Blue Origin launches research payloads and artwork into space on 17th suborbital flight
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A month after launching company founder Jeff Bezos into space, Blue Origin fired off another New Shepard suborbital spacecraft Thursday. This time, it was carrying NASA lunar landing technology and 18 other research payloads.
The capsule also featured three portraits by Ghanaian artist Amoako Boafo that were attached to the ship's parachute covers. Working with special paints to withstand the stresses of spaceflight, the portraits represented the artist's mother, the mother of a childhood friend and himself. "A self-portrait looking up to the skies best explains what this project means to me," Boafo said in a statement. "I grew up knowing the sky was the limit and now I get to work on a project that goes beyond the sky as we know it."On May 7, health influencer Paul Saladino, M.D.. posted a video to his X account that promoted feeding "raw dairy" to infants. The post received over 90,000 views and sparked strong backlash before it was removed the following day. Saladino regularly advocates for "animal-based" diets featuring raw milk, including on his TikTok channel where he has over half a million followers.
Everywhere you look, things are getting more complicated. Our phones have over a thousand settings. Showerheads come with apps. Cars have touchscreens. Ovens have touchscreens. "There's no doubt that 'featuritis' is real," said design consultant Jakob Nielsen. "Most of these things are too complicated."
New research is adding to the evidence linking ultra-processed foods to health concerns. The study tracked people's habits over 30 years and found those who reported eating more of certain ultra-processed foods had a slightly higher risk of death — with four categories of foods found to be the biggest culprits.