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☆ A Team USA weightlifter on course for gold at the Olympics takes a relaxed approach to training. She balances rest, work, and longevity.
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-15 | by ( Kim Schewitz | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

But at 21, the Team USA athlete is heading to Paris and is tipped to win gold in women's weightlifting. Reeves started weightlifting at age 12 and has trained four times a week ever since. She just set an American women's weightlifting record of 597 pounds total at the 2024 USA Weightlifting's National Championships Week in June. Reeves lifted 265 pounds in the snatch category at the 2024 USA Weightlifting Championships. Visualizing successTo ease her nerves, Reeves is trying to see the Olympics as the same as any other weightlifting competition.

Persons: Olivia Reeves, visualizes, —, Reeves, Steve Fauer, he's, We're, Fauer, that's Organizations: Olympic, Service, Team USA, International, Federation, University of Tennessee, BI, Paris Games Locations: Paris, Doha, Qatar, American, Chattanooga, Austin

“Without Nepal, Japan would not function.”The yellow flowers of the paperbush shrub seen in Dolakha, Nepal, in December 2023. Its bark has long, strong fibers that are perfect for making thin yet durable paper, according to the Kantou website. But as the shortage of Japanese paperbush became evident in the following years, Kanpou and the Nepali farmers ramped up production until they became the main source of the yen bill. It’s a protracted process, said Matsubara: farmers plant seedlings in early summer, harvest their branches in the fall, then spend several months processing the bark through steaming, peeling, washing and drying. The profits from the paperbush sales have provided a new revenue stream to Nepali communities, said Matsubara.

Persons: “, ”, Tadashi Matsubara, Matsubara, Tadashi Matsubara Kanpou, It’s, it’s, Eiichi Shibusawa, –, Kanpou Organizations: Tokyo CNN — Banks, Kanpou, “, National Printing Bureau, Kyodo, Bank of Japan, Observatory, Ministry of Economy, Trade, Industry, government’s Japan International Cooperation Agency, CNN Locations: Japan, Nepal, China, Dolakha, Everest, Tokyo, Farmers, Kathmandu, Indian, Kolkata, Yokohama, Odawara, Ilam, Nepal’s Ilam

☆ Here's what it's like inside the operating room when someone gets a brain implant
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-25 | by ( Ashley Capoot | In | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +11 min

Bederson, system chair for the Department of Neurosurgery at Mount Sinai Health System, is no stranger to long hours in an operating room. In fact, it marked the 14th time that the company has placed its array on a human patient's brain. Four of Precision's arrays were carefully laid out on a table nearby. Using a pair of yellow tweezers called long bayonet forceps, Bederson began placing all four of Precision's electrode arrays onto the patient's brain. Real-time renderings of the patient's brain activity swept across Precision's monitors in the operating room.

Persons: Joshua Bederson, Ashley Capoot, Bederson, Elon Musk, Stephanie Rider, Ignacio Saez, Saez, Bederson's, Benjamin Rapoport, Precision's, Ashley Capoot Bederson, Precision's Rapoport, Rapoport, Ashley Capoot Rapoport, Thomas Oxley, Synchron Organizations: Sinai, Neurosurgery, Sinai Health, CNBC, Neuroscience, BCI, Tesla, SpaceX, Icahn School of Medicine, U.S . Food, Drug Administration, Mount, Mount Sinai, Precision Neuroscience, Weill Cornell Medicine, Wall Locations: New York City, Mount Sinai, U.S, Mount, Synchron

☆ A startup wants to build the world's largest cargo plane big enough to carry wind turbines the size of a football field — take a look
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-30 | by ( Lloyd Lee | Taylor Rains | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Radia, a Colorado-based startup, wants to build the world's largest cargo plane. Billed the WindRunner, the plane's sole purpose is to carry oversized wind turbine blades. Its sole purpose: to deliver giant wind turbine blades. A rendering visualizes one of the obstacles of transporting a large wind turbine blade by ground. WindRunner joins the lucrative oversized cargo marketRadia joins the niche network of aerospace companies manufacturing giant planes to carry over-sized cargo, like heavy machinery, military tanks, helicopters, and satellites.

Persons: —, Mark Lundstrom —, Radia Radia, Antonov, GLEB GARANICH, Radia, Mark Lundstrom, WindRunner, Ruslan, Jens Schlueter, Robert Sorbo Organizations: Service, MIT, Office of Energy, Renewable Energy, Boeing, Business, Russian, Getty, Aircraft, Airbus, Airbus Beluga Transport Locations: Colorado, Russia, Soviet, Radia, Ukrainian

☆ Two brains: One visualizes too much, the other not at all
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-27 | by ( Sandee Lamotte | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +12 min

“I understand concepts, I comprehend things, I have memories, but they aren’t supported by any images,” Wathen said. Paul BokslagDutch-born artist Geraldine van Heemstra is at the opposite end of this unique way of processing. In reaction to cruel teasing from her brothers and school friends, van Heemstra learned to hide her sensory abilities as a child. “It was quite tricky at school as well, such as with math, where I would see the numbers in color,” van Heemstra said. “It was so frustrating at school because I would explain something, and then I would be laughed at,” van Heemstra said.

Persons: Mary Wathen, ” Wathen, “, Wathen, ”, “ I’ve, ‘ You’ve, Geraldine van Heemstra, Paul Bokslag Dutch, van, ” van Heemstra, “ It’s, van Heemstra, van Heemstra can’t, aphantasia, Adam Zeman, Zeman, ” Zeman, aphantasia don’t, ” That’s, I’m, they’ve, that’s, what’s, Van Heemstra, ” Van Heemstra, you’re Organizations: CNN, University of Exeter, University of Edinburgh, Cognitive Sciences, “ Locations: Newent, England, Scottish, London, Edinburgh, Scotland, Miami

☆ How NASA and Google Earth are helping save tigers
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-15 | by ( Rebecca Cairns | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

That’s why conservationists have teamed up with NASA, the European Space Agency (ESA), and Google Earth Engine to create a new real-time monitoring system for tiger habitats. “(Tiger landscapes) are also producing clean water and helping sequester carbon,” he says. The original iteration, called the “tiger conservation unit analysis” was produced in the late 1990s, and the second, TCL 2.0, in 2006. A map of the six categories of Tiger Conservation Landscapes on 1 January 2020, from the study published in Frontiers. “I don’t think people were cognizant about the amount of habitat that’s in this restoration landscape category, or about how much habitat is actually available for tigers that’s unoccupied,” he says.

Persons: Eric Sanderson, Sanderson, “, ” Organizations: CNN, NASA, European Space Agency, ESA, Conservation Science, Tiger Conservation, Wildlife Conservation Society Locations: Russian, Sumatra, Java, Bali ., Assam, India, Tiger

☆ Watch How Arctic Air Blanketed the U.S. Last Week
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-31 | by ( Aatish Bhatia | Margot Sanger-Katz | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +5 min

Air temperature ⭠ Warmer air Colder air ⭢ Freezing +80°F +60°F +40°F +20°F 0 -20°F Source: NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Prediction Note: The map depicts air temperatures two meters above ground. It shows a detailed simulation of air temperatures that was created by blending high-resolution weather forecast models with recent observations from satellites and over 30,000 weather stations. The polar vortex spins in a counter-clockwise direction, creating the path of cold air that traveled south, then east, and finally north again. It became “pretty breezy” as the freezing air shifted east, said Caleb Grunzke, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service’s office in Chanhassen, Minn. As the cold air traveled down the central part of the country, its path was deflected by the Rocky Mountains.

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