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NPR (Ava Berger) - Climate change is now threatening a pillar of childhood: summer break

When summer rolls around, many parents scramble to sign up their young kids for outdoor activities. But what do you do when extreme heat and wildfire smoke increasingly make the outdoors dangerous?

NPR (Kadin Mills) - Meet the robots programmed by kids to speak their Indigenous languages

Many Native American languages are endangered. With the help of his mentor, a 12-year-old in Michigan hopes to help preserve his language through robotics.

Anishinaabemowin, an endangered Native American language. Hoy's mentor, Danielle Boyer (left), is teaching him skills including coding and electrical circuitry.'/Open

NPR (Maria Godoy) - ADHD looks different in women and poses unique health risks

For decades, ADHD was viewed as a childhood condition that mostly affected boys. Researchers now know ADHD manifests differently in girls, but many still go undiagnosed until adulthood.

NEWSCATS - Climate Misanthropy

Image: Greenland Adds More Summer Mass; Freeze Sweeps Australia; Too Many Polar Bears; + Denmark Is Finally Discovering Its Energy Failure Related: Greenland’s Ice Sheet Was Supposed To Be Rapidly Melting Away. It Hasn’t Been [...]

AMERICANGREATNESS (Roger Kimball) - Odysseus Visits the Smithsonian

It seems that everyone is talking about two things these days: The Odyssey (or, to be more strictly accurate, The Odyssey as reimagined by Christopher Nolan) and the […] Source

AMERICANGREATNESS (James Bowman) - Movie Review: ‘Pressure’

Courage, said Ernest Hemingway, is “grace under pressure”—which is also a good description of the quality that people once most valued in a leader. It’s […] Source

NYTIMES (Alex Averbuch) - Ukraine Is Fighting for Freedom. Freedom Is for Everyone.

The legal gap for gay Ukrainians has always been unbearable. Then the war with Russia seemed to make the disparity untenable. But the gap remains.