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American Airlines will resume Boeing 737 Max passenger flights today American Airlines is the first domestic carrier to resume flights with Boeing’s 737 Max after the plane was withdrawn from service more than a year ago. CNBC reports that the craft’s return to active duty begins with Flight 718, a roundtrip jaunt from Miami to New York. Continue Reading . . . https://www.engadget.com/american-airlines-boeing-737-max-returns-to-the-skies-resumes-flight-faa-132043898.html

" We have long known that ravens are no birdbrains. They have been spotted caching food for later,  gathering string  to pull up hanging food and even trying to deceive one another. A  study  published today in  Science  adds an especially impressive twist: Ravens can plan for future needs that they never encounter in nature, suggesting intelligence may arise predictably from conditions that occurred multiple times across the tree of life. ..." http://buff.ly/2ulid2k via Buffer