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Published February 5, 2024 at 8:24 PM Historian and author Carter G. Woodson founded Black History Month in 1926 to celebrate the achievements of African Americans. It was also meant to educate Americans about the suffering of slaves to highlight the fight for civil liberties and the successful contributions of Black people as part of […]
WILLIAM RAU In my youth I was anti-Reagan because of his attacks on unions and his policies accelerating American inequality. Nonetheless, Former President Ronald Reagan deserves credit for the demise of the Soviet Union, Evil Empire 1.0. By getting the Saudis to open their oil spigots, which deprived the Soviets of vital oil revenues, and […]
House Republicans threatened on Wednesday to starve the entire federal government of funding if President Biden and Democrats fail to institute a crackdown at the U.S.-Mexico border to choke off the flow of migrants streaming into the country. The warnings came as Speaker Mike Johnson led a visit by more than 60 House Republicans to […]
November 6, 2023 at 6:30 a.m. EST Martha Lopez, a farm worker, poses for a photo at a farm on November 2, 2023 in Homestead, Florida. (Eva Marie Uzcategui/For The Washington Post)Comment on this storyCommentAdd to your saved storiesSave As climate change ratchets up global temperatures, most of the roughly 32 million people who work […]
David L. Chandler reports via MIT News: In recent years, some researchers have been puzzled upon finding that water in their experiments, which was held in a sponge-like material known as a hydrogel, was evaporating at a higher rate than could be explained by the amount of heat, or thermal energy, that the water was […]
News Release Monday, October 30, 2023 NIH-funded study predicts older and Black adults will suffer most. Cardiovascular-related deaths due to extreme heat are expected to increase between 2036 and 2065 in the United States, according to a study supported by the National Institutes of Health. The researchers, whose work is published in Circulation, predict […]
By Nicole Lyn Pesce McDonald’s plastic trick-or-treat buckets were a seasonal staple for decades, and now Burger King is giving them a run for their money as Americans open their wallets for Halloween The burger chain wars are heating up this Halloween. McDonald’s (MCD) is bringing its “Boo Buckets . . .
Warm start to October for Plains, Midwest and Northeast by Tuesday It’s a warm beginning to October for much of the north as summerlike temperatures in the 80s and 90s return for the Plains and Midwest. By Tuesday the heat expands into the Northeast. MINNEAPOLIS – Warmer-than-average temperatures have hit a pause on fall to […]
Long-time Slashdot reader AmiMoJo shared this report from the Guardian: Heat pumps are more than twice as efficient as fossil fuel heating systems in cold temperatures, research shows. Even at temperatures approaching -30C, heat pumps outperform oil and gas heating systems, according to the research from Oxford University and the . . .
Dow Jones writer Kirk Maltais reported on Friday that, “The effect of scorching heat on maturing U.S. crops is driving the price debate in grain markets, with trading volume of grain futures muted as observers are split over the extent of crop damage. Weekly Weather and Crop . . .