How Equine Therapy Helps Veterans Cope With PTSD
(via Great Big Story) Dennis is a Purple Heart recipient who struggled to get help dealing with PTSD. Then he
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Month: June 2020
NASA Photographer of the Year
(via Smithsonian) The best shots from the agency’s own photographers in 2019.
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The ‘Boccaccio Project’ Is Capturing the Music of Quarantine
(via Atlas Obscura) The series joins a growing list of real-time archival initiatives.
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The Inventor of Ibuprofen Tested the Drug on His Own Hangover
(via Smithsonian) Stewart Adams’ headache subsided—and his over-the-counter pain reliever became one of the world’s most popular medications
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What Makes These Potatoes Stretchy?
(via Great Big Story) Yang Youping proudly serves Yunnan cuisine at his restaurant in Beijing. Yunnan is a province in
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At 64 Years Old, the U-2 Spy Plane Can Still Learn Some New Tricks
(via Popular Mechanics) The U-2 still has some fight in it and is becoming part of a new Air Force
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A 16th Century Math Book With Pop-Up Models
(via Amusing Planet) Euclid’s Elements, first published in 300 BC, was one of the most important and influential textbooks ever
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The 12-Year-Old Scientist Taking On Flint’s Water Crisis
(via YouTube) When Gitanjali Rao first heard about the water crisis in Flint, Michigan, she wanted to help in any
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13 Little-Known Punctuation Marks We Should Be Using
(via Mental Floss) Because sometimes periods, commas, colons, semi-colons, dashes, hyphens, apostrophes, question marks, exclamation points, quotation marks, brackets, parentheses,
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7 Ways the World Transforms Leftover Bread Into Delicious Dishes and Drinks
(via Atlas Obscura) Highlights from a long history of turning crumbs into puddings, soups, and brews.
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17 Fascinating Facts About the Boston Tea Party
(via Mental Floss) On December 16, 1773, patriot and Sons of Liberty member Adam Collson is said to have yelled
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How Boxed Mac and Cheese Became a Pantry Stable
(via Smithsonian) Processed cheese solved the problem of the dairy product going bad, and it was incredibly convenient
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