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(she/her) / producer @NPRShortWave /‘19 @AAASMassMedia Fellow at PBS @NewsHour / BioChem PhD / Avid Ice angler / Punny /🗻 and 🐕❤️er
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This July 4th, are you a thrill- or chill-seeker?

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By Berly McCoy, Emily Kwong Verified, Rebecca Ramirez Verified
| NPR Verified
This 4th of July, are you a thrill- or chill-seeker? : Short Wave Independence Day is approaching! Imagine if someone has procured illegal fireworks from a couple of states over. Are you: 1. first in line to light them? 2. content to watch while others set them off? 3. going to find a fire extinguisher — just in case — while loudly condemning the activity? Ken Carter, a psychologist at Oxford College of Emory University, says everyone has a different level of sensation-seeking.
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This July 4th, are you a thrill- or chill-seeker?

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By Berly McCoy, Emily Kwong Verified, Rebecca Ramirez Verified
| WBUR-FM (Boston, MA) Verified
Independence Day is approaching! Imagine if someone has procured illegal fireworks from a couple of states over. Are you: 1. first in line to light them? 2. content to watch while others set them off? 3. going to find a fire extinguisher — just in case — while loudly condemning the activity? Ken Carter, a psychologist at Oxford College of Emory University, says everyone has a different level of sensation-seeking.
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Salty Clouds aren’t the only strange thing about this object in space

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By Regina G. Barber, Angela Zhang, Juana Summers Verified, Jordan-Marie Smith, Berly McCoy, Rebecca Ramirez Verified, Mallory Yu Verified
| NPR Verified
The weather on a mysterious world could be very salty : Short Wave There’s an object in space 25 times the size of Jupiter that’s stumped scientists for years. They haven’t been able to figure out if it’s a planet or a failed star. But scientists are one step closer to an answer thanks to the powerful James Webb Space Telescope.
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