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NPR’s Allison Aubrey asked if it’s possible to really make up for sleep lost during the week by sleeping more on the weekend. The answer, she learned, partly depends on how much sleep you've missed.
Read on to find out about the latest thinking on how to restore yourself after missing some shut-eye. A quick nap at the right time can work wonders.
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How do mosquitoes make you their movable feast while you’re out picnicking?
Researchers have found that a certain olfactory receptor in mosquitoes’ antennae also serves as a detector of humans, responding to smelly chemicals in our sweat, NPR's Nell Greenfieldboyce reports.
Mosquitoes are adept at following the trail of carbon dioxide we exhale and then sensing our unique human odor.
The research might help explain how mosquitoes distinguish between humans and other animals and could provide clues for new ways to keep skeeters at bay. You can learn more here.
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Last October, Esteban Serrano, 41, wrenched his knee badly during his weekly soccer game with friends.
A doctor diagnosed a strain of the medial collateral ligament and prescribed over-the-counter pain medication as well as a hinged knee brace, which Serrano used for several weeks until he'd healed.
He thought insurance would cover the brace, but he found out otherwise when he got billed $829.41 for it.
The advice from our latest Bill of the Month story in collaboration with Kaiser Health News is that you could save money by looking online for the brace or sling you need instead of going with the option presented in the office. You can read more about that here.
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| | | | Who needs fraud? There are lots of legal ways that wealthy families get a leg up in the college admissions process. The college admissions scandal, in which wealthy parents paid bribes to get their unqualified kids into top colleges through "side doors," appalled many. But with high-dollar donations, legacy admissions and more subtle advantages of privilege, the process has never been purely merit-based.
Air pollution: Is it really that bad for you? That's the question apparently being asked by Trump administration appointees to an Environmental Protection Agency science panel challenging the link between soot and premature death. The group's decision could weaken regulations.
Bruce Springsteen's "Born In The U.S.A." might be America's least-understood anthem. Listen just to the chorus, and it's fist-pumping patriotism. Listen just to the verses, and it's a damning indictment of how the country treats its veterans. "Really, it's a defiant song about 'I was born in the USA, and I deserve better than what I'm getting,' " says former New Jersey governor and noted Boss superfan Chris Christie.
Proponents of "abortion pill reversal" say it can stop a medication-based abortion in the first trimester. But that's "based on no science — absolutely zero science," obstetrician Dr. Mitchell Creinin says. Still, abortion rights opponents have had it written into state laws, so Creinin is ramping up to do a full scientific study of the procedure.
Good: There's a lot of high-quality streaming entertainment available right now, with great scripts and A-list actors. Bad: It's spread out across oodles of different subscription services. Worse: Some stuff, like older movies, floats in and out of platforms all the time. What's a consumer to do?
Strong relationships can prime a student to learn, help mitigate the effects of trauma and provide other benefits, so more schools are looking to create quality teacher-student bonds, San Francisco's KQED reports. "A child can become a productive and engaged learner from any starting point, as long as we intentionally build those skills," one adviser says. |
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Everybody sleeps, but not everybody sleeps well. If you find yourself constantly sleep-deprived or just dealing with the occasional night of tossing and turning, these tips are for you. Setting yourself up to get a good rest can start as soon as you wake up in the morning. Experts provide tips for adjustments to your daytime routine, methods for easing yourself into slumber and tactics to defeat insomnia.
Actress Natasha Lyonne's most recent parts include an addict struggling to stay clean in a women's prison in Orange Is The New Black and a woman who finds herself dying over and over again in Russian Doll. Lyonne sits down with Fresh Air's Terry Gross to talk about the substance abuse problems and the resulting near-death experience that informed her performances. "For a long time, I think I thought being a tough guy meant being tough at oneself. Like, how much can I take? And now I think I see it quite differently," she says.
Scientists have been experimenting with using electricity to treat mental health conditions for nearly a century. A relatively new method called deep brain stimulation raises ethical questions the medical community is only just beginning to explore. For instance: If you can twist a dial to change your mood, should you? How much? How often? |
| Trapped in solitary confinement for a made-up crime, Somalian Mohamed Barud could feel his thoughts fraying. "I was frightened of going to a certain area in my mind where I would commit suicide without knowing, without wanting to," he said. Then he and the man in the next cell found a way to communicate, and his neighbor managed to get a hold of the Tolstoy novel Anna Karenina. Despite vastly different lives, the Russian woman's story helped him survive eight years in prison. |
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Prosecuted six times for the same crime, Curtis Flowers' conviction got thrown out three times because of a Mississippi county prosecutor's rejection of black jurors. Supreme Court justices across the political spectrum were skeptical to say the least of the most recent conviction.
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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. 2019 March 30
 3D 67P
Image Credit: ESA, Rosetta, MPS, OSIRIS - Stereo Anaglyph: Philippe Lamy and The Team Explanation: Put on your red/cyan glasses and float next to the jagged and double-lobed nucleus of Churyumov-Gerasimenko, also known as Comet 67P. The stereo anaglyph was created by combining two images from the Rosetta spacecraft's narrow angle OSIRIS camera taken on July 25, 2015 from a distance of 184 kilometers. Numerous jets are emanating from the small solar system world's active surface near its closest approach to the Sun. The larger lobe is around 4 kilometers in diameter, joined to a smaller, 2.5 kilometer diameter lobe by a narrow neck. Rosetta's mission to the comet ended in September 2016 when the spacecraft was commanded to a controlled impact with the comet's surface. Keep those 3D glasses on though. You can check out a new catalog of nearly 1400 stereo anaglyphs created from Rosetta image data on this website.
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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. 2019 March 29
 M104: The Sombrero Galaxy
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Processing & Copyright: Rogelio Bernal Andreo (DeepSkyColors.com) Explanation: The striking spiral galaxy M104 is famous for its nearly edge-on profile featuring a broad ring of obscuring dust lanes. Seen in silhouette against an extensive central bulge of stars, the swath of cosmic dust lends a broad brimmed hat-like appearance to the galaxy suggesting a more popular moniker, The Sombrero Galaxy. Hubble Space Telescope data have been used to create this sharp view of the well-known galaxy. The processing results in a natural color appearance and preserves details often lost in overwhelming glare of M104's bright central bulge when viewed with smaller ground-based telescopes. Also known as NGC 4594, the Sombrero galaxy can be seen across the spectrum and is host to a central supermassive black hole. About 50,000 light-years across and 28 million light-years away, M104 is one of the largest galaxies at the southern edge of the Virgo Galaxy Cluster. Tomorrow's picture: light-weekend
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 The Gaia Stars of M15
Image Credit: Robert Vanderbei (Princeton University), ESA, Gaia, DPAC Explanation: Messier 15 is a 13 billion year old relic of the early formative years of our galaxy, one of about 170 globular star clusters that still roam the halo of the Milky Way. About 200 light-years in diameter, it lies about 35,000 light years away toward the constellation Pegasus. But this realistic looking view of the ancient globular star cluster is not a photograph. Instead it's an animated gif image constructed from remarkably precise individual measurements of star positions, brightness, and color. The astronomically rich data set used was made by the sky-scanning Gaia satellite which also determined parallax distances for 1.3 billion Milky Way stars. In the animated gif, twinkling stars are M15's identified RR Lyrae stars. Plentiful in M15, RR Lyrae stars are evolved pulsating variable stars whose brightness and pulsation period, typically less than a day, are related. Tomorrow's picture: hat the size of a galaxy
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