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Hero Pilot Guides Novice Aviator in Emergency Landing After He Sees Her Tire Fall Off

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Pilot Taylor Hash - YouTube
Pilot Taylor Hash – YouTube

A young pilot is thanking her lucky stars there was someone on hand to guide her down into an emergency landing after she lost part of her landing gear during takeoff.

Chris Yates, a veteran pilot at the airport, radioed the control tower to alert them of the potential disaster, but the control tower operators had never seen it happen before and didn’t know what to do.

The tower patched Yates through to the young pilot, whose name was Taylor Hash. Hash was only on her third-ever solo flight, and the anxiety was thick in her voice.

“Taylor this is Chris, my daughter’s name is Taylor and I taught her to fly! We’re gonna be just fine kiddo,” were among the first things he said.

A student pilot, Hash was up in a Diamond Star single-engine aircraft from Oakland County International Airport, Michigan. At the time of the incident, she had 57 total flight hours.

Yates, the former director of aviation at SpaceX, managed to calm Hash down with the comment about his daughter, before beginning to instruct her on how to make an emergency landing.

Hash would have to land without a front tire, so Yates told her to keep circling the field until she felt ready to try and land the plane.

“When you touch down, I just want that stick all the way back. You’re gonna hold that stick back like you don’t want that nose to touch,” he can be heard saying over the recorded radio conversation.

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“The nose is gonna come down, you’re okay, you’re okay. Talk to me. Thatta girl, proud of you.”

WXYZ News Detroit shared another video of the landing taken by two onlookers who remarked “beautiful, beautiful,” as she managed to touch down without the nose immediately smashing into the ground.

“I was thinking of my daughter and just how afraid and alone (Hash) probably felt,” Yates told NBC News correspondent Gadi Schwartz.

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NBC News TODAY interviewed Hash who told them that “as soon as he said [thatta girl] he goes, ‘I’m proud of you,’ the waterworks came,” Hash said, with Yates revealing he too was crying.

The FAA has stated they are investigating what the cause of the malfunction was, while Hash has said that despite the frightening incident, she has no plans to give up flying.

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Colorful Mumbai Overpass Goes Viral After Being Converted into Sporting Complex for Community

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Navi Mumbai Bridge –@Dhananyaj_Tech / Twitter
Navi Mumbai Bridge –@Dhananyaj_Tech / Twitter

In the urban sprawl of Mumbai, kids have an awesome and surprising new place to play cricket and badminton—under a highway overpass.

Built beneath the Sector 15 Sanpada overpass in Navi Mumbai, a video of the kids playing went viral and drew the attention of other city administrators who celebrated the clever transformation of an unhappy space into one of real joy.

The overpass is enormous and over 20,000 square feet of space is available underneath. Under the tallest section, 3 courts for badminton and 1 for basketball have been built. A cricket zone with a pitch of 22 yards enclosed by a net has been created, as well as a sizable skating rink facility, running track, and yoga area.

The whole complex is painted in bright colors to beautify the space. Construction of the sports complexes began back in 2021.

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Hyderabad’s Municipal Administration and IT Minister K. T. Rama Rao expressed interest in replicating similar projects in his city—the fourth-largest in India—and tagged the Special Chief Secretary Arvind Kumar in a tweet, saying, “Let’s get this done in a few places in Hyderabad. Looks like a nice idea.”

“The space under most of the [overpasses] in Navi Mumbai is lying unused and taking advantage of the situation some people have encroached on them for parking vehicles and running small shops among others,” Sanjay Desai, Navi Mumbai Municipal Council’s city engineer told The Hindustan Times.

“Some homeless people are also staying under a few flyovers and neither we, nor the police department has any idea about their backgrounds. So to beautify the place, we have decided to develop sports infrastructure and open gyms under the flyovers.”

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“The golden hour has secrets to reveal. Be alert for merriment. Be greedy for glee. Go in quest of jubilation’s mysterious blessings.” – Rumi

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Quote of the Day: “The golden hour has secrets to reveal. Be alert for merriment. Be greedy for glee. Go in quest of jubilation’s mysterious blessings.” – Sufi poet Rumi

Photo by: Paul Rysz

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Recently Arrived Ukrainians in Minneapolis Head to Mississippi to Help Tornado Victims

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Ukrainian refugees attending Orthodox Church in Minneapolis - credit American Service
Ukrainian refugees attending Orthodox Church in Minneapolis – credit American Service

The mainstream media is filled with headlines of how the United States is helping Ukraine, but under the radar is how some Ukrainians are actually returning the favor.

Having arrived in Minneapolis, Minnesota, as recently as a few months ago, a group of 7 Ukrainian refugees has signed up for a 2,000-mile road trip to Mississippi to help with tornado relief.

Tornadoes tore a path of destruction across rural Mississippi and Alabama on the night of Friday the 24th. The nonprofit American Service is just one of several aid organizations heading to help the victims.

They quickly organized a team of volunteers and headed down to North Fork, MI, expecting to arrive on Tuesday.

American Service’s Director of Operations, Sofiia Rudenko, is a Ukrainian who has only been in the country since Christmas, but after receiving help settling in from American Service, she quickly dedicated her time to help other new arrivals.

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“Here in America a lot of people helped me to establish here and we have this kind of culture that we want not only to take but also to give back and to help the others,” Rudenko told MPR News. 

“I found a group of people, Ukrainian, that are not working today and willing to go immediately and now we’re packing and going. It’s so exciting, I hope we can do something great for this world.”

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American Service has so far helped 80 Ukrainians like Rudenko find temporary housing, jobs, and a bit of community in Minneapolis.

Their first trip down to Mississippi was going to bring exclusively water, and a second trip will follow based on whatever it was they discovered is in short supply after the first trip.

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One Stem Cell Injection to Target Inflammation Slashed Risk of Heart Attack and Stroke By 58%

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Dr. Perin holds up the stem cell treatment - Texas Heart Institute
Dr. Perin holds up the stem cell treatment – Texas Heart Institute

A large trial showed that a single injection of a patient’s own stem cells into their heart was able to reduce inflammation and risk of heart attack and stroke by 58% if they had heart failure.

6 million Americans have clinical diagnoses of heart failure, a condition designated by a lack of ability for the heart to pump blood sufficiently.

“For the first time, we’ve discovered that stem cells can successfully treat the inflammation that causes heart failure,” study lead author Dr. Emerson Perin, told the European Pharmaceutical Review.

It’s the largest clinical trial of cell therapy for heart disease to date and demonstrated several positive results. Before understanding the cure, it’s worth taking a moment to understand the problem.

When less than 40% of the blood inside the heart is pumped out into the body, an individual has heart failure, and could in theory at any moment suffer a cardiovascular event like a heart attack. This is called left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF), with a healthy person’s fraction being 55%-70%.

Because inflammation is closely associated with heart disease—both arise from the same poor lifestyle patterns which cause the majority of cases of heart disease—cardiologists at the Texas Heart Institute designed a treatment that could address the inflammation.

What they selected were stem cells taken from a patient’s bone marrow called mesenchymal precursor cells, which are replicated in a lab via proprietary methods developed by a pharmaceutical company called Mesoblast, and injected straight into the heart.

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First and foremost, the treatment, called rexlemestrocel-L, was well-tolerated and didn’t cause additional inflammation in any patients who received it. Secondly, the treated patients showed increased performance of LVEF; their hearts were pumping out more blood volume.

“We are very encouraged by these study data that indicate the potential of our allogeneic cellular therapy to address the major areas of unmet need in heart failure patients where conventional treatments are not effective,” said Mesoblast CEO Dr. Silviu Itescu in a statement.

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“Improvement in LVEF at 12 months may be a functional surrogate endpoint for rexlemestrocel-L’s subsequent benefits on long-term MACE outcomes and survival in this high-risk patient population with chronic heart failure.”

The trial was a phase 3, double-blinded, placebo-controlled trial, i.e. the gold standard for medicine, and it should open up the door to future trials of the same kind and turn the research into real treatments for thousands of people.

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When Life Gives You Carbon… Make a Factory for Producing Carbon-Negative Concrete

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Photo from VTT / by Vesa Kippola
Photo from VTT / by Vesa Kippola

Concrete is being made in Finland with a carbon-negative replacement for cement, something the company hopes will trap more CO2 than it takes to produce throughout its lifecycle.

One of the most ubiquitous of human building materials, concrete is nevertheless one of the most carbon-intensive manufacturing methods in society.

Finnish materials researchers at VTT Technical Research Center said that they were aiming to create carbon-negative concrete “before they know how to do so.”

One of the interesting things about concrete is that it reabsorbs carbon over the years, which can lead to the corrosion of steel reinforcements like rebar inside it.

Experimenting with different substitutes, they discovered that slag from blast furnace smelting could be combined with bio-ash to replace cement in concrete.

During smelting, when the ore containing iron or copper is exposed to high temperatures, impurities within it such as oxides of calcium, magnesium, silicon, iron, and aluminum, are separated from the molten metal and can be removed. Slag is the term for the collection of compounds that are removed.

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Powdered slag can absorb higher amounts of carbon than cement, and VTT senior scientist Tapio Vehmas explained how his team figured out how to suck CO2 from the air and deposit it into the powered slag, before putting it in cast concrete to fulfill his team’s vision.

“We have demonstrated in the pilot unit that our technology is capable of reducing the CO2 emissions of conventional concrete by 45%,” said Vehmas, now CEO of VTT spin-out company Carbonaide.

“Last autumn, we demonstrated lowering our products’ carbon footprint to -60 kg/m3 by replacing Portland cement with slag.”

Yard stones and tiles – VTT

But this isn’t a story about scientific experimentation. Carbonaide has secured nearly $2 million in funding to build a production center for its cast concrete blocks that will be capable of mineralizing “up to five tons of CO2 per day.”

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With concrete being one of man’s most-used building materials, the startup is going ahead to scale up its production capacity by 100 times thanks to an already-secured value chain.

Five tons of CO2 per day would cover the average emissions for the business commute of around 415 people in their cars, if people commute 15 miles to work, and 15 miles home.

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Amateur Gold Digger Finds Huge Nugget Worth $160,000 in Australia

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Lucky Strike Gold owner Darren Kamp with the massive nugget - credit Lucky Strike Gold
Lucky Strike Gold owner Darren Kamp with the massive nugget – credit Lucky Strike Gold

An Australian gold digger turned up a stone weighing 10.1 pounds, more than half of which is gold, and one of the largest finds in recent times.

It’s the kind of photo that one would expect to see from the 1850s, in black and white, with the man wearing breeches, a wide-brimmed hat, and a bandana around his neck.

But even though it’s 2023, experienced prospector Darren Kamp says he’s never seen a rock like it before in his life.

“When it hit my hand, my jaw dropped with it,” Kamp told CNN on Tuesday. “It was just incredible. Once-in-a-lifetime find.”

Kamp runs Lucky Strike Gold which runs recreational prospecting trips into the gold-containing regions of Australia known collectively as the Golden Triangle, a profession he’s been engaged in for 43 years.

credit Lucky Strike Gold

The finder took the rock to Kamp’s shop, believing there might be a few dozen grams of gold inside. It was very dirty, but after they split it open Kamp described the gold just “oozing out of it”.

The media called the finder an amateur, but equipped with a Minelab Equinox 800 detector with a price tag of USD$800, he probably had more than just beginner’s luck on his side.

The largest gold specimen Kamp ever found was a 24-ounce piece, which now would be worth around USD$46,753 at current market prices.

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“Daffodils know the goal of living is to grow.” – E. E. Cummings (The same is true for humans.) 

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Quote of the Day: “Daffodils know the goal of living is to grow.” – E. E. Cummings (The same is true for humans.)

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Watch Mars Kiss Our Crescent Moon – the Highlight of April Stargazing

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Bossco CC license via Flick.
Bossco CC license via Flick.

As we are only a week of waxing away from the full moon of April, it’s worth taking a look at other celestial sightseeing opportunities in the springing month.

Around midnight of Wednesday, April 5th, the Pink Moon will fully illuminate the sky. Also known as the Paschal Moon, it sets the date for Easter on the Sunday after the first full moon in April.

Despite cherry blossoms and other flowers heralding spring, the Pink Moon is not actually pink. The name corresponds with the early springtime blooms of Phlox subulata—commonly called creeping phlox or moss phlox, native to North America where Old Farmer’s Almanac keeps track of all the names given by a mix of settlers and native tribes.

For example, you have Moon When the Ducks Come Back (Lakota), Moon When the Geese Lay Eggs (Dakota), Frog Moon (Cree), Breaking Ice Moon (Algonquin), and Budding Moon (Tlingit).

Further out into space, the second half of April will present some excellent viewing opportunities for those with a telescope or binoculars.

On April 15th, overnight into the 16th, the planet Saturn will come within very close proximity to the Moon. They will appear just 3° apart, and while the ringed planet can be seen by the naked eye, a decent pair of binos will allow you to see the rings.

On April 20th, for those readers from Indonesia, Timor Leste, and Australia, particularly in the Ningaloo area, there will be a hybrid solar eclipse.

That means that as the eclipse travels along the path of totality, depending on where you are along it, you will see different shapes pass over the sun as the moon’s shadow affects viewing on Earth.

The full moon of April will be called the “Pink Moon” or the “Frog Moon”

Time and Date have put together a great article on how to see it if you live Down Under.

April 23rd will be the peak time of the Lyrid Meteor Shower, where in the pre-dawn hours one will be able to see around 20 shooting stars per hour.

The point in the sky out of which they seem to radiate is in the constellation Hercules. The Lyrids aren’t the largest meteor swarm, but the moon will be very small that night and offer no light pollution of the meteors one would see.

Lastly, after sunset on April 25th, the waning crescent moon of April will pair on its bright side with Mars just behind it as a glowing red sphere. This one can also be seen without binos or a telescope, but they will make the opportunity all the more special.

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Laid Off in Lockdown, Construction Worker Starts Crafting Radiator Covers–And Earns First Million

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Furniture maker Liam Mchale-Smith – SWNS
Furniture maker Liam Mchale-Smith – SWNS

A man has turned his lockdown side hustle into a thriving business—which he says has now turned over a million pounds.

After the government-imposed lockdowns caused Liam Mchale-Smith’s construction firm to close down and lay him off, he took over the garden shed and began handmaking furniture.

His wife Ruth then posted pictures on her social media and inquiries came flooding in.

Three years later and the man who once made $700 per week as a tradesman has now sold over $1.3 million (£1 million) in goods, and is unsurprisingly “very proud” of it.

“I really never thought something like this would happen to me,” said 33-year-old Mchale-Smith, “I have no experience running a business or being the boss.”

“But I wouldn’t go back to being employed now. I love being the CEO, I’m just glad Ruth is great with computers and social media.”

At age 15, Liam started studying carpentry before taking a job in construction. His first offerings were a wall-mounted garden bar and radiator cover.

Liam Mchale-Smith, 33, with radiator cover –
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“Unique Designs by Liam” continued to grow and by January 2021 he could afford a new workshop, as well as three employees—two apprentices and his dad.

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As soon as lockdowns lifted Liam and Ruth were delivering furniture as far away as Aberdeen in Scotland, a more than 350-mile trip on Britain’s motorways.

Unique Design by Liam –
SWNS

By the end of 2022, he had sold 10,350 items across Etsy and his website, earning him over $1.3 million.

“It is very hard work,” said Liam. “I can’t take a week off like I used to, so it has a huge impact on our home life.”

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“But the success is very much deserved,” Ruth adds. “I don’t know anyone who works as hard as Liam—he’s unique, and such an inspiration to others.”

He has since bought a new family home, and acquired a fleet of trucks and several members of staff who together work to produce up to 40 pieces a day, all handmade from locally sourced materials.

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Monet’s Water Lilies Masterpiece is Recreated Using 650,000 Lego Pieces

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© Ela Bialkowska OKNO Studio
© Ela Bialkowska OKNO Studio

If you don’t know who Ai Weiwei is, he’s an artist who likes big, statement-setting installations, but in a new exhibition he is throwing it back to the Impressionists, with a massive interpretation of Water Lillies by Monet, made from 650,000 Lego bricks.

Titled Water Lillies #1, it’s the largest Lego sculpture the Chinese artist has ever made, and it will go on display in “Ai Weiwei: Making Sense” at the Design Museum in London, UK, from April 7 to July 30.

The nearly fifty-foot-long sculpture takes up a whole wall at the museum. The gentle flowing colors are interrupted suddenly by a dark portal that represents the underground tunnel built by his father at the family house in China’s Xinjiang Province—where they would often hide from the authorities.

“In ‘Water Lilies #1’ I integrate Monet’s Impressionist painting, reminiscent of Zenism in the East, and concrete experiences of my father and me into a digitized and pixelated language,” Ai said in a statement.

“Toy bricks as the material, with their qualities of solidity and potential for deconstruction, reflect the attributes of language in our rapidly developing era where human consciousness is constantly dividing.”

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Ai has worked with Lego many times before. In his exhibition “The Human Comedy” on San Giorgio Island in the Venice Lagoon, Lego portraits of monsters and animals showed how similar the two can look at various resolutions.

In “Making Sense” Ai has prepared some other massive installations, including one made from 200,000 pieces of broken pottery from the Beijing workshop he used to run before the Communist Party demolished it.

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Hate Needles? Future Vaccines Could be Delivered by a Gentle Puff of Air

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By Jeremiah Gassensmith
By Jeremiah Gassensmith

Nobody likes needles, but they’re necessary for delivering many vaccines and biologics into the body. But what if those could be puffed through the skin instead, with just a little pressure, like being hit in the arm with a foam toy?

Today, scientists report steps toward making that a reality. Using powdered vaccines that don’t require refrigeration and a system driven by compressed gas, their “MOF-Jet” could easily deliver therapeutics against cancer and other diseases in a painless and less fear-inducing way.

The idea for the project was formed out of pandemic-induced boredom. The project’s principal investigator, Jeremiah Gassensmith, Ph.D., had ordered inexpensive pieces of a compressed gas-powered jet injection system to mess around with while stuck at home.

Later, after everyone was back on campus, he handed the pieces over to Yalini Wijesundara, a graduate student in the lab, with the instructions, “See what you can do with this.”

Despite looking and sounding like something out of science fiction, jet injectors were in use in the military back in the 1960s, but were discontinued due to them actually being more painful, and often blowing the liquid vaccine back into the face of the administer.

The medical media in Wijesundara’s invention is called a MOF, or metal-organic framework; essentially tiny miny cages that can contain a vaccine powder until it’s safely inside a cell.

These are normally made of gold or tungsten and are extremely expensive. Wijesundara and her team instead found a way to use zeolite.

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“We can also store vaccine formulations within it as powders at room temperature, which eliminates the need for the extremely cold temperatures many liquid vaccines require,” said Wijesundara.

According to Gassensmith, the blast from the injector just feels “like you got hit with a Nerf bullet,” and the team found it worked on both mice and onions.

By tinkering with the MOF-Jet, Wijesundara soon realized that cargo release could be tuned by simply changing the injector’s carrier gas.

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“If you shoot it with carbon dioxide, it will release its cargo faster within cells; if you use regular air, it will take four or five days,” she explains. “Once we realized that, it opened up a lot of possibilities,” added Gassensmith.

The researchers will present their results at the spring meeting of the American Chemical Society (ACS).

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“May my mind stroll about hungry and fearless and thirsty and supple.” – E. E. Cummings

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Quote of the Day: “May my mind stroll about hungry and fearless and thirsty and supple.” – E. E. Cummings

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Participating in Group Sports Can Offset High Stress and Contribute to Academic Competence During Challenges

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credit Steven Abraham

A new study found that having an active sporting hobby offset stress and contributed to academic competence even during the COVID-19 lockdowns.

The effect was calculated during the so-called two weeks to flatten the curve, and the researchers believe the observed effect was robust enough to be applicable in future periods of societal disruption.

Researchers at the University of Waterloo found that participation in activities such as fitness classes and drop-in sports before the pandemic was linked to lower levels of stress and higher levels of perceived competence to handle challenges and master school workload during the lockdown.

The study used factor and regression analyses based on self-reported responses from 116 students active in campus recreational sports at two-time points: January 2020, before the pandemic, and April 2020, after lockdowns.

“Our findings suggest that the impact of campus recreational activities on reducing stress went beyond the obvious physical health benefits and contributed to overall well-being even down the line,” said Steven Mock, a researcher in the department of Recreation and Leisure Studies.

“It’s possible that students who had learned how to deal with challenges and losses in the context of sport and recreational activity developed key skills such as adaptability that helped them manage with pandemic-related setbacks.”

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At the beginning of winter 2020, stress levels for students were generally low. Managing academic demands, building new relationships, and trying to achieve personal goals were the top three stressors at that time.

“Students had just come back from the holiday break, their academic workload was still low, and they were not anticipating any societal disruption such as COVID-19,” said co-author Narges Abdeahad, a former Ph.D. candidate in the department of Recreation and Leisure Studies.

By April 2020, after lockdowns had begun, the overall level of stress had increased to above the midpoint, and the top stressors had changed to online delivery of quizzes and exams, the influence of the pandemic on their lives, and managing academic demands.

“We also found that graduate students and, even more so, international students had very low participation in campus recreational sports pre-pandemic, which has wellness implications for these two groups of students,” said Abdeahad.

– Nicole Green, Unsplash

“Since campus recreational sports appear to help develop lifelong skills that offset stressful events, educational institutions should consider including campus recreational sports as a strategy to enhance student mental health and well-being.”

Theodore Roosevelt was a leading proponent of campus sports. Born a sickly child with asthma, his father told him he would have to build himself a body since God had given him a weak one.

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Roosevelt became an accomplished collegiate boxer and wrestler, activities he continued to partake in routinely even after entering the White House. He praised the development of sports in university, and “was delighted” to hear his children had taken it up.

“I always believe in going hard at everything, whether it is Latin or mathematics, boxing or football,” the president wrote in a letter to his son.

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Almost Every Cat in Viral Tik Tok Video is Adopted from the Kansas City Animal Shelter

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Credit: Wayside Waifs Animal Shelter / Tiktok
Credit: Wayside Waifs Animal Shelter / Tiktok

With the knowledge that dogs are easier to adopt out than cats, a Kansas City animal shelter took to social media with a simple, yet clever video to even the odds.

But Wayside Waifs Hospital and Shelter did more than even them, they managed to get all but two of their shelter cats adopted after the video went viral on TikTok, garnering a million views, and 2,500 shares.

In the video below, shelter workers are asked to recommend a cat with a specific personality type as a way of giving the felines, with only a name and a picture, a bit more character.

“It was actually something that one of our feline care technicians thought of. What kind of animal likes people? What kind of animal would wanna snuggle with the other kittens?” Casey Waugh with Wayside Waifs said.

The video went viral, as commenters from The Philippines, Brazil, the UK, and others all cheered on the shelter for their admirable efforts.

One commenter even offered to relocate to Kansas City if the shelter was hiring, which they are as it turns out.

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Scientists Find Methane is Actually Offsetting 30% of its Own Heating Effect on Planet

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Although methane is harmful in its effect on our climate, a new study of the greenhouse gas shows that its effects are not as intense as previously thought.

The biggest sources of methane gas emissions come from coal, oil, and gas development, although emissions from agriculture is probably the most heavily publicized.

As the planet absorbs heat from the sun, it would naturally radiate this long-wave energy back out into space. But greenhouse gasses trap the heat inside the atmosphere, causing ‘the greenhouse effect’.

Scientists at the University of California-Riverside have now found that methane also absorbs short-wave energy, which, through the creation of cooling clouds, actually cancels 30% of its own heat (the heat which the gas has created in the greenhouse effect).

Specifically, it creates more low-level clouds that offset the short-wave energy from the sun and fewer high-level clouds which increase the outward radiation of long-wave energy from the Earth.

“This has implications for understanding in more detail how methane and perhaps other greenhouses gases can impact the climate system,” said Robert Allen, UCR assistant professor of Earth sciences. “Shortwave absorption softens the overall warming and rain-increasing effects but does not eradicate them at all.”

They also found, as Allen says, that methane cancels 60% of increased levels of precipitation predicted under global warming models—yet more good news for cities and towns around flood zones.

For a number of reasons, this could be a revolutionary discovery. The EPA says that methane’s greenhouse effect is 34 times that of CO2.

Using the U.S. as an example, methane accounts for only around 10% of the nation’s emissions. The lifespan of a methane molecule in terms of its harmful affect on climate is around 9 years.

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This means that methane emitted 9 years ago is no longer causing a greenhouse effect. By contrast, the greenhouse effect of CO2 molecules is more than 1,000 years.

For years, climate scientists have known that methane was a critical greenhouse gas for humanity to target, but now we can create more accurate models that reflect how methane is 30% less harmful than we thought and it counteracts 60% of its own harmful rain effects.

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In a paper published in 2021, Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) member, and Oxford professor of geosystem science, Myles Allen, showed that over-accounting for methane’s effect, particularly from animal agriculture, risked “the reputation of environmental policy, and… undermining public confidence.”

It’s true, that recent climate models don’t account for these newly-discovered effects, but, with the new research from UC Riverside, climate forecasts will become that much more accurate in assessing CO2 vs methane emissions, so we can make good decisions about how to focus our resources in the future.

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Galactic Jellyfish With ‘Dangling Tentacles’ of Star-Forming Gas Spotted 800 Million Light-Years Away

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ESA (European Space Agency) via SWNS
ESA (European Space Agency) via SWNS

Like the ancients naming constellations after the animals they resembled, scientists at the European Space Agency say they have found a galactic ‘jellyfish.’

The presence of star-forming gas dripping from the disk of the galaxy JW100 in long streamers, over 800 million light-years away in the constellation Pegasus, was detected by the Hubble Space Telescope.

Comparing them to “streaks of fresh paint”, an ESA spokesperson says they point to a process called ram pressure stripping, which the view from Hubble shows as resembling “dangling jellyfish tentacles.”

Ram pressure stripping occurs when galaxies encounter the diffuse gas that pervades galaxy clusters.

“As galaxies plow through this tenuous gas, it acts like a headwind, stripping gas and dust from the galaxy and creating the trailing streamers that prominently adorn JW100,” ESA said in a statement.

ESA said the other bright elliptical patches in the Hubble image are other galaxies in the cluster that hosts JW100.

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“This observation took advantage of Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3 and its capabilities. The data is part of a sequence of observations designed to explore star formation in the tendrils of jellyfish galaxies.”

“These tendrils represent star formation under extreme conditions and could help astronomers better understand the process of star formation elsewhere in the universe.”

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Launched more than 20 years ago, the Hubble Space Telescope is still in good working order thanks to its placement in Earth’s orbit. Engineers are able to launch into space in order to make repairs on the telescope, meaning it has the ability to continue its service for decades to come.

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“Hope is a form of planning.” – Gloria Steinem

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Quote of the Day: “Hope is a form of planning.” – Gloria Steinem 

Photo by: Nathan Dumlao

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Teens Say They Have New Proof for 2,000-Year-Old Mathematical Theorem, a Method Scholars Thought Impossible

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Andy Corbley
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Social media post via WWLTV / youtube
Social media post via WWLTV / youtube

Two New Orleans high school students claim to have solved a 2,000-year-old puzzle in mathematics, which scientists are saying should be submitted to peer review.

Calcea Johnson and Ne’Kiya Jackson from St. Mary’s Academy presented their findings to a meeting of the American Mathematics Society in which they explain they were able to prove Pythagoras’ Theorem using trigonometry rather than circular logic.

For the mercifully uninitiated, trigonometry is the study of triangles. Pythagoras’ Theorem deals with triangles that are not perfectly symmetrical, and it goes like this.

The area of the square whose side is the hypotenuse (the side opposite the right angle) is equal to the sum of the areas of the squares on the other two sides. It is written as a2+b2=c2.

Pythagoras’ Theorem CC 3.0. Wapcaplet

One of the interesting things about this equation is that for 2,000 years, no mathematician has been able to demonstrate the truth of it without simply using the equation itself as proof; what is called circular logic, and not accepted as true evidence of proof.

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Johnson and Jackson reference Elisha Loomis’s The Pythagorean Proposition, a book investigating this concept, which “flatly states that ‘there are no trigonometric proofs because all the fundamental formulae of trigonometry are themselves based upon the truth of the Pythagorean theorem,’” the girls wrote.

It was this conundrum that they managed to untangle, presenting “a new proof of Pythagoras’s Theorem which is based on a fundamental result in trigonometry—the Law of Sines—and we show that the proof is independent of the Pythagorean trig identity,” they said in their abstract. The equation they cite for this is sin2x+cos2x=1.

While we let mathematicians work out whatever that means, Catherine Roberts, executive director for the American Mathematical Society, encouraged the young ladies to submit their work for peer review, and commit themselves further to the study of mathematics so they can further advance the mathematical literature.

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The two ladies were interviewed on WWL New Orleans, and said it was an “unparalleled feeling” to present their findings to the society.

“There’s nothing like it—being able to do something that people don’t think that young people can do,” Johnson said to the station. “You don’t see kids like us doing this—it’s usually, like, you have to be an adult to do this.”

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Striking 3D-Printed Hotel Will Turn Heads With its Design Ideas For Texas Location

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credit – Bjarke Ingels Group – released

In the far western desert of Texas, a striking 3D-printed hotel with Swedish style will take shape over the coming years to present both the beauty and savings of 3D printing to the country and the world.

The architecture is handled by Swedish design architect Bjarke Ingels, while the printers will be supplied by Austin-based 3D printing company ICON, that’ve really taken the technology to the next level with 3D-printed batteries and whole neighborhoods besides.

The two are teaming up to transform the El Cosmico hotel/campground in Marfa, Texas, into a 62-acre remote hotel with an infinity pool, art exhibition hall, outdoor bathhouse, and outdoor kitchen, all designed as an homage to both the desert surroundings and the cosmic show on display in the night sky above.

The local West Texas earth is being added to the 3D printing cement mixture to ensure the luxury cabins blend in with their surroundings.

“The promise of 3D printing is that the printer doesn’t care how complex the design is, if it uses organic curvature, dome-like shapes, or hyperbolic paraboloids,” Ingels, an early investor in Icon and a frequent design collaborator on its 3D-printed projects, told AD.

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“All it cares about is how long it takes to print and how much material [it is] going to deploy, so you can make a square box or a beautiful domed house at the same cost.”

That cost can be around 30% less than traditional methods, as well as 350% stronger depending on the size and scope of the project.

DESERT HOSPITALITY: Planned Resort Boasts Tents Suspended in the Air Surrounded by Gorgeous Mountains

The hotel rooms will all feature skylights to allow unobstructed viewing of the night sky, and expansive views of the Davis Mountains. Just next door is Big Bend National Park, one of the largest in the Lower 48, and a paradise of desert exploration.

El Cosmico “2.0.” is predicted to begin construction in 2024.

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