Sunday, June 28, 2020
June 19, 2019 — We got our cold weather yesterday, up at 5 am for the morning game drive. Camp Kipwe wasn’t cold. I’d assumed it might be at night, knowing the wide temperature fluctuations you get in the desert and judging by the heavy blankets the resort laid on the bed. But it remained warm all night and it felt like the mid-60s at breakfast and when we set out on the drive.
Petition calls for statue of Christopher Columbus in Ohio city to be replaced with Chef Boyardee
The city is Cleveland and it’s actually not a bad idea. Ettore Boiardi was an immigrant success story.
Remarkable time-lapse video of a toucan growing up from hatching to adulthood. Seems like an intelligent, playful animal that recognizes its person. ∫youtu.be/nfK6k8nCW…
Sunday, June 28, 2020
Shaming didn’t work to get men to wear condoms during the early days of the AIDS epidemic, but making condom-wearing convenient and less unpleasant was effective. The same lessons need to be applied to mask-wearing today. Julia Marcus at The Atlantic: Public-health professionals have learned this lesson before. In 1987, Congress banned the use of federal funds for HIV-prevention campaigns that might “promote or encourage, directly or indirectly, homosexual activities.
“… infection and mortality rates are higher in places where one pundit who initially downplayed the severity of the pandemic — Fox News’s Sean Hannity — reaches the largest audiences.”
Sunday, June 28, 2020
As he seeks to insert rival Joe Biden’s health into the presidential campaign, Trump has voiced escalating concern about how it would appear if he contracted coronavirus and has insisted on steps to protect himself, even as he refuses to wear a mask in public and agitates for large campaign rallies where the virus could spread. When he travels to locations where the virus is surging, every venue the President enters is inspected for potential areas of contagion by advance security and medical teams, according to people familiar with the arrangements.
Not the first time Sammy got to the glass of water I put out for myself.
Russia offered the Taliban bounties to kill American soldiers, and Trump has been dithering about a response for months, according to this report in the New York Times.
Russia Secretly Offered Afghan Militants Bounties to Kill U.S. Troops, Intelligence Says
House passes bill to provide D.C. statehood
Republicans oppose statehood for DC because DC is mostly Black people.
Pence tries to put positive spin on coronavirus pandemic despite surging cases in South and West
Dangerous moron Mike Pence says increase in cases is “very encouraging news” and a “great success.” Asked whether people should wear masks, he said they should pray.
Obamacare Must ‘Fall,’ Trump Administration Tells Supreme Court
No, it is the Trump administration that must fall.
In the middle of the worst pandemic in a century, Trump wants to eliminate medical insurance for 20 million Americans. Even for Trump, this is depraved and evil.
YouTube views of sourdough videos jumped 400% in coronavirus lockdown. And “workout from home” video views more than tripled
A subsurface ocean on Europa, a moon of Jupiter, may have been habitable. For microbial life at least, possibly sometime in the past.
Friday, June 26, 2020
Justine Calma at The Verge: For the second year in a row, graduation at Paradise High School became a tribute to triumph over disaster. The tight-knit small town — where many seniors have taken classes together since kindergarten — was almost entirely razed by the Camp Fire in 2018. It was the deadliest and most destructive blaze in California’s history. Then, COVID-19 upended the school year, and seniors once again graduated into a world that looked very different than it did when the year began.