ICYMI: Your Brain On Sleep And Why People Buy Milk During Blizzards

ICYMI Health features what we’re reading this week.

This week, we read up on a time-honored disappointment: institutions under-reacting to problems under their purview.

A story that tracked the history of Flint, Michigan — where officials ignored citizens’ pleas to investigate the city’s public drinking water — found that Flint’s trouble with lead has much deeper roots than the latest water crisis. Another story examined an industry-funded claim that chocolate milk could help with concussions, a conflict of interest that the university that published the claim still hasn’t addressed. 

And in lighter news, as the East Coast hunkers down in the face of a blizzard, we learned the psychology behind the run on milk, eggs and bread at our local grocery stores. 

Read on and tell us in the comments: What did you read, watch and love this week?

1. Milk, Bread, And Eggs: The Trinity Of Winter-Storm Panic-Shopping — The Atlantic