https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/10/colombian-children-found-alive-five-weeks-after-amazon-jungle-plane-crash Malnourished and covered in insect bites, four Indigenous children were rescued alive from the #Colombian Amazon on Friday afternoon, 40 days after the plane they were travelling in crashed into the #jungle. In a remarkable feat of resilience, the children survived heavy storms in one of the most inhospitable parts of the country, home …
Do this before your renew your Amazon Prime Look, we love Amazon Prime but the $14.99/mo price (a whopping $179/year) is getting harder and harder to justify. Free 2-day shipping is great and, like everyone else, we enjoyed not knowing how much it actually cost. Well, guess what? It isn’t free to move items from …
Danielle Calma May 3, 2023 You clean your kitchen surfaces and bathroom floors, but when was the last time you thought to scrub your faucet heads or clean the dishwasher filter? These are among the dirtiest spaces in your home, but they often go uncleaned because people don’t know they need to be cleaned—or they …
The peacock has lived at the estate for four years, since it was a chick By Julia Bryson BBC News A rare white peacock described as a “local celebrity” at its country park home is recovering after it was hit by a car. Snowy suffered injuries to its head and neck when it was struck …
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https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/17/opinion/mosquitoes-lawns-pesticides.html We’ve lost a few trees here over the decades, and our neighborhood has lost uncountably more. But there are still many trees in this yard. Every year we plant new saplings, and together the trees, old and young, make a sanctuary for us all, humans and lightning bugs alike. We leave the leaves where they …
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https://www.nytimes.com/article/cpr-cardiac-arrest.html What is a cardiac arrest and how do you know if someone is having one? A cardiac arrest, also known as sudden cardiac death, occurs when the heart suddenly stops beating. The person collapses to the ground and is unconscious, appears lifeless, has no pulse and is not breathing. There can be many causes. …
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/17/opinion/dei-trainings-effective.html In the case of D.E.I., Dr. Dobbin and Dr. Kalev warn that diversity trainings that are mandatory, or that threaten dominant groups’ sense of belonging or make them feel blamed, may elicit negative backlash or exacerbate pre-existing biases. Many popular contemporary D.E.I. approaches meet these criteria. They often seem geared more toward sparking a …
Martin Luther King, Jr., Day, in the United States, holiday (third Monday in January) honoring the achievements of Martin Luther King, Jr. The holiday is similar to holidays set under the Uniform Monday Holiday Act. King was a Baptist minister who advocated the use of nonviolent means to end racial segregation, he first came to …
By Kate Madden Yee, AuntMinnie.com staff writer December 12, 2022 — Radiation exposure from CT imaging increases brain cancer risk in children by up to fivefold, depending on the level of exposure, according to research published December 6 in the Lancet Oncology. The findings suggest that it’s crucial to track children’s radiation exposure from CT, …
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https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/13/well/mind/alcohol-health-effects.html Research published in November revealed that between 2015 and 2019, excessive #alcohol use resulted in roughly 140,000 deaths per year in the United States. About 40 percent of those deaths had acute causes, like car crashes, poisonings and homicides. But the majority were caused by chronic conditions attributed to alcohol, such as #liver disease, …
