Newsweek and Statista recently ranked the top 250 hospitals around the globe, evaluating health care centers in 30 countries based on surveys of medical professionals, patient experience data, hospital quality metrics, and patient-reported outcome measures. Two U.S. based hospitals — Minnesota's Mayo Clinic and Ohio's Cleveland Clinic — took the No. 1 and No. 2 spots. See which other institutions made the list.
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Environment
Rare Footage of Chimp Using a Tool Represents Conservation Success in Gabon
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If you randomly stumbled upon a video camera in your backyard, you might do a little investigating to see who was watching — and in "exceedingly rare" footage from the Batéké Plateau National Park, a chimpanzee did the same. Clasping a long stick between its fingers, the curious ape poked at the camera's lens before eventually turning around and scurrying away. When scientists at the park in Gabon, Africa, initially set up the camera, they were hoping to capture snippets of lions and leopards. Members of wild cat conservation nonprofit Panthera, the researchers are on a mission to rebuild the park's lion population in what will be the first-ever lion restoration in West and Central Africa. Batéké Plateau is currently the only place where the big cats can coexist with Congo Basin rainforest animals like chimps and African forest elephants. But as Panthera's West and Central Africa regional director, Philipp Henschel, tells Nice News, although the scientists were hoping for a video of wild cats, the January footage of the young female chimp was an exciting discovery in its own right. "For us, it's really an incredible way to see, not only that wildlife is coming back, but also that wildlife is now once again, often in broad daylight, showing this incredible behavior," Henschel says. Watch the footage.
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Clearer Conversations Might Be Just a Few Finger Taps Away, Study Finds
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Hear that? Maybe you're trying to listen to a friend at a buzzy restaurant or a co-worker in a busy office. Despite your best efforts to lean in and listen attentively, it's still a struggle to make out what they're saying, much less pay attention to it. If this sounds all too familiar, scientists recently found a simple trick to help you filter out unwanted sounds and focus in noisy spaces: tapping your fingers in a steady rhythm. Study participants, all native French speakers, listened to recordings of someone reading against background noise to make it more difficult to comprehend. But beforehand, theywere instructed to "prime" themselves with one of four techniques: tapping their finger rhythmically at their own pace, tapping along to a provided beat, listening to the beat without tapping, or just waiting in silence for the talking to begin. Researchers found that those who tapped their finger at their own pace or along to an audio beat identified the words they heard with greater speed and accuracy. Adding to previous findings on the link between music and the motor system, the study shows "the motor system is not merely an executor of movements, but actively contributes to the integration and reuse of temporal information," the authors wrote, per Science Alert. All this to say, more focused and attentive conversations may just be a few finger taps away. Get more tips to hear better in crowded spaces, including choosing your seat strategically.
Humanity
"This Is Generational Change": Free Child Care Is Changing New Mexico's Present and Future
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Three years ago, New Mexico made headlines when it became the first state in the nation to offer free child care to a majority of families. Since then, the policy shift has helped lift 120,000 people above the poverty line and paved the way for more individuals to stay in school, pursue careers, and build financial stability that can pay off in dividends in the long run. One of those individuals is Lisset Sanchez, a mother who almost dropped out of college due to the cost of day care. Fortunately, the state cut the price of child care to $0 for families earning up to 400% of the federal poverty level (about $124,000 for a family of four). This allowed her to finish college and enroll in nursing school while still taking care of day-to-day expenses for her family. "[The free child care] did help tremendously," Sanchez told The Guardian. The program, which is funded by taxes on revenue from nonrenewable sources like oil and gas reserves, is not a quick fix, as the state is still one of the poorest in the nation. "What New Mexico is trying to do here is play a very long game. And so I am not without worry that people might give it five years, and it's been almost five years now, and then say, 'Where are the results? Why is everything not better?'" said Hailey Heinz, deputy director of the University of New Mexico's Cradle to Career Policy Institute. "This is generational change." As for Sanchez, whose husband works while she is in school, the impact goes far beyond herself: "Being able to work for free or go to school for free, that can make a big difference in your life and your children's — everybody's — life."
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Inspiring Story
"Everyone deserves a second chance"
A vocational training center in Maryland offers more than the usual trade classes — it gives underserved individuals a second chance. Veterans, formerly incarcerated people, and those emerging from homelessness or addiction can enroll in free certification sessions, as well as classes about financial literacy, job retention, and communication. "The most important thing that will change is your internal, how you feel about who you are," said executive director Walter Billips. "From going to a hopeless situation [to] now you have hope."
Photo of the Day
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That water fight in Season 3 of The White Lotus wasn't just a plot point dreamed up by Mike White: Thailand really does have a holiday that involves copious amounts of water guns. Songkran is a Thai New Year celebration that started Sunday and wraps up today. It marks the end of the annual rice harvest season and revolves around themes of renewal and purification — hence all the water. Learn more about Songkran and "the world's biggest water fight."
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