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10Oct

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IN OTHER NEWS, SCIENCE

An Atmospheric Scientist Explains The Weather Phenomenon Known As A Heat Dome Baking California And The West

A heat dome occurs when a persistent region of high pressure traps heat over an area. The heat dome can stretch over several states and linger for days to weeks, leaving the people, crops and animals below to suffer through stagnant, hot air that can feel like an oven. Typically, heat domes are tied to the behavior of the jet stream, a band of fast winds high in the atmosphere that generally runs west to east. Normally, the jet stream has a wavelike pattern, meandering north and then south and then north again. When these meanders in the jet stream become bigger, they move slower and can become stationary. That’s when heat domes can occur. Heat domes involve high-pressure areas that trap and heat up the air below. NOAA When the jet stream swings far to the north, air piles up and sinks. ...

Better Known For Her Slave Rescues, Harriet Tubman Led Military Raids During The Civil War As Well

29Apr

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Journalism

Better Known For Her Slave Rescues, Harriet Tubman Led Military Raids During The Civil War As Well

Harriet Tubman was barely 5 feet tall and didn’t have a dime to her name. What she did have was a deep faith and powerful passion for justice that was fueled by a network of Black and white abolitionists determined to end slavery in America. “I had reasoned this out in my mind,” Tubman once told an interviewer. “There was one of two things I had a right to, liberty, or death. If I could not have one, I would have the other; for no man should take me alive.” Though Tubman is most famous for her successes along the Underground Railroad, her activities as a Civil War spy are less well known. As a biographer of Tubman, I think this is a shame. Her devotion to America and its promise of freedom endured despite suffering decades of enslavement and second class citizenship. It is only in mod...

Little-Known Journey Of Willie O’Ree To Break The NHL’s Color Barrier

2Apr

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SOCIAL JUSTICE, VIDEO REELS

Little-Known Journey Of Willie O’Ree To Break The NHL’s Color Barrier

Almost everybody knows about Jackie Robinson and the historic role he played integrating Major League Baseball. But mention Willie O’Ree – who broke the NHL’s color barrier – and you’ll likely receive a blank look. That may start to change. On Jan. 19, 2022, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill awarding O'Ree a Congressional Gold Medal. A day earlier, the Boston Bruins retired O'Ree’s number 22 on the 64th anniversary of the night the forward from New Brunswick, Canada became the first Black person to play in a National Hockey League game. O’Ree had always known he possessed the talent to play in the NHL. A speedy skater with an intuitive feel for the game, he had played organized hockey since he was five years old and had scored 22 goals with 12 assists in his first professio...

Why Some Of The Best-Known Tunes, Like ‘Happy Birthday,’ Are The Hardest To Sing

4Apr

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Why Some Of The Best-Known Tunes, Like ‘Happy Birthday,’ Are The Hardest To Sing

Some friends and I recently went to karaoke. You can likely picture the scene: a restaurant adjacent to a bowling alley with a cheerful crowd and enthusiastic DJ aiming lights at a small stage. We sang a popular duet, Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper’s “Shallow,” to the room’s applause, and I remembered how good it felt to sing into a microphone. It brought me back to my time as a music teacher in the late 2000s in my home state of Kentucky. Like all of us, my students had their own preferences in terms of the styles and genres they liked to sing, but of course there were the mainstays that we all had to learn – for example, the national anthem, which we practiced as soloists and as a multi-part choir. We often sang spontaneously, too, belting out “Happy Birthday” if someone was celebrating t...

Instagram Is Bad For Teens Despite Claiming Otherwise – Facebook Has Known This For A Year And A Half – Here Are The Harms Researchers Have Been Documenting For Years

4Apr

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HEALTH & WELLNESS

Instagram Is Bad For Teens Despite Claiming Otherwise – Facebook Has Known This For A Year And A Half – Here Are The Harms Researchers Have Been Documenting For Years

Christia Spears Brown, University of Kentucky Facebook officials had internal research in March 2020 showing that Instagram – the social media platform most used by adolescents – is harmful to teen girls’ body image and well-being but swept those findings under the rug to continue conducting business as usual, according to a Sept. 14, 2021, Wall Street Journal report. Facebook’s policy of pursuing profits regardless of documented harm has sparked comparisons to Big Tobacco, which knew in the 1950s that its products were carcinogenic but publicly denied it into the 21st century. Those of us who study social media use in teens didn’t need a suppressed internal research study to know that Instagram can harm teens. Plenty of peer-reviewed research papers show the same thing. Understanding t...

Jason Momoa Known For Working Out And Being In Fantastic Shape

21Aug

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CELEBRITIES

Jason Momoa Known For Working Out And Being In Fantastic Shape

CELEBRITIES Jason Momoa got his start in the Baywatch spinoff Baywatch Hawaii, but his big break came when he won the role of Ronon Dex in the TV show Stargate Atlantis. He is known for working out and being in fantastic shape which we caught in shirtless glimpses of during his Baywatch days. It was his turn as Khal Drogo in the hit HBO show Game of Thrones that brought him into the mainstream consciousness and out of his clothes. During the early stages of the first season of Game of Thrones, Momoa’s Drogo is married to Daenerys Targaryen. During their honeymoon he takes her to bed and thrusts vigorously into her, giving us a nice shot of his rock hard body from the side. Later he walks into his tent fully nude and sits down. We see him from behind with his warrior’s ass bared for all...

America’s First Known Black Master Distiller – The Story Of Nearest Green

5Apr

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BUSINESS

America’s First Known Black Master Distiller – The Story Of Nearest Green

On The Record Stefanie Benjamin, University of Tennessee When you hear the name Jack Daniel, whiskey probably comes to mind. But what about the name Nathan “Uncle Nearest” Green? In 2016, The New York Times published a story about the distiller’s “hidden ingredient” – “help from a slave.” In the article, the brand officially acknowledged that an enslaved man, Nearest Green, taught Jack Daniel how to make whiskey. Since then, scholars, researchers and journalists have descended upon Lynchburg, Tennessee, hoping to learn more about a man who, until then, had appeared as a mere appendage in the story of the country’s most popular whiskey brand. As a scholar of tourism whose research involves highlighting marginalized populations and counternarratives, I followed these developments with k...

A little-known technology change will make video streaming cheaper and pave the way for higher quality

3Apr

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TECHNOLOGY, VIDEO REELS

A little-known technology change will make video streaming cheaper and pave the way for higher quality

A new format for compressing video, called Versatile Video Coding (H.266/VVC), at first glance might not seem to be the most exciting or profound change to influence humanity. But in a world where 4.57 billion people identify as active internet users, 3.5 billion regularly use a smartphone, 80% of global internet traffic is compressed video data and 500 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute, data is more than binary numbers. Data – and video specifically – is now part of humanity’s collective nervous system. A short summary of how the H.266 standards can improve the video streaming experience. COVID-19 has greatly increased internet usage around the world. It now has the dual purpose of keeping parents and kids connected for both work and school through video conferenc...

Yes, kids can get COVID-19 – 3 pediatricians explain what’s known about coronavirus and children

29Jul

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COVID-19

Yes, kids can get COVID-19 – 3 pediatricians explain what’s known about coronavirus and children

We are three pediatric infectious disease specialists who live and work in West Virginia. The West Virginia University health system serves 400,000 children and according to our internal data, to date, 2,520 children up to 17 years of age have been tested for the coronavirus. Sixty-seven of them tested positive and one became sick enough to be admitted to the hospital. We are asked almost daily about children and COVID-19: Do they get COVID-19? Should they attend day care or school, play sports, see friends and attend summer camps? What are the risks to themselves and to others? Based on current research and our own experiences, it would seem that kids 17 years old and younger face little risk from the coronavirus. Nearly all children have asymptomatic, very mild or mild disease, but a s...

4Apr

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IN OTHER NEWS

Gordon Last Person Known To Be With Bobbi Kristina

mysterious videotape and soiled clothing have surfaced in the $40 million lawsuit over the tragic death of Whitney Houston’s daughter,Bobbi Kristina Brown – and the bombshell new evidence could blow open the criminal homicide investigation, The National ENQUIRER has learned. The sensational disclosures come directly from Bobbi Kristina’s hot-tempered boyfriend, Nick Gordon, who made the shocking revelation in a legal response to the wrongful death suit filed against him by her estate. A top expert told The ENQUIRER that Gordon’s admissions could put him in deep trouble as the criminal investigation heats up! In new filings on Sept. 8 in Superior Court of Fulton County (Ga.), Bobbi Kristina’s self-styled “husband” vehemently denied killing her, saying it’s “frivol...