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Divisive pandemic politics is creating a wedge and splitting off health care workers from small-town communities that desperately need them. Charlie Riedel/AP The virus infecting thousands of Americans a day is also attacking the country’s social fabric. The coronavirus has exposed a weakness in many rural committees, where divisive pandemic…
When Im using Wikipedia, Im usually spending hours getting lost in the sites bottomless pit of random factoids for hours on end. Apparently though, this puts me in the minority. If you look at the most popular pages on the platform from this year, youre most likely to find pages…
A DUI check point in Anaheim, CA. getty The good news is the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration reports that alcohol-impaired driving fatalities dropped by 5.3 percent during 2019 to their lowest level since 1982, when the agency began reporting DUI incidents. The bad news is that 10,142 motorists and…
After four years of an administration that seemed not only indifferent but actively hostile to questions of environmental justice (EJ), the prospect of a Biden administration carries the hope of a long-needed course correction. Indeed President-Elect Joe Bidens nomination of Michael Regan to be administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency…
Over the weekend, a particularly awful pair of words started trending on social media: super gonorrhea. Thats because the World Health Organization recently warned that the pandemic is helping fuel the rise of antibiotic-resistant bacteria, including the bacteria that cause gonorrhea. Unfortunately, the situation is only likely to get worse.…
In Pixars Soul, a music teacher with a burning passion for jazz suddenly dies. The event puts him on a path in the afterlife that makes him realize how he never lived with much passion during his time on Earth, and how hard hes willing to fight for another chance.…
Artists, as they do, coped. They werent going anywhere during lockdown either. Since tour dates evaporated, many made music at home. Some Norah Jones, Phoebe Bridgers, Jorma Kaukonen appeared often online, keeping their voices and fingers limber, seeking connections with the fans they could no longer see. Some sequestered themselves…
An earthquake struck southern Charlevoix on Monday morning. The event took place at 9:19 a.m. in the La Malbaie area, about 1.5 hours from Quebec City. According to Earthquakes Canada, the earthquake reached a magnitude of 3.4, which can be felt, but isn’t capable of causing major damage. The earthquake,…
In-person romance was down the drain this year, so Mashable’s Proma Khosla took a look at the best steamy scenes we couldn’t stop watching from our couches. For the full article, click here.read more…
