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

Culture, Exclusive / 3 min. read

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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Cinema Therapy's creators smile and lounge in theater-style reclining chairs

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

Culture / 3 min. read

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

Science / 3 min. read

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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illustration of a black hole in space

Adventurer Twins Embarking on Emission-Free Expedition to Atlantic’s Most Remote Spot

Culture, Environment / 2 min. read

Meet Ross and Hugo Turner, a.k.a. The Turner Twins. They’re professional adventurers who’ve rowed across the Atlantic (netting the duo two world records), scaled Mount Elbrus in Russia, and have traveled to four of the world’s Continental Poles of Inaccessibility — by bicycle and paramotor, no less — to list but a few of their

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Artist Brings the “Mystical” Vibrations of Notre Dame’s Historic Bells to the Public — Listen to the Sonic Landscape

Culture / 3 min. read

After a devastating fire tore through the 859-year-old Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris in 2019, the sounds of its 10 bronze bells ceased to echo through the city. They’d escaped damage but have been rung only once since — on April 15, 2020, the one-year anniversary of the blaze. Then the chapel returned to silence,

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People gather around the big shiny bells of Notre-Dame de Paris Cathedral during their blessing mass

How One Teacher Uses an Empty Chair as an Inspiring Lesson of Inclusion

Humanity / 3 min. read

Great teachers have the power to create vivid memories from our youth that we carry with us into adulthood. But one middle school teacher in Montclair, New Jersey, has been using a memory from his own childhood to share an important lesson about empathy and acceptance.  When Daniel Gill was 9 and living in New

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Back view of a male student on a class at high school.

Meet Maria Pepe: The Little Leaguer Who Paved the Way for Girls in Baseball

Culture, Sports / 2 min. read

Got a daughter, niece, cousin, or little sister who loves baseball? Thanks to trailblazer Maria Pepe, they can make lifelong memories and forge important bonds while competing in their favorite game as Little League baseball players — an experience that was historically reserved only for boys. In an interview with Today, Pepe, who grew up

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Maria Pepe smiles and holds a large black and white framed photo of herself in her baseball uniform

Divers Rescue Woman’s 100-Year-Old Wedding Ring From River: “A Total Miracle”

Humanity / 3 min. read

While it’s often said that not all heroes wear capes, a few in the vicinity of the Borough of Bedford in Bedfordshire, England, do wear scuba tanks, as Emma Lyon can attest. On May 7, Lyon was attending a regatta and had been cheering on a local race participant with such enthusiasm that the ring

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lush greenery and small boats line the River Great Ouse
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