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Scientists have found dozens of marine species that usually stick close to the coasts floating in the middle of the open ocean. How did they get there? By colonizing the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.
The U.S. updated its list of electric vehicles that qualify for a $7,500 tax credit. New rules announced last month require a certain percentage of battery components to be sourced from North America or a U.S. trade partner to incentivize U.S.-based production. Half a dozen models now only qualify for $3,750 instead of $7,500, and some get no credit at all. Check to see which models get a tax credit and how much.
Maria Caprigno's childhood was brutal. Diet and exercise didn't control her weight, making her feel socially, emotionally and physically trapped. 🎧 The 27-year-old is now a first-grade teacher and a mom — experiences she says she wouldn't have been able to participate in if she didn't get bariatric surgery at 14.
Ihor Dudnik and his wife fled Saltivka, Ukraine, when Russia invaded. The 58-year-old builder has returned to his home — without his wife, who died of heart failure. He says sitting at home doing nothing hurts, so every day, he fixes a small part of the crushed high-rise building he shared with his late wife. 🎧 His neighbors call him a superhero who gives them "hope this neighborhood will come back to life." |
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Ted Radio Hour, from NPR and TED: Host Manoush Zomorodi investigates the biggest questions of our time with the help of the world's greatest thinkers. 🎧 In Part 1 of Ted Radio Hour's special series on the mind, body and spirit, we look at how different thinkers interpret the world, how meditation can teach us self-love, what sparks creativity and more. The Big Why, from Montana Public Radio: No questions are too big or too small for the reporters at the big sky state. 🎧 In this episode, see why Montana has so many nuclear missile sites. Hundreds of nuclear missile silos are hidden in plain sight throughout the state. |
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I went to high school with a champion. Also, folks who became teachers, plumbers, gamblers, cops, convicted criminals, and a great songwriter (Franne Golde, who wrote Nightshift). But Dave "The Dragon" Lockwood, who embarrassed the rest of us at Chicago’s great big public Senn High School by going on to MIT, has won 41 national and international tiddlywinks titles.
This week, at the age of 70, Dave became the oldest contestant to compete in the World Tiddlywinks Finals at Cambridge University.
Go Cubs, Sox, Bulls, Bears, and Dave the Dragon!
Yes, tiddlywinks, in which you use plastic discs called squidgers to flick discs called winks into a small pot, and block opponents by squopping their discs, i.e. by covering them with your own (the game’s lexicon seems straight from a British nursery).
Dave holds the world title for most consecutive shots potted: an astounding 722 times without missing. I can’t tie shoelaces 722-straight times.
Tiddlywinks has taken Dave around the world. He calls it "a fascinating combination of physical skill at the micro level, positional strategy, and intensity." And he says tiddlywinks has given him patience, fellowship, and the perspective to know, "Nobody wins all the time, but it is possible to lose now and then and still sometimes be the best in the world." Get 'em next year, Dave!
We had two delightful book interviews this week: Dennis Lehane, the Boston crime master, whose latest book is Small Mercies; and Ramona Ausubel on her novel The Last Animal, about a baby wooly mammoth come to life. |
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