A day before the Scottish referendum, NPR’s Europe Editor Kevin Beesley demonstrates the proper way to pronounce “Edinburgh” for our Snapchat Fact of the Day.

Do you know how to pronounce "Edinburgh?" See also: have you ever been curious what Kevin Beesley looks like?

A new study reports that plants enhance the workplace. They cheer people up and they seem to improve air quality and concentration. According to one researcher, adding plants to a workspace served to increase workers’ productivity by 15 percent.

Growing Business — Show Us Your Desk Plant

So, what’s the most productive thing to do while scrolling through Tumblr at work today? Sharing a picture of your desk plant in our comments section, of course.

-Kate

The windowsills at 4401 Connecticut have lots of plants to soak up the sunshine...including the biggest peace lilies you've ever seen. Hurray for plants!

It was an ordinary Friday. Courtney Brown, 24, of Kalamazoo, Mich., was busy looking for a job. “I’ve applied all kinds of places,” she says. “Wal-Mart, Target, Verizon Wireless.”

Then she got a strange letter in the mail. “‘We are writing you with good news,’” she reads to me over the phone. “‘We got rid of some of your Everest College debt … no one should be forced to mortgage their future for an education.’”

The letter went on to say that her private student loan from a for-profit college, in the amount of $790.05, had just been forgiven outright by something called the Rolling Jubilee.

Since November 2012, Rolling Jubilee has purchased and eradicated about $15 million worth of debt arising from unpaid medical bills. Today, the group announced that it has erased $3.9 million in private student loans, including Courtney Brown’s and almost 3,000 other students of the for-profit Everest College.

These People Can Make Student Loans Disappear

Illustration credit: LA Johnson/NPR

President Obama, VP Biden & FL observed a moment of silence this morning at the WH for the 9/11 anniversary. Hundreds of staff gathered. (AP/Charles Dharapak)

Other 9/11-related events scheduled for today include:

— A gathering in New York’s ground zero for relatives of victims of the World Trade Center attacks. The names of those killed will be read.

— A ceremony at the Pentagon, where Obama was expected to speak.

— In Shanksville, Penn., in the field where United Flight 93 went down, the names of the 40 passengers and crew killed will be read aloud.

Nation Remembers 9/11 On 13th Anniversary Of Attacks

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