It’s a common dilemma, and one that has undoubtedly caused many a fight among families, friends, and romantic partners: When should you get to the airport? Even the Nice News team is split on the topic — some prefer to spend as little time in the airport as possible, while others leave enough breathing room for a multi-course meal. Here’s what the experts think.
A lupus diagnosis, like those of many autoimmune diseases, often comes with more questions than answers. But a new study may help explain at least one mystery: How does the condition develop in the first place? Previous theories attributed lupus to genetics or hormones, NBC News reports, but scientists at Northwestern Medicine and Brigham and Women’s Hospital are now positing that the root cause of the disease is abnormalities in the immune system. “We’ve identified a fundamental imbalance in the immune responses that patients with lupus make, and we’ve defined specific mediators that can correct this imbalance to dampen the pathologic autoimmune response,” study author Deepak Rao explained in a press release. After examining the blood of 19 people with lupus and comparing it to that of individuals without the disease, the researchers discovered the former have an excess of a T-cell that can damage healthy cells, and not enough of another T-cell associated with healing. Read about how the discovery could lead to “a potential cure.”
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Culture
With Sand Castle University, Janel Hawkins Is Building Something Meant to Last
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Imagine spending hours crafting a beautiful work of art — only for it to crumble to nothing less than 24 hours later. Welcome to a day in the life of a professional sandcastle sculptor: someone who creates beauty from impermanence. Janel Hawkins knows all about that life. The owner of Sand Castle University in Alabama, she’s turned the beaches of Gulf Shores into her own personal studio. On average, she spends the better part of each day in the elements, fashioning intricate details out of wet sand. In an email interview with Nice News, Hawkins explained that she has to deal not only with changing weather and incoming tides, but also the sand’s natural inconsistency. Being a sandcastle artist requires a certain amount of thinking on the fly. “No two sculptures I create are ever the same. Some days everything falls perfectly into place and some days, I need to pivot — maybe the weather isn’t great or I’m having an off day creatively or maybe the sand isn’t cooperating,” she said. “I make it work, even if it isn’t exactly what I intended at the beginning of the sculpting process.”
Humanity
The Avengers Assembled to Redub the Blockbuster Hit in Lakota
Avengers, assemble — for a good cause! Members of the original cast of 2012’s The Avengers, including Robert Downey Jr., Scarlett Johansson, Chris Hemsworth, Chris Evans, Jeremy Renner, and Mark Ruffalo, reunited to dub the movie in the Lakota language, and the new version hit Disney+ last month. “This project came out of my relationship with the Lakota people, and it was this fun thing that they wanted to do,” Ruffalo said in a Marvel Entertainment featurette. “[They said] ‘Let’s do a Lakota dub of The Avengers.’” The Oscar winner added that the language has “sounds that we just don’t have in our own language … but once you start to get them, it feels really good.” Per the Endangered Languages Project, about 2,200 people speak Lakota today. “I think a really beautiful thing from the project is our language doesn’t have to hide anymore,” Lakota teacher Ray Taken Alive said of the Avengers dubbing. Watch the featurette to hear some of it.
In Other News
Get a sneak peek at Team USA’sgymnastics leotards for the Olympics, adorned with thousands of crystals.
Astronomers discovered the closest black hole to Earth— and it’s about 18,000 light-years away.
Garbage spy: Hotels and offices are using an AI tool to scan what food gets tossed in the trash in an effort to mitigate waste.
Archaeologists unearthed a 2,000-year-old marble statue in an ancient sewer in Bulgaria. Check it out.
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Inspiring Story
A school project with a real-life impact
Students at Tulane University designed and built a tiny house for a man who hasn’t had a home in nearly 20 years. “Building someone’s forever home is crazy and so rewarding,” said student Elliot Slovis. See the structure and meet its very grateful resident.
We’re officially two weeks into the Tour de France, the prestigious men’s cycling competition dating back to 1903. One thing that’s changed in the past century or so is how the participating athletes fuel up for their rides — go inside the kitchens behind the tour.
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