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Sunday Edition • August 10, 2025 SUPPORTED BY Why does receiving a compliment often feel as awkward as being told you have food in your teeth or your fly is unzipped? In a recent episode of the NPR podcast Life Kit, social psychologist Erica Boothby and behavioral scientist Xuan Zhao delve into the science behind compliments — and explain how your reaction to them might reflect your own self-esteem. Their insight on giving and receiving praise is illustrated in this comic strip, which we…Read more
- New bill supports human call center reps
Daily Edition • August 1, 2025 SUPPORTED BY Calling all e-readers — did you know there are a few ways to get free (or heavily discounted) books downloaded to your Kindle or other device? You can nab open source titles from Project Gutenberg, access your local library via Libby, take advantage of Amazon’s “Stuff Your Kindle” days, and more. Check out a guide to e-reading for cheap. Nice News Today There’s a lot of chatter about all the different ways to keep our bodies healthy over time, but...
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. Daily Edition • July 31, 2025 SUPPORTED BY It’s mooving time for Michigan cows! Earlier this week, more than 250 dairy cattle made their way to Michigan State University’s brand-new Dairy Cattle Teaching and Research Center. The state-of-the-art facility will be an opportunity for students to learn on a modern, high-tech farm. “It’s a new beginning,” George Smith, head of the school’s AgBioResearch department, told the Associated Press. Watch footage of the cows on the moove (sorry, that...
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. Daily Edition • July 30, 2025 SUPPORTED BY How does a tree change over 10 years? The better question might be, how does it stay the same? Photographer Yvan Bédard spent a decade capturing the same elm in Neuville, Canada, starting in 2014 when he snapped a pic of the tree in front of a bright full moon. “In the following years, I went back to this tree to make other photographs because I liked its direction toward the rising sun and weather conditions such as morning fog,” he told...