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8 hilarious but true wildlife tips from the National Park Service ; Listen to a 5-minute meditation: Use your five senses to lower anxiety; America needs clean electricity. These states show how to do it.; She was lonely. So she started a club to make friends, and 35,000 people joined.; See the sharpest image yet of a supermassive black hole ; A long walk from D.C. to New York traverses history, beauty and trash; Their teachers assign math, grammar — and giving small gifts to strangers; Why we should all be gazing at more sunsets; Staff Picks: What Book World critics and editors are reading now ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌  ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌  ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌  ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌  ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌  ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌  ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌  ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌  ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌  ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌

Get unlimited access to The Post for $1 a week  Sign up for this newsletter Read online Stories that inspire.     (Stephen Maturen for The Post) Her heart stopped in the Boston Marathon. Now she's returning to help save others. Meghan Roth suffered cardiac arrest during the Boston Marathon in 2021. She is returning for Monday's race to help with a CPR demonstration. By Cindy Boren ●  Read more »   ADVICE 8 hilarious but true wildlife tips from the National Park Service How to safely observe fluffy cows, squirrels, bears and more. By Hannah Sampson ●  Read more »   Listen to a 5-minute meditation: Use your five senses to lower anxiety Tuning into your five senses -- sight, touch, sound, smell and taste -- can help keep you calm. By Samantha Snowden ●  Read more »   America needs clean electricity. These states show how to do it. Vermont makes the cleanest power, while West Virginia uses lots of coal. What can states with the cleanest electricity teach us? By Harry Stevens ●  Read more »   ADVERTISEMENT   She was lonely. So she started a club to make friends, and 35,000 people joined. "Saying that you're lonely and you don't have people around, admitting to that was really scary," said Holly Cooke, who started The London Lonely Girls Club. By Sydney Page ●  Read more »   See the sharpest image yet of a supermassive black hole The image can help theorists better understand the physics of black holes, while the technology used to create it can be applied to other types of research. By Joel Achenbach ●  Read more »   REVIEW A long walk from D.C. to New York traverses history, beauty and trash On his 330-mile, 26-day journey chronicled in "American Ramble," Neil King Jr. encountered the unexpected along the familiar corridor. By Marianne Szegedy-Maszak ●  Read more »   ADVERTISEMENT   Their teachers assign math, grammar — and giving small gifts to strangers Students raise money to buy items such as flowers, dog treats, chocolates and coffee, then hand them out to strangers near the school. By Sydney Page ●  Read more »   Why we should all be gazing at more sunsets The best time to view a sunrise or sunset is during the late fall and winter. By Kasha Patel ●  Read more »   Staff Picks: What Book World critics and editors are reading now Here's what we're reading off the clock. By Washington Post Staff ●  Read more »     We think you'll like this newsletter Check out Must Reads for a curated selection of our best journalism in your inbox every Saturday, plus a peek behind the scenes into how one story came together. Sign up »

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