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Simple, refreshing recipes for hot summer days from 'America's Test Kitchen'

7:58am July 02, 2023

by Lennon Sherburne

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with Julia Collin Davison and Bridget Lancaster from "America's Test Kitchen" on their best simple recipes for a hot summer weekend.

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Simple, refreshing recipes for hot summer days from 'America's Test Kitchen'

7:58am July 02, 2023

by Lennon Sherburne

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with Julia Collin Davison and Bridget Lancaster from "America's Test Kitchen" on their best simple recipes for a hot summer weekend.

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Rice mill workers start their day at the break of dawn. Some of them boil the paddy rice. Others carry it and spread it outside the rice mill to dry in the sun. To make sure that it dries properly, they rake it out, then sweep it back.

Drone Photo Award winners capture the extraordinary beauty of the ordinary

7:27am July 02, 2023

by Bec Roldan

A rice field, a playground, piles of garbage — cameras from above cast a lens at earthly images with surprising, even dazzling results. Here are some of the winners from the 2023 Drone Photo Awards.

People at a viewing deck of the Rockefeller Center gaze at the Manhattan skyline on Friday during heavy smog brought by wildfire smoke from Canada.

Canada's record wildfire season continues to hammer U.S. air quality

4:34pm July 01, 2023

by Willem Marx

Several hundred wildfires are continuing to burn across Canada this weekend, with an ongoing impact on impact air quality for vast swaths of the North American continent.

A group of young women from the Awa people in Brazil hold their bows and arrows as they return from a hunt. A new reexamination of ethnographic studies finds female hunters are common in hunter-gatherer societies.

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Men are hunters, women are gatherers. That was the assumption. A new study upends it.

9:23am July 01, 2023

by Nurith Aizenman

The implications are potentially enormous, says history professor Kimberly Hamlin: "The myth that man is the hunter and woman is the gatherer ... naturalizes the inferiority of women."

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New federal rules will limit miners' exposure to deadly disease-causing dust

8:01am July 01, 2023

by Justin Hicks

The federal government has come out with a proposal meant to prevent deadly black lung disease among miners.

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How medical schools are faring with training students to care for the LGBTQ community

8:01am July 01, 2023

by Miles Parks

NPR's Miles Parks speaks to psychiatrist Alex Keuroghlian about the state of training for medical students to care for the LGBTQ community.

A new report finds that LGBTQ+ women deal with high rates of harassment, discrimination and violence in different areas of American life.

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Many LGBTQ+ women face discrimination and violence, but find support in friendships

7:00am July 01, 2023

by Bec Roldan

A new survey documents the challenges LGBTQ+ women encounter throughout their lives — from harassment and discrimination to domestic violence.

Reddit's updates will include access to moderation tools, messaging, and control settings for user approval and bans. The Reddit app icon is pictured on a smartphone.

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Reddit says new accessibility tools for moderators are coming. Mods are skeptical

6:00am July 01, 2023

by Emma Bowman

In response to the new changes, set to roll out starting Saturday, moderators expressed a lack of confidence that Reddit's promises to improve accessibility will be substantial in the long run.

Even though the U.S. said it eliminated malaria in 1951, efforts have continued to keep the disease at bay. Above: A Stearman biplane sprays insecticide during malaria control operations in Savannah, Georgia in 1973.

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What we do — and don't yet — know about the malaria cases in the U.S.

7:48pm June 30, 2023

by Bec Roldan

Five local cases of malaria in the U.S. have been reported --mosquitoes carrying the malaria parasite bit and infected the individuals. How worried should we be? Is climate change a factor?

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