Melissa Hawkins, American University After sustained declines in the number of COVID-19 cases over recent months, restrictions are starting to ease across the United States. Numbers of new cases are falling or stable at low numbers in some states, but they are surging in many others. Overall, the U.S. is experiencing a sharp increase…
See explanation of this video below: From NASA Goddard: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=64&v=l3QQQu7QLoM&feature=emb_logo “As of June 2020, NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory — SDO — has now been watching the Sun non-stop for over a full decade. From its orbit in space around the Earth, SDO has gathered 425 million high-resolution images of the Sun, amassing 20 million…
From Rollingstone Matt Taibbi and Katie Halper interview Aaron Maté of Nation magazine, who has investigated the so-called “Russiagate” scandal more thoroughly than anyone else. EXCERPT (quoting Maté): “All of the available evidence showed just how baseless [Russiagate] was, and it was pretty clear that once it collapsed, it would hand Trump two gifts….
Russell Cobb, University of Alberta For only the second time in a century, the world’s attention is focused on Tulsa, Okla. You would be forgiven for thinking Tulsa is a sleepy town “where the wind comes sweepin’ down the plain,” in the words of the musical Oklahoma!. But Tulsa was the site of one…
A black caller to Thom Hartmann’s radio show yesterday is overcome by grief. Listen to her: