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Worth a Click: 11 Stories You Should Read Today

By DNAinfo Staff | April 28, 2016 3:01pm 

Watch as Men Read Vicious Tweets About Female Sports Reporters — to Them

"I hope your boyfriend beats you,” one man reads to sports reporter Sarah Spain, as he cringes. That’s just one of dozens of vicious tweets and comments included in this video made by the fan site Just Not Sports to bring awareness of online harassment. It’s a bit hard to watch, particularly when the men in the video struggle to say what they’re given to read to the women sitting in front of them. [Just Not Sports]

Millennials Aren’t ‘Making It’ in New York City

Despite being better educated, young adults today are making an average of $6,000 less than those at the turn of the 21st century and are more likely to work in retail and food service, according to the City Comptroller, Scott Stringer. Stringer says “too many millennials are not getting a fair chance to make it” in the city. [Washington Post]

Doctors Hold Racist Beliefs About How Pain Affects Black People, Study Found

“Blacks’ skin is thicker than whites’” and “Blacks’ nerve endings are less sensitive,” were some of the beliefs documented in a study of 222 white medical students conducted at the University of Virginia, Buzzfeed reports. The study dovetails with earlier research that found that black people were less likely to be prescribed opioid painkillers in emergency rooms. [Buzzfeed]

Protests Erupt in Venezuela After President Announces 2-Day Work Week to Save Power

Venezuela’s government announced a four-hour daily blackout and a two-day work week for officials in order to save power in the midst of the country’s energy crisis. Residents have been protesting, with some looting and rioting as government offices closed their doors. Some are likening the country to the dystopia in "The Hunger Games," according to the Associated Press. [AP]

The Defenders: What Does the Future of Legal Services Look Like for the Poor?

Take an in-depth look at what its like for the poor to navigate their way through The Bronx’s criminal justice system, with a focus on the nonprofit legal services group The Bronx Defenders. Spoiler alert: its not smooth sailing. [Longreads]

A Tabloid Reporter’s Take on Donald Trump

Former Page Six editor Susan Mulcahy looks back at her experiences covering Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump during his heyday in the 1980s — including what she says is his utter disregard for the truth. From lying to her about buying a mansion to lying about buying a bulk of land on the west side of Manhattan, Trump “could not control his pathological lying,” Mulcahy writes. “Every statement he uttered required more than the usual amount of fact-checking. If Trump said, ‘Good morning,’ you could be pretty sure it was five o’clock in the afternoon.” [Politico]

Why Being the Only Minority Candidate Won’t Get You the Job

A series of new studies show that when there’s a single woman or a single person of color in a finalist pool of job candidates, there’s statistically no chance that person will be hired. The study looked at the demographics of 598 job candidates who were finalists for academic positions at a university and found that in groups of finalists with a single non-white-male, the non-white-male had virtually no chance of being hired, regardless of how big the group of finalists was. But when the group of finalists included more than one minority candidate, the odds they would be hired increased drastically. [Slate]

The Main Reasons Smart People Aren’t Necessarily the Happiest People

Atlantic reporter Joe Pinsker interviews Raj Raghunathan, author of the newly released “If You’re So Smart, Why Aren’t You Happy?” about the main forces keeping “smart” people from finding life satisfaction. One of the biggest factors is worldview, he says, and whether a person holds a “scarcity” or “abundance” viewpoint — believing that your gain is someone else’s loss or that there’s enough for everyone. Raghunathan touches on various ways to reach the abundance mindset, including “not tethering your happiness to the achievement of outcomes,” and how that will lead to more happiness. [The Atlantic]

Trump and The Mob

Trump built his fortune (after receiving a healthy inheritance) on construction and casinos, which brought him into contact at times with elements of organized crime. Tom Robbins, who has been covering Trump’s mob flirtations since the 1980s, lays out the GOP frontrunner’s history of dealing with shady characters. [The Marshall Project]

It’s Time to Vote for Your Favorite (Fake) Presidential Candidate

Although the actual presidential primary campaigns are nearing their respective conclusions, the pop-culture presidential election is just getting started. The A.V. Club has put together a ballot of 11 famed fictional presidential candidates and is asking readers to choose which one they would most like to see lead the nation. Choices include Selina Meyer from “Veep,” President Business from “The Lego Movie” and Frank Underwood from “House of Cards.” So cast your ballot, and hopefully the process will go more smoothly than it did during the New York primary. [AV Club]

Expert Says Hugging Your Dog Is Making Him Miserable

That’s right, psychology professor and dog expert, Stanley Coren, according to the New York Times, said it’s best to save your hugs and cuddles — for get this — your human family members. Coren, who said he observed 250 images on Google and Flickr of people hugging dogs, said “81 percent of the photos showed dogs giving off at least one sign of discomfort, stress or anxiety.” Some of the signs, he said, are showing their bared teeth, licking, yawning and anxiously turning its head. [NYT]

This column was compiled by DNAinfo reporters Eddie Small, Rachel Holliday Smith, Gwynne Hogan, Jeanmarie Evelly, Shaye Weaver, Emily Frost, Noah Hurowitz, Camile Bautista, Alexandra Leon, Carolina Pichardo and Irene Plagianos.