Mother’s Day is just over a week away, and we’re here to help you find the perfect something special for the moms and maternal figures in your life. Many moms spend the majority of their time thinking about other people, so much so that “I don’t need anything” is a common refrain leading up to gift-giving holidays. But while that response certainly speaks to mom’s priorities, it doesn’t do much in helping anyone pick out presents for her. We’re offering you a hand with our annual Mother’s Day gift guide — check it out here.
First All-Electric US Hospital Will Open in Southern California Next Year
CO Architects
The University of California, Irvine is preparing to open the nation’s first all-electric, zero-emission hospital, a major milestone for the resource-reliant health care industry. Per Harvard Medicinemagazine, the global health care sector is estimated to emit between 4.4% and 5.2% of the world’s greenhouse gasses. Joe Brothman, the director of facilities and general services for UCI Health, had that top of mind when thinking about the new campus. “If our operations are contributing to negative health externalities, especially disproportionately in underserved populations that have historically had negative health effects because of energy, we’re not fulfilling our mission,” he told the Los Angeles Times. So the UCI Health-Irvine medical center, set to open in late 2025, will get most of its energy from an all-electric central plant that will reduce the hospital’s carbon footprint. The system includes air source heat pumps that capitalize on the Southern California climate, using “the ambient outside temperature to heat or cool our heating and ventilation components,” Brothman explained to KABC. The mission of sustainability is reflected in the “biophilic” building designs from CO Architects, which aims to portray the hospital as “a symbolic bridge between busy urbanscape and untouched nature.”
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If you haven’t already seen this viral baseball story, you’re in for a treat. Ahead of Tuesday’s MLB matchup between Arizona and Los Angeles, the hosting Diamondbacks posted an unconventional game delay notice: “Tonight’s game has been delayed due to a bee colony forming on the protective netting behind home plate.” As you might imagine, that caused “a real buzz” among MLB fans, and catapulted the beekeeper called in by the Diamondbacks to internet fame. Matt Hilton, clad in his all-white beekeeping gear, came to the rescue and removed the bee colony as the crowd gave him a standing ovation and Bonnie Tyler's “Holding Out for a Hero” played over the loudspeakers. Naturally, the home team called up Hilton to throw the ceremonial first pitch once the insect situation had been handled. “It was a little nerve-wracking, I’m not going to lie,” Hilton said, per MLB.com. “Lot of pressure to get this game going. But I was happy to come and take care of it.” Perhaps bolstered by the spectacle (which you can see more photos of here), the Diamondbacks pulled out a 4-3 win over the league-leading Dodgers.
Environment
National Park Service Announces New Conservation Plans for Bears, Wild Horses
Wildlife advocates are celebrating two recent announcements from the National Park Service. The first involves reintroducing grizzly bears to their native habitat in Washington’s North Cascades, almost 30 years after the last confirmed sighting of one in the region. Grizzlies were nearly hunted to extinction in the Cascades, but previously served an important role in the ecosystem — a role officials hope can be restored once the repopulation plan is underway. “This is incredible news,” Kathleen Callaghy, with the Defenders of Wildlife, told The Guardian. “The North Cascades is one of the most incredibly intact wild lands in the U.S. and the grizzly bear is [the] last major mammal missing from that ecosystem, so we’d be restoring something to almost as close as we can make it to how it used to be, barring our presence.” A few states over in North Dakota, the park service also reversed an unpopular decision to remove about 200 wild horses from Theodore Roosevelt National Park. The animals, descended from mares bred by the Sioux in the 19th century, will now remain in the park, which is one of few public lands where visitors can observe free-roaming horses. “This is the right call by NPS,” North Dakota Sen. John Hoeven said in a statement.
🇸🇨 Blue whales were spotted near Seychelles for the first time in decades, “a phenomenal finding,” scientists said.
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Perseverance personified
Afrika Owes had an untraditional path to becoming an attorney — she spent time in jail as a teenager before going to college and eventually fulfilling her dream of getting into law school. And last week, she found out that she passed the New York bar exam on her first try. Watch the viral video of the exciting moment.
There were plenty of May Day celebrations around the world earlier this week, including the fireworks show you see above in the Chinese city of Huai’an, in the Jiangsu Province.
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