Mayonnaise can be a surprisingly polarizing condiment. (Pro tip: add garlic, call it aioli, and watch your polarization numbers plummet.) But if you re on the fence with your feelings, here s a story that may push you solidly into the pro-mayonnaise camp: The mix of oil, egg yolk, and acid is saving the lives of endangered turtles.
Over the past week, the Israeli coastline has been dealing with an oil spill that the country s Nature and Parks Authority has billed as one of the most severe ecological disasters to hit Israel with black tar washing up on the vast majority of the small nation s 119 miles of beaches, according to
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WASHINGTON (NewsNation Now) NASA’s headquarters is getting a new name, and it honors the agency’s first Black female engineer Mary Jackson.
Jackson “overcame the barriers of segregation and gender bias to become a professional aerospace engineer and leader in ensuring equal opportunities for future generations,” NASA said.
She started out in the segregated West Area Computing Unit of NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia. A mathematician and aerospace engineer, Jackson eventually led programs that influenced NASA’s hiring and promotion of women.
Jackson posthumously received the Congressional Gold Medal in 2019, along with three other African American women who worked at NASA and were highlighted in the 2016 book and movie “Hidden Figures.”
MICHMORET, Israel (AP) When it comes to saving sea turtles, Israeli rescuers have discovered that mayonnaise is a miracle. Employees at Israel's National Sea Turtle Rescue Center are.
An ecological disaster has been unfolding this week in Israel, where an oil spill has triggered the country’s most challenging wildlife rescue missions in recent years. Tar has been washing up across 170 kilometers (105 miles) of coastline, bringing with it creatures caked in a sticky black substance that has injured and killed many wild animals. Israel Nature and Parks Authority (NPA) has warned on Facebook that the incident will likely have a lasting effect on its coastline and ecosystems both on and offshore.
They have deployed investigators to try and assess and implement a prioritized list of areas and animals requiring urgent treatment, but with tar still landing on its shoreline it’s evident that undoing the damage is going to be a mammoth undertaking. The authority has urged that while many people may be eager to help, the affected areas could be harmful to people as well as animals and that gathering during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic is unwise. As such, they’ve c