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+ satellites spot harm from Amazon dams US Edition - Today's top story: Blasting out Earth’s location with the hope of reaching aliens is a controversial idea – two teams of scientists are doing it anyway [View in browser]( US Edition | 8 May 2022 [The Conversation]( Welcome to Sunday. The top five articles on our website this week are displayed below and you can also read this newsletter in [a magazine-style e-book]([.]( Happy Mother’s Day! I’m the mother of two college-age kids, and they gave me an outstanding present this year: They both have summer jobs lined up. I’m thrilled they’ll be “making some serious bank,” in my daughter’s words – but also because of the life skills they’ll be picking up. Yet experts tell us that my expectations are probably related to my age. In July 1978, when I was babysitting for probably $1/hour, 72% of teens had summer jobs, Elliot Lasson of the University of Baltimore, Maryland County, noted in an article we published in 2018. By July 2016, the share of teens with summer jobs was down to 43%, and only 35% of teens had one the following year. During the first pandemic summer of 2020, that number fell even further – to [less than 31%](, according to the Pew Research Center, although [it rebounded slightly for pandemic summer 2.0](. Lasson looks into some of the reasons for the huge shift – and they aren’t about laziness or social media. Rather, [teens, employers and parents have all changed the way they think about summer work](. Emily Costello Managing Editor Scientists think there are 300 million habitable planets in the Milky Way, and some may be home to intelligent life. Bruno Gilli/ESO [Blasting out Earth’s location with the hope of reaching aliens is a controversial idea – two teams of scientists are doing it anyway]( Chris Impey, University of Arizona This year, two groups of astronomers plan to send messages containing information about humans and the location of Earth toward parts of space they think may be home to intelligent life. NASA’s Landsat satellites have been monitoring changes on Earth’s landscape for 50 years. NASA illustration [Satellites over the Amazon capture the choking of the ‘house of God’ by the Belo Monte Dam – they can help find solutions, too]( Pritam Das, University of Washington; Faisal Hossain, University of Washington; Hörður Bragi Helgason, University of Washington; Shahzaib Khan, University of Washington When Indigenous peoples lose their river flow to dams, satellite programs like Landsat can help them fight for their resources. - [New eye drops can help aging people see better – an optometrist explains how Vuity treats presbyopia]( Robert Bittner, University of Pittsburgh Health Sciences As people age, their eyes lose the ability to focus on close objects. A new eye drop treatment called Vuity can improve vision without the need for glasses, contacts or surgery. - [Russia’s weaponization of natural gas could backfire by destroying demand for it]( Michael E. Webber, University of Texas at Austin Has Putin hurt Russia by jolting Europe’s shift away from fossil fuels into high gear? - [Psychologists are starting to talk publicly about their own mental illnesses – and patients can benefit]( Andrew Devendorf, University of South Florida; Sarah Victor, Texas Tech University Psychologists have mental health difficulties and illnesses at the same rate as the general population – but the profession has long stigmatized talking about them in public. Download the new e-book edition are providing you with a magazine version of this newsletter to read on a tablet, e-reader or on paper. [Try it out]( and reply to this email to tell us what you think. Like this newsletter? You might be interested in our other weekly emails: [Science Editors' Picks]( • [This Week in Religion]( • [Politics Weekly]( About The Conversation: We're a nonprofit news organization dedicated to [helping academic experts share ideas with the public](. We can give away our articles thanks to the help of foundations, universities and readers like you. [Donate now to support research-based journalism]( [The Conversation]( You’re receiving this newsletter from [The Conversation]( 303 Wyman Street, Suite 300 Waltham, MA 02451 [Forward to a friend]( • [Unsubscribe](