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Daily Edition • October 19, 2024 SUPPORTED BY National Wildlife Refuge Week, an annual commemoration of “the great network of lands and waters that conserves and protects Americans’ precious wildlife heritage,” ends today. And the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has celebrated over the past seven days on its Instagram page, sharing intriguing photos like this one of an elk in Oregon showing off its antlers. Our favorite post of the week, though, was the agency’s hilarious Halloween costume...

Daily Edition • October 18, 2024 SUPPORTED BY If you’re looking for a budget Thanksgiving dinner this year, Aldi has your back. The grocery chain is offering its Thanksgiving basket — with enough food to feed 10 people — for just $47, its lowest price in five years. The basket is available now through Nov. 27, the day before the holiday. See what’s included. Must Reads How do your leg muscles relate to brain health? The story of a mysterious sculpture that once memorialized John F. Kennedy’s...

Daily Edition • October 17, 2024 SUPPORTED BY You might not be thinking about holiday cards and gifts just yet, but the U.S. Postal Service is. Earlier this month, the service revealed the cutoff dates for ensuring your messages reach their recipients by Hanukkah (Dec. 25-Jan. 2), Christmas (Dec. 25), and Kwanzaa (Dec. 26-Jan. 1). The recommendations include specific dates for domestic, international, and military mail, and note that sending from Alaska and Hawaii takes longer than from the...

Daily Edition • October 16, 2024 SUPPORTED BY History buffs (and specifically World War I history buffs): You might want to clear your morning schedule. Starting at 9:30 a.m. ET today, the National WWI Museum and Memorial is live streaming the unveiling of a century-old time capsule buried at the the Liberty Memorial in Kansas City, Missouri. According to a report from 1924, the capsule contains various documents and artifacts from the war, but we won’t know what they are for sure until it’s...

Daily Edition • October 15, 2024 SUPPORTED BY NASA’s Landsat program has been around for more than 50 years, providing the longest continuous space-based record of Earth’s land in existence. It tracks natural disasters like earthquakes and hurricanes, keeps an eye on food and water management, follows carbon storage, and so much more. Less essential is its ability to spell your name, but it is very fun. Click here to type in your name and see it spelled out in Landsat-captured imagery of...

Daily Edition • October 14, 2024 SUPPORTED BY Today is Indigenous Peoples Day, a celebration that coincides with the Columbus Day federal holiday. According to Randy’L Teton, a citizen of the Shoshone-Bannock Tribe and U.S. Forest Service employee, the occasion is “a call to support the ongoing journey toward justice, equity, and healing for all Indigenous Peoples.” Read her reflection on the day, and consider celebrating by making a donation to the Warrior Women Project. Must Reads If your...

Sunday Edition • October 13, 2024 SUPPORTED BY Considering how essential sleep is to overall health, it feels just a tad unfair how frustratingly elusive a good night’s rest can be. So we perked right up when we learned about a simple mental exercise for falling asleep quickly that’s been making the rounds on social media. Kind of like counting sheep but with words, “cognitive shuffling” is designed to distract the mind from wandering thoughts, which may help you drift off. It doesn’t work...