Debate begins for who’s first in line for COVID-19 vaccine — The Muslim Times

Source: Associated Press BY LAURAN NEERGAARD Who gets to be first in line for a COVID-19 vaccine? U.S. health authorities hope by late next month to have some draft guidance on how to ration initial doses, but it’s a vexing decision. “Not everybody’s going to like the answer,” Dr. Francis Collins, director of the NationalContinue reading “Debate begins for who’s first in line for COVID-19 vaccine — The Muslim Times”

Coronavirus ravaged Florida, as Ron DeSantis sidelined scientists and followed Trump — Scotties Toy Box

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/coronavirus-ravaged-florida-as-ron-desantis-sidelined-scientists-and-followed-trump/2020/07/25/0b8008da-c648-11ea-b037-f9711f89ee46_story.html?utm_source=reddit.com As Florida became a global epicenter of the coronavirus, Gov. Ron DeSantis held one meeting this month with his top public health official, Scott Rivkees, according to the governor’s schedule. His health department has sidelined scientists, halting briefings last month with disease specialists and telling the experts there was not sufficient personnel from the […]Continue reading “Coronavirus ravaged Florida, as Ron DeSantis sidelined scientists and followed Trump — Scotties Toy Box”

There’s A Staunch In The Air — Luna

it’s hard to make room for understanding when the “right” position is so deeply entrenched in a firmly held belief shocking the systems of reasonable people empathy takes a back seat when the “right” position is belligerently defended fear of change lack of compassion rooted and shackled in tradition all causing a blind following ofContinue reading “There’s A Staunch In The Air — Luna”

Sunday: Duck report — Why Evolution Is True

It’s been a while since the last duck report, and even today’s isn’t totally up to date. Suffice it to say that Dorothy and her six babies are doing well, and the babies are now “mini-ducks”, having lost all their down and become smaller versions of their mom. Honey was here until yesterday, but now […]Continue reading “Sunday: Duck report — Why Evolution Is True”

About 7,800 People Ordered to Evacuate Due to Southern California Wildfire — TIME

About 7,800 people were ordered to evacuate amidst a wildfire that has consumed 15,000 acres so far in southern California’s Riverside County, officials say. Nearly 1,400 firefighters from 307 engine companies have been deployed to fight the Apple Fire, which is burning uncontained near the community of Cherry Valley southeast of San Bernardino, the Riverside… AboutContinue reading “About 7,800 People Ordered to Evacuate Due to Southern California Wildfire — TIME”

Ten Years After Lieberman’s “Internet Kill Switch,” the War on Freedom Rages On — Aletho News

By Thomas L. Knapp | The Garrison Center | August 2, 2020 In 2010, US Senators Joe Lieberman (D-CT), Susan Collins (R-ME), and Thomas Carper (D-DE) introduced their Protecting Cyberspace as a National Asset Act. Better known as the “Internet Kill Switch” proposal for the emergency powers it would have conferred on the president, theContinue reading “Ten Years After Lieberman’s “Internet Kill Switch,” the War on Freedom Rages On — Aletho News”

If Mass Curves Spacetime, How Does It Uncurve Again? — Kaahsh

Part 6 How Long Would It Take For The Orbit To Decay Away? It might take far longer than the age of the Universe itself, but it wouldn’t be arbitrarily stable. Before we ever measured any Gravitational Waves, in fact, this was the primary method of measuring the Speed of Gravity. Not for the Earth, […]Continue reading “If Mass Curves Spacetime, How Does It Uncurve Again? — Kaahsh”