Two years after Key West police arrested her screaming 8-year-old at his elementary school, Bianca Digennaro has filed a lawsuit against the city of Florida and the school district, accusing authorities of ‘traumatizing’ her son over a ‘temper tantrum’. The federal civil lawsuit, filed Tuesday in the U.S. District Court …
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WHO asks to postpone dental check-ups during pandemic
The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends that routine dental visits be postponed until COVID-19 is under control to protect dentists and their patients. Oral health checks, dental hygiene and other preventive care should be delayed until transmission rates drop in communities as dentists work in close proximity to patients for …
Read More »Big Ten, Pac-12 cancel season season fall college football over coronavirus.
Quarterback Justin Fields of Ohio State. Christian Petersen / Getty Images Over the weekend, reports percolated that major college football conferences, led by the Pac-12 and Big Ten, were about to cancel their seasons over coronavirus safety concerns. These reports have presented pushback from both players and coaches (who believe …
Read More »Airbnb offers $ 4 themed sleepovers from the world’s latest blockbuster
The world’s latest blockbuster has created a ‘living room’ for series of Airbnb sleepovers. Blockbuster Money can buy nostalgia at the rate of $ 4 a night around the world’s latest Blockbuster video store in Bend, Oregon. Later this month, the Blockbuster and its utopian promise of VHS-powered movie nights …
Read More »Evil chemistry turns ordinary bricks into appliances for storing electricity – Raw Story
The Research Letter is a short take on interesting academic work. The big idea In my synthetic chemistry lab, we worked out how the red pigment can be converted into ordinary bricks into a plastic that conducts electricity, and this process enabled us to transform bricks into electricity storage devices. …
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