Tag: Goats
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How you stay calm and carry on in tough times : Goats and Soda : NPR
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Your breakfast toast is not just a carb. It can be an inspiration. All it takes is “putting a happy face on my toast with squeeze jam,” Debra Grabowski of New Smyrna Beach, Florida, tells us. That was one of the lovely emails from readers when we asked them to share the ways and means…
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Goats and Soda : NPR
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Goats, are you paying attention to our tone of voice? A new study tries to answer that question. It involved 27 goats, a loudspeaker and recordings of the phrase “Hey, look over here!” Juan Barreto/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Juan Barreto/AFP via Getty Images Goats, are you paying attention to our tone…
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TLC for Earth, end AIDS, more empathy, less light : Goats and Soda : NPR
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We asked our readers to send in their wishes for 2024, and many of you expressed a hope that humans pay attention to the health of the planet. The woman pictured above is one of the nomadic Wodaabe people — cattle herders who live mainly in Chad and Niger. Their lifestyle is affected by higher…
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Goats and Soda : NPR
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New Year’s resolutions, it turns out, probably originate in the Global South. The Babylonians of 4,000 years ago threw a heck of a party on (their) New Year and would make promises to the gods to do various righteous actions. Here at Goats and Soda, our New Year’s tradition doesn’t go back quite as far…
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Former sledding mecca now a grazing ground for goats
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There aren’t any swimming holes left around here, and if there were, you probably wouldn’t want to swim in them. Instead, our plunging place growing up in the south suburbs took advantage of the opposite season. We had a sledding hole, and it was epic. With steep sides and riddled with nearly invisible obstacles, snowy…
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Can the U.N. add 4 overlooked items to its General Assembly agenda? : Goats and Soda : NPR
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Photo illustration by LA Johnson/Getty/NPR Photo illustration by LA Johnson/Getty/NPR Dear United Nations General Assembly, We know you have a lot to discuss at the 78th session of the general assembly, which is taking place this week. You’ve got pandemic preparedness, universal health coverage, climate change, poverty, hunger, global inequality and a special focus on…
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Goats and Soda : NPR
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A year and a half into the COVID pandemic, we looked at medical fly-in missions, where health professionals from wealthy nations travel to low resource countries to set up and run short-term clinics for everything from dental care to cataract surgery. These missions, often as short as a week or two, are seen as both…
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jazzy umbrellas, cool mosque floors, ice beans : Goats and Soda : NPR
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The world is hot this year. Ridiculously hot. Fry an egg on the sidewalk hot. How are people dealing with the heat? We asked the photojournalists of The Everyday Projects to make pictures of heat relief strategies in their countries. Their cameras took aim at the cool floors of a mosque’s entryway in Kashmir to…
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Brahms, Chinese folk songs , Backstreet Boys! : Goats and Soda : NPR
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“Pick a song that you can stand to sing over and over, maybe for years,” is advice that Elizabeth Wolf of Merrimac, Mass., gives new parents. “Doesn’t matter how well you sing it. Over time that will be the most soothing sound your child knows.” That sentiment was reflected in the many, many lovely stories…
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Kangaroo care gets another boost. Here’s what it looks like : Goats and Soda : NPR
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New father Yappe Pako gets help with his kangaroo care carrier from midwife Marie-Josée Miezan. His newborn son is named Ambo Crisostome. They’re in the kangaroo care ward at the University Hospital Medical Center at Treichville in the Ivory Coast. A new program teaches the technique to moms â and dads. It’s especially beneficial for…
