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Making history: For the first time in motorsports, four of the seven over-the-wall pit crew members at the Indianapolis 500 are women. And their driver is Simona De Silvestro. And every front office role at Paretta Autosport—from business operations to public relations to merchandise and marketing—is filled by a woman. "It’s important to me that the bigger message is this isn’t women at the expense of men," team owner Beth Paretta tells ESPN.
Bittersweet farewell: Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Paul Salopek, in the middle of a planned global trek, remained longer than expected in Myanmar because of COVID-19 shutdowns and, then, a brutal military coup. “Never in all my experience of murdered innocence had I stumbled into anything like the coup,” writes the Nat Geo Explorer. The instability forced Salopek, for the first time in 11,000 walked miles, to leap forward by air to his next destination, China. Follow his Out of Eden trek here.
RIP Eric Carle: His books were all about insects. Colorful spiders, crickets, ladybugs, and of course, caterpillars. Carle, the author and illustrator of the legendary The Very Hungry Caterpillar, first published in 1969, died May 23, NPR reports. He was 91. He also illustrated the 1967 Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? and 70 other children’s books.
Back down memory lane: On September 24, 1987, A Different World aired its popular TV pilot, whose ratings surpassed all others except The Cosby Show. More than three decades after the last episode, Debbie Allen, Sinbad, Kadeem Hardison, Jasmine Guy, Susan Fales-Hill, and others recall the stories of A Different World in their own words for Vanity Fair. “We changed the world with that show. We did stories about racism, we did stories about the L.A. riots … we were one of the first shows to address AIDS,” says Allen, who was director and executive producer.
A lot of catfish: Ancient Judeans enjoyed a diet that didn’t fully adhere to Jewish dietary laws. Judean residents in particular ate a lot of catfish, which is not considered kosher. Archaeologists have found the remains of three non-kosher species in two ancient Judean settlements. Scholars say the findings from a new study build a more comprehensive look of how the dietary practice of keeping kosher came to be, Smithsonian magazine reports.
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