“Our prayers are with the people of Oklahoma and we will back up those prayers with deeds as long as it takes.”
-President Obama made a statement earlier on the tornado that ripped through Oklahoma.
“I hadn’t realized I’d learned to talk with a weightless tongue.”
-Commander Chris Hadfield spoke earlier today from Houston during his first press conference since returning to Earth.
Hadfield said that symptoms of adapting to Earth after four months of weightlessness on the International Space Station include dizziness, a sore body and neck and difficulty walking and exercising. He has to sit down while taking a shower so he doesn’t faint, and with no callouses on his hands and feet, walks around like “walking on hot coals.”
During the press conference, he wore a G-suit underneath his clothing to coax the blood back up to his head. Learn more about his adjustment from space to Earth here.
Photos above taken by NewsHour’s Cat Wise (how apropos!)
At the Internet Cat Video Festival in Oakland, Calif., around 6,000 people gathered on a late spring afternoon to celebrate all things feline and to watch nearly 70 minutes of hilarious cat web videos projected on a 10-story building after the sun went down.
The festival is the brain-child of Scott Stulen who is project director at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. Last summer, Stulen and his colleagues posted a request for people to nominate their favorite cat web videos. They received 10,000 submissions from all over the world, and 79 were selected to be shown at a festival at the museum.
“There were total massacres…People were tortured, burned, shot, stabbed by soldiers. They were exterminating entire communities. You can’t say that’s not genocide.”
-Jose Cortez, an Ixil civil war survivor who runs a small NGO that aids fellow survivors, on the ongoing genocide trial in Guatemala.
Using forensic science, investigators have found compelling evidence that thousands of innocent indigenous Ixil Mayans were the target of extermination in Guatemala during the 1980s, a discovery that is directly affecting the genocide trial of former leader Efrain Rios Montt.
At the Bronx-Lebanon Hospital Center in Bronx, NY a medical procedure cost $38k. That same procedure cost $637k at the Stanford Hospital in Stanford, CA.
One million babies die each year on the day they are born, according to a new study released by the international nonprofit Save the Children.
In its annual “State of the World’s Mothers” report, the group has ranked which countries are best (Finland) and worst (DR Congo) at helping newborns survive their first day of life.
The cicadas are coming! Are you ready for the invasion?
Two-thirds of American office workers experience pain on the job and a quarter expect it. Not from physical exertion, but from too much hunching, sitting, clicking and staring at screens.
According to a recent study from the American Osteopathic Association, the average “work potato” misses the equivalent of three days on the job each year simply because they don’t move enough.
Before leaving on a two-week trip to Pakistan, many friends and family asked NewsHour’s Daniel Sagalyn the same question: Is Pakistan a safe place for Americans to visit?
Photos above by Daniel Sagalyn
