Links for you. Science:

A popular nature park was trampled by overuse. Dogs came to the rescue.
Parrot is ‘attention hog’ and smart as human toddler, owners say. Apollo, a Guinness World Record holder, identifies objects, colors and some numbers. He can distinguish among glass, metal and paper.
Scientists may have found a radical solution for making your hamburger less bad for the planet (early days etc…)
Deadly mosquito virus has Mass. towns urging people to stay in at night. The virus spread by mosquitoes is rare, but serious: about 30 percent of people with the virus die, and many survivors have ongoing neurological problems. (EEE virus)
Long-hidden family scandal in Jamestown colony revealed 400 years later by ancient DNA
Dr. Fauci Recovering At Home After Hospitalization For West Nile Virus

Other:

Crime Is Down. Kamala Is Up. There’s a story here, if the Harris-Walz campaign wants to tell it.
Why Kamala Harris might benefit from a focus on her identity. Polling from Fairleigh Dickinson University finds a significant effect on support when voters are primed with mentions of race or gender.
Republican Donors: Do You Know Where Your Money Goes?
Stupid And Contagious
Five Reasons Four-Story Apartment Buildings Are Good
A Streatery Has Sparked a War Between Two Chevy Chase Restaurants
On the Dark History and Ongoing Ableist Legacy of the IQ Test
Cities are trying to cut down on cars. Some states are standing in their way.
What all parents can learn from the troubled AI in Los Angeles schools
They Served With Trump and Saw the Crazy. They Should Endorse Harris. (“Every person who agrees to be a poll watcher this fall is putting themselves at a risk that is equal or greater to what John Kelly would face if he were to cut an ad for Kamala Harris.”)
There’s a reason Adam Kinzinger defended Democrats’ patriotism
How Tim Walz’s dumb taco joke broke MAGA brains
Why Democrats shouldn’t count their chickens, or votes.Five things Democrats must guard against before the election — and after.
The federal courts are full of judges who could retire but won’t. There is little to be done about it. (83/109 are Republican)
Small grocers feel squeezed by suppliers, and shoppers bear the pain
Finding a therapist who takes your insurance can be nearly impossible. Here’s why
I thought I was done with parenthood. But the tortoises had other plans
My Encounter With the Fantasy-Industrial Complex. Online conspiracy theorists turned me into “CIA Renee.”
Who tried to steal Graceland?
JD Vance surfaces the strange, sometimes openly hateful language of the fringe right
Justice Department Sues RealPage for Algorithmic Pricing Scheme that Harms Millions of American Renters
Missouri Republicans vote to allow children to carry guns
How Techno-Libertarians Fell in Love with Big Government
The Origin of Specious: Emerging from a well-funded conservative academic network, judicial “originalism”— the faddish theory that the thinking of the dead can be understood and should bind the living—is now the Supreme Court’s main tool for overturning precedent and furthering its anti-democratic goals.
Copilot AI calls journalist a child abuser, Microsoft tries to launder responsibility
Hell hath no fury like a librarian scorned in the book banning wars