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STUNNING IMAGES SHOW T= HE POWER OF TOUCH
Saturday, May 21, 2022
In today’s newsletter, w= e document medical miracles in restoring human touch, photograph one of the deepest caves on Earth, cover widespread outr= age over the deaths of h= undreds of beagles at a breeding facility … = and see how Viking treas= ure was hidden for centuries=2E
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PHOTOGRAPHS AND VIDE= O BY LYNN JOHNSON
Photographer Lynn Johnson had a challenge: How= do you illustrate a major feature showing the increasing importance scient= ists are placing on touch—that sense reinforces our humanity, and ke= eps us healthy?

She “went on a mission,” she told our = colleague David Brindley, “to try to= look for situations, for people, for whom touch is a critical part of thei= r lives—their survival, their orientation in life=2E”
The longtime Nat Geo photographer and Explorer trave= led to an experimental school in Italy and several labs to show the changes= in thinking about the power of touch=2E She also spent time with research = participants in Ohio and in Chicago=2E (Pictured above is Scott Imbrie, who has brain implants that help with scrambled ta= ctile perception=2E) As the science has improved, Johnson has seen amazing = results=2E

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Feeling better: Nerve fibers called CT afferen= ts, clustered in the arms and back, can make people feel pleasant—an= d warmly connected to others—when those areas are brushed or stroked= =2E University of Virginia neuroscientists, exploring possible links betwee= n unusual CT response and autism or other developmental differences, are re= cording the brain activity of typically developing babies such as nine-mont= h-old Ian Boardman=2E
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Sometimes it hurts: Arizona chiropractor John Ball treats world-class athletes—his gri= macing patient on the massage table is American middle-distance runner Ben Blankenship—with powerful hands that man= ipulate while simultaneously picking up cues about muscle and bone=2E = 1C;I know how to use tissue and tactile feedback from the person’s b= ody,” Ball says=2E “The more tactile sense, the more skin rec= eptors you can stimulate, the more information you’re bouncing back = and forth between the local environment and the brain=2E”
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Pointing again! After a malignancy in 2018 for= ced retired teacher Neil Oldham to have his rig= ht lower arm and hand amputated, he joined the University of Michiganȁ= 9;s touch-restoration research—which meant new surgery to implant el= ectrodes=2E With research fellow Philip Vu look= ing on, Oldham uses his own nerves and muscles—plus signals from imp= lanted electrodes—to move the thumb and fingers of a prosthetic hand= =2E “I hope that somehow, because I’m allowed to participate = in this, that might make it better for somebody in the future,” he s= ays=2E
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‘Really all that we have’: After= documenting the power of human touch for so long, Lynn Johnson hopes her p= hotographs inspire readers to hug someone=2E “Human connection, = 1D; she says, “is really all that we have=2E&#= x201D; Pictured above, hospice nurse Janine Hurn, in personal protection equipment, was doing her best for Elvy Kaik in the patient‘s final days of life in Apri= l 2020=2E Occasionally, Hurn would briefly slip off her glove near the end = of a visit for the balm of touch, knowing she could quickly use hand saniti= zer afterward=2E “We both needed it—to just have that warm hu= man hand=2E”

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= Descending into one of the deepest caves on Earth (pictu= red above, a subterranean passage)
She navigated 3,000 miles across the Pacific without maps= or technology
Outrage follows deaths of hundreds of beagl= es at Virginia breeding facility
These 6 national parks tell extraordinary tales of the Am= erican South
Incredible visuals of a ’monster fis= h‘ in the Mekong
See: How an earthen mound hid the grandest = of Viking burial sites
IN = THE SPOTLIGHT
PHOTOGRAPH BY DANIEL= A RIVERA ANTARA

Pieces of home: How do you show the movement o= f people away from a troubled homeland in a different way? Photographer Daniela Rivera Antara chose to focus on the safe spaces Venezuelan women fou= nd in Peru, such as communities and homes they have built in an often-i= nhospitable land=2E (Pictured above, Adri= ana Sierra relaxes with her son, Mateo= , who is feeding her a cracker=2E)
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Through a photograph, I could transform a statistic into a person=2E
 
Shahi= dul Alam
Photojournalist known for his work in Bangladesh; Nat G= eo Explorer at Large
PHO= TO OF THE DAY
PHOTOGRAPH BY MICHAE= L YAMASHITA, @YAMASHITAPHOTO=

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This weekend in Tokyo: It’s Sanja Matsu= ri (Three Shrine) time=2E On hiatus since 2019, the festival traditionally = has been one of Tokyo’s most popular=2E Above, in this pre-COVID ima= ge recently posted on our Instagram page, people jam the grounds of Sensoji Temple, s= urrounding the mikoshi (portable shrines) and seeking good luck and prosper= ity=2E Here’s a look at celebrants representing demons, deities, and spirits in Japanese festiv= als=2E
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PHOTOGRAPH BY DOROTH= Y HOSMER
Restive even then: Nat Geo’s descriptio= n in 1939 of this photo described a cyclist’s journey in Poland as h= eading “toward Ukraine’s restive borderland”—83= years before the latest war in Ukraine=2E Writer and photographer Dorothy Hosmer was a free spirit, quitting her New York= banking job to board a steamship to Europe, where she zigzagged by bicycle= across the continent=2E She did three stories for the magazine, says Sara Manco, senior photo archivist for the National = Geographic Society=2E Here’s a collection of Nat Geo photography = through the eyes of women=2E
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This newsletter has been curated and edited by David Beard,= Jen Tse, and Monica Williams=2E Amanda Williams-Bryant, Rita Spinks, Jerem= y Brandt-Vorel, and Hobbs Bell also contributed this week=2E Have an idea o= r a link? We’d love to hear from you at david=2Ebeard@natgeo=2Ecom=2E Thanks for reading!
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