A Beatlemaniac might say Jim Marshall was among the luckiest men alive in 1966. The late photographer was the only one allowed backstage at the Beatles’ final paid, public ticketed concert in San Francisco that year, the conclusion of the Fab Four’s North American Tour. A book published yesterday includes some of Marshall’s never-before-seen pics from the concert — click here to get a peek at the collection. And while we’re on the topic, Paul McCartney recently dished on his favorite Beatles albums.
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Health
What’s the “Sweet Spot” for Time Spent Sleeping? Study Suggests a Range
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You’ve heard it a million and one times: Getting a good night’s sleep is critical to a healthy life. And now, a study has gotten a bit more specific with that advice, suggesting exactly how much sleep is too little and too much. Researchers from Columbia University pulled U.K. Biobank data from about 500,000 people who self-reported their sleep duration and used it to build “aging clocks” — estimates of each organ’s physiological age, as compared to the person’s chronological age. In other words,they measured how little (or how much) sleep accelerates aging in nearly every organ. They found that the organs of people who slept less than 6 hours and more than 8 hours showed signals of a higher age. The “sweet spot” was 6.5–7.8 hours of shut-eye for women and 6.4–7.7 hours for men. “Sleep is really when the body does its most critical repair work, including cellular restoration, immune regulation, hormonal balance, and even clearing out metabolic waste from the brain through what we call the glymphatic system,” Saema Tahir, a sleep medicine physician who was not involved in the study, told Fox News Digital. She continued: “When sleep is consistently too short or too long, those processes get disrupted. Over time, that disruption accumulates at the cellular level.” She added that every person is different, so getting 6–8 hours is a good range to strive for, but it’s not one-size-fits-all. Learn your “sleep language” to get better rest.
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Volunteers Pitch in to Feed Congolese Communities Affected by Ebola Outbreak
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Amid the recent Ebola outbreak in Congo, health workers are doing heroic work to care for their communities — as are the volunteers (like Arlette Basekawike, pictured right) who are rolling up their sleeves and putting on aprons to feed patients and doctors alike. “Even though the patients have this disease, they still feel better when they eat, and the doctors have the energy to treat the sick and give them medication,” Basekawike told the Associated Press while preparing hearty homemade food outside the Evangelical Medical Center in the city of Bunia. “I’m here for them like a parent, preparing food so they feel comfortable.” Her kindness is a glimmer of optimism for those affected by the Bundibugyo virus, the rare strain of Ebola confirmed last month. While there’s no blanket cure for the disease, there is treatment — and meeting nutritional demands is part of that. Learn more about the efforts underway to care for affected communities.
Culture
Kindness 101: Nice News-Coded Classroom Curriculum Teaches Kids to Be Kind
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We couldn’t write this lesson plan better ourselves! CBS correspondent Steve Hartman is known for his “On the Road” series, which shines a light on inspiring people and places across the country. The stories are often featured in this very newsletter — and they also take on another life in classrooms through a free nationwide program called Kindness 101. Hartman and the nonprofit Character Counts!teamed up to create a curriculum that uses “On the Road” as a jumping-off point to get kids talking about everything from respect and responsibility to self-awareness and problem-solving. To facilitate those conversations, discussion topics, journal prompts, and activities are all outlined in free lesson plans on Kindness101.com. Then comes the ripple effect, wherein talking about kindness turns into kind acts. “I see the students duplicating what they’re seeing in the videos, and as a teacher, that’s gold,” third grade teacher Neil Lahammer told CBS News. Lahammer won the first-ever Kindness 101 Teacher of the Year Award and leads a Kindness Club at his school in Red Wing, Minnesota. The best review of the program comes from none other than one of the students, who said, “It just makes me want to be a better person.” Watch Hartman visit the kiddos in the Kindness Club.
In Other News
Peony pilgrimage: Thousands are flocking to the University of Michigan’s garden to see the lush blooms (read more)
A personalized melanoma vaccine halved the risk of the cancer returning after five years in a clinical trial (read more)
Last weekend, a meteor lit up New England before breaking apart— and pieces of it may now be in Cape Cod Bay (read more)
Earl Grey, a rare hybrid sea turtle, has been returned to the wild after a successful rescue mission (read more)
Taylor Swift is releasing an original song for Toy Story 5 on Friday, called “I Knew It, I Knew You”(read more)
Inspiring Story
Brave, then and now
In 1960, at the age of 6, Ruby Bridges became the first Black child to integrate an all-white elementary school in the South. Over six decades later, the civil rights icon recently walked through her mother’s decision back then and how it represents what she sees as an American ideal: opportunity. Listen to her wise words.
Photo of the Day
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While some of us will be lucky enough to see World Cup games in person, most will be following the matches from home — and that’s where FIFA’s newly opened International Broadcast Center comes in. The Dallas hub, inaugurated Monday, will serve as a home for hundreds of journalists, transmitting camera feeds and audio from the World Cup venues to billions of viewers worldwide. Take a tour inside.
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