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[ad_1] August 4, 2021– Palliative Care Physician, Dr. BJ Miller brings the sensitivity of design to the art of living to death. He learned to view life as a “creative enterprise” and greatly redesigned his own physical presence after an accident in which lightning struck him with 11,000 volts, leaving him without both legs and…
[ad_1] Kristján Pétur Vilhelmsson / Hotel Rangá A hotel in Iceland asks all photographers for a three-week paid vacation to capture images of this year’s Northern Lights, as if that work needed a reward. The luxurious Hotel Rangá, seeking a professional ‘light catcher’, is hosting open requests for any experienced and trained photographer to stay…
[ad_1] Jupiter and its largest moon Ganymede (NASA, ESA and E. Karkoschka (University of Arizona)) One might think that since we can take detailed images of galaxies millions of light years away, there is no way that something as significant as a moon could exist within our solar system without our knowledge, but there are…
[ad_1] The Tokyo Summer Olympics are bringing out the best in all of us. We have been searching for inspiring stories and have found great displays of humility, humanity and intelligence. Here’s a rundown of our favorite moments from the games, so far. 1. The swimmer wins the gold and throws it to his teammate…
[ad_1] To help prevent wildfires in California, Pacific Gas and Electric Company has announced a major new initiative to bury 10,000 miles of power lines underground. In addition to significantly reducing the risk of wildfires, the underground installation also benefits customers by decreasing the need for public safety power outages, which are called as a…
[ad_1] Idit Harel Segal When armed conflict is a way of life, a lasting solution may seem unattainable. And yet, while small acts of personal bravery may not ultimately shape the larger outcome, there are some people on both sides who continue to seek peace anyway. Israeli kindergarten teacher and mother of three Idit Harel…
[ad_1] SWNS The world’s largest balloon, the size of a football stadium, will be sent to the edge of space. It will carry a wide-field telescope that will rival Hubble, at a fraction of the cost, say the British scientists behind the ambitious project. The instrument, called the Balloon-Carried Superpressure Imaging Telescope, or SuperBIT, will…
[ad_1] They have a hard-earned reputation for being busy and transitory places, but research suggests that big cities can protect us from depression. The traveler who catches your eye on the train. The smiling barista at your neighborhood coffee shop. The busker who nods in gratitude as you toss some silver into his guitar case….
[ad_1] August 3, 2021– “On March 19, 2018, almost five years after being diagnosed with stage IV colon cancer, Julie Yip-Williams, 38, died, leaving behind a husband and two daughters. Her early years were nothing. Born blind in Vietnam, at two months old she was almost euthanized on the orders of a grandmother who deemed…
[ad_1] Artistic illustration of a black hole; NASA / JPL-Caltech When you do astronomy, you can’t blink, because the difference between a never-before-seen phenomenon and a normal day in the telescope can be as small as seeing weak X-rays turn into weaker X-rays for a brief moment. . That’s what happened when astrophysicist Dan Wilkins…