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Interesting. I am building a set of these gloves to see if it can slow my Parkinson's down. Fingers crossed!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GySC...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GySC...
Game-changing Parkinson's glove | 90 Seconds w/ Lisa Kim
YouTube video by Stanford Medicine
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November 19, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Interesting. I am building a set of these gloves to see if it can slow my Parkinson's down. Fingers crossed!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GySC...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GySC...
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We're going live now on Zoom to talk about updates on our board game project. Come join Kenny, Erika, and Exploding Kittens. Bring questions. npr.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Planet Money Board Game Live Zoom. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.
Kenny, Erika and Elan will talk about the new game design and take your questions and feedback.
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November 1, 2025 at 6:58 PM
We're going live now on Zoom to talk about updates on our board game project. Come join Kenny, Erika, and Exploding Kittens. Bring questions. npr.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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Some states are passing new laws requiring artificial intelligence to be clearly labeled, especially in regulated industries or on high-stakes documents such as police reports. The labels are crucial for people who'd rather not use AI at all. n.pr/3JAjrzh
Want to opt out of AI? State labeling laws might help
Some states are passing new laws requiring artificial intelligence to be clearly labeled, especially in regulated industries or on high-stakes documents such as police reports. The labels are crucial for people who'd rather not use AI at all.
n.pr
October 29, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Some states are passing new laws requiring artificial intelligence to be clearly labeled, especially in regulated industries or on high-stakes documents such as police reports. The labels are crucial for people who'd rather not use AI at all. n.pr/3JAjrzh
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American school, 2025.
October 28, 2025 at 2:31 PM
American school, 2025.
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Opinion | The art-history classroom is a place where divergent worldviews are brought into a kind of mutual coexistence and productive tension. chroni.cl/4oK0Qkb
Opinion | Want to Save Democracy? Teach Art History.
Visual comparison cultivates thinking skills that are vital to political life.
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August 15, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Opinion | The art-history classroom is a place where divergent worldviews are brought into a kind of mutual coexistence and productive tension. chroni.cl/4oK0Qkb
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On Wednesday, ICE GOONS arrested a mother in the school drop-off line at Inzunza Camarina Elementary in Chula Vista, leaving her two children in the car.
August 10, 2025 at 1:19 PM
On Wednesday, ICE GOONS arrested a mother in the school drop-off line at Inzunza Camarina Elementary in Chula Vista, leaving her two children in the car.
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Mark Peterson’s black-and-white images of ICE agents evoke film noir and the urban-crime photography of the 1930s and ’40s. “If someone is doing everything right, and then they still get detained, it’s a crime scene,” he said.
ICE’s Spectacle of Intimidation
Immigrants showing up for court dates in Manhattan must now navigate past rows of masked federal agents.
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August 10, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Mark Peterson’s black-and-white images of ICE agents evoke film noir and the urban-crime photography of the 1930s and ’40s. “If someone is doing everything right, and then they still get detained, it’s a crime scene,” he said.
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Can a city as creative as San Francisco actually solve the enduring problems of homelessness and addiction?
Listen to Episode 1 of “No Easy Fix,” the new miniseries from "Radio Atlantic," wherever you find your podcasts: https://theatln.tc/umC1QQh5
Listen to Episode 1 of “No Easy Fix,” the new miniseries from "Radio Atlantic," wherever you find your podcasts: https://theatln.tc/umC1QQh5
July 31, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Can a city as creative as San Francisco actually solve the enduring problems of homelessness and addiction?
Listen to Episode 1 of “No Easy Fix,” the new miniseries from "Radio Atlantic," wherever you find your podcasts: https://theatln.tc/umC1QQh5
Listen to Episode 1 of “No Easy Fix,” the new miniseries from "Radio Atlantic," wherever you find your podcasts: https://theatln.tc/umC1QQh5
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Researchers discover that a high-fat diet damages the heart in mice by disrupting metabolism in heart cells called cardiomyocytes but find that knocking out the enzyme PTP1B can prevent these harmful effects.
Learn more in #ScienceSignaling: scim.ag/3ITF8JP
Learn more in #ScienceSignaling: scim.ag/3ITF8JP
Deletion of PTP1B in cardiomyocytes alters cardiac metabolic signaling to protect against cardiomyopathy induced by a high-fat diet
The absence of a phosphatase prevents a cardiomyopathy-inducing metabolic switch in mice on a high-fat diet.
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July 29, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Researchers discover that a high-fat diet damages the heart in mice by disrupting metabolism in heart cells called cardiomyocytes but find that knocking out the enzyme PTP1B can prevent these harmful effects.
Learn more in #ScienceSignaling: scim.ag/3ITF8JP
Learn more in #ScienceSignaling: scim.ag/3ITF8JP
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“Small children from poor or middle-class families who watch ‘Sesame Street’ do better on cognitive tests and in first grade than children who do not watch it,” Renata Adler wrote, in 1972.
The Invention of “Sesame Street”
Renata Adler’s 1972 review of the program that revolutionized children’s television.
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July 29, 2025 at 7:06 PM
“Small children from poor or middle-class families who watch ‘Sesame Street’ do better on cognitive tests and in first grade than children who do not watch it,” Renata Adler wrote, in 1972.
Wow, this is amazing!
First-of-its-kind footage from the devastating magnitude 7.7 earthquake in Myanmar in March shows a hillside cracking in two, its pieces sliding past one another like a conveyor belt.
Learn more: scim.ag/4f0E5DY
Learn more: scim.ag/4f0E5DY
July 26, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Wow, this is amazing!
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The actor and Grammy Award winner died in a drowning accident Sunday while on vacation in Costa Rica.
By @anastasiat.bsky.social
By @anastasiat.bsky.social
Actor Malcolm-Jamal Warner, 'Cosby Show' star, has died at the age of 54
The actor and Grammy Award winner died in a drowning accident Sunday while on vacation in Costa Rica.
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July 21, 2025 at 8:25 PM
The actor and Grammy Award winner died in a drowning accident Sunday while on vacation in Costa Rica.
By @anastasiat.bsky.social
By @anastasiat.bsky.social
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Congress has decided to claw back previously approved funding for public media.
This decision hurts people in communities across the country, but it has only strengthened our resolve to keep Americans informed and connected. (1/2)
This decision hurts people in communities across the country, but it has only strengthened our resolve to keep Americans informed and connected. (1/2)
July 18, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Congress has decided to claw back previously approved funding for public media.
This decision hurts people in communities across the country, but it has only strengthened our resolve to keep Americans informed and connected. (1/2)
This decision hurts people in communities across the country, but it has only strengthened our resolve to keep Americans informed and connected. (1/2)
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Scientists have released the closest images ever taken near the sun, captured by NASA’s Parker Solar Probe flying 3.8 million miles above the solar surface.
See more images of solar eruptions on the sun: wapo.st/3Irm3P3
See more images of solar eruptions on the sun: wapo.st/3Irm3P3
July 15, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Scientists have released the closest images ever taken near the sun, captured by NASA’s Parker Solar Probe flying 3.8 million miles above the solar surface.
See more images of solar eruptions on the sun: wapo.st/3Irm3P3
See more images of solar eruptions on the sun: wapo.st/3Irm3P3
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#ResistanceRoots
Today in history, 1960: Harper Lee publishes her first novel, To Kill a Mockingbird. Noted for its treatment of a child’s awakening to racism in the South, the book won the 1961 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. It was an immediate success, eventually selling more than 40 million copies.
Today in history, 1960: Harper Lee publishes her first novel, To Kill a Mockingbird. Noted for its treatment of a child’s awakening to racism in the South, the book won the 1961 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. It was an immediate success, eventually selling more than 40 million copies.
July 11, 2025 at 3:48 PM
#ResistanceRoots
Today in history, 1960: Harper Lee publishes her first novel, To Kill a Mockingbird. Noted for its treatment of a child’s awakening to racism in the South, the book won the 1961 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. It was an immediate success, eventually selling more than 40 million copies.
Today in history, 1960: Harper Lee publishes her first novel, To Kill a Mockingbird. Noted for its treatment of a child’s awakening to racism in the South, the book won the 1961 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. It was an immediate success, eventually selling more than 40 million copies.
Really sad!
UPDATED: At least 78 people are dead following flooding that slammed central Texas over the weekend, while a desperate search for 11 missing from a camp for girls continues.
At least 78 dead in catastrophic Texas flooding and 11 missing from girls camp
At least 78 people are dead following flooding that slammed central Texas over the weekend, while a desperate search for 11 missing from a camp for girls continues.
n.pr
July 6, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Really sad!
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Mick Ralphs, founding member of Mott the Hoople and Bad Company, dies aged 81
Mick Ralphs, founding member of Mott the Hoople and Bad Company, dies aged 81
The English guitarist, who had been bedridden after a stroke in 2016, is set to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in November
Mick Ralphs, singer, songwriter, guitarist and founding member of the classic British rock bands Bad Company and Mott the Hoople, has died aged 81.
A statement posted to the band’s official website on Monday announced Ralphs’ death. Ralphs had a stroke days after what would be his final performance with Bad Company at London’s O2 Arena in 2016, and had been bedridden ever since, the statement said. No further details on the circumstances of his death were provided. Continue reading...
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June 24, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Mick Ralphs, founding member of Mott the Hoople and Bad Company, dies aged 81
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A new study shows that music therapy is as effective as cognitive behavioral therapy at helping cancer patients and survivors heal emotionally. https://n.pr/45rG55C
The doctor said 'be happy.' Music therapy can help cancer patients do that
A new study shows that music therapy is as effective as cognitive behavioral therapy at helping cancer patients and survivors heal emotionally.
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June 16, 2025 at 11:39 AM
A new study shows that music therapy is as effective as cognitive behavioral therapy at helping cancer patients and survivors heal emotionally. https://n.pr/45rG55C
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“This is taxpayer-funded, state-sponsored religious indoctrination. You’ve just got to call it what it is.”
The Supreme Court is about to let religion ruin public education
Two recent cases suggest that the era of secular schools is coming to an end.
www.motherjones.com
May 1, 2025 at 9:10 PM
“This is taxpayer-funded, state-sponsored religious indoctrination. You’ve just got to call it what it is.”
Sad news :(
In an executive order, President Trump directs the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to stop funding NPR and PBS, the nation's primary public broadcasters.
Trump orders end to federal funding for NPR and PBS
In an executive order, President Trump directs the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to stop funding NPR and PBS, the nation's primary public broadcasters.
www.npr.org
May 2, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Sad news :(
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Workers who track data on car crashes, drownings, traumatic brain injury, falls in the elderly, and other perils lost their jobs. Advocates worry life-saving work will stop.
With CDC injury prevention team gutted, 'we will not know what is killing us'
Workers who track data on car crashes, drownings, traumatic brain injury, falls in the elderly, and other perils lost their jobs. Advocates worry life-saving work will stop.
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April 21, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Workers who track data on car crashes, drownings, traumatic brain injury, falls in the elderly, and other perils lost their jobs. Advocates worry life-saving work will stop.
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The pope was a strong advocate for the poor and the environment and a towering figure on the world stage, addressing not just Catholics but the men and women of our time.
Pope Francis, who reached out to the margins of society, has died at 88
The pope was a strong advocate for the poor and the environment and a towering figure on the world stage, addressing not just Catholics but the men and women of our time.
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April 21, 2025 at 10:11 AM
The pope was a strong advocate for the poor and the environment and a towering figure on the world stage, addressing not just Catholics but the men and women of our time.
Here is an alternative way to multiply numbers. Pretty cool I reckon.
youtu.be/VJf8XAhC550?...
youtu.be/VJf8XAhC550?...
How to Multiply
YouTube video by DaveHax
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April 16, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Here is an alternative way to multiply numbers. Pretty cool I reckon.
youtu.be/VJf8XAhC550?...
youtu.be/VJf8XAhC550?...
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Americans seeking retirement or survivor benefits from the Social Security Administration will no longer be able to apply over the phone, starting next week.
New Social Security rules will create hurdles for millions of seniors, report finds
A new report from a left-leaning Center on Budget and Policy Priorities finds that upcoming changes to Social Security will amount to a "45-mile trip for some 6 million seniors."
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April 8, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Americans seeking retirement or survivor benefits from the Social Security Administration will no longer be able to apply over the phone, starting next week.