The players contend the NCAA is operating a classic conspiracy to fix prices in the labor market. The NCAA maintains that expanding benefits would threaten "amateurism."
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The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments in a case testing whether the NCAA's limits on compensation for student athletes violate the nation's antitrust laws.
NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with sports writer Nicole Auerbach of The Athletic on how the SCOTUS case is only one challenge the NCAA faces as pressure mounts for its student-athletes to earn compensation.
Reprinted with permission from World At Large, a news website of nature, politics, science, health, and travel. Alone on the windswept island Skokholm, wardens have found Stone Age tools and a pottery shard from an unlikely survey plot—down a rabbit burrow. The finds date to 3,750—9,000 years ago, and include tools for making seal hide clothes […]
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Shoplifting and petty theft are no laughing matter—except when the culprit is a cute canine kleptomaniac determined to liberate a certain stuffed purple unicorn from the confines of a North Carolina Dollar General store. According to the store staff, the dogged doggo was a repeat offender—making five separate attempts to be reunited with his favorite […]
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Bottles of wines recently brought back from the International Space Station were finally opened and drank—several of them—for research purposes. Having drifted 273 miles above the surface of the Earth for a year, a dozen bottles of Petrus Pomerol, as well as 320 snippets of grape vines, were brought back down as part of an […]
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During the COVID-19 pandemic, takeout food has come to feel like an essential rather than a luxury. Of course, if your best-loved dining spot isn’t close to where you live, that generally puts the kibosh on a delivery… Unless there happens to be a generous chef who’s willing to go the extra miles—roughly 530 of […]
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Fagradalsfjall volcano in Iceland began its much-anticipated eruption a couple of weeks ago—marking the first eruption on the Reykjanes Peninsula in over 800 years. Luckily, drone videographer Vilius Petrikas was there to capture history in the making by flying his camera over the site. The stunning footage shows the main volcanic cone and surrounding smaller […]
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The case tests whether the NCAA's limits on compensation for student athletes violate antitrust law. Its outcome could have enormous consequences for college sports.
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Happy Birthday to the Jedi Master Ewan McGregor, who turns 50 years-old today. Born in Scotland, the actor rocketed to international fame in 1999, playing a young Obi-Wan Kenobi in the first Star Wars prequel, Episode I, The Phantom Menace. He played the Jedi again in the succeeding Star Wars sequels Attack of the Clones […]
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NFL owners voted Tuesday to approve the scheduling change, the first of its kind in more than four decades. It's been widely expected and follows a finalized round of lucrative media agreements.
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For the first time in 100 years, the endangered California condor will return to the Pacific Northwest. Once on the brink of extinction, this iconic species has made significant steps towards recovery. This month, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, National Park Service, and the Yurok Tribe announced a final rule that will help facilitate the creation […]
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For the second day in a row, on Monday the Navajo Nation reported no new COVID-19 cases or deaths. Tribal health officials say over 191,000 vaccine doses have already been distributed among the community—with more than 87 percent of people already receiving their first-round dose. Tribal President Jonathan Nez said in a statement, “Once again, […]
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When a wildfire destroys the forest on your property, what are your options for restoring what has been lost? DroneSeed will fly a squadron of seed-dispersing aerial robots to lay the foundations for a new forest atop ones that have been torched. Carrying 57 pounds of tree seeds, the drones weigh over 100 pounds in […]
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In the country’s oldest science fair, 17-year old high schooler Dasia Taylor submitted a surgical suture that changes colors to warn of possible infections. This invention, aimed at helping surgery patients in Africa detect infections before they become serious, elevated Dasia into the 40 finalists of the national Regeneron Science Talent Search. The sutures are […]
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Epitomizing the old adage of “where there’s smoke, there’s fire,” a group of volunteers and scientists in Finland have set out to prove or disprove that the aurora borealis, or northern lights, make sounds. For hundreds of years reports of sizzling, cracking, or whooshing sounds abound, especially from Indigenous people living in the Arctic, but […]
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40 years ago today, Chariots of Fire premiered in a Royal Command Film Performance in England. Based on a true story of two British athletes competing in the 1924 Olympics, the drama won four of seven Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay. The iconic electronic theme by Vangelis won the Oscar […]
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With a bill stuck in legislative limbo, Gov. Kristi Noem issued two orders Monday preventing trans women and girls from playing on sports teams that align with their gender identity.
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An agriculture feed startup has received $9.4 million in initial funding for its technology that produces pure protein from CO2. The protein would come from carbon dioxide generated by industrial exhaust, and would be combined with hydrogen to create scalable, cheap animal feed to replace soybeans—a major feed crop linked heavily with deforestation. Deep Branch […]
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A couple have recreated their wedding album half a century later—at the same church, and in the very same dress. Carolyn and Kelly Gay, who are now in their seventies, got married in March 1971 with a white wedding at their local church. To celebrate their golden anniversary, the couple returned to DSM First Church […]
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Wheel of Fortune players have been buying vowels and filling in the blanks on “America’s game” since 1975. With stakes determined by the luck of the spin combined with contestants’ puzzle-solving prowess, it’s a formula that ensures pretty much anything can happen—including one winner who recently gave away his entire $145,000 prize earnings to charity. […]
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A pioneering Dutch land engineer wants to turn the Sinai Desert into the Sinai Forest, using techniques demonstrated on a mass scale in China. Theorizing that since it’s been confirmed that even primitive human activity can permanently degrade a landscape, with effort it should be perfectly plausible to return a landscape to a greener, more […]
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Boys who regularly played video games at age 11 were less likely to develop depressive symptoms three years later, finds a new study led by a University College London researcher. The findings published in Psychological Medicine demonstrated that boys who played video games most days had 24% fewer depressive symptoms three years later, than boys […]
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60 years ago today, residents of Washington, D.C. were finally given the right to vote in U.S. presidential elections. As the U.S. capital city, the District of Columbia is a special ‘federal district’, not a state, and therefore never had voting representation in Congress like people living in the 50 states. The adoption of a new […]
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Lounging on the beach may have been the No.1 destination in the past, but after a year of much sitting around, it is set to play second fiddle for more active adventures. A survey of 2,000 adults revealed 67 percent have spent too much of the past 12 months laying around doing nothing—as a result, […]
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Billy Adams has found a lockdown ritual that not only benefits his health, but the mental health and beauty surrounding others in his beloved Washington, DC. Since June the software executive has been selecting a different 12-mile route every day, picking up just about any piece of garbage on it—in rain, snow, or sleet. He […]
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A federal judge blocked new oil and gas leasing and fracking in Ohio’s Wayne National Forest, a popular destination for outdoor recreation and the only National Forest located in the vast state. The ruling rebuked the U.S. Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management (BLM) for failing to consider threats to public health, endangered species, […]
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Sarah McCammon talks to Variety's Gavin Bridge about how sports fandom and viewership is shifting in the U.S.
15 years ago today, the World Bank approved a plan to cancel the debt of 17 of the world’s poorest countries, forgiving some $37 billion in loans. The organization was reacting to pressure from televised global concerts and internet organizing by the ONE campaign against extreme poverty, championed by the rockers Bono and Bob Geldorf. […]
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Our partner Rob Brezsny provides his weekly wisdom to enlighten our thinking and motivate our mood. Rob’s Free Will Astrology, is a syndicated weekly column appearing in over a hundred publications. He is also the author of Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How All of Creation Is Conspiring To Shower You with Blessings. (A free […]
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When a new worker at a charity shop found stacks of $100 bills stuffed inside two old sweaters she thought they must be fake. The store associate at Goodwill Industries then realized they were absolutely real—and the cash totaled $42,000. Andrea Lessing was in the back sorting clothes and looking for rips or stains when […]
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The Ocean Cleanup project launched by a Dutch youth a decade ago to tackle the Pacific garbage patch has in recent years begun to fix its attention on the plastic from rivers flowing into the sea. Now they have a little help from the English band whose blockbuster hit was ‘Fix You’. The rock group, […]
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A new law signed by Gov. Bill Lee on Friday bans transgender athletes from participating in girls' sports, making it the third state this year to approve such a measure.
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Smiles are infectious when you see Max performing his chicken impression. The 26-year-old Moluccan Cockatoo is known on his YouTube channel as the original Cluckatoo. When Spring arrives in Canada, and Max is out on the patio in the warm sun, he is happy to express his joy with a good ‘Bok’. Also called the […]
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We discuss the highly anticipated games in March Madness, as well as the continued player-driven protest movement against the inequities in college basketball.
In 1948, Cleveland's baseball team won the World Series. It wouldn't have made it without the team's first two Black players, and the team owner's willingness to hire them, says author Luke Epplin.
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45 years ago today, the first stops on the Washington, DC Metro subway system opened. The design of the Metro’s vaulted-ceilings was so inspiring that it was voted No.106 on “America’s Favorite Architecture” on a list compiled by the American Institute of Architects. The Metro network now includes six lines, 91 stations, and 117 miles (188 […]
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Retired Brits have revealed their top 40 ‘pearls of wisdom’ to pass on to younger generations, including saying “I love you” more often, and being confident in your own skin. The poll of 1,000 retired adults also advised young people never to compare themselves to others—and to phone their family once a week. Others warned […]
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Changes to food allergy guidelines has led to a 16% decrease in peanut allergy among infants, according to new study. The research, led by the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute (MCRI), also found a significant increase in parents introducing peanut into their babies’ diet since the guideline changes. Introducing peanut early in a child’s life has […]
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When man and nature attempt to co-exist, man usually wins out. But that wasn’t the case in a small town in southern India when a native Robin recently chose to build her nest in an extremely inconvenient location. The village of Potthakudi contains only 120 homes and has a total of 35 streetlights. Unfortunately, the […]
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A New Jersey moving company has sparked an initiative capitalizing on the amount of food left behind in clients’ fridges in order to help increase supply to local food banks. Over 1,050 moving companies and 22 million pounds of food later, and Adam Lowy—founder of Move for Hunger—has turned leftovers into enterprise-level charity. “When people […]
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As a quadriplegic, Jon Ayers can’t move his limbs, but his voice is filled with excitement. His eyes dart around his office, projecting the illusion of a rainforest that’s filling his imagination with such enthusiasm that soon trees and vines begin to appear in the corners of my office as well. Jon is describing to […]
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A painter in Egypt resembles Lionel Messi so much that the kids at a local orphanage flock to him when they see him. He plays up the resemblance by playing soccer with them — wearing Messi's jersey.
A painter in Egypt resembles soccer superstar Lionel Messi so much that the kids flock to him when they see him. He plays up the resemblance by playing soccer with them while wearing Messi's jersey.
85 years ago today, an Alaskan nurse named Mary Joyce ended her pioneering journey after setting off into the wilderness with five sled dogs she had inherited for a 1,000 mile dog sled journey from her home in Juneau toward Fairbanks. Invited to the 1936 March Fairbanks Ice Carnival, she left in December and joined […]
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The Olympic torch took off on its trip around Japan Thursday, leaving from Fukushima. Its first few days are meant to showcase remarkable clean-up after the disasters there 10 years ago.
This article was written by Nate Berg for Ensia and has been re-printed with permission. It has become almost a cliché to discuss the benefits of hemp, the supposed wonder plant with almost endless uses—from woven fibers to edible seeds to bioplastics. “Of course, hemp is that magic crop that does everything,” says Nicholas Carter, […]
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Usually, when you think wedding crashers, you picture uninvited guests hoping to score some free cocktails and hors d’oeuvres. But as rowdy as such pests can be, they’re nothing in nuisance value compared to the “100-year floodwaters” that recently crashed a wedding in New South Wales. Kate Fotheringham and Wayne Bell were set to wed […]
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Everyone has different gut microbiomes, but eating avocado as part of a daily diet is a sure way to improve gut health—a new study from researchers at the University of Illinois shows. Avocados are a healthy food that is high in dietary fiber and monounsaturated fat. However, it was not clear how avocados impact the […]
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What do ten dollars, a garden, Harrison Ford, and Elon Musk’s brother have in common? They’re all being used to combat food insecurity, malnutrition, and to build the world’s single biggest gardener community. Launched on the equinox, the Million Gardens Movement (MGM) is a charitable and educational initiative that hopes to put a garden in […]
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Half a century ago, NASA scientists shot a map into space that contains the position of Earth for aliens to find—but it won’t always be accurate. However, the daughter of the man who made that map is ensuring the next one will remain accurate not just for a few million years, but for a billion […]
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The torch relay shows the organizers' determination to proceed with the Games, despite public skepticism. It is set to crisscross the country and arrive at the opening ceremony in Tokyo on July 23.
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The organization's reaction to North Carolina's 2016 "bathroom bill" has had a lasting impact, causing lawmakers to wonder if they'll lose lucrative sporting events.
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Today is the bicentennial anniversary of the Greek Uprising, celebrated by Greeks around the world as Independence Day. The revolt was launched 200 years ago today against the Ottoman Empire, which had ruled over Greece for 300 years. The symbolic launch was the moment Bishop Germanos of Patras raised the flag of revolution—the banner and […]
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Deshaun Watson, quarterback of the Houston Texans, faces more than a dozen lawsuits that accuse him of sexual misconduct or assault. The NFL is investigating. Watson's attorney denies the allegations.
When duty calls, Buzz Lightyear is honor-bound to answer. At least that’s what one mom told her distraught toddler when he accidentally left his Buzz action figure behind on an airplane in the flurry of an unexpected, last-minute trip. While the senior members of the Davis family didn’t expect to see Buzz again, the plucky […]
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A centuries-old tradition of harvesting rhubarb by candlelight has been captured in this series of otherworldly photographs. Farmer Jonathan Westwood’s great-great-uncle started the tradition of harvesting winter-forced rhubarb in the north of England in 1870. Now 59-year-old Jonathan is the latest in his family to grow rhubarb in a nine-mile-squared area dubbed Yorkshire’s ‘Rhubarb Triangle’. […]
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Six years of legal trench warfare has given every reason for West London residents to raise a pint in victory. A favorite neighborhood pub, which seemed set by to be turned into a block of apartments by developers, has been saved by a council ruling that designated the old watering hole as a historic building. […]
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A team of experts from South Africa and Namibia are helping to relocate a population of cheetahs to India in an ambitious restoration program that just got the go-ahead. It would be the first time ever that a major predator was moved inter-continentally to reestablish a population where it had once been, and India is […]
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A little kindness can go along way, and that’s certainly true for one Canadian senior who’s getting a lot of mileage by handing out personalized thank-you cards to long-haul truckers. When the pandemic hit in 2020, supply shortages quickly followed. Caught in the middle were the men and women responsible for transporting the goods in […]
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At a spring training game, Oakland A's catcher Sean Murphy hit a line drive that smashed into a $12 can of beer being held by a Los Angeles Angels fan. The fan got the ball, a bat and a new beer.
110 years ago today, the award-winning animator Joseph Barbera was born. He co-created Tom and Jerry, The Flintstones, and The Jetsons—and, with his partner, founded of one of the most successful animation studios of the 20th century, Hanna-Barbera. Barbera displayed an early talent for drawing in the first grade. Despite coming from a broken home […]
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Originally invented by NASA for use on lunar and Mars rover missions, there’s a new kind of bicycle tire that’s elastic like rubber yet strong like titanium. It exhibits perfect shape memory without ever going flat. Essentially, it’s the tire of dreams. Made in gold, silver, and metallic blue, METL tires are made from advanced, […]
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This is the incredible moment a man escaped almost certain death when he toppled backwards off a balcony—but gets saved when a bystander catches his foot. CCTV footage shows a group of men lining up to collect their labor pensions on the second-floor balcony of a bank in Kerala, South India. In the video, one […]
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If there was anyone in our society who didn’t know how to use Zoom, they do now. The demand for the superior video call platform has obliterated all others over the course of the pandemic, and its popularity is even crossing the species boundary. Chimpanzees at two Czech zoos are, like the rest of us, […]
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Even though CPR is one of the most important lessons we can learn, it’s also something we hope we’ll never have to use. Can you imagine just completing a life-saving training course and then having to test out your skills the very next day—on your best friend? St. Petersburg teen Torri’ell Norwood was behind the […]
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Baylor was known for his acrobatic athleticism. NPR's Noel King talks to Bijan Bayne, author of Elgin Baylor: The Man Who Changed Basketball, about Baylor's legacy.
65 years ago today, Elvis Presley’s debut album was released on RCA Victor, after being recorded in Nashville and New York. The first rock and roll album ever to make it to the top of the charts, the LP Elvis Presley spent ten weeks at number one on the Billboard Top Pop chart in 1956—and […]
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The NCAA men's basketball tournament is off to a wild start. It's been full of upsets, drama and even a team bounced from the competition because of COVID-19.
This article, by Joshua M. Pearce of Michigan Technological University, has been republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. People will recycle if they can make money doing so. In places where cash is offered for cans and bottles, metal and glass recycling has been a great success. Sadly, the incentives have been […]
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For rescue pups to get adopted, they need to stand out from the pack. One teenage boy has made it his mission to make sure they do—and he does it by providing his canine pals with slews of adorable bowties that he sews himself. Darius Brown’s sister, Dazhai, taught him to sew when he was […]
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As GNN and others have reported, the effectiveness of plant medicines like cannabis and psilocybin to treat chronic anxiety, treatment-resistant depression, and PTSD is no longer deniable. Now a Canadian former-hospital administrator has pounced on that evidence, founding a company that specializes in utilizing plant medicines to give veterans, police, paramedics, ambulance staff, and firefighters […]
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That kids love rock collecting is a given. Finding an unusual stone is every junior geologist’s dream. But turning up an ancient relic? Now, that’s pretty amazing. Zvi Ben-David was on a family hike near Israel’s Besor River when something out of the ordinary caught his eye. When the 11-year-old snapped the artifact up, he […]
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Home-grown mushroom kits are seeing an explosion in demand, giving people something to do, watch, and cheer on while they’re stuck at home. Lockdown and travel restrictions has led to a resurgence in the popularity of crafts, gardening, baking, and other at-home hobbies. Remarkably, half of Canadians grew their own food to some degree last […]
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An artist spent 60 hours painting a mural on the side of his house to celebrate the NFL team's victory. The urban planning department in Kansas City, Kan., told him to remove it by month's end.
NPR's Noel King talks to USA Today sports columnist Christine Brennan about the gender equity gap exposed by the NCAA's March Madness tournaments, and what should be done about it.
Happy 90th Birthday to William Shatner, beloved as Captain James T. Kirk in the 60s series Star Trek and its subsequent blockbuster movies. He has written a series of books chronicling his experiences as part of Star Trek, and life afterwards, including, Nimoy. Shatner’s also co-written several novels set in the Star Trek universe, and […]
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A two-week course of high doses of CBD helped restore the function of two proteins key to reducing the accumulation of beta-amyloid plaque, a hallmark of Alzheimer’s disease, and improved cognition in an experimental model of early onset familial Alzheimer’s—a form of Alzheimer’s that doctors know for certain is linked to genes—investigators report. The proteins […]
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For those unfamiliar with the iconic physician Patch Adams, he has for the last 50 years devoted his life to giving free medical care to thousands of patients. Robin Williams was chosen to play him in the movie Patch Adams, which was perfect for a doctor who often wears a clown nose and jokes relentlessly […]
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Having higher levels of ‘the sunshine vitamin’ was shown to reduce the risk of infection in the Black population, a new study has revealed. Almost half of Americans are vitamin D deficient, according to David O. Meltzer, MD, PhD, the chief of hospital medicine at University of Chicago Medicine. But more than three quarters of […]
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As the vernal equinox heralds the first day of spring, all across the world, unique phenomena can be seen on this day alone. For thousands of years humans have known that around the day marked on the Gregorian calendar as March 20th (or 21st, but we’ll get into that later) the day and night were […]
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150 years ago today, journalist Henry Stanley began his trek from Zanzibar on a secret mission to find a missing explorer, missionary David Livingstone. The Wales born British-American had been sent to find him by the New York Herald newspaper because Livingstone was one of the most popular British heroes of the late 19th-century. The […]
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Facing a mountain of criticism, the organization said it "fell short" as it raced to set up a larger weight room and address other disparities between its men's and women's tournaments.
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The NCAA has not yet acted in response to a number of states that have are proposing new laws to restrict the athletic activities of transgender girls and women.
Sports journalist Julie DiCaro tells NPR's Michel Martin about her new book, Sidelined: Sports, Culture and Being a Woman in America.
Formerly known as ‘Rat Island’, this beautiful spot in the Aleutian islands has become a new example of how ecosystems can fully recover to their natural state in little more than a decade. Along the western edge of the Alaskan archipelago, the land had inadvertently become populated with rodents, leading to the ignominious name Rat […]
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Our partner Rob Brezsny provides his weekly wisdom to enlighten our thinking and motivate our mood. Rob’s Free Will Astrology, is a syndicated weekly column appearing in over a hundred publications. He is also the author of Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How All of Creation Is Conspiring To Shower You with Blessings. (A free […]
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Border Collies are among the friendliest and most inquisitive dogs around. But Lucy doesn’t know what to make of the underwater creature that confiscated her tennis ball. Almar Creighton was exploring the tide pools along the South African coastline with Lucy on her daily outing, when they encountered an octopus who was also very inquisitive. […]
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A multi-national team at MIT have dispelled the long-standing consensus that the most commonly available plastic, polyethylene, can’t be used for clothing. Their new thread spun with normal machinery circumnavigates the problem that polyethylene traps moisture, opening up an industry-changing material for use in earth-friendly textiles. The fashion and textile industry is one of the […]
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Tokyo organizers on Saturday announced that foreign spectators will be barred from attending this year's Olympic and Paralympic Games due to concerns over COVID-19.
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Athletes in the women's NCAA tournament say their workout facilities are far from equal to those afforded the athletes in the men's NCAA tournament.
As the NCAA Women's basketball tournament gets underway, many people will be paying attention to Paige Bueckers. The University of Connecticut standout freshman is having a season for the ages.
105 years ago today, Albert Einstein published his “General Theory of Relativity” in a German scientific journal, after wrestling with it for nearly a decade. He finally provided the answer to a scientific problem about the relationships between space, time, matter, energy and gravity, and totally changed Newtonian physics in the process. As a consequence […]
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When female athletes saw the workout room NCAA provided for the basketball tournament bubble - and compared it to the men's - they cried foul. NCAA officials belatedly acknowledge they blew it.
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Since the NCAA D1 basketball tournaments started this week, players, coaches and fans have pointed out the differences between the men's bubble in Indiana and the women's bubble in Texas.
The NFL has signed new long-term broadcast rights agreements with multiple media partners valued at more than $110 billion over 11 years. The new agreements will start with the 2023 season.
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Across the United States, 69 river dams were removed from American rivers in 2020, opening up 624 miles of waterways to flow freely. The work was undertaken with the guidance of American Rivers, a national non-profit that works to restore rivers to their natural state. More than 90,000 dams block rivers across the U.S, but […]
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To make it in any professional sport takes skill, determination, and practice. Having someone who believes in you and goes out of their way to help can be the difference between living the dream or hanging up your skates. Throughout the many years that Graham Nesbitt managed the local skating arena in Seaforth, Ontario, he […]
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The Native American tribes of Oklahoma are steaming ahead of the greater population towards herd immunity—so much so that they’re opening up COVID-19 vaccination for all Oklahomans. Having received tens of thousands of doses from the Indian Health Service, the small tribal leadership in the Chickasaw, Choctaw, Osage, Cherokee, and Potawatomi nations have been able […]
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Normally this story would begin with “have you ever wondered what kind of animal best suits your personality?” But that would be a ridiculous way to start because surely everyone has had that thought at least once. A 10-question personality quiz has caught fire since 2018: Appearing on CNN, CBS, the LA Times, and more, […]
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After the coronavirus led to the cancellation of the NCAA Division 1 basketball tournaments last year, this year's games are on — but with changes including fewer fans, no bands or cheerleaders.
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80 years ago today, the Tuskegee Airmen, an elite African American unit of the U.S. Army, was activated—the first military branch to welcome Black pilots. After two years of training, the Tuskegee Airmen, dubbed the ‘Red-Tail Angels’, were sent to Europe and proved their mettle as accomplished battle pilots in World War II. The group […]
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IKEA’s recent collaboration with 10 super chefs led to the creation of a new kind of scrapbook—one that contains recipes made from food scraps. Utilizing the less-loved parts of produce or cheese, the SCRAPSBOOK curates 50 recipes for kitchen scraps that would otherwise be thrown away. As much as Americans try to pull kale and […]
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Every Christmas season, delivery drivers can count on being slammed, but with the pandemic causing huge spikes in online ordering, it seems the holiday season never ends. A brown-uniformed UPS driver in Dauphin, Pennsylvania, has been meeting this challenge every day with good cheer and a sense of determination, often going out of his way […]
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Legislation in several states would limit or prohibit transgender women from competing in women's athletics. An expert on sex differences in athletes says the bills aren't rooted in science.
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"Players ISOLATED entire year to help make this tournament happen," tweeted Rutgers senior Geo Baker. "NCAA: rewarded w/ $900 million. Players: rewarded w/ free deodorant and small boxed meals."
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As lockdowns, stay-at-home orders, and closed recreation facilities have created a mental health crisis in America, art has become the opposite of ‘non-essential’. Thankfully, on the island of Murano, the home of a centuries-old Italian glassmaking tradition, the intrepid Venetian artist Adriano Berengo has—despite lockdowns, floods, and other pandemic related disturbances—has managed to keep his glass […]
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In a study using a non-toxic substance on mice, Northwestern University researchers have identified the first compound that eliminates the ongoing degeneration of brain neurons in the paralyzing disease known as ALS. Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis is a neurodegenerative disease in which upper motor neurons degrade in victims, producing a swift and fatal demise. In addition […]
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A jaw-dropping fossil has been found of an oviraptor crouching upon two dozen eggs containing fossilized embryos inside—with 7 containing “babies” mere hours from hatching. Found in Ganzhou in South China, the fossil is unprecedented in history, and not only contains an image of the animal and its offspring, but of its very behavior. China […]
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A 15-year old Chinese immigrant, adopted as a baby by the founder of MapQuest, is using her adult-sized ambition to use 3D-printing to help more kids get an education in Madagascar. Maggie Grout’s nonprofit is called “Thinking Huts” and they are fundraising to break ground on a series of modular, honeycomb-shaped schools, powered by solar […]
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Hiroshi Sasaki resigned as the director of the opening and closing Olympic ceremonies after it was revealed that he had suggested that a female comedian should appear as an "Olympig."
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