NASA’s first asteroid sample parachutes into Utah desert
Reuters A NASA space capsule carrying the largest soil sample ever scooped up from the surface of an asteroid streaked through Earth’s atmosphere on Sunday and parachuted into the Utah desert, delivering the celestial specimen to scientists. The gumdrop-shaped capsule, released from the robotic spacecraft OSIRIS-REx as the mothership passed within 107,826 kilometres of Earth […]
In the US, Utah district’s Bible ban spurs protest by parents, Republicans
Salt Lake City, United StatesAP Republican lawmakers rallied with more than one hundred Bible-toting parents and children at Utah’s State Capitol on Wednesday to protest a school district’s decision to remove the Bible from middle and elementary school libraries in the wake of a GOP-backed “sensitive materials” law passed two years ago. Concerned parents and […]
StrangeSights: Peruvian Santa goes to great heights to deliver presents; Birds Aren’t Real (or are they?); and, a life-sized Gingerbread(-like) house…
DAVID ADAMS provides a round-up of some stories on the odder side of life…
In the US, Biden restores Bears Ears, other monuments cut by Trump
Washington DC, US AP President Joe Biden has restored two sprawling national monuments in Utah, reversing a decision by President Donald Trump that opened for mining and other development hundreds of thousands of acres of rugged lands sacred to Native Americans and home to ancient cliff dwellings and petroglyphs. The Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante […]
Doctor’s orders: ‘Nature prescriptions’ see rise amid pandemic
CAREY L BIRON, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, writes that with the coronavirus pandemic highlighting the health benefits of spending more time outdoors, a growing faction of the US medical community is prescribing time outside the same way they would traditional medication…
StrangeSights: As Utah’s mysterious pillar disappears, another appears briefly in Romania, and, a bear of a master corporal
DAVID ADAMS writes about the odder side of life…
StrangeSights: Mysterious pillar found in Utah desert; a Thanksgiving text tradition; and, salt-licking Canadians…
DAVID ADAMS reports on the odder side of life…
US: ONCE A NATIONAL MODEL, UTAH STRUGGLES WITH HOMELESSNESS
GREGORY SCRUGGS, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on how, amid a general growth in homelessness in America, Utah – once a model for how to address the issue – is now losing ground…