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Lit Hub Daily: August 18, 2026

What Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel can teach us about grief, literature, and growing up. | Lit Hub TV Florence Hazrat explores the surprisingly controversial history of the parenthesis. | Lit Hub History Edwidge Danticat tells us why she

Culture

Why no one has a fun couch anymore

Beige probably rules your room. At least, that’s what a new data visualization reveals. A chart from the European Correspondent tracks the color of every sofa found in Ikea’s catalogs between 1960 and 2021. The finding? Color washed out of Ikea’s seating in 2011, and didn’t come back.

Health & Medicine

Ruto: NHIF had claims for multiple amputations by same patient

President William Ruto has stated that fraudulent medical claims submitted during the National Health Insurance Fund (NHIF) era included repeated claims for the amputation of the same patient’s legs…

  • President Ruto disclosed NHIF claims for amputations on same patients multiple times.
  • NHIF system criticized for inefficiencies, fraud, and lack of transparency.
  • Transition to Social Health Authority aims to improve health financing and reduce fraud.
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