It's a Head's Up to the Nation's Many Passive Investors (Newser Deep Dive)

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June 1, 2024     It's a Head's Up to the Nation's Many Passive Investors Like a lot of Americans—an increasingly growing number, in fact—Andrew Lipstein is a passive investor. Broadly speaking, this kind of investing is "a buy-and-hold strategy using index (or similar) funds to match the overall performance of the market," writes Lipstein in the new cover story at Harper's. Keep reading   3M Scientist Regrets Role in Study of Forever Chemicals Back in the 1990s, a 3M chemist named Kris Hansen discovered a surprising and troubling thing: Toxic "forever chemicals" were showing up in every blood sample she tested—from ordinary people all over the country. As ProPublica reports, Hansen shared the findings with superiors, only to run into friction. Keep reading     We May Be Overlooking a Dangerous Slide in India When reporter Zack Beauchamp was speaking to an expert on India who lived in the US, the person mentioned they were afraid of being too critical for fear the government would go after relatives back in India. It sounded like a tactic you might hear in regard to China or Russia. Keep reading   We Have Her to Thank, or Blame, for Calorie Counting Someone had to invent the concept of counting calories as a way to lose weight, and that someone was Lulu Hunt Peters. As Michelle Stacey writes in a fascinating piece for Smithsonian, Peters had quite the science CV for a woman of her time. Keep reading   From the Archives Harry Reid's Secret UFO Jaunts Were Just the Start A government analysis on UFOs is due out next month from US intel agencies and the Defense Department, the first time in more than a half-century that the executive branch will release a public accounting of the once-taboo topic—and much of the thanks for that can be traced back to ex-Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, a former interrogator of terrorists, and one of the founders of Blink-182. These are just a few of the "unlikely characters" that Bryan Bender says were responsible for bringing "unidentified aerial phenomena," or UAPs (the government's official name for UFOs) from a fringe movement into mainstream DC. Keep reading   From Our Sponsors Manage your subscriptions  |  Unsubscribe from Newser emails  |  Privacy Policy We'd love to hear from you. Send us a note at feedback@newser.com. Read our stories on MSN. Newser, LLC  |  1395 Brickell Avenue  |  Suite 800  |  Miami, Florida  |  33131 © 2024 Newser, LLC. All rights reserved