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Monday • February 12, 2024
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If you’re struggling to keep up with the resolutions you set on Jan. 1, author Jay Shetty’s advice might help. In a new video series with the meditation app Calm, he homes in on the importance of growth when it comes to achieving your goals. “I generally find that goals are things that we want to do, or things we want, as opposed to who we need to be in order to achieve those goals. So if goals are what we want, growth is who we need to be to get to that goal,” Shetty explained to Good Morning America. Get more tips and learn all about his “7 Days of Growth” series here.
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Culture
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| This US Town Goes 2 Months Without Sunshine Every Year |
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Each year, the northernmost and southernmost areas of the globe experience a polar night, or a period of time with no sun. And the town of Utqiaġvik, Alaska, is one of the areas that falls into the northern region, going two months — from November to January — without a single sunrise or sunset.
That may sound dreary to many, but teacher Robin Reeves has been documenting her journey living in Utqiaġvik on social media since moving there from Arkansas in 2022, and she paints a pretty nice picture of what it’s like to live “on top of the world” with less than 5,000 fellow residents.
“I don’t feel like I’ve had a hard time during the darkness. I’m in school most of the day in a room with very bright lights and surrounded by kids,” Reeves recently told People magazine, adding, “I am having an amazing time up here. It’s not wonderful every day, but that’s real life.”
The sun finally made a triumphant return to Utqiaġvik on Jan. 24, and though it was for less than an hour, Reeves admitted she was “surprised at how happy I was to recognize that the sun was really going to come back.”
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Science
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| “Closer to Fusion Energy Than Ever Before”: Researchers Set New Energy Record |
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Scientists have set a new record for nuclear fusion energy output, bringing the world “closer to fusion energy than ever before,” Andrew Bowie, the U.K.’s minister for nuclear and networks, said in a statement.
Last week, the country’s Culham Centre for Fusion Energy announced that the Joint European Torus, or JET, reactor generated consistent high fusion power for five seconds, producing a record 69 megajoules of energy from just 0.2 milligrams of fuel. The experiment was the machine’s final one, following more than 40 years of scientific research. “JET’s final fusion experiment is a fitting swansong after all the groundbreaking work that has gone into the project since 1983,” Bowie said.
While we’re not quite at the point where these results can be replicated on a commercial scale, the amount of energy that JET produced — enough to power around 12,000 households for the same amount of time, per CNN — indicates a step forward for renewable energy production.
“JET has operated as close to power plant conditions as is possible with today’s facilities and its legacy will be pervasive in all future power plants,” said Ian Chapman, chief executive of the U.K. Atomic Energy Authority. “It has a critical role in bringing us closer to a safe and sustainable future.”
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Environment
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| Sustainable Subscription Service Will Pick Up Your Hard-to-Recycle Trash |
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These days there’s a subscription for everything — razors, coffee beans, clothing, books, and so much more. Most of those services are delivering something to you, but Ridwell does things a little differently and takes stuff from your doorstep.
The company collects hard-to-recycle waste (think: batteries, lightbulbs, and Styrofoam) and sustainably reuses or disposes of it to reduce buildup in landfills. It was founded by Seattlite Ryan Metzger after a 2018 conversation with his son Owen about where to recycle batteries. Once he figured out a safe place to bring them, he asked his neighbors if they had any similar items that needed to be disposed of, thus launching a “recycling carpool” that would eventually turn into Ridwell, per the website.
Today, the subscription service has over 90,000 members in the Seattle, San Francisco, Atlanta, Austin, Minneapolis-St. Paul, Portland, Denver, and Los Angeles areas. “I think we just owe it to our children’s future to just keep as much out of the landfills as possible,” subscriber Bonnie Zucker told the Los Angeles Times last month.
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In Other News
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The Oscars are expanding: The 2026 ceremony will feature a new Academy Award for “an essential role in filmmaking.”
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Archeologists unearthed a rare Roman-era funerary bed below London, the first such discovery in Britain.
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Rebecca Latson has visited 27 of the 63 U.S. national parks, and she’s sharing the incredible photos she’s taken on her journeys.
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The number of girls’ and women’s soccer teams in England has doubled in less than a decade.
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The Oregon Zoo’s baby rhino ventured outside for the first time. Watch the adorable video.
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Inspiring Stories
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Changing lives
A guaranteed income program in Boston offered monthly cash payments to 50 families for two years. By the end, some were able to pay down debt, drop their second jobs, and even buy their first homes.
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“Nobody’s too far past redemption”
Pell Grants are available to prison inmates for the first time since the mid-1990s, offering incarcerated people a financially accessible path to a college education.
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Post Of The Day
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@vanessabryant
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A 19-foot bronze statue of Kobe Bryant was unveiled last Thursday outside the Los Angeles Lakers’ downtown arena. “To the fans here in LA, this is a special city Kobe was so proud to represent. You welcomed him with open arms and have been so important to him, our family, and his legacy,” his widow, Vanessa Bryant, said at the unveiling, per the Associated Press. “It brings me joy to see how much love you have for all of us. We love you back.” She noted that the statue is the first of three that will be created to honor and immortalize Bryant, who spent his 20-year NBA career with the Lakers. See photos. (Photo Credit: Kevin Winter/Getty Images)
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Quote of the Day
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| “What can you do to be a bridge, not a gap?”
- Madison Morrigan
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