WELL, GOOD: Vagus Nerve Stimulation Dramatically Reduces Inflammation. “Recently, an international team of researchers from Amsterdam and the United States conducted a clinical trial which demonstrates that stimulating the vagus nerve with a small implanted device significantly reduced inflammation and improved outcomes for patients with rheumatoid arthritis by inhibiting cytokine production.”

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MY USA TODAY COLUMN: Hillary, The Democrats, And The Problem Of Trust.

PRIME MINISTER THERESA MAY’S NEW GOVERNMENT: She overhauled the cabinet. BREXIT supporters will handle negotiating exit terms with the EU.

REPORT: Pokemon Go’s mental health benefits are real.

Twitter is flooded with stories about Pokemon Go’s impact on players’ anxiety and depression, with thousands of people lauding the game for getting them out of the house and making it easier to interact with friends and strangers alike. These simple acts are crucial milestones for anyone struggling with depression, Grohol says.

“The challenge has always been, if you’re depressed, your motivation level is nonexistent,” he explains. “So, you want to go out and get some fresh air, or even take a shower, and it can be a very difficult thing to even comprehend, much less do. I think the impact of something like this, this game, can really be beneficial.”

When I kick my sons outside, I make them leave the screens inside.

HMM: Reports: Pence is Trump’s VP, campaign says no decision yet.

I’VE SUSPECTED THIS FOR A LONG TIME: How Artificial Sweeteners May Cause Us to Eat More.

BADGE OF HONOR: Jeep’s heroic 75-year campaign.

I still miss my Wrangler.

SOMEHOW, I FEEL LESS THAN ASSURED: Iran Deal Made World ‘Safer’ One Year Later, Obama Declares.

WELL, THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY, YOU KNOW: Brains vs. Bots in Vegas Cyberwar Sponsored by the Pentagon.

I REMAIN UNSOLD ON THE “INTERNET OF THINGS:” Silicon Valley Startup Arable Takes the Internet of Things Into the Wild.

THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER: FEMINIST GHOSTBUSTERS DENIED RELEASE IN CHINA:

China’s official censorship guidelines technically prohibit movies that “promote cults or superstition” — a holdover from the Communist Party’s secular ideology — and the country’s regulators occasionally have been known to use this obscure provision as rationale for banning films that feature ghosts or supernatural beings in a semi-realistic way (Disney’s Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest suffered such a fate in 2006, thanks to its depictions of ghouls and cannibalism).

Ever since Feig’s reboot went into production, industry watchers have wondered what stance China’s film authorities might take on the movie.

Speculation only increased this spring, when it was revealed that the Chinese character for “ghost” had been removed from the reboot’s Chinese title, even though it appears in the local names for the original films.

The original Bill Murray-starring 1984 classic, which never screened theatrically in China, was translated as “捉鬼敢死队,” five characters literally meaning “Ghost Catcher Dare Die Team.” The sequels followed suit. The reboot, however, has been reworked as “超能敢死队,” meaning “Super Power Dare Die Team.”

Many guessed that Sony made the adjustment in hopes of finessing the film into China’s strictly regulative but increasingly lucrative theatrical market.

Couldn’t they have just gone with Macho Business Donkey Wrestler as the Asian market title?

21ST CENTURY RELATIONSHIPS: Should I leave my husband to start a family with my gay best friend?

PAUL BLART, ROBOCOP: Robot Mall Cop Attacks Child.

Kids still hang out at malls?

BUT OF COURSE: LeBron and Co. Turn ESPYs Into Black Lives Matter Propaganda.

As Ed Driscoll would say, ESPN is just MSNBC with better visuals.

CHANGE: Four Statist Policies Gov. Mike Pence Champions. Joy Pullmann writes that “As governor of Indiana, Mike Pence has switched his leadership style and political philosophy from government skeptic to technocratic Progressive.”

The same thing happened to John Kasich — who once seemed like perhaps the most libertarian member of Congress — when he became governor of neighboring Ohio.

YAWN: Maddow to Rolling Stone: To Prepare for President Trump, I’m Reading Up on Hitler’s First Months.

Will they be anything like “the coming American police state,” the “continuation of the Rove-Cheney cabal, but this time without restraints,” which would be ushered in by “Sarah ‘Evita’ Palin,” as predicted by former Al Gore advisor Naomi Wolf in her fever swamp blog at the Huffington Post in October of 2008? (This was a few years before Naomi became an ISIS truther and supporter of burqas as feminist empowerment. I guess some theologically-driven repressive police states are better than others.)

Or as Glenn noted on Monday, “Every 4 years the GOP nominee is literally Hitler. A few years later — sometimes, as in Mitt Romney’s case, as few as 4 years after he was accused of giving a woman cancer — that formerly-Hitler nominee becomes the standard of once-great GOP nominees to which the current nominee fall short.”

Which brings us to this headline: “Daily Beast Columnist [Michael Tomasky]: Dubya Can Redeem Himself By Trashing Trump.”

I don’t think Dubya is losing a whole lot of sleep over what anyone at a Website built out of the wreckage of the Washington Post’s “We Are Socialists Now” Newsweek thinks about him. That is, other than chuckling at how every Republican president, not least of which Nixon and Reagan, is assaulted by the left while actually in power, then rehabilitated to be used as a cudgel to attack the current nominee.

REPORT: Trump to pick Indiana Governor Mike Pence as VP?

UPDATE: Campaign says no decision yet.

ROAD RAGE: Vast Majority of US Drivers Exhibit Aggressive Behavior, New AAA Study Concludes.

The study, the purpose of which was to provide estimates of the prevalence of aggressive driving behaviors, found that 78 percent of respondents admitted to having engaged in at least one aggressive driving behavior in the last year.

The respondents were 2,705 licensed drivers questioned via a nationally representative online survey conducted in 2014 on their driving behavior in the previous year.

The most common behaviors found in the survey were purposefully following another vehicle too closely, yelling at other drivers, and honking to show annoyance or anger. About half of respondents admitted to engaging in at least one of these behaviors.

Left unsaid: How much aggressive driving is in reaction to passive-aggressive drivers going slowly in the left lane or on the highway onramp?

GINSBURG APOLOGIZES FOR ATTACKS ON TRUMP: “Once again, as we have seen many times over the last year, Trump has inspired such crazed hate in his political opponents that they go too far, ultimately benefiting him.”

Read the whole thing.

BENDING THE COST CURVE: $10,345 per person: U.S. health care spending reaches new peak.

That figure would be far lower if the obstructionist GOP Congress had passed the Obama Administration’s proposed Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

MY USA TODAY COLUMN: Hillary, The Democrats, And The Problem Of Trust.

BUT WILL HE KEEP THE PROFITS? Sanders has book deal; will reflect on campaign.

TAXPROF ROUNDUP: The IRS Scandal, Day 1162.