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July 19, 2022

13-Year-Old Makes History as She’s Accepted Into Med School: “I’ve Worked So Hard to Live My Dreams”

At 13 years old, Alena Analeigh has already achieved more than your average adult — she was the youngest-ever NASA intern, she’s a triple major undergraduate enrolled at Arizona State University and Oakwood University, and she’s the founder of Black Stem Girl, a program dedicated to providing girls of color access to STEM programs and […]

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Independent Bookstores in US Are Thriving and Diversifying Post-Pandemic

Passionate readers can attest to the appeal of a local bookstore: the incomparable pleasure of strolling through the aisles waiting for a book to beckon from its spot on the shelf before being placed atop a towering stack and taken to a quiet corner where its crisp pages can be perused. Unfortunately, due to the

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Engaging in Meaningful Activities Can Reduce Loneliness, Study Finds

Some of the hobbies that you enjoy doing in your free time could be of greater benefit to your overall well-being than you realize.  A new study by Penn State University found that when people engage in meaningful activities that require concentration and skill, they enter a state of “flow,” which researchers say can reduce

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Martin Scorsese Has a Free Streaming Platform for Classic Movies: How to Watch

Since its founding in 1990, Martin Scorsese’s nonprofit organization, The Film Foundation, has helped to restore over 925 films. And in April, the foundation launched a free streaming service called Restoration Screening Room to introduce these restored classic movies to new and old generations of moviegoers alike. On the second Monday of each month, a

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Rope Bridges Are Helping Sloths in Costa Rica Navigate Their Rapidly-Changing Habitat

Speed walking isn’t exactly an option for sloths, which is why these animals have always relied upon a dense forest canopy to navigate their natural habitat safely. An abundance of trees has historically kept sloths relatively protected from threats like cars, electricity lines, and ground-dwelling predators.  But humans have been encroaching upon sloth habitats in

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Therapist and Filmmaker Team Up to Talk Mental Health Through the Lens of Movies

You may see your movie watching sessions and therapy sessions as completely separate activities, but they’re probably more linked than you think. For example, The Incredible Hulk sheds light on anger management, Titanic is a study on relationship compatibility, and the horror film It is an easy segue to talking about childhood trauma.  Those are

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65,000-Year-Old “Swiss Army Knives” Suggest Social Connectivity Among Early Humans

The ubiquitous Swiss Army knife was first invented in the late 19th century, but humans have been using and sharing similar multipurpose tools for much, much longer. Sixty-thousand to 70,000 years ago, Homo sapiens ventured out of Africa, eventually landing in Asia, Australia, Europe, and the Americas. While that migration was not the first, scientists

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Pieces of ancient stone knives that suggest connectivity

NASA Locates Lone Black Hole in the Milky Way for the First Time — and It’s More Massive Than Our Sun

If you think pinning down the position of a black hole sounds complicated, you can imagine how much harder it is to identify one moving 100,000 miles per hour — which makes astronomers’ recent feat so impressive.  For the first time ever, data from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has allowed scientists to record the mass

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