Aug 22, 2026 · 3 min listen · Last updated August 22, 2026
From storyflo. This is your daily audio brief. Hi, it's Chloe. August 22nd. Ten in health — the one that made me re-read the abstract is at the top. Let's get into it. First, from Nameberry of the Day. Gulnara.
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Gulnara
Gulnara is a delicious nature name that’s rare in North America, but widely used elsewhere. I was lucky enough to visit Russia in 2011, when the borders were open. I camped with groups of Girl Scouts in Tatarstan and Bashkortostan, republics that are nearer to Kazakhstan than to Moscow. Culturally, I got the impression of a rich mixture of influences from Europe and Central Asia. Churches and mosques, European and Turkic languages, Soviet-era cars and statues of local freedom fighters. This was, of course, reflected in people’s names. My ears were wide open.
How well do you know the history of special education?
The first milestone was the 19th‑century shift from outright exclusion to the very first segregated schools for children with disabilities.
In the early 1900s progressive reformers pushed for “special classrooms” inside public schools, giving kids limited access to regular curricula.
The 1950s and ’60s saw the landmark Brown v. Board decision broadened to include disabled students, prompting states to start providing some public services.
1975 brought the Education for All Handicapped Children Act, later renamed IDEA, guaranteeing free, appropriate public education for every child with a disability.
Recent updates—1990, 1997, and 2004 reauthorizations—refined individualized plans, transition services, and accountability, shaping today’s inclusive system.
Hot Take: How, When and Where We Let Our Tweens Curse (and which words are OK)
Hear me out, I wasn’t allowed to say ‘fart’ growing up (“Excuse me, I’ve let a stinker”) and the one and only time my dad cursed, it was, “Turn off that damn smut,” when he caught my sister and I watching Days of our Lives instead of taking care of 3 year old Ken, who presumably drank a bottle of Triaminic on our watch (he didn’t, just found an empty bottle and framed us!). I’m SO grateful that we weren’t yelled at or cursed at growing up, I think those patterns are easy to repeat and it’s not something that would ever flow easily out of me, likely because of that.
Years Before Starring in an Adam Sandler Film, Max Greenfield Featured Sandler at His Bar Mitzvah
Max Greenfield is known for a few iconic Jewish roles: Schmidt in “New Girl,” Yoshi Schwooper in “Long Story Short,” as himself miming the blowing of the shofar on the James Corden show in 2022, and now as Ted Birenbaum, the Jewish dad of the Birenbaum family in the just-released film “Don’t Say Good Luck” (which, as of press time, is the number two movie on Netflix). In “Don’t Say Good Luck,” Greenfield worked with producer Adam Sandler and co-star Jon Lovitz, two former cast members of Saturday Night Live — which just so happens to have been the theme of Greenfield’s bar mitzvah.
A Teaser for Season 3 of HBO Max’s Extremely Jewish ‘The Pitt’ Is Here!
Paging all “Pitt” fans! A teaser for season three of everyone’s favorite medical thriller — and HBO’s arguably most Jewish show streaming — has arrived. And we can all take a collective sigh of relief: Dr. Robby lives!! The 75-second teaser features Noah Wyle’s gruff Dr. Robby returning for his first shift back at The Pitt following a three-month sabbatical. All last season, Robby planted the not-so-subtle seeds that he might not professionally (or mortally) return from the motorcycle trip he planned for his time off.