848:the-secret-languages-we-all-speak-amazing-changes-in-nature-you-never-knew&catid=399)

Written by Michael Carruthers on November 21 2025.

### [The Power of Making Things Simple & How Pockets Changed Everything](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=31847:the-power-of-making-things-simple-how-pockets-changed-everything&catid=399)

Written by Michael Carruthers on November 21 2025.

### [The Psychology of Brand Loyalty & The Strange History of Everyday Words](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=31846:the-psychology-of-brand-loyalty-the-strange-history-of-everyday-words&catid=399)

Written by Michael Carruthers on November 21 2025.

### [Thanksgiving Myths, Foods & Forgotten Traditions](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=31845:thanksgiving-myths-foods-forgotten-traditions&catid=399)

Written by Michael Carruthers on November 21 2025.

### [What Algorithms Really Know About You & The Awesome Power of Doing Nothing](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=31380:what-algorithms-really-know-about-you-the-awesome-power-of-doing-nothing&catid=399)

Written by Michael Carruthers on August 25 2025.

### [Why You Are Predisposed to Worry & How Fonts Influence Our Feelings](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=31379:why-you-are-predisposed-to-worry-how-fonts-influence-our-feelings&catid=399)

Written by Michael Carruthers on August 25 2025.

### [How Great Innovators Think & Turning Anger Into Strength](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=31378:how-great-innovators-think-turning-anger-into-strength&catid=399)

Written by CityWatch on August 25 2025.

### [How Do You Create Happiness? & Why Dogs Behave the Way They Do](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=31377:how-do-you-create-happiness-why-dogs-behave-the-way-they-do&catid=399)

Written by CityWatch on August 25 2025.

### [The Psychology of Lying & The Race for Outer Space](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=31376:the-psychology-of-lying-the-race-for-outer-space&catid=399)

Written by Michael Carruthers on August 25 2025.

### [Unlocking Your Primal Intelligence & The Tug-of-War Between Competition and Cooperation](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=31375:1248-unlocking-your-primal-intelligence-the-tug-of-war-between-competition-and-cooperation&catid=399)

Written by CityWatch on August 25 2025.

### [How Regular People Become Millionaires & How The Power of Suggestion Works](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=29834:how-regular-people-become-millionaires-how-the-power-of-suggestion-works&catid=399)

Written by Mike Carruthers on November 05 2024.

### [The Science of Sexual Attraction & What Does Your Job Mean to You?](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=29106:the-science-of-sexual-attraction-what-does-your-job-mean-to-you&catid=399)

Written by Mike Carruthers on June 21 2024.

### [Why Leadership is So Overrated & How Supply Chains Work or Don’t](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=29105:why-leadership-is-so-overrated-how-supply-chains-work-or-dont&catid=399)

Written by Mike Carruthers on June 21 2024.

### [What Is Good Mental Health? & The Weird Thing About Memory](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=28501:what-is-good-mental-health-the-weird-thing-about-memory&catid=399)

Written by Mike Carruthers on February 23 2024.

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