San Diego leaders back freeze on evictions tied to coronavirus outbreak despite landlord concerns
California Governor Gavin Newsom announced Tuesday he has put the California National Guard on alert to help protect communities and fight the spread of COVID-19.
Suddenly unemployed, San Diego workers grapple with how to pay rent and utility, grocery bills
The Atlantic: America’s Restaurants Will Need a Miracle
Social distancing could prove devastating to the restaurant industry, as restaurants are becoming vital economic infrastructure.
Americans now spend more at restaurants than at grocery stores—something they had never done before 2015. This modern dining revolution has made restaurants one of the country’s most important sources of work. In 1990, manufacturing employment was almost three times larger than the food-service industry, but today there are about as many jobs in food service as in manufacturing. Restaurants are the new factories, and without them state and local economies across the country would fall to pieces. Food-preparation and food-service jobs now account for more than 10 percent of all employment in Nevada, Hawaii, and Florida.
Having a wonderful time, 1969
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Scientific American: Time Has No Meaning at the North Pole
On the research vessel, Polarstern, at the North Pole, time zones, seasons and even day and night are meaningless.The sun rises and sets once a year, and 24 times zones converge on a single point.
The captain changes the ships time zone arbitrarily, to communicate with other ships on different clocks.
“There is nothing in this world that occurs to you that has not occurred to me first. That is the affliction I live with.”
