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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."

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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 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.

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.

NASA announced that they will spend $100,000 on a 9-month study to better understand UFOs. The study will be conducted by astrophysicist David Spergel, former chair of the astrophysics department at Princeton University.

Woman walking in the woods at sunriseEmma Simpson on Unsplash. We all know exercise is good for our bodies, but recent scientific research shows that exercise also benefits our brains.

According to our current scientific understanding, an impossibly dense, impossibly hot "cosmic egg" suddenly inflated into the known universe. We call that event the "Big Bang."

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.

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.

Whether you celebrate Easter at a church or a brunch restaurant, I bet at some point this Sunday, April 17, you will spend a large chunk of time decorating, filling with candy, hiding, and searching for some colorfully painted Easter Eggs.

Scientist records data about hydroponic plantsThis Is Engineering. small lakes of water pumped from underground aquifers to soak the crops;. chemical fertilizer to enrich the soil and nurture the plants;

Metastatic Melanoma CellsNational Cancer Institute. A surprising, accidental discovery could help answer the age-old question, "Why are we here?" It's a question with both philosophical and literal dimensions.

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.

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.