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1 week ago | 
flipboard.com | Emily Kwong |Kimberly McCoy |Rachel Carlson |Rebecca Ramirez
Curious Kids: If you scoop a bucket of water out of the ocean, does it get lower? If you scoop a bucket of water out of the ocean, does it get lower? –Ellis, 6 and a half, Hobart This is a great question Ellis! The short answer is …
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2 months ago | 
wbur.org | Regina Barber |Will Stone |Rachel Carlson |Rebecca Ramirez
Bird flu or avian influenza is continuing to spread among livestock and other mammals in the United States, raising fears that another pandemic is in our future. Last month, California declared a state of emergency due to rising cases in dairy cattle, and there have been over 65 human cases in the U.S. during this outbreak.
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Sep 10, 2024 | 
myumi.ch | Emily Kwong |Jessica Yung |Rebecca Ramirez
EMILY KWONG: You're listening to Short Wave from NPR. All right, Short Wavers. Emily Kwong here. We are deep in NPR's annual Climate Solutions Week, and this year's theme is food. And in day two of our journey through food, Scott Neuman is here to talk with me about how we shop. There has been a true boom in the ways we order food online for delivery to our homes, right, Scott? SCOTT NEUMAN: Yeah, there are so many options for online grocery delivery. There's DoorDash and Uber Eats.
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Sep 3, 2024 | 
flipboard.com | Regina Barber |Hannah Chinn |Rebecca Ramirez
Opinion | Shiny New Technology, Same Old Funny BusinessIllegal price fixing used to require a lot of work. In the mid-1990s, to fix the price of the animal feed additive lysine, executives of some of the world’s biggest agribusinesses had to spend hours on airplanes flying to resorts where they spent days in conference rooms determining how much lysine …
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Aug 19, 2024 | 
newsbreak.com | Emily Kwong |Rebecca Ramirez |Regina Barber |Rachel Carlson
Braille literacy is directly linked to higher rates of academic success and better employment outcomes for blind and low vision adults. (Hill Street Studios/Getty Images) He was a good kid. But he often bent the rules for this early love. "One of the cool things about braille is that you could sneak a book under your covers and not need a flashlight — and you wouldn't get caught," Englebretson recalls.
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Aug 8, 2024 | 
organicconsumers.org | Organic Bytes |Regina Barber |Rebecca Ramirez |Berly McCo
Organic BytesNewsletter #861: Avocado Lawsuit: Fighting Deforestation in Mexico August 5, 2024 – Washington, D.C. – Organic Consumers Association and Richman Law & Policy filed separate complaints against West Pak Avocado and Fresh Del Monte Produce on August 2, 2024, in the District of Columbia Superior Court.
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Jun 19, 2024 | 
flipboard.com | Regina Barber |Rachel Carlson |Rebecca Ramirez
0:5214 hours agoShifts: Transforming Anxiety into Spiritual Growth..😌The Anxiety Guy on YouTube • 14h🏆 Welcome to the official YouTube channel of The Anxiety Guy Top anxiety expert and mental health author, Dennis Simsek (The Anxiety Guy), is one of the most recognized names in the anxiety recovery and life coaching industries and was recently awarded the best anxiety podcaster by Better Help, Women's Health Mag, Psychology Today and Marissa Peer.
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Jun 11, 2024 | 
kpbs.org | Regina Barber |Emily Kwong |Kimberly McCoy |Rebecca Ramirez
What does it take to launch into space? Other than money, hard work and many moving parts, the answer is science! This summer, NPR science podcast Short Wave is launching Space Camp, a series about all the weird and wonderful things in our universe. We start with how to get to outer space in the first place. It mostly goes without saying, but for a person to get to outer space, they need to be in some sort of spacecraft attached to a rocket.
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May 20, 2024 | 
houstonpublicmedia.org | Regina Barber |Lauren Sommer |Rachel Carlson |Rebecca Ramirez
Scientists are testing the limits of artificial intelligence when it comes to language learning. One recent challenge? Learning whale. Researchers are using machine learning to analyze and decode whale sounds — and it's just as complicated as it seems. Sperm whales are interesting to researchers because they have big brains, close family groups and coordinate in lots of ways. They dive and hunt together, and sperm whale biologist Shane Gero says they even babysit for each other.
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May 15, 2024 | 
flipboard.com | Kimberly McCoy |Emily Kwong |Rachel Carlson |Rebecca Ramirez
Artificial Intelligence2 hours agoAI Generated Hentai Is Viral All Over Facebook404 Media - Jason Koebler • 2hWhile reporting this story, a 404 Media article *about* AI-generated porn was deleted by Facebook. Facebook’s recommendation algorithm is promoting …Sam Altman4 hours agoScientist Who Said Neural Networks May Already Be Conscious Leaves OpenAI After Leading Coup Against Sam Altmanfuturism.com - Noor Al-Sibai • 4hThus ends a protracted saga in OpenAI history.
