Why is New Orleans a City of Parades? -
New Orleans’ ethnic diversity and lack of public welfare programs contributed to a culture of mutual aid organizations—and huge, festive parades
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A new cancer vaccine repurposes living tumor cells instead of using inactivated tumor cells. Researchers used gene engineering to release an agent that terminates cancer cells and primes the immune system for a long-term antitumor response to prevent cancer
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ChatGPT May Be the Fastest Growing App in History
ChatGPT has become the fastest growing consumer-facing application in history
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This Startup Is Producing the World’s First Carbon-Negative Concrete
How do we build strong, durable structures without continuing to harm the planet? What could reliably and affordably take the place of the concrete that blankets our cities? A startup has been developing one promising solution: carbon-negative concrete
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Waking Up: David Whyte on the Power of Poetry and Silence as Portal to Presence
David Whyte on poetry as a channel for contemplative silence
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India Sets New Wheat Production Record
If people are free to innovate and enjoy the benefits of their labor, they will lift themselves and everyone else out of poverty
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Robot assistants in the operating room promise safer surgery
Advanced robotics are providing tools that have the potential to enable more surgeons to carry out complex operations and do so with a higher rate of success
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Roundworms anti-aging could help researchers to stop human aging
Researchers' experiments on a worm demonstrated that harnessing light energy to rejuvenate mitochondrial membranes slowed aging
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Johnny Nash - I Can See Clearly Now
As I watch the sunrise, I am inspired by music
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"Every sunrise is an invitation for us to arise and brighten someone's day. " - Richelle E. Goodrich
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3D Bioprinting and Stem Cells Help Create Model of Eye Diseases
Scientists report they have used patient stem cells and 3D bioprinting to produce eye tissue that will advance understanding of the mechanisms of blinding diseases
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New research takes a page from the field of renewable energy and shows that genetically engineered mitochondria can convert light energy into chemical energy that cells can use
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How to Be Less Harsh with Yourself (and Others): Ram Dass on the Spiritual Lessons of Trees
We should seek to become human trees — people firmly rooted in a foundation of moral beauty, relentlessly reaching for the light, bent into their particular beloved shape by the demands and traumas of their particular lives
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New 3D-printing ink could make lab-grown meat much cheaper to produce
Researchers report the discovery of a way to use food waste to make cultured meat, which would reduce production costs considerably
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Pig-turned-humanlike livers will help more than 105,000 people waiting for a transplant
Researchers have transformed a pig liver into a human organ that could save hundreds of thousands of lives. The team washes away animal cells in the livers and replaces them with human cells, which they say tricks the body into thinking it is a human liver
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Tech workers are increasingly taking contract jobs
A growing number of workers are going freelance, taking higher wages over benefits and job security
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Dionne Warwick - What The World Needs Now (1966)
RIP Burt Bacharach, talented composer, songwriter, record producer, and pianist who wrote over 70 songs that made it into the top 40 hits in the US. Here is Dionne Warwick singing his “What the World Needs Now”
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