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Massage Therapy for Frequent Travelers – Tips for Reducing Jet Lag

Jet lag is a common issue for anyone crossing multiple time zones. While various remedies exist, massage therapy stands out as an effective, natural method to help the body adjust and recover. This guide explores how this therapy can be utilized to alleviate the symptoms of jet lag, offering practical tips and techniques that can ... Read more

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Extreme ivory poaching led to tuskless elephants in Mozambique

As the country’s civil war decimated elephant populations, the proportion of tuskless females rose dramatically. A new study explains why the tuskless trend continued in peacetime.




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NOVA Universe Revealed Outreach Toolkit

The NOVA Universe Revealed Community Outreach Toolkit contains strategies for organizing events around the content of the five-part series as well as examples of hands-on activities and a wide range of multimedia educational resources aligned to the content of each episode.




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Cannabis doesn’t enhance performance. So why is it banned in elite sports?

Here’s how cannabis use became prohibited—and the science of its biological, psychological, and social effects.




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NASA launches mission to redirect an asteroid—by striking it with a spacecraft

As the first-ever “full-scale planetary defense test” to deflect a space rock, the DART mission aims to show that protecting Earth from a hazardous asteroid is possible.




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You didn't get sucked into a black hole. Now what?

Not everything that crosses a supermassive black hole’s accretion disc gets spaghettified, astrophysicists say.




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NOVA's top science education stories of 2021

High school scientists dazzled us with their innovations—while new studies revealed insights about math mastery and how we can prepare young people for real-world challenges.




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How magpies outwitted researchers in Australia

During a recent study, a group of magpies removed their GPS trackers, astounding their observers. But were the birds actually trying to help each other?




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Astronomers successfully predict an asteroid impact above Iceland

Two hours before asteroid 2022 EB5 entered Earth’s atmosphere, scientists knew exactly when and where the space rock would strike.




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How African Indigenous knowledge helped shape modern medicine

In the 1700s, an enslaved man named Onesimus shared a novel way to stave off smallpox during the Boston epidemic. Here’s his little-told story, and how the Atlantic slave trade and Indigenous medicine influenced early modern science.




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The ice cream that changed physics

Sixty years ago a teenager’s homemade ice cream raised a surprisingly complicated question: Can hot liquids freeze faster than cold ones?




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How a select few people have been cured of HIV

Scientists have cured a handful of people of HIV by piggybacking on treatments they received for blood cancer. But does that bring a widespread cure any closer?




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How do psychedelics work? This brain region may explain their effects

The claustrum seems to act as a switchboard, telling different parts of the brain when to turn on and off. But what happens when the switchboard operator steps away?




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PHOTOS: Huge, ancient animals carved into Peru’s hills

These are just a few of the geoglyphs in southern Peru, known as the Nazca lines, thought to be at least 2,000 years old.




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Teaching resources: How ancient cultures shaped mathematics

From the ancient origins of zero to the paradox of motion, NOVA’s teaching resources immerse students in the wonder of math.




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Ice Age cave paintings decoded by amateur researcher

Patterns of lines and dots associated with specific animal species in cave art may point to an early writing system.




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Education digital signage

We have updated our sample digital signage presentation ideas for schools and colleges, both in landscape and portrait format.




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Digital signage - getting started with Repeat Signage

To help you get started with Repeat Signage software, we have created a walk-through of screenshots to show you how to create a simple dynamic digital signage presentation.




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Repeat Signage Standard v Standalone editions

Two minute video looks at the differences between Repeat Signage Standard edition and the Standalone edition. The former has full features and is ideal for displaying engaging content on any display screen anywhere in the world, whilst the latter is ideal for any application where the Internet is not possible, for example, military, army manoevers, evacuation, outdoor events, etc.




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'Pedro Páramo' captures the disorientation of Juan Rulfo's timeless novel

Netflix's film is based on a 1955 novel about a man who goes in search of the father he’d never met — only to discover that his father is dead, and the village he inhabited is haunted by ghosts.




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Need a break from politics? Marvel at the 'Vanishing Treasures' of the natural world

With 23 short essays on creatures ranging from the wombat to the spider, Katherine Rundell's new book is essential reading for anyone whose wonder could use a jumpstart.




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How the 1874 Freedman's Bank collapse connects to economic disparities we see today

In Savings and Trust, historian Justene Hill Edwards tells the story of the Freedman's Bank. Created for formerly enslaved people following the Civil War, its collapse cost depositors millions.




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As a 'Seasoned Professional,' Jenny Slate now finds strength in her sensitivity

The comic can pick up on the "micro bad mood" of whoever she's talking to. She writes about pregnancy, childbirth and motherhood in a new book of essays, Lifeform. Originally broadcast March 12, 2024.




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Ann Patchett on how God and her Catholic faith have changed

Ann Patchett answers a question from the Wild Card deck and discusses how her feelings about God and her Catholic faith have changed over the years.




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While votes are counted, we look at how counting is used in movies

The process of counting ballots has stressed out a lot of people this week. NPR's movie critic says he's been distracting himself from the election with cinematic counting.




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With "Wicked," director Jon M. Chu writes his own story

Wicked – the 20-year-old – smash hit on Broadway turns the story of the "Wizard of Oz" on its head.

Now, the story of Elfaba the Wicked Witch of the West, Glinda the Good Witch, and the Wizard himself is making the shift from stage to screen.

The director bringing the Broadway hit to screens across the country is Jon M. Chu, the director of the blockbuster Crazy Rich Asians.

The movie version of Wicked is in many ways the culmination of Chu's own story as a person of color. Chu always wanted to be a filmmaker. Chu says his life experience and career lead him to tell the story of a person of color in a new way.

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‘Red Flower’ copes with the carnage in Sderot


Also available is the docudrama One Day in October on Yes TV, by Daniel Finkelman and Oded Davidoff, which offers dramatized versions of four stories from October 7.




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'You're not marrying a Jew': Martha Stewart says her father slapped her after engagement


In the documentary, Martha Stewart opens up about her childhood and the complicated relationship she had with her father.




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Joanie Margulies: Reporting the unbiased facts of Israel’s breaking news


Behind the Bylines: Breaking news coverage is the backbone of news, and in Israel, it comes with the added intensity of wartime coverage within the war. Joanie Margulies has been doing just that.




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Classic British films by Pressburger and Powell being showed at Jerusalem Cinematheque


Their movies feature lush cinematography (whether in color or black-and-white), passionate romances that are all the more affecting because the characters are so very British.




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India Abraham: Healing physical and psychological scars through medical tattooing


Jerusalemite of the week: India Abraham is a practitioner of medical tattooing who had already helped scores of people before Oct. 7, but her work has taken on even greater significance since then.




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British teen hospitalised after being ‘wiped out’ by a paraglider while eating at a restaurant in Turkey

The 15-year-old’s mother thought her daughter was dead after the paraglider collided with her




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Ryanair passenger dies on ‘chaos’ flight before emergency landing at Stansted

The man was pronounced dead at the scene after CPR efforts from cabin crew




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12 of the best Christmas markets in the UK, from Bath to Edinburgh

The most Christmassy tree-topping festivities for trinkets, bratwursts and all things mulled this winter




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Half-term holidays give London Stansted busiest passenger day in airport history

Over 100,000 passengers passed through the airport on 27 October




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Where is The White Lotus season three set? Thailand filming locations revealed

Cameras started rolling for The White Lotus cast on the Thai islands in February




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Top cruise brands named at the Wave Awards – here are the winners

The industry awards recognised the best cruise brands across several categories such as food, entertainment and family




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Bali flights cancelled after volcanic eruption near holiday spot creates dangerous ash cloud

Over a dozen flights cancelled or delayed between Bali and Australia




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Fim da escala 6x1: o que diz a proposta que reduz jornada de trabalho para 36 horas semanais

Discussão nas redes sociais está gerando pressões para mudança nas leis trabalhista; mas empresários são contra.




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3 caminhos para anistiar Bolsonaro — e como STF pode ser 'pedra no sapato' nos seus planos de voltar ao poder

O ex-presidente Jair Bolsonaro e seus aliados políticos tentam reverter a inelegibilidade até 2030 imposta pela Justiça eleitoral com recursos e tentativas de mudar a legislação.






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Liberal Media: “Minority Racists” Elected Trump

The following article, Liberal Media: “Minority Racists” Elected Trump, was first published on The Black Sphere.

A Message Sent No One Heard Donald Trump is the President-elect for the second time!  His will be the second split-presidency incumbent nominee since Grover Cleveland. But last Tuesday night was not just 312-to-226 Electoral College blowout, but with Trump receiving 74,708,855 (and growing) vs Vice President Kamala Harris’ 70,980,347.  The former 45th President also …

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So…What Have We Learned?

What a crazy, wild ride it has been.  As much as I dislike politics and, particularly the rhetoric, lies and deceit of the “swamp,” as publisher of Wisconsin Christian News, a radio commentator and TV host, I must follow the news every day and then decipher it all for you, and this past election cycle consumed much …




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FEMA Worker Being Scapegoated for Denying Hurricane Aid to Trump Supporters Says It was Agency Policy in Florida and The Carolinas

The FEMA official who was just fired for telling workers to avoid homes impacted by the hurricanes in Florida if they had Trump signs says that it was not “isolated” and that FEMA workers were instructed to do it in the Carolinas too. (X) The American people must get justice. Indict and convict. So, apparently this …




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BREAKING! Supreme Court Decision Used For Immediate Nationwide Block of Border Crisis Rule! (Video)

In this video, Armed Scholar expounds on the recent decision by the US Supreme Court concerning our border and the flooding of illegal immigrants, including the Biden administration, through the Department of Homeland Security, concerning programs set up that promised citizenship to illegal aliens. The decision was handed down following the 2024 elections, striking down …




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James Roguski: Pandemic Agreement Aftermath – What You Need To Know (Video)

The Intergovernmental Negotiating Body met on Monday, November 11, 2024 to consider calling for a special session of the World Health Assembly in the hopes of adopting the proposed “Pandemic Agreement” BEFORE the end of 2024. James Roguski joins me to clarify what is actually going on and why our voices must be a loud …