- Social distancing is older than you may think
Daily Edition • October 17, 2024 SUPPORTED BY You might not be thinking about holiday cards and gifts just yet, but the U.S. Postal Service is. Earlier this month, the service revealed the cutoff dates for ensuring your messages reach their recipients by Hanukkah (Dec. 25-Jan. 2), Christmas (Dec. 25), and Kwanzaa (Dec. 26-Jan. 1). The recommendations include specific dates for domestic, international, and military mail, and note that sending from Alaska and Hawaii takes longer than from the…Read more
- No, really: Your life’s a movie
Daily Edition • October 15, 2024 SUPPORTED BY NASA’s Landsat program has been around for more than 50 years, providing the longest continuous space-based record of Earth’s land in existence. It tracks natural disasters like earthquakes and hurricanes, keeps an eye on food and water management, follows carbon storage, and so much more. Less essential is its ability to spell your name, but it is very fun. Click here to type in your name and see it spelled out in Landsat-captured imagery of...
- Welcome to the Poetry Pharmacy
Daily Edition • October 14, 2024 SUPPORTED BY Today is Indigenous Peoples Day, a celebration that coincides with the Columbus Day federal holiday. According to Randy’L Teton, a citizen of the Shoshone-Bannock Tribe and U.S. Forest Service employee, the occasion is “a call to support the ongoing journey toward justice, equity, and healing for all Indigenous Peoples.” Read her reflection on the day, and consider celebrating by making a donation to the Warrior Women Project. Must Reads If your...
- Meet NYC’s viral “trash walker”
Sunday Edition • October 13, 2024 SUPPORTED BY Considering how essential sleep is to overall health, it feels just a tad unfair how frustratingly elusive a good night’s rest can be. So we perked right up when we learned about a simple mental exercise for falling asleep quickly that’s been making the rounds on social media. Kind of like counting sheep but with words, “cognitive shuffling” is designed to distract the mind from wandering thoughts, which may help you drift off. It doesn’t work...