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‘Out of this World’ UFO Vehicle Pulled Over by Police in 3 States – But They’ve ‘Come in Peace’

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The UFO vehicle pulled over by the Crawford County Sheriff's Department in Cuba, Missouri - Facebook
The UFO vehicle pulled over by the Crawford County Sheriff’s Department in Cuba, Missouri – Facebook

Police officers in three states now have proof of intelligent life, after pulling over a UFO-like vehicle traveling across the country.

Officer Darin Layman first spotted the unusual vehicle along the Interstate 44 in Missouri last week. He stoped the driver ostensibly for committing a lane violation and displaying an expired license plate from Indiana, but also out of curiosity, too.

The Crawford County Sheriff’s Office posted images from the traffic stop, showing the UFO-style vehicle constructed out of metal panels with a clear, spherical roof.

In a humorous Facebook post, the sheriffs remarked that the “friendly humanoids have come in peace”.

They said the driver was also “warned about our strict enforcement of warp speed on the interstate” and to “keep his phasers on stun-only while traveling”.

Mr. Anderson was driving from Indiana to Roswell, New Mexico, for a UFO festival that kicked off July 5.

“Given the good nature of the driver and the interesting nature of the vehicle, we wished him safe travels to his destination,” said Officer Layman. “It was a great interaction.”

It happened twice in Oklahoma, where the vehicle needed brake repair. Officials let Anderson go with a laugh and a warning.

The third close encounter with giddy police happened in New Mexico, where Anderson and his companion Marilyn Dicks took photos and talked about the festival.

Steve Anderson with his UFO car and NM police –by Marilyn Dicks / Facebook

Since 1996, UFO enthusiasts have been gathering in Roswell, New Mexico to celebrate a 1947 incident, when an Army Air Force balloon crashed outside the city and led to speculation it was an alien spaceship.

The annual festival includes an alien chase, pet costume contest, and the AlienFest Light Parade.

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Astronomers Unveil Jaw-dropping New 3-D Movie of the Pillars of Creation (WATCH)

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Views of the towering celestial structure Pillars of Creation from NASA's Hubble and James Webb space telescopes
Views of the towering celestial structure Pillars of Creation from NASA’s Hubble and James Webb space telescopes

A team at NASA unveiled a jaw-dropping new visualization of the Pillars of Creation space formation.

Made famous after it was spotted in 1995 by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, the pillars, with their ethereal beauty form the heart of the Eagle Nebula.

The new 3D visualization also uses data from NASA’s more modern James Webb telescope to produce a detailed multi-wavelength movie of these towering star-birthing celestial structures—and it takes visitors into their three-dimensional structures, beyond the otherwise flat, two-dimensional images captured from telescopes.

“By flying past and amongst the pillars, viewers experience their three-dimensional structure and see how they look different in the Hubble visible-light view versus the Webb infrared-light view,” explained principal visualization scientist Frank Summers of the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, who led the movie development team for NASA’s Universe of Learning.

“The contrast helps them understand why we have more than one space telescope to observe different aspects of the same object.”

NASA said the new movie (scroll down to view) helps viewers experience how two of the world’s most powerful space telescopes work together to provide a more complex portrait of the pillars.

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3D visualization of the towering celestial structure Pillars of Creation in the Eagle Nebula – NASA

Hubble sees objects that glow in visible light, at thousands of degrees. Webb’s infrared vision, which is sensitive to cooler objects with temperatures of just hundreds of degrees, pierces through obscuring dust to see stars embedded in the pillars.

“When we combine observations from NASA’s space telescopes across different wavelengths of light, we broaden our understanding of the universe,” said Mark Clampin, Astrophysics Division director at NASA Headquarters in Washington.

“The Pillars of Creation region continues to offer us new insights that hone our understanding of how stars form. Now, with this new visualization, everyone can experience this rich, captivating landscape in a new way.”

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Stretching 9.5 light-years, the Eagle Nebula lies in the Sagittarius Arm of the Milky Way in the constellation Serpens, with the tower spanning more than twice the distance from our sun to its nearest star.

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Your Weekly Horoscope – ‘Free Will Astrology’ From Rob Brezsny

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Our partner Rob Brezsny, who has a new book out, Astrology Is Real: Revelations from My Life as an Oracle, provides his weekly wisdom to enlighten our thinking and motivate our mood. Rob’s Free Will Astrology, is a syndicated weekly column appearing in over a hundred publications. He is also the author of Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How All of Creation Is Conspiring To Shower You with Blessings. (A free preview of the book is available here.)

Here is your weekly horoscope…

FREE WILL ASTROLOGY – Week of July 6, 2024
Copyright by Rob Brezsny, FreeWillAstrology.com

 

CANCER (June 21-July 22):
The Fates have authorized me to authorize you to be bold and spunky. You have permission to initiate gutsy experiments and to dare challenging feats. Luck and grace will be on your side as you consider adventures you’ve long wished you had the nerve to entertain. Don’t do anything risky or foolish, of course. Avoid acting like you’re entitled to grab rewards you have not yet earned. But don’t be self-consciously cautious or timid, either. Proceed as if help and resources will arrive through the magic of your audacity. Assume you will be able to summon more confidence than usual.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22):
All of us, including me, have aspects of our lives that are stale or unkempt, even decaying. What would you say is the most worn-out thing about you? Are there parts of your psyche or environment that would benefit from a surge of clean-up and revival? The coming weeks will be an excellent time to attend to these matters. You are likely to attract extra help and inspiration as you make your world brighter and livelier. The first rule of the purgation and rejuvenation process: Have fun!

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22):
On those rare occasions when I buy furniture from online stores, I try hard to find sources that will send me the stuff already assembled. I hate spending the time to put together jumbles of wood and metal. More importantly, I am inept at doing so. In alignment with astrological omens, I recommend you take my approach in regard to every situation in your life during the coming weeks. Your operative metaphor should be this: Whatever you want or need, get it already fully assembled.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22):
When Adragon De Mello was born under the sign of Libra in 1976, his father had big plans for him. Dad wanted him to get a PhD in physics by age 12, garner a Nobel Prize by 16, get elected President of the United States by 26, and then become head of a world government by 30. I’d love for you to fantasize about big, unruly dreams like that in the coming weeks—although with less egotism and more amusement and adventurousness. Give yourself a license to play with amazing scenarios that inspire you to enlarge your understanding of your own destiny. Provide your future with a dose of healing wildness.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21):
“Your horoscopes are too complicated,” a reader named Estelle wrote to me recently. “You give us too many ideas. Your language is too fancy. I just want simple advice in plain words.” I wrote back to tell her that if I did what she asked, I wouldn’t be myself. “Plenty of other astrologers out there can meet your needs,” I concluded. As for you, dear Scorpio, I think you will especially benefit from influences like me in the coming weeks—people who appreciate nuance and subtlety, who love the poetry of life, who eschew clichés and conventional wisdom, who can nurture your rich, spicy, complicated soul.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21):
The coming weeks will be prime time for you to re-imagine the history of your destiny. How might you do that? In your imagination, revisit important events from the past and reinterpret them using the new wisdom you’ve gained since they happened. If possible, perform any atonement, adjustment, or intervention that will transform the meaning of what happened once upon a time. Give the story of your life a fresh title. Rename the chapters. Look at old photos and videos and describe to yourself what you know now about those people and situations that you didn’t know back then. Are there key events from the old days that you have repressed or ignored? Raise them up into the light of consciousness.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19):
In 1972, before the internet existed, Capricorn actor Anthony Hopkins spent a day visiting London bookstores in search of a certain tome: The Girl from Petrovka. Unable to locate a copy, he decided to head home. On the way, he sat on a random bench, where he found the original manuscript of The Girl of Petrovka. It had been stolen from the book’s author George Feifer and abandoned there by the thief. I predict an almost equally unlikely or roundabout discovery or revelation for you in the coming days. Prediction: You may not unearth what you’re looking for in an obvious place, but you will ultimately unearth it.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18):
Aquarius-born Desmond Doss (1919–2006) joined the American army at the beginning of World War II. But because of his religious beliefs, he refused to use weapons. He became a medic who accompanied troops to Guam and the Philippines. During the next few years, he won three medals of honor, which are usually given solely to armed combatants. His bravest act came in 1944, when he saved the lives of 70 wounded soldiers during a battle. I propose we make him your inspirational role model for the coming weeks, Aquarius. In his spirit, I invite you to blend valor and peace-making. Synergize compassion and fierce courage. Mix a knack for poise and healing with a quest for adventure.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20):
What types of people are you most attracted to, Pisces? Not just those you find most romantically and sexually appealing, but also those with whom a vibrant alliance is most gracefully created. And those you’re inclined to seek out for collaborative work and play. This knowledge is valuable information to have; it helps you gravitate toward relationships that are healthy for you. Now and then, though, it’s wise to experiment with connections and influences that aren’t obviously natural—to move outside your usual set of expectations and engage with characters you can’t immediately categorize. I suspect the coming weeks will be one of those times.

ARIES (March 21-April 19):
The “nirvana fallacy” is the belief that because something is less than utterly perfect, it is gravely defective or even irredeemably broken. Wikipedia says, “The nirvana fallacy compares actual things with unrealistic, idealized alternatives.” Most of us are susceptible to this flawed approach to dealing with the messiness of human existence. But it’s especially important that you avoid such thinking in the coming weeks. To inspire you to find excellence and value in the midst of untidy jumbles and rumpled complexities, I recommend you have fun with the Japanese concept of wabi-sabi. It prizes and praises the soulful beauty found in things that are irregular, incomplete, and imperfect.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20):
You are coming to a fork in the road—a crux where two paths diverge. What should you do? Author Marie Forleo says, “When it comes to forks in the road, your heart always knows the answer, not your mind.” Here’s my corollary: Choose the path that will best nourish your soul’s desires. Now here’s your homework, Taurus: Contact your Future Self in a dream or meditation and ask that beautiful genius to provide you with a message and a sign. Plus, invite them to give you a wink with either the left eye or right eye.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20):
Last year, you sent out a clear message to life requesting help and support. It didn’t get the response you wished for. You felt sad. But now I have good news. One or both of the following may soon occur. 1. Your original message will finally lead to a response that buoys your soul. 2. You will send out a new message similar to the one in 2023, and this time you will get a response that makes you feel helped and supported. Maybe you didn’t want to have to be so patient, Gemini, but I’m glad you refused to give up hope.

WANT MORE? Listen to Rob’s EXPANDED AUDIO HOROSCOPES, 4-5 minute meditations on the current state of your destiny — or subscribe to his unique daily text message service at: RealAstrology.com

(Zodiac images by Numerologysign.com, CC license)

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“Doubt is the father of invention.” – Ambrose Bierce

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Quote of the Day: “Doubt is the father of invention.” – Ambrose Bierce

Photo by: Elyas Pasban

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Good News in History, July 6

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67 years ago today, Althea Gibson won her first Wimbledon Women’s Singles title, becoming the first African American to do so. The 1957 season was as a whole, and in her own words, “Althea Gibson’s year”. Earlier, Gibson was seeded first at Wimbledon on the back of a 1956 performance that included the French Open Women’s Singles and Doubles titles and the Italian Championships. READ what she said when the Queen handed her the trophy… (1957)

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He Became a Surgeon Because of Grey’s Anatomy – Now He’s a Consultant on the Show

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Neurosurgeon Stephen Bergin with Ellen Pompeo (as Meredith) while consulting on 19th season of Grey’s Anatomy / SWNS
Neurosurgeon Stephen Bergin with Ellen Pompeo (as Meredith) while consulting on 19th season of Grey’s Anatomy / SWNS

A man inspired to become a neurosurgeon because of the hit TV hospital drama Grey’s Anatomy is now a medical consultant on the very show that convinced him to study medicine.

Now 35, Stephen Bergin first watched the show in high school and instantly became a regular viewer.

When he was in the fourth year of his residency program at Duke University Hospital, an announcement was made through the hospital that the show’s producers were recruiting medical consultants to work on season 19.

As a long-time fan, Bergin didn’t wait around to apply for the position.

“I was interested in it immediately because watching Grey’s Anatomy in high school inspired me to get into neurosurgery,” Bergin told the British news agency SWNS.

Stephen was selected to be a consultant—providing advice on script writing and guiding actors—and after a successful debut in 2022, the show kept him on to write for season 20 as well.

Now in the sixth year of his residency program, Bergin is currently involved with brainstorming ideas for season 21, after even appearing as an extra on one episode.

“The production always has medical specialists on staff for [consultation] and they like to have a resident in that bunch so all the resident storylines feel realistic,” said Bergin. “It was such a fun experience to be able to see all that goes into creating the show.”

“We would receive scripts from the showrunners or writers with lines in them that would literally say ‘medical, medical, medical;’ it was my job to fill in these lines with applicable medical jargon,” Bergin added, probably laughing.

Stephen also got involved in shooting the scenes and was on set during the filming of season 19’s mid-season finale “Thunderstruck” in October 2022.

Stephen Bergin pictured with cast members – SWNS

“I would also be consulted on what type of injury could bring two characters working in different medical departments together. For example, if they needed a reason for a neurosurgeon and a cardiothoracic specialist to be in a room together, I would come up with the injury that meant they were both needed,” he explained further.

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But as a fan of the show, some of the best memories were meeting and advising the cast members directly.

“Ellen Pompeo was going over her lines at one point and asked if there was an alternative way of saying something. I suggested a change which got approved and then Ellen chanted ‘The doctor saved the script!’ over and over again.”

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“I helped Caterina Scorsone, who plays Amelia Shepherd, understand the proper way to use a tool for the spine. She was so committed to doing a good job. They all were!”

Stephen now shares his experiences as well as general medical advice on his social platforms as @surgeonbergin.

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World’s Oldest Narrative Cave Painting Is at Least 51,200 Years Old, Scientists Say

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A 51,000-year-old artwork that was found in a cave on Indonesia’s Sulawesi island in 2017 in an image Australia’s Griffith University released Wednesday. Griffith University - released
A 51,000-year-old artwork that was found in a cave on Indonesia’s Sulawesi island in 2017 in an image Australia’s Griffith University released Wednesday. Griffith University – released

In 2021, GNN reported that a painting of a Sulawesi warty pig on the island of Sulawesi in Indonesia had become the oldest cave painting ever discovered—dating back 45,000 years.

Well not only has that record been broken—with another painting on the same island—but the new discovery also sets the record for the oldest narrative story depicted through art: a hunting scene featuring human-bird hybrids from 49,000 BCE.

The painting was originally discovered in 2017 when scientists at Griffith University in Australia were surveying caves on the eastern Indonesian island of Sulawesi, with the hopes of using a novel method of producing a date called laser-ablation U-series imaging, with the U short for uranium.

The island’s special climate and topography have allowed these cave paintings and the pigments used to create them to survive tens of thousands of years longer than cave art found on other continents like Europe and Australia. Water leaking through the karst rock that forms the cave creates little popcorn-like buttons called calcites which protect the pigments like icing on a sponge cake.

The laser is shined through the calcites and is able to measure the age of the agglomeration of the initial calcite layer—the one closest to the paint. With this technique, the scientists were able to reassess dates in paintings surveyed earlier, producing new estimates that were at times 4,000 years older than previously thought.

What’s come about as a result is that the humans who lived on Sulawesi were practicing painting for purposes of ceremony, rather than for passing time, over 50,000 years ago.

“They were not common living spaces,” Renaud Joannes-Boyau said of the caves, which were difficult to reach.

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The co-author of the study published Wednesday in the journal Nature, Joannes-Boyau believes that the caves were places where humans would go “for a purpose and is probably linked to some sort of a ceremony.”

The enigmatic scene depicted on the wall is believed to represent a hunting narrative, but one born of imagination rather than reality. The stick figures are what are called in anthropology “therianthropes,” or human-animal hybrids.

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The figures imply that the artwork reflects imaginative storytelling rather than recording fact, as is believed in the case of some cave art which shows which animals could be hunted in which areas.

“That is something new, something very important, something that happened much older than we thought,” Joannes-Boyau told NBC. “Representation of human figures is already extremely rare, but storytelling of 51,200 years old is even more incredible.”

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Having Gratitude Linked to Lower Risk of Death Independent of Other Factors, Innovative Study Shows

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credit Nathan Dumlao

A new study looking at the effects of gratitude or being grateful on mortality risk showed that independent of classic mortality indicators of cardiovascular health, smoking, and chronic disease burden, grateful people showed lower rates of early death than less grateful peers.

The study examined over 49,000 older women in the nursing profession, and is claimed to be one of the first studies to investigate the effects of gratitude on mortality.

This is notable because gratitude is already associated with better biomarkers for cholesterol, immune system function, inflammation levels, and cardiovascular disease risk, as well as lower risks for depression, and better adherence to healthy hygiene like exercise and good sleep.

The authors noted however that a surprising dearth exists in the amount of insight on gratitude’s effects on mortality.

Gratitude was assessed with the 6-item ‘Gratitude Questionnaire,’ a respected, validated, and widely used measure of one’s tendency to experience grateful affect. It’s made up of 6 questions answerable by marking between 1 and 7.

The questions included “if I had to list everything I’m thankful for, it would be a long list,” and “I have so much in life to be thankful for”.

Study leader Ying Chen and her team found that, in comparison to women with lower gratitude scores, the most grateful tended to be younger, have a husband or partner, and be involved in social and religious organizations.

The average age of nurses who answered the gratitude questions was 79, and by the end of 2019, 4,068 of them had died.

Looking at those who died, higher gratitude scores were associated with a 29% reduced risk for death overall. When controlling for a history of heart disease, stroke, cancer, and diabetes, gratitude was still associated with a 27% reduced risk of death, and a 21% reduced risk after controling for lifestyle habits like smoking, exercise, drinking, and eating a healthy diet.

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Benjamin Levine, MD, a substantial force in the field of exercise physiology and cardiovascular health, has argued for physical activity to be tracked in hospitals as a vital sign—equivalent to temperature and blood pressure. He also advocates for people to look at exercise as personal hygiene, rather than something that makes up a ‘healthy lifestyle.’

Even out of shape, overweight, and sedentary people take showers, brush their teeth, and trim their nails, and Levine suggests exercise should be in the same bracket of consideration.

This new study suggests that permitting yourself time in the day to feel grateful should be something similar—personal hygiene, like brushing your soul in the same way you brush your teeth.

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To that end, keeping a gratitude journal, making time for prayer, and inviting family members to announce what they’re grateful for at the start of a meal together, are all good ways to open your mind to grateful feelings.

Put reminders out where you can see them—tie a ribbon around a door handle so everytime you leave your house you’re reminded that you have one, or put a wallpaper on your smartphone that reminds you to be grateful for the things you have everytime you turn the screen on.

Aside for helping one feel better during the day, according to Dr. Chen’s study, it could save your life.

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Over 100 Dolphins Saved from Historic Mass Stranding in Cape Cod

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Credit: WCVB / YouTube screenshot

125 dolphins became stranded in shallow mud flats off Cape Cod, Massachusetts in what one rescue organization calls its largest single mass stranding event in decades.

The first report was initially understood to be 10 Atlantic white-sided dolphins close to shore off Wellfleet early Friday morning, triggering an overwhelming response from local marine conservation groups.

AmeriCorps of Cape Cod, Whale and Dolphin Conservation, the New England Aquarium, the Center for Coastal Studies, and the Wellfleet Harbormaster, led by the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW)

However as rescuers arrived on the scene, they eventually identified a total of 125 animals, the largest single mass stranding in IFAW’s 26-year history on Cape Cod, to group said in a press release.

“We arrived to what appeared to be 80 to 100 dolphins on the shallow mud flats of Wellfleet’s Herring River ‘Gut,’ a global epicenter for mass strandings,” said Misty Niemeyer, stranding coordinator for IFAW.

“We were able to provide supportive care, help those that were struggling, and keep them comfortable and ready for the incoming tide.”

The dolphins were herded in a highly coordinated response effort to encourage their movement back to deeper waters, first on foot and then switching to boating efforts as the water returned to high tide at 4:56 pm. Two IFAW vessels and the Wellfleet Harbormaster continued their efforts until sunset at 8:15 pm.

The Herring River ‘Gut’ is a frequent stranding location due to its hook-like shape, and extreme tidal fluctuations.

“This rescue had many challenges due to the number of dolphins, the large size of many of the animals, how spread out they were over a large area, the difficult mud conditions, and the complicated locations from which we could reach them,” said Niemeyer. “It was a 12-hour exhausting response in the unrelenting sun, but the team was able to overcome the various challenges and give the dolphins their best chance at survival.”

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As daylight fell, most of the dolphins seemed to have found their way to deeper waters offshore. A dozen or more remained swimming in the inner harbor at sunset Friday night.

The entire effort on Friday involved over 150 people, including at least 25 IFAW staff, and 100 trained volunteers.

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At first light Saturday morning, an IFAW team was on the water to find 10 of the dolphins swimming in a dangerous area, and efforts have been successful to herd them towards deeper water.

The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration states that stranding can occur if the dolphins become disoriented by underwater noise pollution.

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“Genius is the ability to renew one’s emotions in daily experience.” – Paul Cezanne

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Quote of the Day: “Genius is the ability to renew one’s emotions in daily experience.” – Paul Cezanne

Photo by: Julian Hochgesang

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Good News in History, July 5

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10 years ago today, the Juno spacecraft was launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida on a mission to study Jupiter. Having now completed 42 flybys, called “Perijoves” Juno has undoubtedly provided some of the most beautiful and stunning images ever seen, with Jupiter appearing like a canvass upon which colors move and swirl in combinations and variance beyond the imagining of the human artist. It has also completed 4 flybys of Jupiter’s moons, Io, Ganymede, and Europa. READ what it provided to scientists… (2014)

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World’s Most Popular YouTuber Builds 100 Homes for South Americans in Disaster Areas

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credit – MrBeast, screengrab

In a video entitled ‘I Built 100 Houses And Gave Them Away’ the world’s most popular YouTuber continued to demonstrate that his channel is for more than crazy videos.

James Donaldson, aka ‘MrBeast’ has 300 million subscribers, and they tune in to watch him perform crazy stunts, and in general do crazy things, like shredding a half-million-dollar Lamborghini and hiring a real assassin to try and hunt him down.

But the revenue from these wanton acts of viral content goes to more than just filming expenses—MrBeast has spent millions and millions on philanthropic causes.

Taking his ‘Beast Philanthropy’ series to Central and South America, the YouTuber targeted areas where natural disasters had left people homeless.

In Jamaica, a family living in a rural mountainous area lost their home in a landslide—they got a new modern home, as did another family whose house was flooded every time there were heavy rains.

In El Salvador, MrBeast paid for the construction of row housing a safe distance from a river that had recently flooded and washed a small community away. He also built a soccer pitch for the kids to play on, and paid for brand-new soccer equipment, shirts, and cleats for all the kids.

At this point, he had given away 50 family homes.

In Argentina, he and his partners transformed 15 structures in low-income housing areas into ones that were comfortable, weather-resistant, and had all basic amenities. By the time he had finished doing the same in Mexico, he had given away 83 houses.

In Colombia, in an area that had been dismantled by tornadoes, 17 families got new furnished houses.

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All the families’ reactions to the classic blindfold reveal were caught on camera for a 9-minute montage of tears, jumping for joy, and celebrating in Spanish.

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This is just the latest installment in MrBeast’s philanthropic activities—some of which go to projects on his subchannel Beast Philanthropy. He’s dug wells for villages in Africa, helped 1,000 kids and young people get cochlear implants, and held several massive fundraisers for feeding families, constructing solar power stations, and more.

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U.S. Marshals Find 200 Missing Children Across the Nation During 6-Week Special Operation

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photo by US Federal Marshall’s Bennie J. Davis III

The U.S. Marshals Service (USMS), along with federal, state, and local agencies led a six-week national operation that resulted in finding 200 critically missing children, which includes endangered runaways and those abducted by noncustodial persons.

This is the second rendition of this coordinated effort, and so it was called Operation We Will Find You 2 (WWFY2). Running from May 20 to June 24 it focused on geographical areas with high clusters of missing children.

WWFY2 resulted in the recovery and removal of 123 children from dangerous situations. An additional 77 missing children were located and found to be in safe locations, according to law enforcement or child welfare agencies. The vast majority of these were runaway children, one case was a family abduction, and one was a non-family abduction.

The “dangerous situations” involved human trafficking, captivity by family relations, or situations of sexual exploitation, some involuntarily and others violently.

“One of the most sacred missions of U.S. Marshals Service is locating and recovering our nation’s critically missing children,” said USMS Director Ronald L. Davis on completion of the case. “This is one of our top priorities as there remain thousands of children still missing and at risk.”

Some of the most notable and frightening cases can be read on the USMS release of the operation, and included kidnapping in Michigan, human trafficking in Miami-Dade, sex trafficking in Arizona, familial kidnapping in Oregon, and potential infanticide in North Carolina.

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The Justice for Victims of Trafficking Act of 2015 enhanced the USMS’ responsibility in locating missing children by removing the need for there to be an offender or fugitive known to be connected to the case.

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“There are no words to describe the terror felt by missing children, their families, and their communities,” said Attorney General Merrick B. Garland. “I am grateful to the dedicated professionals of the U.S. Marshals Service and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children who worked to find 200 critically missing children during this six-week operation.

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Washed up Hi-Tech Tracker Buoys Brilliantly Redeployed to Protect Turtles from ‘Ghost Nets’

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A Project ReCon commercial fishing parter crew poses with a ghost net they pulled from the water - credit Project ReCon-Satlink
A Project ReCon commercial fishing partner crew poses with a ghost net they pulled from the water – credit Project ReCon-Satlink

Hi-tech GPS-tracking buoys washing up on Australian beaches were a strange find during a litter clean-up for the non-profit Tangaroa Blue.

On a normal day of operations for the marine debris prevention group, large numbers of these buoys were discovered on Cape York coast near Australia’s northeastern tip manufactured in Spain by a company called Satlink.

Rather than taking them to the dump and putting them in the e-waste dumpster, Tangaroa Blue founder Heidi Tait has secured permission from the Spanish company to put them to use tracking ‘ghost nets’.

These abandoned fishing nets drift unknowingly through ocean waters snaring turtles and other sea life. They’re typically left behind by fishermen after being snagged on a reef or rock outcrop, or when a weather event moves them from where the fishermen left them.

In either case, they’re deadly, multi-tonne pieces of marine debris that need large fishing vessels with hydraulic equipment to haul them in. Even if they are found, many fishing boats lack this expensive machine.

So Tait has gathered together a coalition of Australian mariners, from national park staff, Indigenous rangers, commercial fishermen, and charter boats, and handed out the derelict GPS-tracking buoys with a simple instruction—find a ghost net, hook the buoy to it.

Heidi’s partner, Brett, told Hakai Magazine’s Clare Watson that it really helps the organization clear two hurdles in one jump because trackers are “such a high-tech piece of equipment.” They’re obviously not cheap, and for them to go to a landfill “seemed like such a waste.”

The result was Project ReCon, a partnership between Satlink, Tangaroa Blue, and around 100 commercial fishing vessels representing 22 international companies. Project ReCon has also gained the support of two other major environmental organizations, The Nature Conservancy and The Pacific Community, as local partners. By the end of December, the project has extended its reach to a total of eight countries.

Tangaroa Blue volunteers pose with GPS buoys found in a recent beach clean-up – credit Tangaroa Blue, retrieved from X.

Tait can find and track the Satlink buoys with enough precision to be able to ask properly equipped boats to go and collect them.

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So far, 3 ghost nets have already been removed by Tait and her coalition, including one that weighed over 3 metric tons.

In another instance, a 150-foot-long mooring rope that had been tangled up in a reef was retrieved—after being tagged with one of the Satlink buoys.

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The story is a reminder that in all things, but especially beachcombing, one man’s trash, is another man’s treasure.

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Look Out World: 12-year-old ‘Prodigy’ Finishes High School and Heads to College for Double Major

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Suborno Bari- released by the family to the media.
Suborno Bari- released by the family to the media.

12-year-old Suborno Bari has graduated from high school, completing just grades 10 and 12 when all was said and done, skipping 5th, 6th, 7th, 9th, and 11th grades in the process.

He is the youngest-ever scholar to graduate from Malverne High School in Malverne, New York, but despite his stratospheric intelligence, he says his peers have always embraced him.

Suborno’s family designed his education so that he would spend the majority of school hours socializing with kids his age to ensure he developed like everyone else. He might spend the morning taking core classes at an 8th-grade level in the local middle school, and then hop on a bus and spend the rest of the school day in the 5th-grade classroom on electives and after-school activities.

Rebecca Gottesman, the director of K-12 school counseling at Malverne Union Free School District said she first met Suborno in 4th grade, and that even after 25 years in education, he was the most impressive student she had ever seen.

“Every year, school counselors are asked on behalf of the students that are applying to these colleges to answer the question, ‘Is this one of the most exceptional students that you’ve ever seen in your career?’ … and I can say without any doubt that Suborno is the most exceptional student I’ve ever met academically,” Gottesman told ABC’s ‘Good Morning America.‘ “He’s really a prodigy.”

Suborno Bari with family and teachers – released by the family to the media.

The young man said that even though other students were aware of his talents, they always treated him like he was just another friendly face, like any other student.

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Scoring 1500 on the SAT, 34 on the ACT, and taking 5 AP classes, Suborno said he’s ready for college.

In the late summer, he’ll be heading off to New York University on a scholarship where he hopes to double major in physics and math—but not for the reasons you might think.

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“Many people are doing it only because their parents said so or because engineers just make the most profit, not because they actually love what they’re doing. So I hope to fix that and help other people understand math and science and love it in all its beauty,” Suborno said.

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“America is another name for opportunity.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson (Happy 248th Birthday, America!)

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Quote of the Day: “America is another name for opportunity.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson  (Happy Independence Day to the United States of America—born 248 years ago today.)

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With a new inspirational quote every day, atop the perfect photo—collected and archived on our Quote of the Day page—why not bookmark GNN.org for a daily uplift?

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Good News in History, July 4

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20 years ago today, in quite unbelievable fashion, Greece beat Portugal 1-0 to become European champions for the first time in her history. Several pundits labeled Greece’s tournament win the greatest upset in the history of the European Championship; among these was BBC Sport’s John May, who cited Greece’s record of never having previously won a match at a major event. READ about the match… (2004)

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Scientists Studying Asteroid Sample Say it Could Have Come from Ocean World

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A tiny fraction of the asteroid Bennu sample returned by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission, shown in microscope images - From Lauretta & Connolly et al. (2024) Meteoritics & Planetary Science, doi10.1111maps.14227.
A tiny fraction of the asteroid Bennu sample returned by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission, shown in microscope images – From Lauretta & Connolly et al. (2024) Meteoritics & Planetary Science, doi10.1111maps.14227.

Among the possible origins for the asteroid Bennu, which recently became the first asteroid ever sampled by a NASA mission, a surprising indication is that it may have come from a water world.

The development arose after researchers analyzed the mixture of rocks and dust from bodies beyond Earth, collectively called ‘regolith’, scooped up from Bennu by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission in 2020.

A spacecraft was able to extract the sample and carry it 200 million miles back to Earth.

Scientists had hoped the 4.3-ounce (121.6-gram) sample would hold secrets of the solar system’s past and the prebiotic chemistry that might have led to the origin of life on Earth.

An early analysis study of the sample, published in Meteoritics & Planetary Science, documents compounds found that are the components of biochemistry for all known life on Earth today.

The OSIRIS-REx Sample Analysis Team discovered that Bennu contains the basic building blocks for all life. The regolith is rich in carbon and nitrogen, as well as organic compounds, all of which are essential components for life as we know it.

This composition offers a glimpse into the early days of our solar system over 4.5 billion years ago. These rocks have retained their original state, having neither melted nor resolidified since their inception, affirming their ancient origins.

However, the sample also contains magnesium-sodium phosphate, which was a surprise to the research team, because it wasn’t seen in the remote sensing data collected by the spacecraft at Bennu.

Its presence in the sample hints that the asteroid could have splintered off from a long-gone, tiny, primitive, ocean world.

“The presence and state of phosphates, along with other elements and compounds on Bennu, suggest a watery past for the asteroid,” stated Dante Lauretta, co-lead author of the paper and principal investigator for OSIRIS-REx at the University of Arizona, Tucson.

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“Bennu potentially could have once been part of a wetter world. Although, this hypothesis requires further investigation.”

Recently, scientists working with the James Webb Space Telescope spotted what they believed to be an ocean world called K2-18b, which lies 120 light years away from Earth in the constellation Leo, where it orbits the habitable zone of a red dwarf star called K2-18.

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Believed to be 8.6 times larger than Earth, the abundance of methane and carbon dioxide, and shortage of ammonia detected on the planet supports the hypothesis that there may be a water ocean underneath a hydrogen-rich atmosphere.

Classed as a “sub-Neptune” meaning one which shares its characteristics but that is smaller than the planet of its namesake. Such planets are believed in some circles to be the most common type of rocky exoplanet.

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‘Give Nature Space and it Will Come Back’: Rewilding Returns Endangered Species to UK Coast

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The Sussex coast, credit Tim Broadbent, unsplash

A broad coalition of natural trusts, farmers and businessmen, and conservationists are looking to turn the southern English coastline and the lands beyond into a biodiversity hotspot—and success can be seen and felt in the numbers of aquatic species that are returning to the Sussex coast.

The effort follows two major turning points for English nature—one on land and one at sea.

In 2022, a ban on trawling in Sussex Bay that had long been campaigned for was passed after decades of this unsustainable fishing practice destroying mussel beds, oyster reefs, kelp forests, and other anchors of the marine environment.

While that trawling was doing the damage at sea, two rogue landowners were looking to reverse what industrial agriculture had done on a lordly estate called Knepp. GNN reported on the Knepp rewilding project after the fact, and though for years surrounding farmers looked at the manor and grounds like a pariah state, their success in restoring a pre-agricultural slice of wild England has become the finest example in the country.

Now farmers all across Sussex are looking to create conditions and corridors through and around their farms that will allow the biodiversity concentrated on the 3,500 acres of Knepp to spill over. The project is called Weald to Waves, and aims to create 10,000 hectares (24,710 acres) of nature-friendly land in corridors running from the rolling hills of the South Downs along the valleys of the rivers Arun and Adur until they reach the sea.

It’s founder, James Baird, owns the last piece on undeveloped coastline in Sussex, and working with the Knepp Estate, he plans to allow their manor lands and the beasts and visitors thereupon to have access through natural environments all the way to the ocean.

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Another half of Weald to Waves is the reduction in farming practices that produce agricultural runoff, to help improve coastal water quality.

It’s already had a big effect, as the divers and marine biologists at Sussex Bay initiative are seeing every link in the marine food web coming back. They’re seeing beaches rich with signs of life—cuttlefish bones, kelp, and whelk eggs.

“We’ve had the biggest bed of mussels stretching from Lancing to Brighton,” Eric Smith, of Rewilding Britain who is engaged in the initiative, told the Guardian.

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“I saw an electric ray last year and an angel shark, which is critically endangered. First one I’ve seen since 1966. Also the bream are coming back. They are very vulnerable to bottom trawling—and one of the species targeted by the vessels.”

Dolphins and porpoise sightings have gone up two years in a row.

“Previously, we’ve had reports of cetaceans offshore over winter and inshore between May and September,” says Thea Taylor, managing director of Sussex Dolphin Project. “Now we are starting to see them inshore all year round.”

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Sussex Bay and Weald to Waves are working together so that the coast is a shining mirror to the South Downs National Park, where people can visit, walk for miles inland through biodiverse native habitats and then arrive at the sea which is filled with life. The two groups expect the collaboration, if successful, to be an effective driver of ecotourism, bringing in millions from hikers, ramblers, divers, and others.

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Toddler Saved from Train Tracks After Falling Seconds Before it Thundered Past

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This is the heart-stopping moment a toddler was saved by a hero commuter after falling onto a railway line seconds before a high-speed train thundered past.

CCTV footage captured the dramatic near-miss at Newark Northgate railway station in Nottinghamshire last month.

The 36-second clip shows the three-year-old boy walking behind two adults before running to the edge of the platform.

He appears to lower himself over the edge before tumbling backwards onto the track.

A man who was with the child is seen sprinting across the platform while a hero bystander leaps onto the line and lifts the boy to safety.

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Just 22 seconds later a train speeds through the station without stopping.

“I think the fact a train came through the station at speed just seconds after emphasized just how awful the outcome could have been,” said station customer services assistant Olivia Timms, who saw the incident. “Thankfully, everyone made it home safely that day and we want to make sure that happens every day.”

The footage of three such incidents was released by London North Eastern Railway (LNER) as part of Rail Safety Week.

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In a second incident, passengers are seen leaving a train when a child falls through the gap between the train and the platform next to a station guard. A crowd gathers as the guard desperately pulls the young passenger to safety.

Already this year, eight safety incidents involving children have been recorded at LNER stations.

WATCH the near-miss at Newark below… 

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