WORLD STORIES - 09/05/2018

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Nestle says slavery reporting requirements could cost customers.

smh.com.au
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President Trump’s former top economic adviser, Gary Cohn, twice pulled paperwork off of Trump’s desk that the president was intending to sign to withdraw the United States from trade agreements..

thehill.com
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The EU and national funders launch a plan to make all publicly funded research available for free instead of scientific publications hiding it behind their pay walls..

sciencebusiness.net
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Discussion Thread: Supreme Court Nominee Brett Kavanaugh Confirmation Hearing Day 1.

self.politics
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Parkland Dad: Kavanaugh Refused to Shake My Hand.

thedailybeast.com
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Republicans Who Didn’t Even Hold Hearing on Merrick Garland Complain That Democrats Are Destroying Norms.

motherjones.com
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Dementia symptoms peak in winter and spring, study finds. Adults both with and without Alzheimer's disease have better cognition skills in the late summer and early fall than in the winter and spring, according to a new study..

eurekalert.org
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People who are more well-off were made happier buying experiences over material things (the “experiential advantage”) but this is not universal - the less well-off get equal or more happiness from buying material things, suggests a new study..

digest.bps.org.uk
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No evidence that moral reminders reduce cheating behavior, finds a new replication study (n=4,674). Scientists report they were unable to reproduce the results of a well-known study showing that people are less likely to cheat on a task after making a list of the Ten Commandments..

psychologicalscience.org
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DATE: 09/05/2018