And another day of rising cases, RSV, textbook content, ‘race norming,’ removed statues, school boards as battle zones, wildfires, heat, giant pandas, and turning used soda bottles into vanilla flavoring comes to a close:
“It’s absolutely bone chilling to think of a law making it illegal to teach anything but a state’s official version of history. Do we want to be like China making sure people don’t know about the Tiananmen Square massacre? When forgetting is mandatory, remembering is essential.” — Walter Shaub
Deaths
US: 622,821 (+608 over two days)
World: 4,042,675 (+16,489 over two days)
Cases
US: 34,726,111 (+49,215 over two days)
World: 187,265,506 (+934,870 over two days)
The US has surpassed 20,000 new Covid-19 cases for the fourth day in a row as the highly contagious Delta variant persists in its track in being the most common form of the coronavirus in the country.
All adults and children who have upper respiratory symptoms should be tested for Covid-19, regardless of their vaccination status, the CDC director says.
As the coronavirus pandemic continues, doctors are now warning about another respiratory disease — RSV — spreading among infants and young children.
Amid growing critical race theory legislation, education experts say textbook content could be next. Education experts say the restrictions on teaching critical race theory may spill over to textbooks as book review commissions worry about violating bans.
“Race norming” and the long legacy of medical racism, explained. As the NFL notes, race norming isn’t just employed in the league’s cognitive exam — it’s quietly used across medical specialties, from pulmonary medicine to cardiology. Over the past five years, with the growth of the Black Lives Matter movement, some medical students and practitioners have condemned race norming as harmful and discriminatory. In seeking to eliminate the practice, they note that its premise stretches back to slavery.
‘An incredible day’ as Lee statue removed in Charlottesville. Cheers erupted Saturday as a Confederate statue that towered for nearly a century over downtown Charlottesville was carted away by truck from the Virginia city where it had become a flashpoint for racist protests and deadly violence.
Tears, politics and money: School boards become battle zones. Local school boards around the country are increasingly becoming cauldrons of anger and political division, boiling with disputes over such issues as COVID-19 mask rules, the treatment of transgender students and how to teach the history of racism and slavery in America.
‘Catastrophic': DNR warns Washington wildfire season may be worst yet. The state is seeing conditions typical to late August, according to the Department of Natural Resources.
Heat, wind spur California fire; evacuation hits Nevada area.
Extreme heat cooked mussels, clams and other shellfish alive on beaches in Western Canada. The devastating heat wave that ravaged British Columbia last week is being blamed for a massive die-off of mussels, clams and other marine animals that live on the beaches of Western Canada.
The U.S. just experienced its hottest June on record. In 127 years of record-keeping, the United States was never this hot in June.
Giant pandas are no longer an endangered species.
Scientists Can Now Turn Used Soda Bottles Into Vanilla Flavoring. Plastic bottles have been converted into vanilla flavoring using genetically engineered bacteria, the first time a valuable chemical has been brewed from waste plastic.
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Until next time, my friends. Stay safe and stay sane. Good night.
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