People traveling to New York, New Jersey and Connecticut from eight additional states will have to remain in quarantine for 14 days upon entry, bringing the total number of states on the governors’ “travel advisory” list to 16, officials said Tuesday. Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat, announced in a press …
Read More »Fauci warns ‘we need to monitor’ the new strain of swine flu in China
Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, warned Tuesday that the United States needs to keep its focus on a new strain of swine flu emerging from China that has the potential to become a pandemic, even when The United States is still recovering …
Read More »Bad astronomy | New study shows asteroid killed dinosaurs, not volcanoes
We know that a monstrous asteroid impact killed the (non-avian) dinosaurs at the end of the Cretaceous period. Sixty-six million years ago, a 10-kilometer-wide space rock crashed into Earth just off the coast of present-day Yucatan, destroying a 150-kilometer-wide crater and unleashing a chain of catastrophic weather events that destroyed …
Read More »Alabama Mayor resigns after criticizing Crimson Tide for supporting Black Lives Matter
A mayor in Alabama resigned after making derogatory comments about the University of Alabama’s Crimson Tide football team for his support of the Black Lives Matter movement. Carbon Hill Mayor Mark Chambers submitted a resignation letter Saturday to the city clerk that said, “I resigned as mayor on June 27 …
Read More »Pop Smoke album cover art by Virgil Abloh Skedered to be changed
Pop SmokeFans have spoken, loud and clear, the cover designed by Virgil Abloh because the rapper’s posthumous album is rubbish … so a change is coming. Pop’s long-awaited album, “Shoot for the Stars, Aim for the Moon” will be released on July 3, but when the cover was revealed on …
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