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+ Putin's Orwellian doublespeak US Edition - Today's top story: Schools will stop serving free lunch to all students – a pandemic solution left out of a new federal spending package [View in browser]( US Edition | 20 March 2022 [The Conversation]( Welcome to Sunday! Our top five articles of the week are displayed below. If this email is free of typos and grammatical errors, it’s likely due to the gentle care of my colleagues. My own ability to write today is unreliable because of a night of missed sleep. I also [look about as lively as the man in the main photo]( of this article by University of Florida neurologist Michael S. Jaffee. In it, he outlined the many varied ways lacking sleep affects health and hinders the ability to perform everyday tasks. When Jaffee wrote the article back in 2018, American adults were averaging just 6.9 hours of sleep per night – a full hour less than in the 1940s, and that was before the COVID-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine added new worries to make us toss and turn. Rest assured that I’m trying to get back to my usual routine of a solid eight hours of sleep over the weekend, and I wish you a peaceful Sunday full of rest and reading. Emily Costello Managing Editor About 30 million students eat school lunches daily. JGI/Jamie Grill/Tetra Images via Getty Images [Schools will stop serving free lunch to all students – a pandemic solution left out of a new federal spending package]( Marlene B. Schwartz, University of Connecticut A food policy expert explains how school lunches changed during the COVID-19 pandemic and what’s wrong with going back to the normal system now. Navigator Frank Worsley, left, works with scientist Reginald James to take an observation by the stern of the Endurance. Frank Hurley/Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge/Getty Images [Endurance captain Frank Worsley, Shackleton’s gifted navigator, knew how to stay the course]( Daniella McCahey, Texas Tech University Accurately calculating a ship’s position by hand in 1915 was easy compared to what the New Zealand-born navigator Frank Worsley had to do next. - [Ukraine wants a no-fly zone. What does this mean, and would one make any sense in this war?]( Christopher Michael Faulkner, US Naval War College; Andrew Stigler, US Naval War College Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has asked the US to impose a no-fly zone over Ukraine. Doing so in this kind of international conflict would be unprecedented and might not make sense. - [Smart devices spy on you – 2 computer scientists explain how the Internet of Things can violate your privacy]( Roberto Yus, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; Primal Pappachan, Penn State Internet-connected appliances tempt people with science fictionlike conveniences, but beneath the sparkling surface lurk potential privacy violations. - [Putin’s brazen manipulation of language is a perfect example of Orwellian doublespeak]( Mark Satta, Wayne State University Putin often uses words to mean exactly the opposite of what they normally do – a practice diagnosed by political author George Orwell as ‘doublespeak,’ or the language of totalitarians. Like this newsletter? You might be interested in our other weekly emails: [Science Editors' Picks]( • [This Week in Religion]( • [Politics Weekly]( Enjoy reading The Conversation? Share us with your three closest friends: [Click here to share](mailto:Insert%20your%20friends%27%20emails?subject=Check%20out%20The%20Conversation&body=I%27ve%20been%20reading%20this%20fact-based%20news%20source,%20and%20definitely%20think%20you’d%20find%20it%20interesting%20as%20well.%20It%20has%20academic%20experts%20writing%20understandably%20about%20stories%20in%20the%20news,%20based%20on%20their%20research.%20I%20learn%20something%20new%20every%20time%20I%20read%20it.%0D%0DYou%20can%20check%20it%20out%20here:%20%0D About The Conversation: We're a nonprofit news organization dedicated to [helping academic experts share ideas with the public](. We can give away our articles thanks to the help of foundations, universities and readers like you. [Donate now to support research-based journalism]( [The Conversation]( You’re receiving this newsletter from [The Conversation]( 303 Wyman Street, Suite 300 Waltham, MA 02451 [Forward to a friend]( • [Unsubscribe](