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WELL, THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY, YOU KNOW: London doctors are first in the world to print a 3D heart model.

Dr Sonya Babu-Narayan, a honorary consultant cardiologist, said the technology was useful in invasive heart procedures and in and treating heart rhythm disturbances in patients born with congenital heart disease.

She said: “Firstly, surgeons and other clinical team members are able to better grasp how a patient’s heart is affected by their condition. This leads to better care and allows us to diagnose and repair conditions with less need for invasive diagnostic procedures.

“Secondly, a 3D model can be a huge help with the communication between the clinical team and the patient. A 3D visual representation of the heart is so much clearer than anything we could put in to words.”

How long before doctors are able to 3D print a self-contained artificial heart?

VIA M.I.T. AND WIKILEAKS, the Clinton Influence Explorer. Lets you spot the connections between Hillary intimates as revealed in Wikileaks emails.

FACTS ARE STUBBORN THINGS:

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They hadn’t fully panicked on Monday.

YOU MEAN THE JFK-ERA 1960s, WHEN AMERICA ENJOYED UNPRECEDENTED ECONOMIC GROWTH?

Shot: Bill Clinton* says Trump will return U.S. to ‘Mad Men’ era.

—The Washington Examiner today.

Chaser: Mad Men counts Barack Obama among its fans. Obama sent a fan letter to [producer/creator] Matthew Weiner following Season 3, telling him how much he enjoys the show. A stunned and flattered Weiner keeps the letter from Obama in a frame on the wall outside of his office.

—The Internet Movie Database’s trivia page on Mad Men.

* Bill can’t be talking about the brutal sexual politics of the TV series, right? He’s a um, rather flawed spokesman for that argument.

GIVE US THIS DAY OUR DAILY SPIN:

This isn’t as bad as the man convicted of killed his parents begging for leniency because he’s an orphan. It’s worse — because the story about the killer is apocryphal, but Ezra actually wrote this.

BUZZFEED: Meet The Ivanka Voter: She’s not in the photos of Trump rallies. She doesn’t have his sign on her lawn. She doesn’t like everything he says. But she’s voting for him.

At the beginning of the election cycle, Michelle was even supporting Hillary — she didn’t like anyone on the Republican side. Back in the ‘90s, she voted for Bill. She supports marriage equality. “I’m okay with abortion,” she said. “I’m just not okay with late-term abortion.” She likes that Trump isn’t super religious, or a super social conservative like Ted Cruz, because she’s not a particularly religious person herself. And over the last few months, it’s become clear that she needs to vote for Trump — because Hillary’s corrupt, and belongs in jail, and will be business as usual in Washington.

Democrats thought they’d own the women’s vote the way Obama owned the black vote, but it turns a lot of women don’t like Hillary.