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Struggling to get enough spinach in your diet? Rather than rustling up a salad or green smoothie, one TikToker has a rather unusual hack to ensure she hits her daily greens goal. I call it dinosaur time, TikTok user @sahmthingsup said in a video posted last month, wherein she stands over the sink and stuffs handfuls of raw spinach into her mouth. @sahmthingsup Ive been going strong on dinosaur time for about a week now as a supplement to my normal lunches and I feel pretty good. So maybe try it out #greens #healthy #healthyliving #healthyrecipes #healthylifestyle #fyp #dinosaur #dinosaurtime #Fitness #fitnesstips #nutrition #nutritiontips #macros original sound – sahmthingsup While it may not be the most appetizing way to consume the leafy greens, the food “hack” has already racked up more than one million views. For added enrichment, put on a dinosaur documentary, one user commented. Another added: My life changed when I realized I could do this with any food I should be getting more of. In an interview with the New York Post, @sahmthingsup explained that she started eating raw greens as a way of managing her macronutrient-rich diet. Assembling salads every day was time-consuming; when she saw a Facebook post that suggested eating handfuls of spinach over the sink, it was a lightbulb moment. I thought it was genius, so I decided to do the same and it worked beautifully, she told the Post. Since it reminded her of a Brachiosaurus eating leaves from the tree in the film Jurassic Park, she decided to call it dinosaur time. And thus a trend was born. Packed with essential vitamins and minerals while being low in calories, spinach is a superfood when it comes to overall health. Rich in vitamin A, C, and K1, as well as iron, calcium, and folate, getting enough spinach in your diet supports immune function, bone health, and red blood cell production. While rawdogging handfuls of spinach may not be everyone’s idea of a fun snack, @sahmthingsup confessed that during dinosaur time, she channels Spike after he hatches out of his egg in the film The Land Before Time. The video somehow found its way onto the radar of Stu Krieger, writer of the 1998 film. He gave the hack his stamp of approval, commenting, This might be the best channeling of Spike Ive ever seen.
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On Friday, President Donald Trump issued yet another executive order aimed at gutting our federal agencies in the name of fiscal efficiency, this time slashing much-needed funding for libraries and museums nationwide. His target is the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), a federal agency charged with distributing funds approved by Congress to support libraries, museums, and archives program-grant recipients in all 50 U.S. states and territories. The move has sparked outrage and concern from a number of groups, including the American Alliance of Museums (AAM), which has opposed the IMLS cuts. The AAM argues that the agency is already operating at a minimum level, making up only 0.0046% of the overall federal budget, to support a sector that generates more than $50 billion in economic impact. The funding cuts would effectively dismantle and eliminate the only federal agency dedicated to supporting and funding museums, which goes against public opinion: 96% of Americans support maintaining or increasing federal funding for museums, which are vital anchors of local communities, according to the AAM. If you’re one of the 96%, here are some ways you can help fight back against the funding cuts to museums and libraries. 1) Sign a petition EveryLibrary, a nonprofit group that advocates for public library funding and has fought against book bans, has also come out against the cuts, arguing that the IMLS is required by Congress’s 2018 Museum and Library Services Act to send federal funds to state libraries. (As Fast Company articles have previously noted, only Congress can abolish federal agencies, not the president.) EveryLibrary is calling on all Americans “to join us in telling Congress to hold the line with the Administration and DOGE and keep these core programs, especially the Grants to States funding, intact.” You can sign the group’s petition to stop Trump’s executive order, which at press time already has 25,580 of the 40,000 signatures it needs. 2) Visit your local library Some other ways to support your local library: Check out a book, ebook, magazine, or audiobook. Every time you use your local library, it helps demonstrate demand, and therefore makes the case for funding. Follow your local library on social media, and engage with your librarians in person. Say hello at the front desk, and ask what you can do to help. You can also attend a local town hall meeting or email your local representative to ask about how to help. 3) Join a protest Want to do more? Consider joining one of the ongoing protests taking place almost monthly across the country organized by the 50501 Movement50 protests, 50 states, 1 movementfighting to uphold the Constitution and end executive overreach and protest the antidemocratic and illegal actions of the Trump administration and its plutocratic allies.” The movement, which started on Reddit r/50501, has spread rapidly across social media since Trump took office. Information about where and when the nationwide protests and street marches are planned near your hometown can be found here upon entering your city or state. The next protest is scheduled for April 5.
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Marcia Dunn, AP reporter: Almost all roads to space begin here in Cape Canaveral. Haya Panjwani, AP correspondent: That’s Marcia Dunn, The Associated Press space writer. Shes following Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams’s return home from the International Space Station. PANJWANI: I’m Haya Panjwani. On this episode of The Story Behind the AP Story, were unpacking how the two astronauts got stuck up there in the first place and what theyve done in the last few months at the station. DUNN: So Butch and Suni became the first people, the first astronauts, to strap into a Boeing Starliner capsule and be launched into space. This was last June, June 5, 2024. They launched aboard the Starliner on what was supposed to be an eight-day trip to the space station and back. Here we are, more than nine months later. This eight-day mission has turned into a nine-month marathon for them. So, Butch and Suni strap in on June 5. Launch goes off great from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. Im there watching, watching the rocket fly. They get to orbit safely. All is well, except the next day, as theyre going into dock with the International Space Station as planned, the thrusters start to fail. Helium is leaking. There had been some helium leaks prior to liftoff, but nobody thought it would morph into something bigger and worse. These two are test pilots. Sunis a helicopter pilot by trade. Butch is a fighter pilot, combat pilot, both military skill people. They temporarily had to take control to try to get the thrusters back in business so that they could make a fully automated docking at the space station. They got docked to the space station, and months started rolling by. Were now into the summer of 2024. Because engineers on the ground could just not exactly figure out what had happened. Well, what went wrong with the Starliner? Why did all these thrusters malfunction? Whats the deal with all the helium leaking out of it? Now, they were safe at the space station, right? And they didnt need the Starliner at this point, but to come home. And because NASA was worried that it could be dangerous for them to get aboard this craft with these troubles, they kept them up there while they kept investigating the situation here on the ground. This dragged on for months. And finally, NASA told Boeing, thats it. Done. You know, you bring that capsule back empty. Well see if it survives entry and it lands OK. But, Butch and Suni, were sorry, but youre gonna have to be up there until next year. SpaceX was now the designated taxi service for Butch and Suni. There are only three ways to get Americans back from the space station. SpaceX, the Russians, right, because they have their capsules coming and going, and also, what should have been Starliner. The next SpaceX crew to go up, was launched in September. There should have been four people for astronauts on that flight. They knocked two people off the flight so that there were two empty seats on the SpaceX Dragon capsule for the return leg of Butch and Suni. Well, then they cant leave until the replacements get there. Right? Because NASA always likes a crew handover between two crews to sort of, like, show them the ropes. And it just makes it an easier transition for everybody. So then they were told, hopefully youll be home by the end of March. This month, the end of March. They switched capsules in the end. The brand new capsule that was taking so long to get ready is going to be used by other people on the later this spring. A private crew. They hurried up. Friday night, this past Friday night, finally the replacements lifted off. We know that the crew, the space station crew, was up and watching via monitors and everything. And Im sure there was a lot of hooting and hollering and a lot of smiles. PANJWANI: Butch and Suni were chosen specifically for this mission. DUNN: Both of them have been on military deployments. Right? So these are not your run of the mill scientists who or maybe a little more touchy feely. These two are like, you know, kick the tires. You know, fly boy, fly girl kind of people. But I have to say, Ive never seen two people who seem so upbeat. They look on the positive side. Butch has his wife. They have two daughters, one’s college age. His youngest is a senior in high school, so hes missed most of her senior year of high school. And Sunis husband, they have two Labrador retrievers, right. Thats their babies. And she has an elderly mother who is and has been quite worried about all this going through all of this and this. They told reporters recently that being in space has got its challenges. No, they didnt know that this was going to obviously take so long, but theyve been busy doing experiments. They got to do a spacewalk together. Suni set a world record for most spacewalking time by any woman ever, with her latest spacewalk up there. They get to talk with their families almost every day with an internet phone. They got video hookups, but its not the same as being there. And they have told us repeatedly that its much harder on their families. Their families are down here on earth waiting and waiting and waiting. And while theyre busy, you know, theyre distracted with their mission. Theyre laser focused on their mission. These two are particularly upbeat, positive, optimistic people. Butch in particular is quite a religious man. And he is an elder in his Baptist church back home in Houston, and hes even done, I understand, some, put in some calls to some of his older church members to try to give them a pep talk, right? Right. He has said hes used his faith a lot to get him through this and that theres a reason for everything, and thats what hes trying to instill in his daughters as they deal with this as well, that, you know, persevere. This will make you stronger. PANJWANI: Now when they come back to Earth, whats next? DUNN: NASA wants to have an overlap of at least a few days between the crew thats recently launched, the replacements and Butch and Suni, and they will come back with two others. Right. The two people, people who launched in September with two empty seats, theyre coming back with them. And so they want a couple of spillover days so that the people who have been up there all this time can show them the ropes. Then they will undock in the SpaceX Dragon capsule thats been up there since September and splash down off the Florida coast, and then they will be directly taken to Houston. You know, they have had astronauts up there as long as a year. Theyll be treated the same, you know. And of course, any astronaut coming back after six months is not allowed to drive for a certain amount of period because, you know, youre wobbly when you get back. Your muscles are weak. Your bones are weak. Yes, youve been exercising two hours every day. But you know, some people do better than others coming back, right? And so they dont want you behind a wheel. They dont want you doing anything that could endanger you accidentally. Between the two of them, of course, theyve been asked, what cant… what do you miss? What cant you wait to to do besides hug your families when you get back? And Suni cant wait to take her dgs for a walk and jump in the ocean, she told us recently. And Butch cant wait to get back to face to face ministering of his flock back home at his church in Houston. PANJWANI: Launch audio courtesy of NASA. Haya Panjwani, Associated Press
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