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The Vineyard Gazette - Martha's Vineyard News
As Tick Issues Soar, Fear Becomes a Factor - The Vineyard Gazette

For stakeholders in the Island’s economy — from food and hospitality to recreation — striking a balance between tick awareness and not spreading too much fear has become something of a highwire act.

Tech, Health & Opinion

The Verge
I held the Trump phone - The Verge

After spending a few moments with the Trump phone and a real, solid gold iPhone, I can’t say there’s much in common between the two.

Artofmanliness.com
Odds & Ends: June 12, 2026 - The Art of Manliness

Your dad bod could raise your kids’ risk for obesity and disease. You’ve probably heard of the “dad bod.” It’s the body shape of a guy who’s not super fat, but not in particularly good shape, either. It’s gotten a friendly rebrand over the past decade with ar…

Space Daily
The people of Okinawa, Japan only eat until they are about 80 percent full, then stop — and the practice has been linked in multiple peer-reviewed studies to lower rates of cardiovascular disease, slower biological aging, and a measurable extension of healthy - Space Daily

There is a phrase that Okinawans of an older generation often murmur to themselves before sitting down to eat: hara hachi bu. The Chinese characters mean, more or less, “stomach eight parts,” and the full sense of the saying is “eat until your stomach is eigh…

Space Daily
Breathable oxygen has now been produced on the surface of Mars — generated between 2021 and 2023 by a NASA experiment about the size of a toaster, riding inside the Perseverance rover — in the first time humans have ever made air on another planet, - Space Daily

Sometime around midday on April 20, 2021, a microwave-sized device on Mars finished its first hour of work and reported back to its operators at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. It had produced 5.4 grams of breathable oxygen, enough for an astronaut…

Space Daily
In September 2022 a NASA spacecraft deliberately crashed into a harmless asteroid 11 million kilometres away and shifted its orbit by about 32 minutes — the first time humans had ever moved another world, the moment planetary defence stopped being theo - Space Daily

On 26 September 2022, NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test spacecraft struck Dimorphos, a roughly 150-metre moonlet orbiting the larger asteroid Didymos, about 11 million kilometres from Earth. The roughly 600-kilogram spacecraft hit at about 6 kilometres …

Space Daily
Just 12.5 light years away, around a star so faint it was only discovered in 2003, sits one of the most Earth-like rocky worlds ever found in a habitable zone — and yet we still cannot answer the single question that decides everything: whether it has any atmosp - Space Daily

Teegarden’s Star b is a planet of at least about 1.16 Earth masses, orbiting a red dwarf about 12.5 light-years away in the constellation Aries. It lies inside its star’s habitable zone and is, by one common measure, among the most Earth-like worlds yet catal…

Sci.news
New Species of Ancient Bear-Dog Identified in Spain - Sci.News

Paleontologists have identified a previously unknown species of amphicyonid -- the extinct family of carnivorous mammals popularly known as bear-dogs -- from two specimens unearthed at a rich fossil site in the Vallès-Penedès Basin near Barcelona, Spain.

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