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Being a First-Generation Indian-American Empowers Dr. Mona Jhaveri of Music Beats Cancer My Indian-American heritage played a pivotal role in my evolution from cancer researcher turned biotech entrepreneur to leader of an innovative cancer-fighting charitable platform, Music Beats Cancer . Today, I draw strength from my diversity, but that wasn’t always the case. Mona Jhaveri’s Indian-American childhood Both my parents immigrated to America from India. My father is a Muslim-Indian, and my mother, a Hindu-Indian. This unique diversity was a challenge growing up, but proved to be a strength in my personal and professional evolution.   I was not raised as a Muslim or a Hindu. My parents decided to bring me up culturally as an “American.” I was not entirely exposed to the respective languages, foods, customs, or traditions of my mother country. While I technically belonged to both communities, practically speaking, I belonged to neither. This void was felt (although unspoken) ...

Meet Punch: The Baby Monkey Who Broke the Internet (Video) Some viral stories hit you like a punch to the chest, and this one is basically engineered to do exactly that. A tiny baby monkey sits alone, staring into the distance like he’s carrying the emotional weight of the entire internet. He drags a stuffed toy across the ground, cuddles it to sleep, and clings to it the way humans cling to “it’s fine” when it’s clearly not fine. Meet Punch, a young Japanese macaque living at Ichikawa City Zoo near Tokyo, who recently became the internet’s newest heartbreak icon after the zoo shared updates about his early life on social media. Punch’s story starts rough. He was rejected by his mother shortly after birth, and the zoo staff stepped in to hand-raise him. For a baby macaque, that’s not just a cute “aww, humans helped” moment. It’s a serious challenge, because baby macaques normally rely on their mothers for warmth, safety, and the kind of constant physical contact that helps regulate ...

2.20 Friday Faves Hi friends! Happy Friday! How are you? What do you have going on this weekend? The Kleigers are coming to Tucson – I can’t wait!!! – for a big event and P also has her basketball tournament championship. I’m definitely looking forward to a super fun weekend. I feel like this week went by in the fastest blur ever. I was stacked with client appointments, hosted a call for Revenue Rx members about affiliate income, worked on my IHP Centurion modules, taught barre, introduced Liv to Pilates (she loves it!) and met up with a friend for a hike and chat. I hope you have a lovely weekend ahead! May you be as content as Lola with a crunchy tree branch she brought inside to eat on the couch. (Usually I can snatch whatever she has on her way in, but I missed this one and had to snap a pic before cleaning up her giant mess) 2.20 Friday Faves Fashion, beauty, random: We had our symphony show last weekend, celebrating America’s 250th birthday. It was a mix of patrioti...

Floods in Croatia Brought the “Human Fish” to the Surface and Exposed a Hidden World Under Our Feet When the Balkans get hit by days of heavy rain, the damage we see is obvious: flooded streets, landslides, closed roads, soaked homes. But in Dalmatia, Croatia, the same storms recently revealed something most people will never see in their entire lives: pale, ghost-like amphibians known as the “human fish,” suddenly appearing where they simply don’t belong. The “human fish” isn’t a fish at all. Its real name is Proteus anguinus, also called the olm, a Dinaric endemic that lives in the groundwater world of the Dinaric karst, in caves, pits, and underground streams where darkness is permanent and conditions barely change. That stability is exactly why it survives there, and exactly why it struggles anywhere else. So how does a creature that spends its life in underground water suddenly end up on the surface? After prolonged rainfall, groundwater levels rise and pressure pushes water th...

Meet “Bumpy,” the Pink Deep-Sea Snailfish Sometimes the ocean delivers creatures that look like they were designed to star in your worst nightmare. And sometimes rarely it hands us something so oddly adorable that the internet immediately agrees: protect this little guy at all costs. Say hello to “Bumpy”, a pink, knobbly deep-sea snailfish with big eyes, a soft “smile,” and the kind of face that feels like it belongs in the next Animal Crossing game. But behind the meme-worthy charm is a serious scientific story: Bumpy is one of three newly described snailfish species discovered at crushing depths off the coast of California a reminder that the deep ocean is still largely unknown, even as industries are increasingly interested in exploiting it. Three new snailfish species found where sunlight never reaches Researchers working with MBARI (Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute) and collaborators described three new-to-science abyssal snailfishes found in the eastern Pacific, a...

The city where “death is not allowed” If you’ve ever read that there’s a town in Norway where “death is illegal,” you’ve probably landed on Longyearbyen the main settlement of Svalbard, sitting at 78° North, closer to the North Pole than most people ever get in their lifetime. But here’s the twist: it’s not illegal to die. What’s effectively “not allowed” is something more specific and somehow more chilling: You can’t be buried there (in the usual way). That single detail is what turned a practical Arctic rule into one of the internet’s favorite myths. So… what’s actually banned? Longyearbyen has a cemetery, and it’s real. The problem is the ground: permafrost soil that stays frozen year-round. In places like Svalbard, permafrost can prevent bodies from decomposing normally. That’s not just a creepy fact for a thriller plot; it creates real public-health and environmental concerns. According to widely cited local accounts, new burials largely stopped around the 1950s, after...