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MAY THE WILL OF GOD TAKE YOU,

WHERE THE GRACE OF GOD WILL KEEP YOU,

WHERE THE ARMS OF GOD WILL SUPPORT YOU,

WHERE THE WISDOM OF GOD WILL TEACH YOU,

AND MAY THE POWER OF GOD PROTECT YOU TODAY AND ALL OF YOUR TOMORROWS.

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Kenyan runner Abel Mutai was only a few meters from the finish line, but got confused with the signs and stopped, thinking he had finished the race. Ivan Fernandez, (Spanish speaking) was right behind him and, realizing what was going on, started shouting to the Kenyan to keep running, Mutai did not know Spanish and did not understand. Realizing what was going on, Fernandez pushed Mutai to victory. A reporter asked Ivan, “Why did you do this?” Ivan replied, “My dream is that one day we can have some sort of community life where we push ourselves and also others to win.” The reporter insisted “But why did you let the Kenyan win?” Ivan replied, “I didn’t let him win; he was going to win. The race was his.” The reporter insisted and asked again, “But you could have won!” Ivan looked at him and replied: “But what would be the merit of my victory? What would be the honor of this medal? What would my mother think of it?” The values are transmitted from generation to generation. What values do we teach our children and how much do you inspire others? Most of us take advantage of people’s weaknesses instead of helping to strengthen them.

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THE BIG QUESTION:
WHAT CAN SPACE TEACH
US ABOUT AGING?
Wednesday, December 2, 2020

PHOTOGRAPH BY ROBERT MARKOWITZ, NASA

By Victoria Jaggard, SCIENCE executive editor

Time may be an illusion (lunchtime doubly so), but apparently that does not stop its steady march from wreaking havoc on our bodies. As humans age, we experience a wave of physiological effects from head to toe: graying hair, deteriorating eyesight, heart problems, and weakened bones, just to name a few of the possibilities.

The conundrum is that we’ve also made leaps in improving medical care so that, on average, a person born today can expect to live longer than someone born a couple hundred years ago. But living longer does not mean the aging process itself takes a holiday, and people are still faced with the prospect of physical and mental decline. Understanding how and why we age is therefore of great interest the world over. And, as it happens, one of the best laboratories for decoding these mysteries is currently soaring about 260 miles above our heads.

A fleet of studies conducted on board the International Space Station shows that space travel affects our bodies in ways that are strikingly similar to aging, just put on fast forward. “It’s estimated that the heart, blood vessels, bones, and muscles deteriorate more than 10 times faster in space than by natural aging,” Shi En Kim writes for Nat Geo.

In some cases, these effects are reversed once the person returns to terra firma, which is certainly good news for astronauts. Still, the ISS provides scientists with a unique opportunity to study age-related maladies on shorter time scales—and experiment with drugs that may help treat the worst effects of getting older. (Pictured above, former NASA astronauts—and twins—Mark (left) and Scott Kelly (right), who spent varying lengths of time aboard the ISS.)

Of course, it may be a while yet before any of this foundational science leads to major medical breakthroughs. But don’t panic. As long as astronauts are in orbit, discoveries about longevity are sure to come flowing back down to Earth.

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The fifth astronaut in the Senate: The previously mentioned Mark Kelly today follows in the footsteps of John Glenn, Harrison Schmidt, Jake Garn, and Bill Nelson to serve both in space—and in the upper house of Congress. Kelly, who won Arizona’s Senate election, not only is the twin brother of another former NASA astronaut, Scott Kelly, but he is the husband of former U.S. Rep. Gabby Giffords. Glenn and Schmidt served with NASA before coming to Congress; Garn and Nelson flew on the space shuttle after being elected to Washington, Space.com reports.

Vaccine news: Britain today approved a COVID-19 vaccine from Pfizer, paving the way for the first 800,000 of an estimated 40 million shots for the UK to roll out next week, CNN reports. Here’s the latest on vaccine efforts and a report on why some people can become reinfected with the virus.

Slow burn: Why were experts and others so late to the realization that COVID-19 was spreading to rural and small-town America? Limited resources, stigma, and politics made the coronavirus difficult to track in rural areas, allowing its spread to go largely unnoticed all summer, Lois Parshley writes for Nat Geo. Since the coronavirus first hit U.S. cities in force, “it was just a matter of time before we saw it in more rural settings,” says Johns Hopkins epidemiologist Stefan Baral. More than 270,000 Americans have died since February from the virus, and more than 13,7 million people have been infected.

From discarded PPE to bricks: That’s what an Indian entrepreneur is doing with the rising stocks of disposable face masks from the pandemic. “I have eco-anxiety,” says Binish Desai, who already has molded 40,000 bricks for construction from the used (and well sanitized) personal protective equipment and is gearing up to produce 15,000 such bricks a day. The masks are often made of polypropylene plastic, which can take hundreds of years to degrade, the Washington Post reports.

The 12,500-year-old story: It has been hailed as “the Sistine Chapel of the ancients”—a cliff face with tens of thousands of paintings that was recently discovered in Amazon rainforest. The age of the paintings was partly determined by what these early Amazon settlers painted; the portraits include Ice Age animals such as the mastodon and the palaeolama, the Guardian reports. The discovery was made by a British-Colombian team in Colombia’s Serranía de la Lindosa.

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A ghostly blue: That’s a florescent-stained chicken embryo about to be examined under a microscope in a Yale lab. By tracking how genes orchestrate the patterns of animals’ growing bodies, paleontologist Bhart-Anjan Bhullar can see the nuts and bolts of development, improving our understanding of dinosaurs and their modern descendants, birds.

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THE NIGHT SKIES

ILLUSTRATION BY ANDREW FAZEKAS

The W: On the next clear night, take a tour of a group of stars that form a large lopsided W high above the northeastern horizon. That’s the constellation Cassiopeia. Its five most visible stars shine with similar brightness, but their distance varies greatly, with the star Caph only 54 light-years away while Gamma Cassiopeiae sits 650 light-years from Earth. Cassiopeia is also home to two jewel-like open star clusters easily visible with binoculars. The easiest to pick out is NGC 663, but look near the bright star Ruchbahm and you can also glimpse the majestic Owl Cluster, a swarm of 200 newborn stars over 9,000 light-years away. And before dawn on Monday, sky-watchers in the Southern Hemisphere can see a handful of shooting stars an hour during the minor Puppid-Velid meteor shower. — Andrew Fazekas

THE BIG TAKEAWAY

PHOTOGRAPH BY AGOSTINO PETRONI

A humble bean to the rescue: For centuries, the Wayuu people of Colombia survived a harsh desert environment by herding goats and harvesting wild fruits. They also cultivated the brown-patterned cowpeas dubbed after the Spanish name for their home, guajiro beans. That sacred bean may save the Wayuu, whose land has been plagued by droughts and a dam that has dried their watershed. Some of the people, aided by red earthworms and a low-tech irrigation system, have begun harvesting the resilient guajiro beans anew, with a singular focus. “People are surprised by our harvests,” says one community member, Rita Uriana. “They are surprised we still have this plant.” Could it help others? (Pictured above, a woman and child tending to guajiro beans in Manaure, Colombia.)

READ ON

An all new scripted Original Series on Disney+, The Right Stuff brings the stories of early American astronauts to life, celebrating the limitless possibility that space exploration inspires. Allow yourself to be Starstruck by the mysteries of the unknown, learn about the astronauts of today, and wonder where in the universe we are going next.

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IN A FEW WORDS

If you want to imagine the world getting better, or getting through this century without a mass extinction event, the amount of work and things going right that has to happen is vast and complicated.
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Science fiction writer; The Ministry for the Future

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THE LAST GLIMPSE

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A teaching tree: For nearly 200 million years, ginkgo trees flourished. But in a twist, humans had to rescue the last seed-producing trees of their particular family from extinction. It’s “such a great evolutionary story, and also a great cultural story,” says Peter Crane, author of the book Ginkgo. Nat Geo’s Sarah Gibbens tells how the trees were imported to Europe and then North America. Resistant to insects, fungi, and high levels of air pollution, and with roots that can thrive under concrete, the ginkgo (pictured above) is now among the most common trees on the U.S. East Coast.

LEAF THROUGH

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Kudos to WXXI Public Broadcasting for airing “Asian Americans,” a five-part series to take us back in time from the 1800s to present. Knowing and learning history lessons will teach us to make better decisions today and for our future. Below is a description of each episode. We have partnered with WXXI to spotlight local Asian Americans from Rochester, New York. Please tune in and feel free to forward to your families, friends and networks!

Episode 1 – Breaking Ground

Monday 5/11 at 8 p.m.

In an era of exclusion and U.S. empire, new immigrants arrive from China, India, Japan, the Philippines and beyond. Barred by anti-Asian laws they become America’s first “undocumented immigrants,” yet build railroads that dazzle on the silver screen, and take their fight for equality to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Episode 2 – Question of Loyalty

Monday 5/11 at 9 p.m.

An American-born generation straddles their country of birth and their parents’ homelands in Japan and Korea. Those loyalties are tested during World War II, when families are imprisoned in detention camps, and brothers find themselves on opposite sides of the battle lines.

Episode 3 – Good Americans

Tuesday 5/12 at 8 p.m.

During the Cold War years, Asian Americans are simultaneously heralded as a Model Minority, and targeted as the perpetual foreigner. It is also a time of bold ambition, as Asian Americans aspire for the first time to national political office and a coming culture-quake simmers beneath the surface.

Episode 4 – Generation Rising

Tuesday 5/12 at 9 p.m.

During a time of war and social tumult, as young generation fights for equality in the fields, on campuses and in the culture, and claims a new identity: Asian Americans. The war’s aftermath brings new immigrants and refugees who expand the population and the definition of Asian America.

Episode 5 – Breaking Through

Tuesday 5/12 at 10 p.m.

At the turn of the new millennium, the national conversation turns to immigration, race, and economic disparity. As the U.S. becomes more diverse, yet more divided, a new generation of Asian Americans tackle the question, how do we as a nation move forward together?

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Mission
The three main goals of Les Couleurs Charity are to inspire, educate and
empower children who come from underprivileged socio-economic backgrounds
and have very few educational opportunities to thrive. With our CREATE
Program, we give them the tools to unleash their wonderful creative energy,
make them feel empowered and appreciated, and teach them skills that will
create artistic opportunities or careers for them. Children thus inspired
feel and express so much joy and it tremendously helps their overall
cognitive development as well. Our group arts projects make children create
stronger bonds with each other and yet it also enhances their individual
talents and skills. As a result, we strongly believe that our CREATE program
makes a big difference in the lives of those children. Looking at the happy
faces, seeing their art and hearing their stories, makes us feel inspired
every day to continue developing and expanding our mission.

Philosophy
We believe that to achieve a long lasting change and to break a cycle of
poverty we should in children’s education, because they are the future. We
believe in strong local partnerships and understanding the needs of the
communities we serve. We collaborate with local schools, orphanages and
share the best and most efficient practices.

We invest into the training of our local teachers so the can provide better
quality education to the children they work with. Our teachers are trained
by local professionals and become role models and mentors to the most
disadvantaged children. That way we create a cycle of continuous learning
that trickles down from local educated professionals all the way to the most
vulnerable children.

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