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"NASA is cutting short a mission at the International Space Station due to a medical issue with a crew member. The agency is planning to return all four members of the Crew-11 mission more than a month early. NASA administrator Jared Isaacman said the crew would return to Earth 'in the coming days.' NASA did not disclose the name of the crewmember or the ailment, citing health privacy. Isaacman described it as a 'serious medical condition.'"

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"Do you struggle with motivation? Perhaps you need to file a report, but you can't bring yourself to even open a spreadsheet. Or there's an important conversation you need to have, but you'd rather scoop out your eyes than pick up the phone. 'Eat the frog' is a productivity strategy that suggests your day will go much better if you just get the most difficult task out of the way first. It's a fine idea, but sometimes that can feel impossible. Being unable to begin something even when you know what needs to be done isn't uncommon. It can even be clinically significant, a symptom known to doctors as 'avolition'."

"In 1987, wildlife veterinarian Mark Pokras was in his office at Tufts University in Massachusetts when a colleague from New Hampshire called. 'I've got a dead loon here,' she said. 'If I bring it down to you, can you tell me how it died?' Understanding what's killing wild animals is often the first step to saving them, and over the course of his career, Pokras has necropsied everything from whales to hummingbirds. Yet this was his first loon — in part because common loons (Gavia immer) had only recently begun repopulating New England after being nearly extirpated by 300 years of hunting, pollution, and habitat loss."

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"Thinking about dropping those flavorful white sachets of nicotine this resolution season? You might want to reconsider how fast you hit the off ramp. Zyns — those tiny nicotine pouches that seem to now infest every urinal, bar-top, and sidewalk — have captured the hearts and mouths of many who would never consider smoking a cigarette, let alone packing 'chaw. Since tobacco giant Philip Morris International acquired the Swedish brand for $16 billion in 2022, Zyn consumption among teens and young adults has nearly quadrupled, according to a November study by the CDC Foundation."

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