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DIVE IN Language programs abroad go beyond apps or even conventional classes by combining instruction with immersive experiences where the language is spoken. IN LIMA and I am in bed, half awake, mentally conjugating verbs in Spanish. Grammar hasn’t had such an insidious hold on my consciousness since high school, when my failure to learn French convinced me I was facing a monolingual future. And so I signed up for a week of classes at Peruwayna, a language school located in the bustling Miraflores district of Peru’s capital. The curriculum’s rigor attracted me—each day of the roughly $223-per-week “super-intensive” program would start with four hours of small group classes.
Persons: Dan Page, hasn’t, I’d Organizations: IN, Spanish Locations: IN LIMA, Miami, Spain, Latin America, Miraflores, Peru’s
Known as earthworks, they were shaped by indigenous peoples who lived in the area around 500 to 1,500 years ago. Many Amazonian earthworks that predate the arrival of European colonizers are revealed in deforested areas. Heckenberger, who was not involved in the study, has conducted research in the Brazilian Amazon since the 1990s, working with indigenous peoples of the Xingu region. These findings further demonstrate that the cultural heritage of indigenous peoples in the Americas and elsewhere is “remarkably dynamic and innovative,” he added. So the scientists also mapped 937 known earthworks, instructing the model to highlight locations for potential earthworks that shared similar topographic features with previously detected sites.
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CNN —A search and rescue operation has been launched for more than 100 missing people in India’s northeast after flash floods ripped through the Himalayan state of Sikkim Wednesday, killing at least 14 people and washing away roads and bridges, according to the state government. Known as the rooftop of the world, the ecologically-sensitive Himalayan region is prone to flash floods and landslides and flooding is not unusual in Sikkim. High water levels in the Teesta river in Sikkim, India, on October 4. Rising water levels of the Teesta river in Sikkim, India, after flash flooding indundated the region. About 2,000 people were evacuated after the flash floods in Sikkim.
Persons: Prem Singh Tamang, Narendra Modi, Organizations: CNN, Indian Army, of, Indian Space Research Organization, ISRO, ” ISRO, state’s Disaster Management Authority, Sikkim’s Department of Science, Technology, . Indian Army, India Meteorological Department, Indian, Indian Institute of Technology Locations: India’s, Sikkim, Lhonak, Sikkim’s, India, of Sikkim, Lhonak Lake, Pakyong, Gangtok, Pakistan, Peru, China, Government, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Uttarakhand
Now, the world's .01% are seeking submersible vessels to accessorize their latest superyacht purchase, The Washington Post reports. "Yacht owners are, by and large, people who have an interest in the ocean," Patrick Lahey, founder of Triton Submersibles, previously told Insider. The disaster may have sparked more interest in extreme adventures from the wealthy, Phillippe Brown, founder of Brown and Hudson travel company, previously told Insider. Valery Hache/AFP via Getty ImagesAt Triton Submersibles, a vessel can cost between $2.5 million and $7 million, Insider reported. AdvertisementAdvertisement"Even after a thousand dives, it never stops being exciting," Charles Kohnen, co-founder of SEAmagine, told the Times.
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TenHaken’s plan is to have the collection legally declared “surplus,” allowing the city to get the animals out of the museum. Dioramas at the Delbridge Museum. He donated the collection to the city, and it has been housed at the Great Plains Zoo since 1984. The Great Plains Zoo, which included the Delbridge Museum when it was open, attracts about 250,000 visitors a year. A Great Plains Zoo official told CNN proper display of the animals was a condition of the original donation.
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Three years after its marathon voyage across the Central Arctic Ocean frozen in the ice, the German scientific research ship Polarstern has once again reached the North Pole. This time the expedition is shorter, two months rather than a full year, and the ship is powering through the ice, not encased in it and adrift. But the goal of the scientists on board is the same: a better understanding of how the Central Arctic is changing as the planet warms. Sea-ice coverage in the Arctic shrinks in spring and summer and reaches a minimum in mid-September. The record was set in 2012, and Polarstern was in the Arctic that year, too.
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Earlier this week, the cruise ship made two failed attempts to float free on its own during high tide. The cruise ship ran aground above the Arctic Circle on Monday in Alpefjord, which is in the Northeast Greenland National Park. The Greenland Nature Institute’s fisheries research vessel Tarajoq attempted to pull the Ocean Explorer free at high tide on Wednesday morning. “Unfortunately, the attempt was not successful,” said the Danish Joint Arctic Command, which was coordinating the operation to free the cruise ship. The cruise ship is operated by Australia-based Aurora Expeditions and has passengers from Australia, New Zealand, South Korea, the United Kingdom and the United States.
Persons: , Knud Rasmussen, Steven Fraser, Gina Hill, ” Fraser Organizations: Arctic Command, Aurora Expeditions, Sydney Morning Herald, Sirius, Command Locations: COPENHAGEN, Denmark, Bahamas, Greenland, Alpefjord, France, Spain, Ittoqqortoormiit, Nuuk, Danish, Australia, New Zealand, South Korea, United Kingdom, United States
View of the Ocean Explorer, a luxury cruise ship carrying 206 people that ran aground, in Alpefjord, Greenland, September 13, 2023. Danish Air Force/Arctic Command/Handout via REUTERS/File photo Acquire Licensing RightsCOPENHAGEN, Sept 14 (Reuters) - A luxury cruise ship that ran aground this week in a remote part of Greenland with 206 people on board was pulled free by a fishing trawler on Thursday. The Ocean Explorer cruise vessel had been stuck since Monday in mud and silt in the Alpefjord national park, some 1,400 km (870 miles) northeast of Greenland's capital Nuuk. The Ocean Explorer leaned to the side during the operation and passengers were not allowed to go outside, Hill said. Sydney-based Aurora Expeditions, which chartered the ship and organised the cruise, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Persons: Gina Hill, Hill, SunStone, Essi Lehto, Louise Breusch Rasmussen, Terje Solsvik, Mark Porter Organizations: Danish Air Force, Arctic Command, REUTERS, Rights, Reuters, Maritime Group, Aurora Expeditions, Thomson Locations: Alpefjord, Greenland, Rights COPENHAGEN, Greenland's, Nuuk, Danish, Sydney, Denmark
The 206 passengers on a luxury cruise ship will be heading home soon. The MV Ocean Explorer ran aground in a isolated part of Greenland on Monday. The name of the Greenland ship was Tarajoq and it belongs to the Greenland Institute of Natural Resources, a government agency. AdvertisementAdvertisementThe Bahamas-flagged cruise ship has passengers from Australia, New Zealand, South Korea, the United Kingdom and the United States. The others on the MV Ocean Explorer were "safe and healthy," it added.
Persons: Steven Fraser, Fraser Organizations: Ocean Explorer, Greenland, Service, Arctic Command, Greenland Institute of Natural Resources, Aurora Expeditions, Expeditions, Sydney Morning Herald, DR, Danish Maritime Authority, Ships, Command Locations: Greenland, Monday, Wall, Silicon, Copenhagen, Alpefjord, France, Spain, Ittoqqortoormiit, Nuuk, Australia, New Zealand, South Korea, United Kingdom, United States, Greenland's, Kirkenes, Arctic Norway, Bergen, Norway
A luxury cruise ship carrying 206 passengers and crew members has been stuck in the cold northern waters of Greenland since Monday after it ran aground. The ship — named the Ocean Explorer and operated by Aurora Expeditions, a cruise company based in Australia — had been traveling toward Alpefjord, which is in a remote corner of Greenland. Its destination was the Northeast Greenland National Park, which is the northernmost national park in the world and is home to icebergs, glaciers and high mountains. The Joint Arctic Command, which is part of Denmark’s defense forces, said on Facebook on Tuesday that there were no injuries on board the Ocean Explorer and that there is no threat to the environment. On Wednesday, a fishing research vessel owned by the government of Greenland tried unsuccessfully to pull the Ocean Explorer at high tide.
Persons: , Australia — Organizations: Ocean, Aurora Expeditions, Northeast, Arctic Command, Facebook Locations: Greenland, Australia, Alpefjord, Northeast Greenland, Denmark
CNN —A cruise ship carrying 206 passengers and crew has run aground on a remote stretch of Greenland and could potentially be stuck for days waiting for the nearest ship to arrive to help. The Ocean Explorer got into trouble on Monday in Alpefjord, a dramatic and rugged stretch of Northeast Greenland National Park, and has not been able to free itself, according to a statement from Denmark’s Joint Arctic Command (JAC). “As soon as we realized that the Ocean Explorer could not get free on its own, we sent a ship towards the wreck,” Arctic Commander Brian Jensen said. Jensen said the Ocean Explorer could still re-float on a high tide, but failing that, the Knud Rasmussen would assist. According to the statement, the Government of Greenland, the Danish Maritime Authority and the Danish Accident Investigation Board have been informed of the incident.
Persons: , Knud Rasmussen, Brian Jensen, , Jensen, Tamara Hardingham, Gill Organizations: CNN, Arctic Command, Aurora Expeditions, Command, Danish Maritime Authority, Danish Locations: Greenland, Alpefjord, Northeast Greenland, Government
View of the Ocean Explorer, a luxury cruise ship carrying 206 people that ran aground, in Alpefjord, Greenland, September 12, 2023. Danish Air Force/Arctic Command/Handout via REUTERS Acquire Licensing RightsHELSINKI, Sept 13 (Reuters) - A luxury cruise ship carrying 206 people remained stuck in a remote Greenland location on Wednesday after running aground earlier this week, the vessel's operator and rescue services said. The Danish military's Joint Arctic Command (JAC) said Tuesday's tide had failed to lift the 104-metre (341-foot) Ocean Explorer enough to free it. Photos taken by a Danish air force plane on Tuesday showed the Ocean Explorer sitting upright in calm waters with the sun shining. The JAC said it remained in contact with nearby ships to see whether they would be able to help free the Ocean Explorer.
Persons: JAC, Aurora, Essi Lehto, Terje Solsvik, Christina Fincher Organizations: Danish Air Force, Arctic Command, REUTERS Acquire, Rights, Aurora Expeditions, Thomson Locations: Alpefjord, Greenland, Danish, Sydney, Greenland's, Nuuk, Denmark
COPENHAGEN, Sept 12 (Reuters) - A luxury cruise ship carrying 206 people has run aground in remote eastern Greenland with the nearest help by sea days away, the Danish military's Joint Arctic Command (JAC) said on Tuesday. The Ocean Explorer ran aground on Monday in Alpefjord in a national park some 1,400 km (870 miles) northeast of Greenland's capital Nuuk, the JAC said in a statement. "A cruise ship in trouble in the national park is obviously a worry. A spokesperson for Australian cruise operator Aurora Expeditions said in an emailed statement everyone on board was safe and well. The Arctic command said it had asked a cruise ship located nearer to the Ocean Explorer to stay in the area so that it would be able to assist in case the situation changes.
Persons: JAC, Brian Jensen, Louise Breusch Rasmussen, Terje Solsvik, Nick Macfie Organizations: Arctic Command, Explorer, Aurora Expeditions, Thomson Locations: COPENHAGEN, Greenland, Danish, Alpefjord, Greenland's, Nuuk
CNN —Thousands of people are known to have killed in the Morocco earthquake, with the death toll expected to rise as rescuers continue to search for survivors. Zdenek Kajzr/iStock Editorial/Getty ImagesHow about the High Atlas Mountains? “Many hotels in the High Atlas Mountains have had considerable structural damage with some of them closing,” he says. “I would say that the only part to avoid is the High Atlas mountains, to help the authorities with the rescue process. Santiago Urquijo/Moment RF/Getty ImagesIs there an an alternative to the High Atlas mountains?
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ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkish and international cave rescue experts are working to save a 40-year-old American speleologist who became ill and is trapped more than 1,000 meters (3,280 feet) into a cave in southern Turkey. Mark Dickey became sick during an international expedition in Morca cave in southern Turkey’s Taurus Mountains, according to the European Cave Rescue Association. Political Cartoons View All 1146 ImagesMarton Kovacs of the Hungarian Cave Rescue Service said the cave is being prepared for his safe extraction. The cave has been divided into several sections, with each country’s rescue team being responsible for one section. The volunteer Hungarian Cave Rescue Service was the first to arrive at Dickey’s location and provided emergency blood transfusions to stabilize his condition.
Persons: Mark Dickey, Dickey, , Marton Kovacs, Kovacs, Justin Spike, Aritz Parra Organizations: Rescue, Turkish, Rescue Service, Associated Press Locations: ISTANBUL, Turkey, Hungarian, Hungary, Bulgaria, Italy, Croatia, Poland, Budapest, Madrid, Spain
They are buoyed by experts who say the arsenic risk is overblown, the mounts nothing short of art. The Endangered Species Act protects animals even in death, so the collection can’t be sold. But by the time he died in 1978, international laws and the Endangered Species Act were cracking down. In August, the results came back: 79% of specimens tested positive for detectable levels of arsenic, the city said. With protective gear, taxidermy can be moved safely despite arsenic, said Jennifer Menken, the public collections manager at the Bell Museum of Natural History.
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CNN —Scientists have decoded an ancient aroma by identifying the ingredients used in Egyptian mummification balms — and resurrected the scent. The exact recipes used in the mummification have long been debated because ancient Egyptian texts don’t name precise ingredients. The new findings suggest that the relatively complex balms used in Senetnay’s preservation may have been the beginning of a trend of more elaborate ones used later on. Dammar resin, an ingredient used in embalming, appears next to a bottle of the recreated ancient scent. “The scent of eternal life” will be part of an ancient Egyptian exhibit at the Danish museum that opens in October.
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If Loeb’s mother had been around at that point, he said, she would have tried to dissuade him from his late-career turn toward alien hunting. The newly revealed government interest in U.A.P.s got wealthy people wondering how to invest in the search for alien life. In May 2021, the Harvard astronomy-department administrator told Loeb that an anonymous donor had given him $200,000 in research funding. If anything was left of this meteor, or extraterrestrial probe, it was scattered across the seafloor north of Papua New Guinea. Encouraged by that project, Loeb and Siraj started thinking about going after the Papua New Guinea meteorite.
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Billionaire Richard Branson founded Virgin Galactic in 2004, and it built up a backlog of 800 paying passengers. Andres Leighton/APVirgin Galactic’s rocket-powered space plane carried its first group of tourists on a brief trip Thursday. Entrepreneur and health and wellness coach Keisha Schahaff and her daughter Anastatia Mayers were the first space travelers from Antigua. The skull’s lower jaw has particularly confounded scientists because it combines features of Homo sapiens and another ancient human relative — the mysterious Denisovans. ConsequencesA close-up shot reveals the details of the ancient moss Takakia growing on the Tibetan Plateau.
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Mr. Hassan fell from a particularly dangerous stretch of the climbing trail on K2 known as the bottleneck and later died. “There was no rescue mission,” Wilhelm Steindl, an Austrian climber who provided video footage of other climbers stepping over Mr. Hassan on the narrow mountain path, said in an interview with Sky News. “Seventy mountaineers stepped over a living guy who needed big help at this moment, and they decided to keep on going to the summit.”The authorities in Pakistan’s Gilgit-Baltistan region, where a portion of the mountain is located, identified Mr. Hassan as a “high-altitude porter.” They said they were investigating whether “adequate efforts were made to rescue” Mr. Hassan, whom Ms. Harila said was part of another team. The authorities said they would examine the conditions of Mr. Hassan’s climbing gear and “ascertain who authorized him to climb with equipment that might have been insufficient for such high-altitude expeditions and his level of experience.”People frequently die summiting the tallest mountains in the world, including Mount Everest and K2. The treks are so dangerous that the bodies of fallen climbers are sometimes left behind, and some are never recovered.
Persons: Hassan, ” Wilhelm Steindl, , Mr, Harila, Mount Organizations: Sky News, Mount Everest Locations: Austrian, Pakistan’s Gilgit, Baltistan
And despite the fact that this ancient plant is one of the fastest-evolving species of moss known to science, it may not survive the climate crisis. The researchers embarked on multiple expeditions in the Himalayas to study Takakia moss. As the local temperature average increased each year, the population of Takakia moss decreased by 1.6% annually, the study authors noted. Takakia may die because of climate change, but the other mosses will survive, even if we humans cannot. Takakia may die because of climate change, but the other mosses will survive, even if we humans cannot.
Persons: , Ralf Reski, Ruoyang Hu, , Takakia, ” Reski, Yikun, ” Hu, don’t Organizations: CNN, University of Freiburg, Capital Normal University, Locations: Tibetan, Japan, United States, Germany, Takakia, China, Tibet
The death of hobbies
  + stars: | 2023-07-31 | by ( Eve Upton-Clark | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +12 min
Research has found that hobbies can reduce stress, result in less severe disease outcomes, and even lead to a longer life. Baker believes that the replacement of hobbies with hustles stems from the way work changed when the pandemic sent everyone home. "If you're already on all the time, then why not try to get some money from that hobby," Baker said. But, she added, "One con is that you just don't have hobbies anymore because you've monetized them." And studies show that without hobbies, people are more likely to feel burned out and more stressed.
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Her deep sea adventures were exhilarating, and occasionally harrowing. Given how massive and important it is, why do you think we’ve paid so little attention to the deep ocean? It took a really long time for people to understand that there is life throughout the entire water column. When you hit the seafloor, there’s a whole other ecosystem that extends even below the seafloor. So, this vast, vast, vast, vast majority of our world is down there in the dark.
Persons: Casey, Vescovo Locations: Hawaii, Bahamas, Hudson
Mauricio Diazgranados Is a Botanist in a Hurry
  + stars: | 2023-07-31 | by ( Jennie Erin Smith | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +2 min
A decade ago, when Dr. Diazgranados was head of Bogotá’s botanical garden, he took on the construction of a new herbarium and the largest greenhouse in the Americas, before a change in mayoral administrations swept out its leadership and he packed his bags for London. He published a world checklist of useful plants, a virtually boundless, searchable database of species that supply food, medicine, fiber and fuel, or help mitigate the effects of climate change. “What I need to do now is figure out how this institution can respond better to these challenges.”Dr. Diazgranados’s offices are in the garden’s glass-walled plant research laboratory, nestled in an old-growth oak forest. Here, researchers draw on collections of resins, seeds and plants preserved in spirits or in silica powder, along with vast banks of DNA samples and plant chemicals. The bridge between the botanical garden as a public attraction and a research facility is its living collection, whose plants are routinely sampled to help answer questions in plant genetics, structure and evolution.
Persons: Diazgranados, , ” Dr Organizations: Royal Botanic, New Locations: Americas, London, Kew, Colombia, Peru
Experts say the richest are actually even richer and spending more than they were before the pandemic. Most Americans now have "spent up" demand for goods, but still have pent up demand for services, Zandi says. In her experience, luxury spending is highly correlated with the stock market, and investors have enjoyed handsome returns so far this year as the S&P 500 rebounds from its 2022 lows. The luxury services sector was a particular hot spot. "If this is a richcession, the rich are probably saying, bring it on," Zandi said.
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