Wednesday, April 17, 2024
Thankfully NASA determines an object which weighed 1.6 pounds and smashed through a Florida man's roof wasn't the bag lost by two female astronauts last November
Nope, it was a 5,800 pound pallet heaved over the side of the ISS in March 2021.
Go big or go broke I always say.
NASA confirms space junk that hit Florida home came from space station
Astronauts accidentally drop tool bag during ISS spacewalk
Wednesday, April 10, 2024
Bug spray and vanilla extract flying off the shelves in South America amid dengue fever outbreak expected to top record 4.5 million cases from 2023
Brazil, Paraguay and Argentina are the hardest hit, with more than 3.5 million cases, 83% of which are concentrated in Brazil, according to the Pan American Health Organization.
More.
Saturday, April 6, 2024
Transqueers intimidate and harass feminists marching against new hate speech law in Edinburgh, Scotland
Women Scotland, a campaign group, told The Telegraph: “It’s pure harassment and intimidation. They are deliberately going out to cause upset. Women are trying to talk about their lives and are being subject to torrents of sexist and homophobic abuse.”
More.
Tuesday, March 19, 2024
Guttmacher: Over 1 million abortions in 2023, 60% by pill
From the story:
[The 2022 Supreme Court decision] led to a growing reliance on a two-pill regimen to terminate pregnancies, with U.S. abortions administered by pill increasing 10% since 2020, according to the Guttmacher Institute, an abortion rights advocacy group.
The Institute's report is published every three years and based on data collected from U.S. abortion providers.
The survey found over 1 million total abortions were provided through the U.S. healthcare system in 2023, the first time that number exceeded a million since 2012. ...
The survey likely undercounted the number of abortions in the U.S. since it did not account for terminations obtained outside the formal U.S. healthcare system, such as those done with pills mailed from abroad.
Thursday, March 14, 2024
Thursday, April 28, 2022
Saturday, January 30, 2021
For now, the Pfizer vaccine appears to be the one to get, if you've got the choice, because the coronavirus is mutating
The new Novavax vaccine is just 49% effective vs. the new South Africa coronavirus strain B.1.351 which emerged last October and was just reported in two cases in South Carolina.
Johnson & Johnson's new vaccine is just 57% effective against it.
Moderna says its vaccine is "far less effective against the South Africa strain".
Pfizer's vaccine appears to be the most robust of them all, "only slightly less effective against the South Africa variant compared with the others."
Story here.