# Current events
While Much of the Nation Wishes to Move on From COVID, Many Communities Are Seeing Surging Cases and Hospitalizations
Kansas City, Mo. - Earlier in the spring, Fortune published a story proclaiming that "everybody is sick of COVID." The article, which is titled, The COVID wave America doesn't care about, discusses how much of the public is no longer getting tested for COVID, not due to a lack of access or technology, but a lack of "willpower."
Extreme Heat Taking Its Toll on Kansas City Metro Residents
Kansas City, Mo. - According to reporting from Fox4 KC, extreme heat is taking its toll on residents throughout the Kansas City area. Officials with the Kansas City Health Department suspect that as many as six recent deaths in the Missouri side of the metro might be attributed to extreme heat.
See the First Images from the $10-Billion James Webb Space Telescope
The Southern Ring Nebula as seen by the James Webb Telescope.Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, And STScI. The past week saw the release of the first color images from the James Webb Space Telescope, the much more powerful replacement for the famous Edwin Hubble Telescope.
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School Shootings and In-home Violence
Opinion piece: This is something that has not been discussed enough. I wish that the world was united and peaceful and the true goal was to be truthful and lend a hand to everyone and anyone. What it seems like is anything but peaceful out in the cold, cruel world. I know what it’s like I’m the product of in-home violence which people usually call Domestic Violence. Saying in-home violence makes it all the scarier to me. Read on. It isn’t pretty.
I Didn’t Know That I Was Friends With a Pedophile
The realization turned me to the age-old question: how well can we really know someone?. *This is a work of nonfiction based on actual events I experienced. All names have been changed. This post deals with sexual abuse and might be triggering for some readers.
New Research Explains How Poor Lighting and Mental "Photoshopping" Led People to See Different Colors in "The Dress"
Optica illusion with a woman's face and a wine glass.Milada Vigerova on Unsplash. Remember "the Dress" that "broke" the internet a few years ago? The one that those crazy, demented fools thought was blue and black when it was obviously white and gold? The one that those insane, bizarre people thought was white and gold when it couldn't be any blacker and bluer?
In My Humble Opinion, The Latest News On Alcohol Isn't Good
This morning as I mounted my stationary bike to take a five-mile ride to nowhere, I decided to check into All Bad News, All The Time, aka CNN, for a couple of minutes. I managed to tune in just as the sour-pussed anchors were bemoaning the results of a study from the World Health Organization stating that no amount of alcohol is good for the heart. That’s in “none.” Not a friggin’ drop.
I Cannot Function Properly in the Wake of the Roe v. Wade Overturn
I knew this decision was coming. Honestly, we all did. We all saw the leaked draft from the Supreme Court. We knew their intentions when Trump deliberately placed them in this intense position of power. He’s stacking the court to overturn Roe v. Wade, we all cried to one another.
“Millenials: There’s More to Life Than Watching Netflix!”
My brother-in-law texted me this morning. Look at this email, he said to me, attaching a screenshot. Have you ever read something so obnoxious?. The screenshot was a picture of an email he received. The subject of the email read: “Millennials! There’s more to life than watching Netflix!” The subheader of the email read: “Unfortunately, saving for retirement is one of those boring but necessary things.” Following this header was a picture of a happy-go-lucky couple sitting on a cozy couch with a bowl of popcorn, feet up on the coffee table, remote control in hand.
Researchers Pave the Way to Computers Hundreds of Times Faster That Also Use Less Energy
Mazhar Ali at the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands just discovered how to make electrons travel in pairs along a wire with zero resistance and in one direction only without the use of magnetic fields.
Review: "The Thing About Pam" Starring Renee Zellweger Nails "Midwestern Nice" and Sociopathy (No Spoilers)
A woman with bloody face and baseball batPeter Scherbatykh on Unsplash. "The Thing About Pam," starring Best Actress Oscar winner Renee Zellweger, aired on NBC and can now be streamed on Hulu and Peacock.
Genetic Study Suggests that Light Alcohol Consumption Does Not Benefit Cardiovascular Health
Wine pouring into a glassTerry Vlisidis on Unsplash. A recent large-scale study questions whether light-to-moderate alcohol consumption benefits cardiovascular health or actually increases the risk of a heart attack.
Viral Ukrainian Firefighter Photo Actually Shows Firefighters Battling Tasmanian Bushfires
As the war in Ukraine rages on, images and videos continue to bleed through the edges of social media. Last week, many of those images were said to depict European firefighters who had joined in the Ukrainian resistance. A particularly heart-rending image of a trio of exhausted heroes went viral. In the image, three soot-faced men are shown safe - but exhausted - in the back of a rescue vehicle.