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Wednesday • February 28, 2024
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Plenty of captivating photos came out of the World Aquatics Championships in Doha, Qatar, but one underwater shot from Associated Press photographer Lee Jin-man is making quite the splash. Jin-man positioned his camera at a unique angle as Spain’s Carles Coll Marti entered the pool for the men’s 200-meter breaststroke, capturing a stunning amount of movement for a still image. And, as Jin-man explained in a recent article, it didn’t happen by chance — the photo was the result of a lot of troubleshooting and fine-tuning. Check out the shot and learn how he took it.
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Environment
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| Newest US National Park Highlights History of Japanese American Incarceration |
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Earlier this month, Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland formally established the Amache National Historic Site in Colorado, making it the latest official addition to America’s national park system. The site was a Japanese American incarceration camp during World War II and will now stand as a permanently protected monument to that history.
“As a nation, we must face the wrongs of our past in order to build a more just and equitable future,” Haaland said in a statement. “The Interior Department has the tremendous honor of stewarding America’s public lands and natural and cultural resources to tell a complete and honest story of our nation’s history.”
The formal establishment was a special moment for those who were incarcerated at Amache and their descendants. “I’m thinking about all the people who endured the incarceration experience, and that finally their story is being told,” Carlene Tinker, who lived there when she was 3 years old, said in an interview with KUNC, sharing that she felt “proud.”
Mitch Homma, an Amache descendant who serves as a director for the Amache Alliance, credited those who came before him. “We are standing on the shoulders of some giants, all the Amachians, including my dad, who thought that this would never happen, that there’s not enough people that cared,” he told The Colorado Sun. “And we did it. And people do care.”
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Innovation
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| Most UK Companies in 4-Day Workweek Trial Have Made the Change Permanent |
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In 2022, about 2,900 workers at 61 U.K. companies took part in the world’s largest trial of the four-day workweek. Just over a year after the pilot’s conclusion, its success is clear: 89% of those companies are still using the four-day workweek, and 51% have officially made the scheduling change permanent.
Per a new report from the think tank Autonomy, which ran the trial alongside the nonprofit 4 Day Week Global, 100% of the managers and CEOs surveyed said the four-day week had a “positive” or “very positive” impact on their organizations. Furthermore, 96% of the employees who were consulted said their personal lives benefited from the change and 87% said they were performing better at work.
Entrepreneur Banks Benitez — who leads Smart Workweek, an initiative that provides step-by-step guidance and training to executives looking to implement four-day schedules at their own companies — previously told Nice News that the shorter workweek is “about reclaiming power and agency in a working environment that often tells us we don’t have that power and agency.”
Click below to revisit our full interview with Benitez and learn why the four-day workweek can be so effective for many workplaces.
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Culture
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| Obsidian Blade Found in Texas May Offer Insight Into 16th Century “City of Gold” Expedition |
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The 16th century Spanish explorer Francisco Vasquez de Coronado is famed for leading an expedition to find the “Seven Cities of Cibola,” which were supposedly filled with gold and gemstones. Though Coronado never did come upon a “city of gold” as he trekked across what’s now the southwestern United States, modern anthropologists may have recently gained deeper insight into his path thanks to an artifact unearthed in Texas.
An obsidian blade, found on ranchland in the state’s panhandle, is just over 5 centimeters long, but it holds large promise, according to Southern Methodist University researcher Matthew Boulanger. He said the tool was likely dropped by a member of Coronado’s expedition team, since obsidian is brittle and prone to breaking.
“This small unassuming artifact fits all of the requirements for convincing evidence of a Coronado presence in the Texas Panhandle,” Boulanger said in a press release. “It is the correct form of artifact, it is fully consistent with other finds, the correct material, found in the correct location, and there are no indications of an intentional hoax.”
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In Other News
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Inspiring Stories
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114 years young
At 114 years and 217 days old, Elizabeth Francis became the oldest living American and the fifth-oldest person on Earth. Her longevity advice? “Try to do the best thing you can to everybody. Love everybody.”
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“Right there by my side”
Reginald Bess, the coach of a North Carolina high school basketball team, has an unconventional assistant: his 4-year-old son, Christopher. The passionate youngster, who previously went viral on social media, clearly has a coaching career in his future. “My wife picks him up from my mom’s house. And his first question is, ‘Can we go to practice?’” said Bess.
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Post of the Day
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What a special discovery. On one page of the journal, this poster’s brother wrote that he hoped his sister would grow up to be just like him. And she assured her followers that she did — she even took on his nickname, “Butta.” She added: “My brother was filled with love [and] was loved by so many. He lived a wonderful life.”
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Quote of the Day
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| “Understanding and loving are inseparable.”
- Erich Fromm
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