Tap here if you can’t see the forest for the trees: Reading things on device screens, as opposed to a printout on paper, causes people to focus on details while broader ideas sail over their heads, research shows.
Apparently the ideal screen for the display of Big Ideas is 8 1/2 by 11, white and foldable.
Mega money: The holder of the lone winning ticket for this weekend’s $429.6 million Powerball jackpot has yet to come forward to claim the massive prize.
The lucky ducky beat improbable odds — one in 292 million, and in doing so gave new hope to incurable dreamers, the mathematically challenged, and the #BernieOrBust hashtag on Twitter.
Don’t know much about history: On this day in 1924, J. Edgar Hoover became director of the FBI, a post he would hold for nearly 50 years.
By the time he died in 1972, Hoover was very much out of step with the country’s mood and tastes, in that those frumpy 1940s gowns he long favored were hopelessly out of date.
— Mark Carlson, Herald staff
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