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"As soon as I turned to the side where my body weight was, this two-seater vehicle ... just tilted toward the side and toppled," Khan recalled. It landed on his left arm, tearing it open.
Khan fashioned a tourniquet from his jacket to stanch the bleeding, and a friend called 911. The injury was so bad that Khan had to be taken by helicopter to a trauma center more than a hundred miles away.
Despite eight operations to try to save his left forearm, Khan eventually had it amputated to get on with his life.
The air ambulance company charged $56,603 for the emergency trip; Khan’s insurer paid $11,972. Now he’s on the hook for $44,631, NPR’s Alison Kodjak reports in the latest Bill of the Month story done in conjunction with our partners at Kaiser Health News.
Khan was mortified by the cost of the medevac ride and the amount he’s supposed to pay. “It's whatever price they want to set,” he said. “And to put that onto a person who's already been through what I've been through, I hate to say it, but it's cruel."
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Almost every chair has one of two problems: It’s either too deep or too soft.
"When a chair is too deep, the backrest is too far away from the edge and you can't put your legs [feet] on the ground without slouching," says Jean Couch of Palo Alto, Calif. When a chairs is too soft, it's almost impossible not to slouch.
But NPR’s Michaeleen Doucleff reports on three ideas for making the best of even a bad seat: Sit on the edge, create a perch and build out the backrest.
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A sea lion smacks a kayaker with an octopus, and the video capturing the unlikely encounter quickly becomes a viral sensation.
The conflict between man and beasts happened off the coast of New Zealand's South Island, where Taiyo Masuda, Kyle Mulinder and friends were going for a paddle.
NPR Science Desk intern Rachel D. Cohen stretched Shots’ mandate to ask some scientists experienced with sea lions and animal cognition what the suddenly famous sea lion might have been thinking.
“The behavior in that video is pretty normal behavior for a sea lion that is feeding on prey that is too big to swallow whole," says Colleen Reichmuth, a researcher at the University of California, Santa Cruz's Institute of Marine Sciences.
"Frequently people observe sea lions doing new things that we did not know they could do," says Peter Cook, who studies animal cognition at the New College of Florida. "There are always a lot of questions, and we make our best guess. But, yeah, they can surprise you."
We hope you enjoy these stories. Find more of NPR's health journalism on Shots and follow us for daily up-to-the-minute updates at @NPRHealth.
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The son of a KKK grand wizard renounces white nationalism Derek Black was the heir apparent to his father’s work, which included creating the website Stormfront and re-branding white supremacy. Black grew up giving speeches and hosting a radio show to spread those beliefs. Then he went to college and began to question that point of view.
“I said things that tried to energize racist ideas and get people to be more explicit about it. And then people who listened to that and who believed it, some of them committed horrible, violent acts. And what is my culpability and responsibility for how these things went out into the world and they continue to bounce around in the world, and I can't take them back?”
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What's next for the Kavanaugh nomination If you somehow missed it, Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and Christine Blasey Ford, who has accused him of sexually assaulting her while they were in high school, testified Thursday before the Senate Judiciary Committee. NPR’s Ron Elving called Kavanaugh’s defiant testimony “the latest in a list of Capitol Hill norms to be lost in the era of President Trump.”
The next day, the panel voted along party lines to recommend the judge’s nomination to the full Senate, but Republican leaders agreed to a delay to give the FBI one week to investigate the allegations (two other women came forward ahead of the hearing but did not testify before the committee). The White House has agreed to a limited “supplemental investigation.”
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Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2018 September 29
 55 Nights with Saturn
Image Credit & Copyright: Tunc Tezel (TWAN) Explanation: For 55 consecutive nights Mediterranean skies were at least partly clear this summer, from the 1st of July to the 24th of August 2018. An exposure from each night was incorporated in this composited telephoto and telescopic image to follow bright planet Saturn as it wandered through the generous evening skies. Through August, the outer planet's seasonal apparent retrograde motion slowed and drifted to the right, framed by a starry background. That brought it near the line-of-sight to the central Milky Way, and the beautiful Lagoon (M8) and Trifid (20) nebulae. Of course Saturn's largest moon Titan was also along for the ride. Swinging around the gas giant in a 16 day long orbit, Titan's resulting wave-like motion is easier to spot when the almost-too-bright Saturn is digitally edited from the scene. Tomorrow's picture: strangely placed star
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| | | | | Senate Republicans agreed to delay a vote on Judge Brett Kavanaugh's nomination to the Supreme Court in order to conduct an FBI investigation next week into allegations of sexual assault brought against him — all of which the federal appeals court judge denies. President Trump ordered a limited supplemental investigation. |
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Image Credit & Copyright: Tasos Liampos Explanation: This colorful skyscape spans about two full moons across nebula rich starfields along the plane of our Milky Way Galaxy in the royal northern constellation Cepheus. Near the edge of the region's massive molecular cloud some 2,400 light-years away, bright reddish emission region Sharpless (Sh) 155 is below and right of center, also known as the Cave Nebula. About 10 light-years across the cosmic cave's bright walls of gas are ionized by ultraviolet light from the hot young stars around it. Dusty blue reflection nebulae, like vdB 155 at upper left, and dense obscuring clouds of dust also abound on the interstellar canvas. Astronomical explorations have revealed other dramatic signs of star formation, including the bright red fleck of Herbig-Haro (HH) 168. Near top center in the frame, the Herbig-Haro object emission is generated by energetic jets from a newborn star. Tomorrow's picture: 55 nights with Saturn
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