Ideas.TED.com: Teachers open up about the (mostly lousy) economics of their dream job.
“Through the TED-Ed network, we asked 17 public school teachers working in locations from Kildare to Kathmandu, Johannesburg to Oslo, to tell us what they earned last month, and to give us a sense of how they spent their salaries.”
Also: Taylor Mali: What Teachers Make (YouTube, 3:23min), text available here.
Egypt: Ship detects signals from crashed EgyptAir black box. “Investigators say signals emanating from one of EgyptAir flight MS084’s black boxes have been picked up. Sixty-six people were killed when the Airbus A320 crashed into the Mediterranean Sea on May 19.”
Natural Disasters: Authorities on high alert after heavy rains swamp southern Germany. “Several towns and cities in southern Bavaria have been inundated following incessant rains. Around 250 children in Triftern were trapped in school after flooding cut them off from the rest of the town.”
Deutschland: Dorf in Niederbayern von Hochwasser eingeschlossen. “Am 1. Juni beginnt meteorologisch der Sommer. Aber die Sonne macht sich rar über Deutschland. Stattdessen heftiger Regen und Unwetter. Besonders schlimm trifft es jetzt Niederbayern.”
Germany: Hamburg jogger wearing weight vest mistaken for terrorist. “Hamburg was on high alert after a passerby mistook a runner wearing a weight vest for a suicide bomber, police have said. A witness alerted officials after he saw the man enter a building.”
Deutsche Welle: Exclusive: Boko Haram victim tells DW of captivity near Chibok girls. “Christina Ijabla was held kidnapped by Boko Haram for two years. She told DW about life in an Islamist militant prison camp and how she had seen the elusive Chibok girls whose seizure sparked international outrage.”
Deutsche Welle: Boko-Haram-Geisel: “Und dann wurde sie vor unseren Augen erschossen”. “Fast zwei Jahre lang wurde Christina Ijabla von Boko Haram festgehalten, dann gelang ihr die Flucht. Im exklusiven DW-Interview erzählt sie von der Gefangenschaft – und vom Schicksal der entführten Chibok-Schülerinnen.”
Science from NPR: Secrets Of The Snowy Owl (YouTube). “We followed a young owl named Baltimore’s PRECISE route from a beach in Maryland to an island in Canada.”
More info at NPR.org: We Followed A Snowy Owl From Maryland To Ontario by Adam Cole.
Grand Canyon NPS: Grand Canyon in Depth (YouTube playlist).
Each episode is between 8 and 10 minutes long:
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