3 Documentaries You Should Watch About The Tulsa Race Massacre

Monday is the 100th anniversary of one of the worst acts of racial violence in American history. A spate of books and documentaries are marking the moment; we round up three to watch this weekend.

3 Documentaries You Should Watch About The Tulsa Race Massacre Monday is the 100th anniversary of one of the worst acts of racial violence in American history. A spate of books and documentaries are marking the moment; we round up three to watch this weekend. Read More You received this message because you're subscribed to Breaking News Alerts emails. This email was sent by National Public Radio, Inc., 1111 North Capitol Street NE, Washington, DC 20002 Unsubscribe  |  Privacy Policy

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2021 May 31

Mimas: Small Moon with a Big Crater
Image Credit & Copyright: NASA, JPL-Caltech, Space Science Institute, Cassini

Explanation: Whatever hit Mimas nearly destroyed it. What remains is one of the largest impact craters on one of Saturn's smallest round moons. Analysis indicates that a slightly larger impact would have destroyed Mimas entirely. The huge crater, named Herschel after the 1789 discoverer of Mimas, Sir William Herschel, spans about 130 kilometers and is featured here. Mimas' low mass produces a surface gravity just strong enough to create a spherical body but weak enough to allow such relatively large surface features. Mimas is made of mostly water ice with a smattering of rock - so it is accurately described as a big dirty snowball. The featured image was taken during the closest-ever flyby of the robot spacecraft Cassini past Mimas in 2010 while in orbit around Saturn.

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Waking Up With Wonder; Tulsa, 100 Years Later; The Tight-Knit Community Of Jews In Cuba

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View this email online by Jill Hudson Stories You May Have Missed MirageC/Getty Images As many people begin taking baby steps to come out of the pandemic, Morning Edition asked NPR's audience to write a poem using Maya Angelou's poem "Still I Rise" as inspiration. We received hundreds of responses, and NPR's resident poet Kwame Alexander created a community poem about the challenges of the last year and hope for times ahead. One year ago, George Floyd took his last breath under the knee of a white police officer. Floyd's murder sparked days of unrest in the Twin Cities and mass protests across the world over the treatment of racial minorities. Click here to read NPR's coverage of the solemn anniversary. What does the rise of Amazon have to do with the rise of Donald Trump? Find out here.  For decades, scientists have been prohibited from keeping human embryos alive in their labs for more than two weeks. But last week an influential scientific society recommended scrapping the "14-day rule."  Cuba doesn't have a single rabbi and the Jewish population numbers only about 1,200 on the island. Those left have formed a tight-knit community, with pressure on the young to sustain their religion. Yemenis who won the diversity visa lottery were stopped by the Trump administration's travel ban. Now they've had to start applying all over again.  Newsletter continues after sponsor message The Tulsa Race Massacre Department of Special Collections, McFarlin Library, The University of Tulsa via AP Monday is the 100th anniversary of one of the worst acts of racial violence in American history. On May 31, 1921, Black residents of Tulsa, Oklahoma's Greenwood neighborhood were attacked by a mob of angry white people. More than 300 people were killed, and thousands were left homeless. NPR's Eric Deggans recommends three documentaries about the notorious event to watch this weekend.   Christopher Creese for NPR Tulsa is still reckoning with what lessons to take from the deadly massacre 100 years later. Listen to the Code Switch podcast here or read the story.  When author Jewell Parker Rhodes tried to publish a novel retelling the story of the Tulsa Race Massacre, she found that not everyone was ready to reckon with the city's painful, traumatic history. NPR's Karen Grigsby Bates has the story. Listen to your local NPR station. Visit NPR.org to hear live radio from WUFT 89.1 (edit station). Enjoying this newsletter? Forward to a friend! They can sign up here. Looking for more great content? Check out all of our newsletter offerings — including Daily News, Politics, Health and more! You received this message because you're subscribed to Best of NPR emails. This email was sent by National Public Radio, Inc., 1111 North Capitol Street NE, Washington, DC 20002 Unsubscribe  |  Privacy Policy

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2021 May 30

Aurora over Clouds
Image Credit & Copyright: Daniele Boffelli

Explanation: Auroras usually occur high above the clouds. The auroral glow is created when fast-moving particles ejected from the Sun impact the Earth's magnetosphere, from which charged particles spiral along the Earth's magnetic field to strike atoms and molecules high in the Earth's atmosphere. An oxygen atom, for example, will glow in the green light commonly emitted by an aurora after being energized by such a collision. The lowest part of an aurora will typically occur about 100 kilometers up, while most clouds exist only below about 10 kilometers. The relative heights of clouds and auroras are shown clearly in the featured picture in 2015 from Dyrholaey, Iceland. There, a determined astrophotographer withstood high winds and initially overcast skies in an attempt to capture aurora over a picturesque lighthouse, only to take, by chance, the featured picture including elongated lenticular clouds, along the way.

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COVID vs Flu: Which Is Riskier For Kids?

Healing From PTSD

View this email online Shots Jordan Beal/EyeEm/Getty Images/EyeEm How Lifting Weights Helped Lift One Writer Through Her PTSD When Laura Khoudari, a personal trainer and former competitive weightlifter, experienced a traumatic incident, she went back to the gym and trained as hard as possible, often twice a day. "When I was living with trauma, I was using [training] as a coping skill but in a non-healthy way. I was training all the time like I was preparing for battle because I wanted to be invincible against an invisible threat," Khoudari says. The intense training led to injury, and she started researching how to use weight lifting to help heal trauma instead of avoid it, which she writes about in her book, Lifting Heavy Things: Healing Trauma One Rep at a Time. The key is how you approach weight training, she says -- uniting your mind and body in the reps, rather than trying to zone out. Read on for more on how mindful movement can help heal trauma. ​​​​​​​ BONUS:  COMIC: How To Intervene If You Witness An Attack Newsletter continues after sponsor message Michele Abercrombie for NPR How COVID Medical Jargon Makes Health Disparities Worse People with limited English skills have long had trouble understanding health information in the U.S. Add a global pandemic with rapidly-changing public health recommendations to the mix, and you have a recipe for confusion and misunderstanding. Often those at highest risk -- immigrant communities, older adults, and others who have cognitive challenges -- are the ones least likely to understand what they need to do to protect themselves. Enter Pooja Chandrashekar, who as a first year student at Harvard Medical School recruited more than 175 multilingual health profession students from around the country to start the COVID-19 Health Literacy Project. It aims to create clear, understandable information about the virus in more than 40 languages. Read on to find out what efforts are underway to clarify public health messages and cut out jargon. BONUS: Hang On. The Painless Vaccine Patch Is Coming d3sign/Getty Images Are Kids More Likely To Get Seriously Ill From COVID Or The Flu? If you’re a parent, you worry. And this year, there’s been a lot to worry about. But when it comes to COVID-19 and young children, it turns out their risk of getting seriously ill is extremely low. For children, the risk of serious consequences from COVID-19 is the same magnitude as the risk they face from serious illness from the flu, experts say, although parents seem more worried about COVID, especially since the latest federal guidelines allow more adults to go maskless.   While the risks are not zero, "If you stop going into stores because you're terrified you'll run into an unmasked person, that's probably overreacting," says Gretchen Chapman, a psychology professor who studies health conundrums like this at Carnegie Mellon University. Read on for more perspective on COVID risk and kids. BONUS: Is it safe to date again if you're vaccinated? Many are still hesitant. More of this week's health stories from NPR Sleepless Man Gets A $10,000 Bill For Apnea Test How Do You Prove You Got Your Shots So You Can Travel Again? Employers Can (Mostly) Mandate COVID Vaccines For Employees Returning To Work We hope you enjoyed these stories. Find more of NPR's health journalism on Shots and follow us on Twitter at @NPRHealth. All best, Your Shots editors Listen to your local NPR station. Visit NPR.org to hear live radio from WUFT 89.1 (edit station). What do you think of today's email? We'd love to hear your thoughts, questions and feedback: shots@npr.org Enjoying this newsletter? Forward to a friend! They can sign up here. Looking for more great content? Check out all of our newsletter offerings — including Goats & Soda, Daily News, Best of NPR and more! You received this message because you're subscribed to Health emails. This email was sent by National Public Radio, Inc., 1111 North Capitol Street NE, Washington, DC 20002 Unsubscribe  |  Privacy Policy

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